Do our local Putinists no longer believe in Putin?
The Ukrainian track promoted by Putin does not convince even pro-Putin supporters. Francesco Cundari's italics taken from his newsletter La Linea
Faced with an attack claimed by ISIS , carried out with the classic methods of Islamic fundamentalists, complete with videos in which the attackers praise Allah, even our most consummate exegetes-apologists of Vladimir Putin hesitated to support the ridiculous Ukrainian lead that the Kremlin has tried to push to world public opinion. Also because, just two weeks earlier, the United States had publicly raised an alarm about the risk of such an attack, and Putin himself had defined the news as the usual American provocation. Not to mention the absurdity of the Russian version itself, according to which the attackers fleeing from Moscow, in order to save themselves, thought it best to head towards Ukraine, that is, heading straight towards the most heavily guarded and militarized border in the world, where the entire Russian army has been attested for two years, among tank-proof fortified lines, trenches and minefields.
This time, the swarm of fake profiles that immediately flooded the internet with similar absurdities (with an unprecedented offensive in terms of breadth and methods which Matteo Pugliese , interviewed on the same topic by Repubblica , writes about today on Linkiesta), has found fewer supporters than usual in the circuit of Italian information and politics. So much so that not even Alessandro Orsini felt like endorsing the Kremlin's thesis, while in today's daily newspaper , after two days of pure news, just one article appeared dedicated to the presence of "anti-Russian jihadist battalions in Ukraine".
On the other hand, the writer and candidate in Michele Santoro's "pacifist" list for the next European elections, Nicolaj Lilin, stood out as he relaunched a grotesque deepfake on social media in recent days in which the Ukrainian defense leaders candidly admitted their responsibility in the attacks .
Such laughable lies should teach us something, however, in retrospect. Because the Ukrainian lead for the Moscow attacks, which few in Italy had the courage to support, is no more credible than the "persecution of Russian speakers in the Donbas" or the NATO provocations as the true causes of the conflict, which instead many newspapers and many journalists, political scientists and geopolitical scientists have continued to foist on us for two years. Even then, in February 2022, the United States had raised an alarm about what was about to happen, even showing satellite photos of the Russian army massed on the borders with Ukraine. An alarm that our tireless Putin-understanders had instead dismissed as "yet another American fake news", taking the Kremlin's denials at face value and repeating the arguments until the day before the invasion. But above all, and this is what prevents us from assuming the slightest good faith in them, even from the next day.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/putin-propaganda-attentato-russia/ on Sat, 30 Mar 2024 06:43:39 +0000.