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cab67

(2,992 posts)
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 06:56 PM Mar 2022

Ukraine is teaching the world how to do psy-ops.

I don't know if it's coordinated or if it's individual Ukraine servicemen working on their own, but their use of social media to send messages to attacking Russians, while letting the whole world listen in, takes the whole concept to a new level. It's a work of collective art.

Partly, I think it's because Ukrainians understand their enemy. We haven't understood ours since perhaps the First World War.
And Ukrainians certainly understand Russians more than Russians appear to understand Ukrainians.



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Ukraine is teaching the world how to do psy-ops. (Original Post) cab67 Mar 2022 OP
Zelensky is a genius. He is winning a war using WORDS. Irish_Dem Mar 2022 #1
Basically he's showing us that it's possible to fight back. Sometimes I think we've given up Biophilic Mar 2022 #3
Now we know we can do it!!We can beat the PutinGOP. Irish_Dem Mar 2022 #5
Yup, I agree. We must fight back strongly. Our democracy is worth that. nt Biophilic Mar 2022 #6
It goes beyond Zelensky. cab67 Mar 2022 #7
Agree💯% I_UndergroundPanther Mar 2022 #8
Zelensky has some experience with modern media. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2022 #2
No Kidding! Cha Mar 2022 #4

Irish_Dem

(46,927 posts)
1. Zelensky is a genius. He is winning a war using WORDS.
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 06:59 PM
Mar 2022

It is a war of words, wits and psychology.

He is showing us the way. How to win the war the PutinGOP is waging against us and American democracy.

It is high time to fight back before we lose our democracy.

Biophilic

(3,645 posts)
3. Basically he's showing us that it's possible to fight back. Sometimes I think we've given up
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 07:04 PM
Mar 2022

too easily over the last 6 years.

Irish_Dem

(46,927 posts)
5. Now we know we can do it!!We can beat the PutinGOP.
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 07:09 PM
Mar 2022

We never really fought back, we gave up.

We can save democracy.
We must do it.

cab67

(2,992 posts)
7. It goes beyond Zelensky.
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 07:15 PM
Mar 2022

Zelensky, like all good comedians, understands people and really knows how to use language. (This is why Al Franken was such a great senator, and why I'd like to see him in the Senate again.) He's demonstrating his rhetorical skills like no other contemporary leader.

But I'm also seeing really good content coming from what I assume are rank-and-file Ukrainian servicemen. They're getting under Russian soldiers' skin to great effect. (Great affect? I can't remember.)

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