Russia and Ukraine. In the smoke of the information war
Should we Russians not know what information war is? Only in the last two decades or so, thanks to active and purposeful information-viral actions, let's say, “from the other side”, we suddenly found out that the Soviet Union was an “inefficient” state in which people (that is, you and I) certainly lived in fear and at night under blankets, they repented for allowing themselves to "occupy" poor but proud Balts, zapadentsev and others, as is now fashionable to say, "partners." Thanks to the same actions, we learned that even the majority of votes (more than 77%) for preserving the integrity of their state (this, of course, about the 1991 referendum of the year) does not guarantee that the interests of this majority are taken into account. “Yes” in Russian, Ukrainian, Moldavian, Tajik, Kazakh, Belarusian - this turns out to be “no” in English ... That's it. Thanks to the information campaigns of the “big friends of Russia”, we learned that if a politician gives an order to nightly shoot peacekeepers and civilians from multiple rocket fire systems, then this politician is a democrat and humanist, and if another politician (well, for example, in the north of the African continent) ) builds a welfare state with the highest standards of living in the region, lends money to European presidential candidates, this is a bloody dictator and usurper of power.
And today, everything “from the same shore” is trying to undertake informational “zakidushki” in the style familiar to these gentlemen. The caliber is the same, the trajectory is unchanged, even the whistle of the released information "ammunition" is a friend ...
What are the generalists of the information war trying to convince the "world community" today? Yes, all in the same ... Nothing new. It even becomes uninteresting ... The promise is one: Russia is the enemy of the human race, a stronghold of universal Satanism; the people of Russia are impassable, dense ghouls (I remember Mr. McFaul himself once admitted to this) who do not recognize the "righteous" Western values; the president of Russia is a tyrant, a bloodsucker, a barbarian and part-time intergalactic dictator ...
Well, if all this was heard from the West in Russia for the first time, it would probably feel uncomfortable, upset, they would start tearing their hair out - something “unkind”, and really, they would believe that we " gray, unwashed, bloodthirsty, with envying eyes and raking hands "... But only the vast majority of Russians (do not take into account those who suffer from an indestructible inferiority complex before the" democracy "of the West and falls into a painful euphoria from the promises of" partners "to punish Russia for having her own point of view) had developed a terrific immunity against these information viruses. Too often, these viral organisms were implanted in us, so that today we seriously perceive that the West cares about the people of Ukraine, and Russia drinks its (people’s) blood, that whites and even fluffy angels in the flesh have seized power in Kiev, and they are the indulgent suppressors of rights and freedoms.
Honestly, it's funny when you read the headlines of some Ukrainian newspapers and websites that have committed themselves to the “fierce support” of the “democratic forces” in the form of Tyagnibok, Turchinov, Yatsenyuk and Yarosh ...
Ukrainian blogs, pages in social networks and media spread around a terrible "news":" Russian invaders began to rape the Crimean youngsters "... Someone Vladimir Eismont" declares "that two girls 15-ti and 16-ti years old approached the" Russian soldiers "to take pictures, and the quote:" Russian merzotniki " allegedly began to molest the girls and subjected them to violence. The same “hero of the invisible front” by the name of Eismont, apparently rubbing his hands from the “effectiveness of fat stuffing”, adds a photo of “one of the girls”: bed, bandages, catheters, bruises on his face. In general, the horror, and only ... The direction of the disinformation is obvious: Crimeans should not vote for joining Russia, otherwise the “Russian military” will occupy their homes, enslave the peoples, rape women and kill children ...
But only the author of all this informational shit did not take into account that he works not at the time when one newspaper is for the whole country, but at the time when any material (including any photo) can be checked if desired. Russian bloggers (on http://d-mexico.livejournal.com/) quickly brought this offscreen Eismont to clean water, catching provocative disinformation. As it turned out, the used frame was not at all the girl raped in the Crimea, but a certain lady who was already in the plastic surgery clinic 14 years ago. And from the place where this photo was taken at the time, to the Crimea - eight thousand versts will be in a straight line. The bloggers were able to contact the law enforcement agencies of the Crimea, who gave the answer that no rape in the Republic was recently recorded at all, saying that they were already tired of explaining about this stuffing ...
Well, and against whom, forgive my God, the information "bomb" was sent by those who gave birth to such material, and those who began to multiply it with the necessary feed for themselves? Against themselves and sent ...
Are we doing the right thing - “Military Review”, that we mention this nonsense? Of course, to solve to readers, but I will express my own point of view: we must understand which weapon today against Russia uses the enemy. Who is this opponent? Well, today there is a whole “glorious pleiad” - from overseas hunters for “sensations” to their internal Russian and Ukrainian “like-minded people”, whose task is to use classical propaganda a'lya Joseph Goebbels. If such a weapon and its “striking effect” are known, then this is a great opportunity to effectively resist such a weapon. Not only to resist, but also to have the opportunity to strike on “aismont” and others like them an adequate response to the situation.
By the way, the Roskomnadzor issued a warning to the Russian edition of Lenta.ru for publishing an interview with the head of the Kiev branch of the Right Sector, Mr. Tarasenko, in which (interview) slipped a link to an article announced by Russia on the international search for the PS head Dmitry Yarosh. “Roskomnadzor” explained its decision by saying that the material contained statements of an extremist type.
Of course, commenting on the decisions of Roskomnadzor is a thankless task, to put it mildly, but there is an opinion that Roskomnadzor was seriously mistaken in this situation. After all, if the Russian people will not know who and by what methods is going to finally come to power in Ukraine, if we stop being able to understand who today is opposing himself to the Russian world, who is ready to walk over the corpses of Russians in Ukraine (and not only in Ukraine), then this is at least our (Russian) local defeat in the information war. It turns out that if the same "Lenta.ru" published an interview with representatives of the Ukrainian "Right Sector" in which they would speak of themselves as good elves and curly angels in snow-white robes, then for such an interview "Lenta.ru" would have warnings not been imposed? .. Some frankly strange position of the regulatory authorities, which today plays into the hands of the same "Right Sector" ...
No, in Russia, on the contrary, it is necessary to parade more actively those actions that today are taking or are going to take radicals trying to gain power in Ukraine. If we are silent about these actions, then it turns out that we are not armed, and therefore not protected.
Understanding that the Russian public has already become pretty good at questions of the information war, the West, including through its henchmen, begins an active “treatment” of the Ukrainian people. In Ukraine, people are not yet so tempted by the variants of Western disinformation attempts, which are designed to form the "correct" public opinion. The closure of 5 of Russian TV channels in Ukraine in this case as a symbol of the information war against Russia and against the Ukrainian people. The Russian channels that offered an alternative Western and Western point of view were closed - and now the zombies of Ukrainians should roll on a flat road. But it was not there…
This time, the information war of the West is somehow unaccented ... It seems that the offensive against Russia and the people of Ukraine is deployed on all fronts, shells are brought up, gunpowder is set on fire, but here and there some kind of punctures are observed. After the ban of Russian TV in Ukraine, the OSCE states that Kiev introduces illegal censorship in the media, then the Guardian comes out with an article that sanctions need to be imposed not against Russia, but against those who have sat down in Kiev offices today, then “Le Figaro writes about the extremely low turnout at anti-Russian rallies in the Crimea, and even American politicians speak in the spirit that if someone can teach Russia in matters of international politics, it is not the United States.
In general, there is no unity in the information camp of the geopolitical adversary today - the elderly McCain and the hysterical grandmother by the name of Hillary are trying to pull the thrust of anti-Russian propaganda, the congressman, impressionable Barak and John Kerry's figurine here, but on these “horses” "The information war against Russia is unlikely to reach full-fledged information battles - while more and more booms from the" pugachs "with an abundance of smoke ...
And today, everything “from the same shore” is trying to undertake informational “zakidushki” in the style familiar to these gentlemen. The caliber is the same, the trajectory is unchanged, even the whistle of the released information "ammunition" is a friend ...
What are the generalists of the information war trying to convince the "world community" today? Yes, all in the same ... Nothing new. It even becomes uninteresting ... The promise is one: Russia is the enemy of the human race, a stronghold of universal Satanism; the people of Russia are impassable, dense ghouls (I remember Mr. McFaul himself once admitted to this) who do not recognize the "righteous" Western values; the president of Russia is a tyrant, a bloodsucker, a barbarian and part-time intergalactic dictator ...
Well, if all this was heard from the West in Russia for the first time, it would probably feel uncomfortable, upset, they would start tearing their hair out - something “unkind”, and really, they would believe that we " gray, unwashed, bloodthirsty, with envying eyes and raking hands "... But only the vast majority of Russians (do not take into account those who suffer from an indestructible inferiority complex before the" democracy "of the West and falls into a painful euphoria from the promises of" partners "to punish Russia for having her own point of view) had developed a terrific immunity against these information viruses. Too often, these viral organisms were implanted in us, so that today we seriously perceive that the West cares about the people of Ukraine, and Russia drinks its (people’s) blood, that whites and even fluffy angels in the flesh have seized power in Kiev, and they are the indulgent suppressors of rights and freedoms.
Honestly, it's funny when you read the headlines of some Ukrainian newspapers and websites that have committed themselves to the “fierce support” of the “democratic forces” in the form of Tyagnibok, Turchinov, Yatsenyuk and Yarosh ...
Ukrainian blogs, pages in social networks and media spread around a terrible "news":" Russian invaders began to rape the Crimean youngsters "... Someone Vladimir Eismont" declares "that two girls 15-ti and 16-ti years old approached the" Russian soldiers "to take pictures, and the quote:" Russian merzotniki " allegedly began to molest the girls and subjected them to violence. The same “hero of the invisible front” by the name of Eismont, apparently rubbing his hands from the “effectiveness of fat stuffing”, adds a photo of “one of the girls”: bed, bandages, catheters, bruises on his face. In general, the horror, and only ... The direction of the disinformation is obvious: Crimeans should not vote for joining Russia, otherwise the “Russian military” will occupy their homes, enslave the peoples, rape women and kill children ...
But only the author of all this informational shit did not take into account that he works not at the time when one newspaper is for the whole country, but at the time when any material (including any photo) can be checked if desired. Russian bloggers (on http://d-mexico.livejournal.com/) quickly brought this offscreen Eismont to clean water, catching provocative disinformation. As it turned out, the used frame was not at all the girl raped in the Crimea, but a certain lady who was already in the plastic surgery clinic 14 years ago. And from the place where this photo was taken at the time, to the Crimea - eight thousand versts will be in a straight line. The bloggers were able to contact the law enforcement agencies of the Crimea, who gave the answer that no rape in the Republic was recently recorded at all, saying that they were already tired of explaining about this stuffing ...
Well, and against whom, forgive my God, the information "bomb" was sent by those who gave birth to such material, and those who began to multiply it with the necessary feed for themselves? Against themselves and sent ...
Are we doing the right thing - “Military Review”, that we mention this nonsense? Of course, to solve to readers, but I will express my own point of view: we must understand which weapon today against Russia uses the enemy. Who is this opponent? Well, today there is a whole “glorious pleiad” - from overseas hunters for “sensations” to their internal Russian and Ukrainian “like-minded people”, whose task is to use classical propaganda a'lya Joseph Goebbels. If such a weapon and its “striking effect” are known, then this is a great opportunity to effectively resist such a weapon. Not only to resist, but also to have the opportunity to strike on “aismont” and others like them an adequate response to the situation.
By the way, the Roskomnadzor issued a warning to the Russian edition of Lenta.ru for publishing an interview with the head of the Kiev branch of the Right Sector, Mr. Tarasenko, in which (interview) slipped a link to an article announced by Russia on the international search for the PS head Dmitry Yarosh. “Roskomnadzor” explained its decision by saying that the material contained statements of an extremist type.
Of course, commenting on the decisions of Roskomnadzor is a thankless task, to put it mildly, but there is an opinion that Roskomnadzor was seriously mistaken in this situation. After all, if the Russian people will not know who and by what methods is going to finally come to power in Ukraine, if we stop being able to understand who today is opposing himself to the Russian world, who is ready to walk over the corpses of Russians in Ukraine (and not only in Ukraine), then this is at least our (Russian) local defeat in the information war. It turns out that if the same "Lenta.ru" published an interview with representatives of the Ukrainian "Right Sector" in which they would speak of themselves as good elves and curly angels in snow-white robes, then for such an interview "Lenta.ru" would have warnings not been imposed? .. Some frankly strange position of the regulatory authorities, which today plays into the hands of the same "Right Sector" ...
No, in Russia, on the contrary, it is necessary to parade more actively those actions that today are taking or are going to take radicals trying to gain power in Ukraine. If we are silent about these actions, then it turns out that we are not armed, and therefore not protected.
Understanding that the Russian public has already become pretty good at questions of the information war, the West, including through its henchmen, begins an active “treatment” of the Ukrainian people. In Ukraine, people are not yet so tempted by the variants of Western disinformation attempts, which are designed to form the "correct" public opinion. The closure of 5 of Russian TV channels in Ukraine in this case as a symbol of the information war against Russia and against the Ukrainian people. The Russian channels that offered an alternative Western and Western point of view were closed - and now the zombies of Ukrainians should roll on a flat road. But it was not there…
This time, the information war of the West is somehow unaccented ... It seems that the offensive against Russia and the people of Ukraine is deployed on all fronts, shells are brought up, gunpowder is set on fire, but here and there some kind of punctures are observed. After the ban of Russian TV in Ukraine, the OSCE states that Kiev introduces illegal censorship in the media, then the Guardian comes out with an article that sanctions need to be imposed not against Russia, but against those who have sat down in Kiev offices today, then “Le Figaro writes about the extremely low turnout at anti-Russian rallies in the Crimea, and even American politicians speak in the spirit that if someone can teach Russia in matters of international politics, it is not the United States.
In general, there is no unity in the information camp of the geopolitical adversary today - the elderly McCain and the hysterical grandmother by the name of Hillary are trying to pull the thrust of anti-Russian propaganda, the congressman, impressionable Barak and John Kerry's figurine here, but on these “horses” "The information war against Russia is unlikely to reach full-fledged information battles - while more and more booms from the" pugachs "with an abundance of smoke ...
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