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Now that Russia is visibly taking territory all of a sudden territory doesn't matter and it's a war of attrition according to NYT (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It'd actually be interesting to look into the specifics of how the western media has maintained the narrative that ukraine has been a victim of the evil and powerful Russians while also on the verge of victory versus those same weak Russian orc hordes, needing just a little more aid, for so long without more people catching on.

Similarly for Israels genocide.

Sort of an updated inventing reality

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

It's easy:

Start with a conflict where most people don't know the specifics
Establish that the State Department side of the conflict is The Right Side To Be On with wall-to-wall favorable reporting
Bury negative stories where few look, if you run them at all
Let the conflict simmer indefinitely

After the last step, most people still don't know the specifics of the situation because you never really informed them and they have other priorities than a war far away that they perceive they have no effect on. They see a story every month or so about another arbitrarily large amount of money getting sent overseas and it just blends into the background; they've seen that story countless times about many countries.