soontobeindicted mattoid wrote:
Putin may be closing newspapers and cutting off TV channels, blocking social media and censoring the internet, but all that is to keep regular Russians from grasping the cause and scale of this disaster. Putin is not cut off from seeing every report of planes shot down, or soldiers surrendering, or entire columns of tanks shot down. He’s not sitting in a palace, waiting for an adviser to bring him notes on the war on a silver tray. Putin has the internet. He has access to outside media. There is nothing he could be told that he doesn’t already know.
Source is a war correspondent.
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To translate the above propaganda, just invert the players in the narrative about who is censoring what.