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If It Feels Like You're Being Manipulated, It's Because You Are (Uke-Ruk War)
Substack ^ | 04/11/2022 | Caitlin Johnson

Posted on 04/13/2022 9:47:42 AM PDT by Az Joe

If you've got a gut feeling that your rulers are working to control your perception of the war in Ukraine, it is safe to trust that feeling.

If you feel like there's been a concerted effort from the most powerful government and media institutions in the western world to manipulate your understanding of what's going on with this war, it's because that's exactly what has been happening.

If you can't recall ever seeing such intense mass media spin about a war before, it's because you haven't.

If you get the distinct impression that this may be the most aggressively perception-managed and psyop-intensive war in human history, it's because it is.

If it looks like Silicon Valley platforms are controlling the content that people see to give them a perspective on this war that is wildly biased in favor of the US narrative, it's because that is indeed the case.


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KEYWORDS: brucejohnson; caitlinjohnson; chechens; chechnya; fakenews; ibtz; putinsbuttboys; putinworshippers; russia; russianaggression; ukraine; zot; zottherussiantrolls
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Yes. It is so funny how so many have deplored the Deep Stage, yet in their next breath, they gobble up the Deep State narrative about the Russian/Ukrainian war.

I don't have a horse in this race. But I'm not buying the ridiculous anti-Putin crap. This is a territorial dispute going back decades. It would have happened even without Putin.

In any case, it is not America's business. I see this more as a form of protection for the Biden Crime Family who are heavily invested in the Ukraine. Ukrainian corruption has been a cash cow for the Biden family for many years. 10% for the big guy. And Kapo George Soros — his involvement would need a book, an encyclopedia.

21 posted on 04/13/2022 10:24:32 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Wuli

And Joe Biden is using all that human suffering to distract from the failure of his presidency.


22 posted on 04/13/2022 10:26:09 AM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Az Joe
I am convinced most everything coming from the American media, is manipulated, twisted, or a flat out lie. Not just about Ukraine either. Everything being manipulated to further their narratives and agendas.

I also believe deep state pretty much controls the U.S. media.

23 posted on 04/13/2022 10:26:23 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: pierrem15

stop saying all those intelligent things here!


24 posted on 04/13/2022 10:34:19 AM PDT by babble-on
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To: Lurkinanloomin

And if you think Putin was wrong to do this and sympathize at all with the Ukrainian people, you’re a ‘neocon’ and war monger, willing to rush everyone’s children into nuclear war.


25 posted on 04/13/2022 10:35:48 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: JonPreston

I would say he needed war. And the GOP controlled by neocons and WEF was more than happy to go along.


26 posted on 04/13/2022 10:37:34 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: dragnet2
I also believe deep state pretty much controls the U.S. media.

In the past few days several prominent “pro-Russian” accounts have been suspended from Twitter. “Pro-Russian” being defined as daring to report objectively on the war or daring to question official Ukrainian claims of Russian atrocities.

27 posted on 04/13/2022 10:37:35 AM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: Nextrush
"And Joe Biden is using all that human suffering to distract from the failure of his presidency."

Coreection: And Joe Biden is using all that human suffering to distract attempt to distract from the failure of his presidency. And its not working.

28 posted on 04/13/2022 10:37:43 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: dragnet2

> I also believe deep state pretty much controls the U.S. media. <

I think you’re right. And the really scary (and pathetic) thing is that the media willfully censor themselves. The Deep State doesn’t have to tell them what to report, and what to hide. They do that on their own.


29 posted on 04/13/2022 10:39:39 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Jamestown1630

They’re also really stupid to buy what the U.S. media is selling.


30 posted on 04/13/2022 10:40:58 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Wuli

“...unless you think dictators have a right to take over the land of their neighbors.”

Yet, you seem to accept that Kiev had a right to attack the land of their neighbors in Donbass for the crime of opting out of the 2014 coup.

That’s the whole genesis if this war.


31 posted on 04/13/2022 10:41:15 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: Jamestown1630

That is the feminine mentality of the schoolmarms who expel both boys for fighting and makes no effort to understand what caused the fight, nor that the person who throws the first actual punch isn’t always 100% in the wrong.


32 posted on 04/13/2022 10:47:25 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: Az Joe
Meanwhile...

Meghan Markle and Harry announce TWO new huge partnerships MEGHAN MARKLE and Prince Harry have announced two new partnerships in a bid to tackle misinformation.

The other parties involved: Cortico’s Local Voices Network, a collaboration with MIT’s Center for Constructive Communication and The Institute for Rebooting Social Media.

33 posted on 04/13/2022 10:48:24 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: Jamestown1630

Don’t forget- all the women who were raped are delusional- it was really nazis raping them, pretending to be Russians. It’s all a ruse to make Putin look bad. Those Azovs get around, hundreds of them across the country in different locations all at once.

Of course a conspiracy as wide and deep as they’re claiming would be easy to hide, cover up and conceal from local civilians.

/S

Putin is a ruthless monster. Knowing that does not mean that Zelensky is a good guy, or that Ukraine doesn’t have some really nasty people on their side.


34 posted on 04/13/2022 10:49:25 AM PDT by SE Mom
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To: DesertRhino

“Yet, you seem to accept that Kiev had a right to attack the land of their neighbors in Donbass for the crime of opting out of the 2014 coup.”

You presume - wrongly - that Putin had zero to do with the “separatists” in Donbas (as if it was all just their own idea), and like Putin you decry the removal of his stooge in Kyiv as a “coup”.


35 posted on 04/13/2022 10:52:32 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Wuli

If you think Yanukovich was removed lawfully, maybe its time for a Maidan in the United States to “lawfully remove” Joe Biden.

Are you ready to join that effort or as many here suspect just blowing deep state smoke up everyone’s rear end?

Put up or shut up sock puppet.


36 posted on 04/13/2022 10:57:47 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera )
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To: Az Joe
All of it...TMI.
37 posted on 04/13/2022 10:59:21 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Wuli

And why is Donbas have so many Russians in the first place? Because the area was depopulated in the Holodomor


38 posted on 04/13/2022 11:00:00 AM PDT by babble-on
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To: pierrem15

Well damn, I guess I’m your Putinista! What do I win, a Cupie doll?


39 posted on 04/13/2022 11:04:11 AM PDT by Dogbert41 (A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. John 3:16 Z)
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To: Az Joe

The US State Dept and CIA, combined with US media is proving to be the gold standard for information warfare.

None in history has even come close. And there are no current peers.


40 posted on 04/13/2022 11:24:13 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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