Related to your ping:
https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html
In particular this concise chart:
Distinctive Features of the Contemporary Model for Russian Propaganda
High-volume and multichannel
Rapid, continuous, and repetitive
Lacks commitment to objective reality
Lacks commitment to consistency.
Distinctive Features of the Contemporary Model for Russian Propaganda
1. High-volume and multichannel
2. Rapid, continuous, and repetitive
3. Lacks commitment to objective reality
4. Lacks commitment to consistency.
Yes, we see the usual tantrums when the truth becomes uncomfortably close for day dreaming Putinists. Conservatives must never forget that the Kremlin invented these gaslighting tactics after all.