2mo ago

Russia launches propaganda campaign in Europe “Russia is not my enemy”, aiming to undermine trust in the rule of law and democratic institutions

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Russia launches propaganda campaign in Europe “Russia is not my enemy”

Stickers with the slogan "“Russia is not my enemy" have appeared in Romania, France, and Italy.

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“Russia has launched the propaganda campaign ‘Russia is not my enemy,’ which has reached Romania. Stickers with this message are appearing in cities as part of the Kremlin’s hybrid campaign aimed at creating the illusion of a ‘peaceful partnership.’ Through such tools of influence, Russia seeks to portray itself as a peacemaker, downplay its own crimes, and sow discord within European societies,” the statement by the Center for Countering Disinformation under Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council said.

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The Center added that the purpose of the campaign is to undermine citizens’ trust in the rule of law and democratic institutions in their countries, cast doubt on the Euro-Atlantic course, and discredit support for Ukraine.

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Russia has significantly intensified hybrid attacks on the EU’s critical infrastructure since the start of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

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2mo ago

Russia launches propaganda campaign in Europe “Russia is not my enemy”, aiming to undermine trust in the rule of law and democratic institutions

www.ukrinform.net /rubric-polytics/4028250-russia-launches-propaganda-campaign-in-europe-russia-is-not-my-enemy.html

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2mo ago

Russia launches propaganda campaign in Europe “Russia is not my enemy”, aiming to undermine trust in the rule of law and democratic institutions

www.ukrinform.net /rubric-polytics/4028250-russia-launches-propaganda-campaign-in-europe-russia-is-not-my-enemy.html

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They're right. Russia is not my enemy. The Russian mafia regime is. Putler is. The oligarchs are. Once their idiotic dictatorship is switched for a stable democratic rule of law, paying reparations to Ukraine and Georgia and then some, Russia will be a candidate for EU membership and eligible to be our friend.
- Russian mafia regime is Russia. Both its genocidal conquest policies and the tradition of subservience to a central authority predate the word “россия” and are consistent across governments and states.
  The idea that wars of conquest and genocide Russia throws itself in since before we formulated the definition of a word „genocide” are somehow not about Russia would be the winner of every mental gymnastics competition for years to come.
  
  This comment is just bigotry. Russia the country, the Russian people, the Russian history are no better or worse than, say, France or Germany or Britain. Any major European colonial power has a genocidal past. Any major European colonial power has a history of tension between tyranny and liberty.
  There is nothing that is irredeemable about Russia, at least not any more than France, Britain, Germany, etc. The conflation of Russia with Putin's regime is precisely the Putinist Big Lie. In Putin's mind, the survival of his regime is THE SAME AS the survival of Russia. Don't buy the Big Lie. A free, democratic Russia is possible. And that is precisely Putin's worst nightmare.
- Unfortunately that is not the case anymore. Propaganda works, repression works. Putin has the overwhelming support of Russian people and they share his views, not only about the role of Russia in the world, but also about killing Ukrainians.
  
  People are idiots and will do as they are propaganded. They can be propaganded in the other direction as well.
- russia is my enemy. Russia isn't. The country get to have a capital letter, the regime does not.
  Not sure how common this way of distinguishing between the two is, but it's something I picked up from a Russian coworker of mine. He hates Putin as much as most decent humans do. He even lost a family member in the Kursk accident because of the regime.
- Russia will be a candidate for EU membership
  Don't think that will ever happen. At least while they still have large population and local production. Same with Turkiye.
  
  Türkiye is a candidate. The process is frozen though because of their idiotic president.
  But the EU should reform itself a bit before admitting new members, especially such large ones.
- The people are so brainwashed they need a couple of generations before anything can change IMO.
- They’re right. Russia is not my enemy. The Russian mafia regime is. Putler is. The oligarchs are
  My god, disappointing to hear this sentiment from, I presume, the western people still in the year '25. Unless you're a kremlin bot. If so, carry on.
  
  If I categorised people as enemies because a significant portion of them have been fooled by propaganda then the whole world would be my enemy. That would not be reasonable.
Again: cheaper than tanks and rockets and feeding your people. Hybrid War is real.
- To quote a military yutuber I watch now and then: WW3 started in 2014. It's just that the kinetic element has been limited to Ukraine.
- Watch them enforce age verification rules. They are not scared.
The Russia of today is my enemy.
Until the likes of Putin are dead and democracy has been established, I assume that Russia is not a good thing. Here's hoping that Ukraine can conquer or shatter Russia, so that it can be reformed into something that doesn't suck.
- Come on, they only have tried (and failed) for 500 years! Let's give them the benefit of the doubt!
  /s
  Fuck Russia, fuck them today and tomorrow. For them to become normal they have to first cease to exist.
You hear that? That's the sound of lemmy.ml deleting this post from their instance.
- I'm new here, why would that be? Don't know the rep of the place I just joined I guess
  
  People not on lemmy.ml turn a blind eye to the donbass civil war, the nazi militias role in them and how the ukrainian government enabled them. Instead for them this war started in 2019 and its only motivation is that Russia wants to conquer all of europe. They then accuse lemmy.ml of being blindly loyal to russia because they cannot conceive of a different reason why someone might be more critical of ukraine than russia
YOU get a trump! And YOU get a trump! And EVERYBODY gets a trump!
- What if we already have one?
  
  Double. . . trump?
Can the EU also start lauching propaganda: The EU is not your enemy. Make posters of how it was before and after the EU. Make a campaign with The US, Russia and China being the enemies and how only a united EU can be strong enough to stay relevant in modern geopolitics?
- The countries that escaped the clutches of Russian rule need no reminding. They know what a shitty failed state it was and is.
  
  In my country, the part that escaped the clutches of Russian rule absolutely needs reminding, unfortunately.
  Paradoxically, it is there where Russia is still heavily romanticised.
- Like shutting down radio free Europe? /s
Can we not just silent ban Russia from the entire Internet? Let them think they're posting shit but no one outside their region can actually see it!? (/s... but also not)
- You can move to China or the US if you want the government to tell you what you can or cannot see online.
  
  Oh, dear, you haven't heard? European intelligence services are salivating at the chance to break encryption. While it's certainly a race to the bottom that the US and China are currently winning, Europe is absolutely making a sincere attempt at being in the authoritarian club. :-/
  
  Who said anything about govt? :p
- It would be better if people inside Russia were able to see and would look at information and discussion outside of Russia.
  I assume you mean targeted at their attacks and secret services.
  
  Yeah, nothing at all against the ppl, just their slimy govt & propaganda (in fact, all slimy govt & propaganda, regardless of nationality)
Russia is my enemy.
- Only traitors say the Russian government isn't their enemy
Ah there's your problem, the news always forgets to translate Kremlinese. The stickers all say "Russia is my enemy". Easy mistake to make, no harm done.
Watch the popular “influencers” and you’ll notice the beginnings of pro-Russia propaganda trickling in on the more gullible and “moderate” channels.
Ive personally seen (and removed) these in some places in Italy.
Russia is not my enemy.
The Russian government is my enemy.
(The US government is also my enemy.)
- But you repeat yourself.
  /s, although Putin has some kind of weird extra influence.
I might get downvoted for this, as I know the emotions are strong in this topic, but I'll try and voice my humble opinion once again:
The Russian PEOPLE are not my enemy, KREMLIN is! And I don't need stickers to tell me this. There are plenty of reports coming from independent journalists all over of not only the horrors that Kremlin motivates soldiers to commit in Ukraine, but what Kremlin is doing even towards civilians inside Russia! There's a reason for the mass emigration and protests across Russia when this conflict first broke out, and that is that most of the people do not want unnecessary conflict. The Russian people suffer more and more, and also want this to end.
As long as Kremlin and its supporters are allowed to abuse their power however, the suffering will continue, so no mercy for them.
- I was born in russia, and the current behavior of russia is downstream of the political system that is dominant in russia, which itself is downstream of the russian culture (the sum total of the ideas in people's heads and their interplay). Things got this way because russian people let things get this way. https://vasily.cc/blog/the-russian-template/
  
  I was born in russia
  What was the intention behind this sentence? You're clearly not Russian, nor have lived in Russia for any considerate amount of time, as the blog post you've linked is full of markers of someone who has spent their entire life in Kiyv. Whom are you trying to fool here?
- While you refer to the Kremlin and Russian people, you don't refer to the Russian state. If the stickers are about Russia, not the Kremlin or the people, we should address Russia too.
  The Russian state is both of them.
Am Russian. Russia is my enemy...
.. as well as US, Israel, Iran, and any other government currently commiting crimes against humanity.
You, personally, are not my enemy... unless you are a nazi then fuck you too. But, hopefully, you are not, and I am not your enemy either.
I mean its true. Russia is not my enemy. Just their leadership and those who support it are. Its pretty much the same with the us or north korea.
- Naming the country never ever meant the population but the leadership
  
  Im pretty sure with propaganda they are trying to not make a distinction.
- Though that exactly is what russia as a whole is. Not all support but a big amount
  
  Im betting its like the us. Some small amount totally behind and actively keeping it going. A large amount just accepting it. A large amount not accepting it but just trying to live their lives and not fighting that hard. A small amount actively fighting it in every way they can.
Sounds like something an enemy would say.
I remember the Cold War and the fall of the iron curtain. It was quite tiresome that every other American movie had the bad guys be Russian (with some older movies having Germans instead).
I feel we’re going back to that.
- Expansion in Eastern Europe you say? Yes, it rather does feel like we're going back to that - and it appears quite justified
ROFL The EU and russophobic "RusSiAN ProPAgAnDa" fearmongering name a more iconic duo 🤣
- .ml account
  
  Soz, but what does that have to do with anything?
- Russia and territorial wars of aggression? (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0l0k4389g2o.amp)
- Of course the stalinists support the autocrat Putin and call everyone who opposes him a rUsSoPhObE. You know russophobia is a hate or fear of all Russians and not a single one. Way to be a dishonest POS.
- They wouldn't be such an iconic duo if Russia stopped shipping so much propaganda to the EU.
  It is clear that pootin really is afraid of the united front that is the EU. It prevents him from the imperialist expansionism to get the USSR back.
But, I already mistrust the rule of law and democratic institutions :(
This is fucking sad, all gorbachev and putin wanted was to be accepted by the west but the supremacist views run so deep. I feel like this will be the last attempt at extending a branch of friendship to europe. No doubt it will be thrown back in their face and europe will remain more isolated, more beholden to the seppo empire than ever before.
- I guess the west should just be more accepting towards dictators invading other countries.
- Damn, I had no idea people still performed lobotomies
  
  It's a requirement for .ml and Hexbear.
- Please tell me this is sarcasm.. please?
- You are correct. The supremacist views of putin run very deep.
  Want friendship with Europe? Stop invading sovereign nations like imperialist scum.
- Ol' Gorba might've wanted to be accepted by the west, but Putin wants Lebensraum.
- Unfortunately for you, even Gorbachev wasn't as pro-West as many would like to think he is. He himself expressed concerns of NATO expansion after the collapse of the Soviet Union. One would think that the leader who warmed up and made overtures to the West, would want to join NATO after, but nope.
  Putin asked to be invited to join NATO, and so did Stalin, but were refused. Knowing the two, it is their mind games to test if the alliance is indeed anti-Russia, without actually intending to join.
  It was only under Yeltsin at Clinton's behest did Russia seriously considered joining, but Germany at the time refused. NATO is indeed an anti-Russia alliance. But that's not necessarily a damning fact, because much of the Russians are not pro-West anyway and they are jingoistic. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the anti-communist writer and was hailed by the West, was a jingoist and anti-West but the West deliberately put that aside. Even Putin's late rival, Alexei Navalny, was an ultranationalist who supported the annexation of Crimea (he recanted his views in the last election just before he died, but he was probably only saying the things that the West and others wants to hear to support him against Putin). Navalny was survived by his wife but she is also similarly ultranationalist.
  What a lot of people miss on the discourse is the fact that Russians are first and foremost, nationalists and then whatever comes second.
  
  It was only under Yeltsin at Clinton’s behest did Russia seriously considered joining, but Germany at the time refused.
  Do you have a source for that?
- all gorbachev and putin was to be accepted by the west but the supremacist views run so deep
  I'm sure Putin weeps tears of regret over the peaceful future that could have been had the "evil west" let him, when he sends deluge after deluge of shahed drones and missiles flying into people's homes every night so he can murder parents and children in their beds hundreds of kilometers away from the frontline.
- Plot twist.
  They did not.
- Putin, the successor of the guy that coup'd Gorbachev? Gorbachev who died heartbroken that Putin was attacking Ukraine?
- Leave it to a Hexbear to try and be an apologist for Russia and completely ignoring their imperialist agenda. Russia got itself into this mess, and it should not be given leniency.

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