BLOTUS has become Putin's ally in Russia's war on the West

[fleur-de-lisa]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/07/opinions/trumps-moral-relativism-lucas-opinion/index.html

Opinion by Edward Lucas, Senior Editor at the Economist

It is chilling to hear hoary Kremlin propaganda tropes used by the leader of the free world. But that is exactly what Fuckface Von Pussygrabber did in his recent Fox News interview, in which he casually accepted that Vladimir Putin was a killer, but said that America was "not so innocent" and had lots of killers too.

"Whataboutism" was a favorite Kremlin propaganda technique during the Cold War. It aimed to portray the West as so morally flawed that its criticism of the Soviet empire was hypocritical. Any criticism of the Soviet Union (the war in Afghanistan, martial law in Poland, persecution of dissidents) was met with a list of Western abuses (supporting fascist dictatorships, trampling trade unions, racial oppression).

It was well encapsulated in a joke about the fictional Radio Yerevan (a staple of Soviet-era humor) in which a caller asks what is the average wage of an American manual worker. The real answer would undermine Soviet claims to economic superiority, so after a pause, the pundit replies: "Over there they lynch Negroes." By the time the system collapsed, that phrase had become a derisive synecdoche for Soviet propaganda as a whole.

"Whataboutism" seemed to have died in the 1990s when Russia's official aim was to become like the West. But it made a comeback under President Vladimir Putin, whose propaganda machine specializes in spreading FUD (Fear Uncertainty and Doubt) in the West.

If Americans, Britons, Germans and others can be made to believe that their rulers are crooks and idiots, and that legality and liberty are a sham, then they will be much less likely to take risks and make sacrifices in defending their own countries.

[pangaia]

1. ".....has become Putin's ally..."

I'd say somebody is a little behind the curve.

[triron]

2. I guess the MSM

is too stupid to recognize this (or at least it has been).