Some of the Putinistas are operatives. You can tell they work off a script and only engage certain posters. The “Ukes are Nazis” tend to fall into this camp. (Yes, there are plenty of Nazi Ukrainians. More Russian. Lots in the USA, too. Russia used to alternate stories of the USA being controlled by Jews (aka “the NWO”) and controlled by Nazis.)
Most, however, are rightly skeptical of anything the msm supports. And rightly point to corruption in the Ukraine.
Well, sure. But even with a jaundiced eye, you can see Russia is the bad guy.
Agree with your assessment. There is a lot of corruption and propaganda coming out of Ukraine, but Russia is the bad guy here.
“You can tell they work off a script and only engage certain posters. The “Ukes are Nazis” tend to fall into this camp. (Yes, there are plenty of Nazi Ukrainians. More Russian. Lots in the USA, too. Russia used to alternate stories of the USA being controlled by Jews (aka “the NWO”) and controlled by Nazis.)”
Correct.
The Russians have two narratives they have been using since before WWII — bad guys are either Nazis or are “controlled by capitalists/Jews/bankers”.
They used that to describe the USA throughout the Cold War. They loved their stories about white nationalists throughout the 1980s in Pravda. You would have though Nazis were around every corner.
This was, illogically, followed only by stories about Israel controlling the USA.
The American Left uses this same description of Republicans. Holds up a picture (sometimes staged) of some fat idiots marching with starched shirts and SS flags as the base of the Republican party.
Then have ANTIFA attack Jews.
And the Russians continue to use both extremes now to describe both the USA and the Ukraine, although the Jewish stuff is vaguely couched in accusations that it is the base camp of the New World Order.
There’s enough hint of truth in the nonsense to get losers who wants someone to blame to believe it.