En historieprofessor på Torontos universitet, som jobbar med rysk översättning, har en intressant tråd om hur Putin och hans trollfabriker kan ha misstagit sig ganska rejält med den här dårfinks-invasionen, och landets närmast schizofrena propaganda: 
https://twitter.com/irgarner/status/...4397904441344?
https://twitter.com/irgarner/status/...4397904441344?
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Nej, föredettingen Putin verkar närmast slå ut sig själv i det här 11-dimensionella schacket han försöker spela?
Ursprungligen postat av Dr. Ian Garner
After a few more days of war, I've been carefully monitoring Russian social media reaction and production and I'm more convinced than before that Putin's regime has totally overestimated its ability to win a propaganda war.
Russians are being bombarded with very effective Russian-language anti-war propaganda. We're seeing a lot about Zelensky etc. but Russians are widely viewing some HUGE celebrities with big, big follower counts coming out against the war. You might have read about Yury Dud, the popular Russian blogger, speaking out against the war. 5 million followers, and look at what he's sharing at the top of his Instagram page: strong stuff. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FMsl8MGX...pg&name=medium
Here's a voice from Ukraine. Travel YouTuber Anton Ptushkin, a Russian speaker with *5.5 million* subscribers, posted this heartfelt appeal for peace & frank discussion of fears about his family on his IG. Here's a version from YouTube for ease of viewing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaVTavQ2hz4
Russians are seeing these narratives, hearing their peers and idols talk to them like normal people and in Russian. They're being shared widely, and the Russian government basically can't stop them.
On the other side, the Russian government is pushing an increasingly impersonal narrative. All we're seeing is images of Putin and his generals in vast meeting rooms, adorned with Rococo panelling, in unidentified places. The people, where they are addressed, are spoken to as an abstract ("The government is starting a special operation...") rather than as individuals (Ukraine's "We implore you, fellow Russians, to stop attacking our women and children").
People are not ready for their iPhones to disappear to inflation and sanctions (joke seen in the wild today: "Don't drop your iPhone, because it's going to be your last"). People are not ready for hyper-inflation. And the government is doing essentially *nothing* to get Russians ready for this. They overplayed a weak hand, the West called their bluff, and now they're in the shit. (Notice this seems to parallel the overconfidence in the military effort - not a coincidence, I'll wager you.)
Russians are being bombarded with very effective Russian-language anti-war propaganda. We're seeing a lot about Zelensky etc. but Russians are widely viewing some HUGE celebrities with big, big follower counts coming out against the war. You might have read about Yury Dud, the popular Russian blogger, speaking out against the war. 5 million followers, and look at what he's sharing at the top of his Instagram page: strong stuff. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FMsl8MGX...pg&name=medium
Here's a voice from Ukraine. Travel YouTuber Anton Ptushkin, a Russian speaker with *5.5 million* subscribers, posted this heartfelt appeal for peace & frank discussion of fears about his family on his IG. Here's a version from YouTube for ease of viewing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaVTavQ2hz4
Russians are seeing these narratives, hearing their peers and idols talk to them like normal people and in Russian. They're being shared widely, and the Russian government basically can't stop them.
On the other side, the Russian government is pushing an increasingly impersonal narrative. All we're seeing is images of Putin and his generals in vast meeting rooms, adorned with Rococo panelling, in unidentified places. The people, where they are addressed, are spoken to as an abstract ("The government is starting a special operation...") rather than as individuals (Ukraine's "We implore you, fellow Russians, to stop attacking our women and children").
People are not ready for their iPhones to disappear to inflation and sanctions (joke seen in the wild today: "Don't drop your iPhone, because it's going to be your last"). People are not ready for hyper-inflation. And the government is doing essentially *nothing* to get Russians ready for this. They overplayed a weak hand, the West called their bluff, and now they're in the shit. (Notice this seems to parallel the overconfidence in the military effort - not a coincidence, I'll wager you.)
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