The Institute for the Study of War says Russia’s propaganda machine will likely use the conflict in Israel to erode the West’s support for Ukraine.
“The Kremlin is already and will likely continue to exploit the Hamas attacks in Israel to advance several information operations intended to reduce US and Western support and attention to Ukraine,” wrote the Washington-based think tank on Saturday.
The ISW wrote in its report that after the Hamas attacks on Saturday, the Kremlin amplified information campaigns that accused the West of ignoring Middle East conflicts to support Ukraine. These campaigns also pushed the message that global attention — in particular, resources from the West — would shift from Ukraine to the Middle East.
The institute cited examples like Russian TV host Sergey Mardan stating in his Telegram channel that the West “will take its mind off Ukraine for a while and get busy once again putting out the eternal fire in the Middle East.”
I also noticed that both here on Lemmy and over on Reddit that there’s been a push of pro-Russian talking points and a huge push towards Islamaphobia for the past few days, starting just before the attacks this weekend.
I understand there’s going to be some natural anger over the attack, but the amount of accounts I’ve seen, especially noticeable here on Lemmy because we just don’t have as many users, who are saying things like, “This is just what Muslims are like,” and, “Western countries accept these kinds of people, so expect them to do the same there,” and other racist bullshit talking points. They’ve also been painting the ongoing conflict as unquestionably one-sided in Israel’s favor.
It’s depressing but kind of to be expected that there’s a psyops campaign going on trying to get people outraged at not just Hamas, not just Palestine, but all of Islam right now while simultaneously trying to paint Ukrainian surrender and pro-Russian propaganda. This horrible act of terror was either in part planned by Russia or at the very least is seen as an easy opportunity to try and weaken Western support of repelling their invasion of Ukraine. Just spending a little time in the wrong circles on social media should make that obvious.
I’m thankful that the consensus opinion here so far seems to be relatively balanced, even if there are a small minority of asshats either trying to paint Hamas’ actions as justified or trying to claim Israel did nothing wrong.
I’m saying this as a secular non-Israeli Jew who wishes Likud would just leave politics entirely and let Israel have a slightly less insane government for once.
There’s also been a number of suspiciously enthusiastic Cornell West voters in the comments of political communities the last few weeks.
? what’s suspicious about being excited for an independent, leftist candidate?
Here, fixed it for ya. Nobody likes it, but FPTP means voting for West pushes the country farther right, not left.
that happens unless Dr. West wins.
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the fascist party is the corporate democrats and republicans. any vote that’s not for them is an antifascist vote.
no need to present any argument when you can just say
You have to be beyond ignorant and stupid
There is no argument to be made. FPTP is what it is. You not being able to comprehend it doesn’t mean I “need to make an argument” You are just flat out wrong and ignorant.
You are just flat out wrong and ignorant
everything i’ve stated has been true. you don’t seem to be able to communicate without personal attacks.
The US is more to the right on average than Cornel West. He won’t win. Even if that wasn’t the case, people would still mostly vote for the Democratic candidate (in this case Joe Biden), because the Democratic Party is more established and expected to get more votes based on past elections. People are aware of the system used for voting in their country and vote accordingly. Children can understand this, so why are you this obtuse?
calling me obtuse doesn’t change whether what I said was true
you didn’t fix anything.
This Hamas attack was for sure 100% a russian or mossad or even a co op between the two backed event. Hamas leadership is literally nothing but druggies and child rapists after thirty years of mossad/russian/western intervention and warfare. Competent Palestinian leaders are killed, the incompetent and war hungry let to live. That has been everyones standard operating procedure for years. Now Isreal is going to be not just supported, but cheered on as they establish a fascist ethno state. The rest of the world will soon be following in its steps as the climate change migrants will start moving in the next decade.
This is wierd asf. Why do you pretend Russia needs to spread Islamophobia as a propaganda tool? It’s already there in European and European adjacent countries.
It doesn’t need to spread it from nothing, but expand and utilize? Absolutely possible