The disinformation tactics deployed by Putin’s Russia last summer are not that different from the propaganda used by Kaiser Wilhelm’s Germany 100 years agoThe fog of propaganda and counter-propaganda settled long before the last corpse had been laid to rest. One side called the catastrophe a deliberate act of warfare, an unspeakable crime that stood as testimony to the enemy’s disregard for human life. They called for immediate retaliation from the international community.Not at all, said the other side: all this disaster proved was western civilisation’s hypocrisy and decadence. It finally exposed the illusion that wars could be led at …read more
Source: The Guardian