War propaganda

The Guardian report on the defeat of Nazis in Azovstal.

War propaganda is used as a means of influencing both sides of the military conflict. An example from the Russia-Ukraine war is the recruitment of foreign mercenaries by the government of Ukraine. Mercenaries do not enjoy the status and protection of prisoners of war under the Geneva Convention, can be executed on the spot as paid killers for profit under international law, and most governments have laws in place prohibiting their citizens from engaging in mercenary activity. Three UK citizens were captured by the Russians, and two faced criminal charges and the death penalty. The third, Aiden Aslin, was somewhat of social media star with a large number of subscribers on Twitter and Instagram following his tales of adventure. In captivity, Aslin was allowed to create a YouTube channel to interact with the global public, and dissuade people from responding to Ukrainian and Western media solicitations to join Ukraine's mercenary force.

Propaganda in times of war or other kinds of military operations. It can be divided into the following types:

Propaganda of captivity. One of the most popular and effective types of military propaganda in the framework of psychological warfare. It includes providing information about prisoners of war, their normal existence, lack of bullying and serious difficulties. Implementing the idea that surrender is a completely normal solution that will help you return home alive.

Propaganda of military successes. Significantly increases the morale of his army and demoralization of the enemy army. A kind of "placebo effect" – the introduction of certain thoughts and moods can really lead to the result that is stated.

Propaganda by instilling fear of defeat. Such propaganda can set up the army for the most decisive actions, since "there is nowhere to retreat." It can acquire a different character - instilling fear due to the consequences of the offensive. Such an approach can cause confusion in the army and society of the attacking side. Other ways of exposure.

NATO war in Ukraine

See also: Ukraine propaganda war

Ukraine Human Rights Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova was actually fired in an unprecedented move for manufacturing fake news reports about alleged Russian rapes and bringing disrepute on the Ukrainian regime.

From the earliest days of the conflict, the Kyiv regime focused on winning a global information and propaganda war rather than a military conflict. Researchers at the University of Adelaide in Australia published a landmark paper on August 20, 2022 on the activities of bot accounts on Twitter related to the conflict. The Australian findings were staggering – of 5.2 million tweets on the social media network from February 23 to March 8, 2022 at the outbreak of the conflict, between 60 to 80% were shared by fake accounts.

Reverse psychology was employed for the first year of the conflict, reporting Ukraine's staggering losses, in excess of 100,000 killed, as Russian losses. This conditioned Western media consumers to believe support for the war was accomplishing its goals, lessening the shock impact of being lied to and the horrors of war when it became apparent that the numbers were real, only the belligerent parties to whom the atrocities and casualty rates were attributed had been reversed.

Virtually all mainstream media reporting was reversed: Ukrainian war crimes, atrocities, killing of civilians, casualty rates, and troops killed in action were reported, however universally attributed by the controlled media of the West as being Russian war crimes and casualty rates, and not Ukrainian. This avoided the need to invent stories out of whole cloth to gin up anti-Russian propaganda cause no one could deny these events happened or deaths occurred. All Western reporting was sanitized in Kyiv through the CIA, which shared office space in SBU headquarters. Nothing made it out of Kyiv for global MSM distribution without passing through regime and NATO information experts first.

Children's programming in Germany

A Tauras cruise missile tallks in a children's program: German children are indoctrinated with Russophobia at an early age.

A broadcast on the NATO war in Ukraine on the ZDF children's news program in Germany left viewers speechless. In it, the German built Taurus cruise missile and the French and British Storm Shadow, complete with mouths, noses and eyes, chat casually with a Leopard tank about Russia.

Taurus’s squeaky girl's voice begins angrily: "We cruise missiles have to blow Olaf Scholz's march properly." Whereupon Storm Shadow asks in an English accent: "Um, why?" Taurus’s response: "Well, because he refuses to deliver me to Ukraine!" Interjection from Leopard 2 with an Eastern European accent: "Just like they did to me!" Scalp chimes in: "Huh, screw you, Taurus, the Ukrainians are already getting me!" Storm Shadow: "And me!" Taurus replies: "You know you're one and the same cruise missile, just from different countries?" Storm Shadow: "It's the differences that make us unique and show us how special we are." Interjection from Leopard 2: "Hey, definitely post that on Instagram!" Storm Shadow: "Already done!"

Taurus: "No wonder they want me, I'm clearly the better cruise missile!" Storm Shadow replies: "More like an a** missile if you don't show up soon!" Scalp: "Hahaha!" Taurus shouts: "Hey, it's not up to me!" Leopard 2: "You don't have to blow up!" Taurus shouts, "I’m a cruise missile, that's exactly what I'm supposed to do!" Scalp, appeasingly: "You’re not allowed in Ukraine because your chancellor is hesitating and procrastinating again?" Storm Shadow knows the score: "The German technical term for that is 'scholzen'." "No," Taurus replies, "this time there was even a reason: Because I have such a long range, he's afraid I'll overshoot and hit Russia." Now Scalp's girl voice clears her throat and squeals: "Hmm… And what has Russia been doing for the last two years?" Leopard 2 repeats: "What has Russia been doing for the last two years?" Taurus, amazed: "Really?"

See also

• Psychological warfare
• Media intelligence complex
• CCP propaganda war
• Cold War I propaganda
• List of Communist publications
• Putin propaganda
• Nazi propaganda in the Russia-Ukraine war
• Operation Infektion
• List of military strategies and concepts
• False flag
• Copium
• DARVO
• Persuasion
• Echo chamber (media)
• Coprophagia