@AfFirstVC Now propaganda is turned all the way up of course as any one of the above events would have been a political career breaker under normal conditions.
These are not normal conditions though as politics has drifted into extremism at least on one side of the spectrum.
@AfFirstVC Protesting is legal: how many people did they kill and want to hang?
In the meantime new gov is openly calling for ignoring the constitution (or doesnt even know its content) is holding miltiary parade, sending military against protestors and dem reps are being murdered
@GuntherEagleman Propaganda is easy to impress.
Talk is cheap especially political talk and Trump does a lot of talk all the time with the expected merit to them.
Summary of AI assessment: Taking Crimea, maintaining resource control in the region and thus leverage over East EU nations are primary factors while officially stated reasons are mid to low tier triggers while NATO expansion promise broken is classified as propaganda.
Why did Russia invade Ukraine?
Ru information strategy is to place all possible answers (except correct ones) into the information space and then amplify those messages that are naturally gaining acceptance
@bennyjohnson Meanwhile US stock exchange is recovering from the greatest loss since Covid (also under the same president) having lost 6 months by now:
@atensnut The reason why basic rights were protected for all groups after WW2 in developed economies was the revelation that was obvious to most back then but has been mostly forgotten by now: It was the best way to protect ones own basic rights.
@atensnut Now the lessons learned from WW2 might need to be re-learned via WW3.
Indeed all of this is trivial for competent officials and indeed institutions within the US so new government has interest in attacking these institutions and officials and use propaganda as a tool for it.
@atensnut A modern day example is Ru where the government has turned from a run of the mill autocracy in early 2022 to a despotism similar to that of WW2 examples like the USSR where not even keys of power have basic rights and the state can do anything to anyone at any time.
@atensnut So a state propaganda aiming to create autocracy and in extreme case despotism (if they are very successful like the Nazis, the Soviets or the Chinese communists were) will always try to rally up people against a small slice of society using that as a front to take away rights.
@atensnut So the case study of how and why Nazism (an example of extreme form of autocracy or despotism) spread could be analyzed and freely discussed, lessons learned incorporated.
The way all such despotisms developed is by taking away rights of more and more people (salami tactic)
@atensnut All governments turn autocratic without limitations on their power and checks and balances. During WW2 there was not much difference between Nazi, Red and Cultural Revolution terror in fact the latter two killed more people then the first but the first was defeated.