Luke, do you have a secret Craner back channel?
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Mr. Tea
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That's very generous, but I feel it was more like Dan ft me, since he's read far more about Russia than I have.
luka
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It is weird. There's always been propaganda but to be able to produce high quality adverts about your future success killing people is profoundly strange.
This is great. Of the Prigozhin videos, I've only seen the one where he's recruiting the prisoners. Very strange.
Is it me, or is James Meek really good? I seem to remember him doing some brilliant pieces on housing in the LRB a few years ago.
I mean, fucking hell:
But each brigade follows its own imperative on social media – to reassure families and friends, to show off new equipment, to raise money, to demonstrate that the enemy is being punished, or, equally, to illustrate dire conditions to the country and the general staff. A victory, no matter how small, must be claimed, and the claim takes the form of a video clip on the internet with the brigade’s watermark in every frame. The potential is there for a unit’s social media team – or for those of Wagner or WarGonzo, which are explicitly commercial organisations – to seek out ‘likes’ and followers, to learn what sort of war content engages viewers.
What a strange world we're in.
But each brigade follows its own imperative on social media – to reassure families and friends, to show off new equipment, to raise money, to demonstrate that the enemy is being punished, or, equally, to illustrate dire conditions to the country and the general staff. A victory, no matter how small, must be claimed, and the claim takes the form of a video clip on the internet with the brigade’s watermark in every frame. The potential is there for a unit’s social media team – or for those of Wagner or WarGonzo, which are explicitly commercial organisations – to seek out ‘likes’ and followers, to learn what sort of war content engages viewers.
What a strange world we're in.
I see some, but they're mostly disseminated through Twitter via accounts I trust, and they tend not to put up the horrible stuff.
I felt generation gapped by the Telegram bit as I just don't engage with it.
shakahislop
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is there an intermediate step between daesh doing this in iraq and syria and what the ukranian military is doing now? did anyone else video in this kind of way? no-one comes to mind, but obviously i have no idea. especially reading the lrb piece with the details on showing violence and human suffering there's a (limited) parallel between the two.
deleted what I said cos I'm really not in the mood for false slander and pile on as is wont to happen when people get emotionally invested in politics. But I think mr. Snyder should look at the US' allies in Asia and the fractious relationship they have with them and adapt his analysis accordingly. He reads like he's still stuck in the 1990s where pax americana is the game in town. It is Japan, not China who will end up causing problems for the Yanks.
In fact the problem with anti-Americanism today is precisely this, that it cannot begin to understand that the US is losing its global hegemon status.
In fact the problem with anti-Americanism today is precisely this, that it cannot begin to understand that the US is losing its global hegemon status.
Russia must have similar vids surely?
This showed up on my tl this AM:
Mr. Tea
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"The important thing is not to be scared" - fuuuuuck!