Can we get some mood music, and some people admitting in perfect reality TV script style, that that was the moment, when they realized that this would become a war? Maybe add a few “they are afraid” and “he’s unhinged” soundbites to it?
Thank you PBS.
Also - at the same time the official narrative on the scientific side is, that US intelligence circles warned about the strong possibility of a war at least two weeks prior (see: click). Which then is a little bit embezzled by the Hoover Institute for gerneral pundit consumption, and made into the reasoning for the narrative, that the one good aspect that came out of this is, that europe is now closer in terms of policy positions than ever before. Of course some people also call BS on that, because it is unity by necessity, but those are just mad wierdos.
At the same time it is acknowledged, that the entire meeting was made up for PR purposes, that it was prerecorded, yet it shows with absolute certainty, how distant Putin is to his advisers, and how unhinged, even crazy he is, and that everyone in his own “balance of power circles” is afraid of him.
Wait - do I need historical experts for that purpose, that are exactly dumb enough not to understand that should a balance of power in Russia exist, it is not “argued for freely” in the open, in a prerecorded PR production? Do I need experts just dumb enough not to notice, that the fact that Putin put down the SVR intelligence chief, was reported by the same media outlets (PBS) as a public display of the notion, that the foreign security sector within russia has lost influence?
Sorry - not dumb enough, just situated in the right talking circles of course.
People speaking in the video:
“What was especially weird and creepy was the way he dressed down the head of his foreign intelligence service, [Sergey] Naryshkin,” says Daniel Fried, currently a distinguished fellow at the Atlantic Council, who served as the U.S. ambassador to Poland from 1997 to 2000 and as assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs from 2005 to 2009.
“[Putin] seemed to go off the rails, angry and berating his intelligence chief,” recalls Schake, who previously served at the U.S. State Department, the Department of Defense and the National Security Council. “It was such a strange and such an orchestrated performance, that that’s the moment when I realized that Putin was actually going to attack Ukraine.
src: click
Oh, just for comparative purposes, lets see how france reacts to stuff similar to this:
US intel paints Putin as aggrieved, angry over Ukraine war
Washington (AFP) – US intelligence chiefs on Tuesday branded Russia’s Vladimir Putin an “angry,” isolated leader grappling for global clout, frustrated about how his Ukraine invasion has not gone to plan, and lobbing provocative nuclear threats at the West.
The long-standing president in Moscow has been “stewing in a combustible combination of grievance and ambition for many years,” CIA Director William Burns told US lawmakers.
He called the invasion of Ukraine a matter of “deep personal conviction” for Putin, his latest defiant clash with Europe and the United States.
“I think Putin is angry and frustrated right now. He’s likely to double down and try to grind down the Ukrainian military with no regard for civilian casualties,” Burns said at a congressional hearing on global threats.
The Russian strongman has encountered a tidal wave of opprobrium for the deadly invasion, leaving him isolated like never before.
The US intelligence community warned of the potential for Putin to lash out, especially noting an elevated nuclear threat.
Lieutenant General Scott Berrier, director of the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency, said Russia under Putin has been working overtime to modernize its weaponry, particularly smaller-yield nuclear weapons.
Putin has “invested in tactical nuclear weapons,” Berrier said. “I believe that he thinks that gives him an asymmetric advantage.”
Putin took the shock step last month of putting Russia’s nuclear forces on high alert.
Some US officials have privately expressed concern that, in a worst-case scenario, he might order deployment of such mini-nukes on a city.
Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said “Putin’s nuclear saber-rattling” has put the West on notice.
“We assess Putin feels aggrieved the West does not give him proper deference, and perceives this as a war he cannot afford to lose,” Haines told the panel.
“But what he might be willing to accept as a victory may change over time,” she said.
Putin’s invasion has produced “a shock to the geopolitical order with implications for the future that we are only beginning to understand, but are sure to be consequential.”
With Putin under immense pressure, the “system” the Russian president created of a circle of close advisors is getting “narrower and narrower,” the CIA’s Burns said.
In such a system, “it’s not proven career enhancing for people to question or challenge his judgment.”
france24 via AFP
Wait paints?
Oh, and can I get some mood music for that - and a reality TV production setup, with people commenting on how they felt, when they saw it?
Thanks.
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Media studies, Communication studies, Theory of Communication
Published by: Факултет по журналистика и масова комуникация, Софийски университет „Св. Кл. Охридски”
Keywords: Russian television; personalization; propaganda; political talk shows; international relations; public opinion
Summary/Abstract:This article shows how Russian media use personalization to increase pro-Russian influence on every Russian-speaking community. Based on the examples it gives an understanding, why such manner of representing the news can be dangerous as it increases nationalism and xenophobia, making the stereotypes rule over the facts. The long-term objective of [this] work is to prevent the development of such kind of personalization and to decrease the negative influence upon other countries.
src: click
Oh, shit, wrong country, wrong country…
