Putin's Propaganda Machine Is What America's Far-Right Wants

[orangecrush]

It’s hard to watch Russia's version of journalism and not think of the American far-right’s version of it. Indeed, the connections are both direct and philosophical—and of import to national security leaders.

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But there’s a deeper connection as well. America’s right-wing partisans wish they had what Putin has: control of the information and messages that flow to the body politic. That’s not an accusation; it is their goal.

In the past few months, we’ve seen just how closely related the two are, Putin’s propaganda and our own. Before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, America’s far-right denied the looming threat as a wag-the-dog conspiracy concocted by deep-state Democrats and centrist Republicans, or tried to blame President Joe Biden. Russian propaganda outlets gleefully put those clips into heavy rotation.


https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2022/03/putins-propaganda-machine-what-americas-far-right-wants/363083/


Great article, worth reading.

[gab13by13]

1. Not only that,

Autocracy is what every Republican wants, how else can they maintain minority rule? Republicans are the Putin party. Republicans want America to be just like Russia and we need to start calling them out for pretending to support Ukraine just because their internal polling tells them to do so.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Exactly. The GOP wants what Putin has.

Total permanent control and access to all US financial assets. White minority rule.

[gab13by13]

4. I cannot say this enough,

I can see the dominant propaganda narrative that has blasted the MSM and it's coming from the Putin Party. (GQP)

President Biden isn't doing enough in Ukraine. Trump just came out today and stated that president Biden needs to end the war in Ukraine. We have the MiG-29 debacle being blamed on president Biden. We have people calling for the US to close off the air in Ukraine.

Republicans want their party to be seen as the party that is behind Ukraine. They will use campaign ads to say that president Biden is weak. We have Republicans who last week voted against military aid to Ukraine now saying that president Biden isn't doing enough to help Ukraine.

There are people here who love to post articles from "The Hill," I see it has a new article out chastising president Biden to get those MiG jets to Ukraine.

It is happening here on DU. people pushing Republican talking points.

President Biden is doing a fantastic job; he united our allies, united NATO, against Russia. We are now sending military aid to Ukraine that costs more than Ukraine's entire yearly military budget.

Turn on Fox News right now and I guarantee you will hear a former military expert just bashing president Biden, our CIC.

[Irish_Dem]

7. The US media is PutinGOP's propaganda arm.

Talking points are straight from Moscow.

Putin bought half the US congress, a sitting president, and the media.

I have been talking about this for some time, but now I think the reality is finally sinking it.

[lagomorph777]

8. Putin has been directly mobilizing his propaganda machine to help them.

That seems to be crumbling, now that he has other priorities. I think loss of Putin's troll farms and Roubles for influence peddling will cause significant damage to the Russiapublican Party.

[Irish_Dem]

9. Putin helps the GOP with money, installing them in office and propaganda talking points.

I hope it is crumbling, but time will tell.

The GOP is getting control over the US voting apparatus and installing autocratic state governments.

[orangecrush]

3. +1

[sarcasmo]

5. Putin and our far right have the same hate and dreams in common.

[uponit7771]

6. K&R, both Putrid and GZP exploit human Anchor Bias to the nth degree. What's a real shame

... is the tactics of propoganda hasn't changed since 1939