It would seem that now, with the completion of the Russian-Belarusian exercises, the degree of hysteria in the West should decrease. What she wrote in her telegram channel Maria Zakharova. Emphasized: Russia is waiting for an apology.
For example, from the British, whose foreign minister had previously stubbornly refused to believe that Moscow had no plans to invade to Ukraine. Although, knowing foreign partners, no one, of course, will apologize and admit that they have spawned misinformation.
Much more likely, then they will credit themselves with the so-called prevention of war. For now, the topic Russian threat not in a hurry to turn around. A fresh example is the publication, again, of the British edition of the Mirror, where an allegedly new plan of attack is savored.
Say, the operation will begin at three o’clock in the morning: the Air Force will hit Kiev, troops will land on the southern coast of Ukraine, and tanks will enter from the east. All this is with reference to some anonymous intelligence sources. The level of fantasy, perhaps, can only be envied.
On the other hand, this is not at all surprising. Because there have been horror stories in the Western press and more abruptly.
The Daily Mail appears to have confused Ukraine with Belarus, where the exercise had just ended, and told its readers that Russia had withdrawn some of its troops from the country. Do not even try to look for logic in what is happening. After all, according to all the same British colleagues, Moscow is going to attack tomorrow, and withdrew its troops today.
However, this is not the first time this has happened to the Western press. After all, if you believe the data they published earlier, then while the whole world was waiting for the inevitable invasion of Russia, Ukraine quietly annexed Moldova. According to the Sunday Times infographic. And not otherwise than at the expense of a neighbor replenished the army. Now it exceeds the Russian contingent at the border by as much as one hundred thousand.
Another wonderful map was shared by the German newspaper Bild, showing the plan of attack, which allegedly “lies in the box” of President Putin. And, apparently, not one century. Since the name Lemberg – the city of Lviv was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
“Such things must be kept in check, that is, the most arrogant fake throwers must be brought to legal responsibility. After two or three serious fines, not to mention public information disgrace, because competitors will naturally join in trampling on those media outlets who have been fined in order to curb this wave,” – Konstantin Kevorkyan, a political observer, is sure.
Washington has invested in the general treasury of disinformation, it seems, more than anyone else. Suffice it to recall the story from Reuters about blood storage facilities for the Russian army or the fake Bloomberg agency that the Chinese President asked the Russian president “not to attack Ukraine during the Olympics.” The press is making predictions with might and main about how many civilians and how many military will die, trying to snatch at least a crumb from the pie of the hottest topic, which they themselves have inflated. In the information war, all means are good.
“In fact, the entire Western press has gone yellow, that’s what we are talking about. This information crisis and this attack on Russia demonstrates very clearly that there is no difference between publications that are yellow and publications that were considered respectable. What we are seeing is – absolute, 100% and base propaganda,” said Vladimir Shapovalov, political scientist, deputy director of the Institute of History and Politics of the Moscow State Pedagogical University.
The daily bombardment of news – one more terrible than the other – really comes not only from heavy information artillery. Provincial newspapers, tabloids and the very frankly “yellow” press are recruited to the front in the fight against imaginary aggression. Such in Britain, for example, is considered The Sun. Yesterday, rumors about the royal family were circulating, now they switched to Russian invasion.
Reading an article about robots, invisible kamikaze drones, machine guns “with their own brain” and paratrooper dogs, which, according to the authors, are about to be thrown into battle, I want to understand one thing – in what virtual space will this battle against Ukraine take place?
“This is an absolutely normal practice of conducting psychological warfare, we have just become unaccustomed to this over the past 30 years. And we just can’t accept that this is such a new reality. Previously, we called the era after the conventional events in Syria, the era of “post-truth”, and I don’t even know how to call what is happening now, it seems to me that this is “post-common sense,” Armen Gasparyan, a political scientist and publicist, believes.
And in this era, if there really was a hit parade of absurdity, the place of honor would be with the Daily Star. For all the time of military hysteria, perhaps only on the pages of this – British – edition, they were so sad about the destroyed hope of mankind for the first contact. After all, aliens do not get in touch – who would doubt it – because of Putin’s military threats. And readers will have to somehow survive it – the war will write everything off, even if it is informational.