Putin hit the nail on the head, to coin a cliché. There are a lot of highly paid shills in around the world spouting the party line. From Caitlin Johnstone at caitlinjohnstone.com:
The US empire has by far the most sophisticated and effective propaganda machine ever to have existed, operating with such complexity that most people don’t even know it exists.
One under-appreciated moment from Tucker Carlson’s recent interview with Vladimir Putin came after Putin implied that NATO powers were behind the 2022 bombing of the Nord Stream pipeline. Carlson responded by asking why Putin wouldn’t present evidence of this to the world, so as to “win a propaganda victory.”
“In the war of propaganda it is very difficult to defeat the United States because the United States controls all the world’s media and many European media,” Putin replied, adding, “The ultimate beneficiary of the biggest European media are American financial institutions.”
I don’t know about the specific nature of his Nord Stream insinuations, but Putin is definitely correct about the strength of the American propaganda machine. Of all the fronts one could possibly choose to challenge the United States on, propaganda is surely the least favorable. The US empire has by far the most sophisticated and effective propaganda machine ever to have existed, operating with such complexity that most people don’t even know it exists.
ULLL-TRAAA Combo Breaker:
By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.
Adolf Hitler
The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
Aldous Huxley
If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
Malcolm X
What a collection of pelts TC is collecting as he adds the enemedia to the wall.
May he be safe from the wrath of the Big Pharma, Pentagram (MIL) and entertainment/distraction complex of the Leviathan known as politics.
He’s all that we have as a media member watcher on the wall of truth.