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What if they're just blowing shit up in hopes that something will get people to stop helping Ukraine.

Because if you don't then your definition of propaganda includes literally everything. Ah yes, because no one is getting paid anywhere in that chain... except you know, all the people getting paid via whatever means they spread the video, and certainly, no one posting cell phone videos is...

Give me an example of information that does not trace directly to someone getting paid.

...So because they get paid, regardless of who pays them or why or how, it's propaganda. Congrats, you just rendered a word meaningless. Because by that definition there is nothing that ISN'T propaganda. Lovely definition, definitely very useful. Oh and, besides ignoring that your definition...

Dude... He literally said paid to propagandize.

Two things can be true at the same time.

Dude, Putin was literally a reasonably high up figure in said government. Putin runs his country only somewhat differently on the ground and has the same type of control mechanisms at the high end. The difference between the USSR and modern Russia is indeed great, but it's not nearly so great...

The Holodomor was such a genius piece of assimilation wasn't it?

FTFY The U.S. suspended Habeas Corpus during the Civil War for journalists who talked up the rebels or said the war was a bad idea. When you are fighting on your own soil, for the survival of your nation, lots of rules get looser.

A distinctly different angle on the Russia Ukraine war.