Myanmar receives first shipment of Russia's Su-30 fighter jets - RIA (www.reuters.com)

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[-] jungle@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm always baffled by the prevalent idea that the Russian population is influenced by propaganda while in the west we aren't. Truth is the first casualty of war, for all sides.

The same absurd thinking can be seen in political discussion. Each side is convinced the other side is deluded and lives in a bubble of fake news. Like their side isn't.

[-] anewbeginning@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

You want to compare Freedom of information in the west vs Russia?

[-] zephyreks@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

In a war setting? Of course.

Propaganda has always and will always outpaced whatever protections freedom of information has. Those freedoms only really hold in peacetime.

[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 year ago

I don't think you understand how unfree information is in the West. The West has the oldest, biggest, most well funded, and most effective propaganda machine in the history of the world.

[-] jungle@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You mean like what Trump supporters consume? And Fox, MSNBC, and all the other "news" outlets? How is that freedom working for the people in the land of the free?

There may be differences in the scale of bias and propaganda, but nobody should live under the illusion that they have access to unbiased news.

[-] AmberPrince@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

You are still drawing an equivalence between availability of information in America compared to Russia, implying they are equal. They are not and what you are doing is disingenuous.