"Putin's weakness": Russian propaganda tries to distract Americans from Ukraine - the media
The publication writes that some of the Kremlin's statements about the war in Ukraine have promoted large figures of the American right. For example, Moscow Narratives were supported by the former adviser to US Expatient Donald Trump Stephen Bannon, as well as TV presenter from Fox News Taver Carlson. According to journalists, propaganda materials of the Russian Media RT were placed on a popular Rumble video for the preservatives of the Rumble video.
In 2023, Republicans will control the House of Representatives in the US Congress. Therefore, the influence of Moscow supporters will grow there. However, according to analysts, they will not be able to block Biden administration's request to Congress for emergency assistance to Ukraine worth more than $ 37 billion. They may try to reduce this amount.
According to the former CIA agent and Russian specialist John Sifer, Russian President Vladimir Putin implements the script, which he honed for his long career in the KGB to influence the politics and opinion of the Russians. "I think Putin's weakness is that he does not think strategically but returns to what knows - uses hidden means to influence and blast others.
He cannot win the battlefield, so he uses threats and intimidation to influence Western leaders and intimidate them, forcing them to retreat or push Ukraine to negotiate, "the expert said. Sifer noted that historically, Putin used energy, information, refugees, food and nuclear threats as weapons.
"I think that its nuclear threats are just a way to sow anxiety and differences among supporters of Ukraine, and I suspect that discussing a" dirty bomb "is intended to signal its internal audience that Ukraine is a real threat," Sifer said. The Senior Researcher at the Alliance to ensure democracy Bret Shafer said that more and more negative reports about Ukraine have been receiving from the right flank of the Republican Party.
As the publication writes, of the 100 most popular Twitter reports about Ukraine, published by the Republican Party for Representatives since August, approximately 90% opposed Kiev's further support. Shafer added that most members of Congress support Ukraine. However, there are vocal voices that act on the side of Moscow. They dominate online space.
The Deputy Director of the Southern Law Center for Poverty Megan Skweyr said that Rumble was also engaged in the processing of pro -Russian and anti -Ukrainian materials from several figures to the right. "Alternative technologies, such as Rumble, are actively promoting the anti -Ukrainian topics of their active users, many of whom have been deplanted elsewhere," Skweyr said. Journalists write that Russian media often relay comments on the leading Fox News Taer Carlson.
"We have entered a new phase in which the United States is in a state of direct war with the largest nuclear state in the world," Carlson warned in one of the issues of his TV show. The material states that Carlson's broadcasts are overshadowed by other Moscow propaganda tools. According to the Vice President of Research at the Carnegie Andrew Fund, the Fox News audience, Taer Carlson, in particular, is much larger than the audience of new resources such as Rumble.
Tucker Carlson is an American TV presenter of conservative views. Written on Fox News called "Tucker Carlson Tonight". The Guardian journalists reported that Carlson had promoted the theory that Ukraine allegedly developed a biological weapon against Russia. Earlier, Focus wrote that Russian President Vladimir Putin was surprised by the failures of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation after the start of a full -scale invasion of Ukraine.