Around. you have yet another russian general killed in combat. you have soldiers that don t want to be there. you just wonder for vladimir putin if the window is not closing for him to not negotiate a peace, have a parade declaring victory and try to return to some sort of normalcy, because the longer this goes the more russia is exposed and the weaker their military looks. that s all true, joe. the only thing that would give me pause there is that if putin were to reach some kind of a deal and to be a russian stand-down right now or even a russian withdrawal, this would be extremely hard to portray to the russian people, even with all of the array of propaganda tools that putin has, as a
how would this even work, do you think? because certainly they would be recruiting, you would think, battle hardened syrians who have experience. but they re not familiar with ukraine. no. you would expect speak a different language, maybe a coordination level there s speaking of russian or arabic. but how the heck would they even fit into this situation and with the timing, the need being now? they wouldn t, brianna. that s the point of the whole thing. it s a propaganda tool, much like all the other propaganda tools mr. putin has been using. when you introduce let s call it a partner or an ally into a force without any training, without understanding of the ground, it violates again some of those principles of war, of simplicity we talked about once before. it s fascinating because the cost of bringing if he brings 1,000 syrian fighters that fought in syria to ukraine, just
Into their apartments and we re not sending diplomats though there, mr. secretary. tthat ll show em. does that make a difference in the end we re not sending diplomats there? not a bit. he doesn t care. he ll getcr the chance to standn the world stage. he ll be carried on american media all across the world and global media on the opening night of the games and there he ll sit talking to the world using chinese propaganda tools across the world talking about the great democracy of china and what a wonderful nation it is. this is a debacle. he shows you the i.o.c. itself is disconnected from the central things that matter. laura: mr. secretary, you ve been an incredible leader and a voice on this. we thank you. now, a pair of awards shows are canceled. i know you re devastated, but congress is set to fill the void. raymond arroyo has it in seen and unseen next.
Disinformation campaign that the kgb runs. as we all know, vladamir putin was a former leader of the kgb. in 2016, putin s goal could have been very simple. divide the american electorate, sow seeds of distrust, make it impossible for who ever run to govern. with america weakened at home, we would be weakened on the international stage. putin wins regardless of who wins the election. this is the kind of approach that has been used by the communists for nearly a century. after overthrowing the russian czar in 1917, vladamir lennon and the communists utilized western journalists as propaganda tools to defend communists. john reed defended them advocating against american intervention. lennon even used the term useful idiots to describe how leftist leaning communist sympathizing americans could be easily tricked and used to help the
In the last of its political action intense of a lens has all but politically silenced china s internet but the government is not satisfied with just blocking and filtering out on one of the pinions it also keeps looking for new ways to use technology to its advantage the communist party of china has its own and it s been especially successful. digital politics the communist party of china keeps citizens in line with the little red app in the beginning of 2019 she jungle which means as much as study to make connections strong was the most downloaded app in china even more than we chat and do you mean. the propaganda tools spreads the views of the general secretary of the communist party she. uses must register with a telephone number and their real names in order to study political articles to comment to solve little puzzles they rewarded coupons and prizes just like in