This is a fascinating article and shines light on an important issue. However, I wonder if the situation in the UK, for example, is really different from the one in Russia. The popular reaction to the Coronavirus lockdowns, and the accompanying propaganda, was not really that different to the state TV propaganda in Russia.
I lived in Moscow for many years in the 90s and 00s and it is because of this that I have become increasingly concerned about the slow slide towards totalitariasm in the West. Also, I am far less optimistic than the author re the future direction of events. My sense is that Russian (and Chinese) propaganda is being becoming increasingly effective in the West. This, coupled with the effects of the de facto energy embargos by Russia is likely, in my view, to force the West to capitulate...unless we face up to the molecularisation in our own countries
This is a fascinating article and shines light on an important issue. However, I wonder if the situation in the UK, for example, is really different from the one in Russia. The popular reaction to the Coronavirus lockdowns, and the accompanying propaganda, was not really that different to the state TV propaganda in Russia.
I lived in Moscow for many years in the 90s and 00s and it is because of this that I have become increasingly concerned about the slow slide towards totalitariasm in the West. Also, I am far less optimistic than the author re the future direction of events. My sense is that Russian (and Chinese) propaganda is being becoming increasingly effective in the West. This, coupled with the effects of the de facto energy embargos by Russia is likely, in my view, to force the West to capitulate...unless we face up to the molecularisation in our own countries