The Government of Ukraine has issued a blacklist of individuals who they judge to be “promoting Russian propaganda” — including a number of prominent Western intellectuals. The “Center for Countering Disinformation,” established in 2021 under Volodymyr Zelensky and headed by former lawyer Polina Lysenko, sits within the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine. Its [...]Read More...

Full list here. Includes prominent people like Tulsi Gabbard, John Mearsheimer, and Glenn Greenwald

    • FailureToLaunch [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Mearsheimer has been very vocal about U.S expansionism in eastern europe being the complete wrong move -

      Because he wants to blow up china, and thinks that russia is just a distraction from that.

      Lemme see if i can find the interview where he lays out his analysis its really bizarre to see a U.S supremacist foreign policy ghoul with a cogent grip on reality

      Here's the article: https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-john-mearsheimer-blames-the-us-for-the-crisis-in-ukraine

      Yeah this guy being called a Russian propagandist is fucking hilarious on a lot of levels

      • Whatami [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        Wow. That link is fantastic. Not often do we see elites speaking so openly about how evil they are.

        "What happened is that this major crisis broke out, and we had to assign blame, and of course we were never going to blame ourselves. So we invented this story that Russia was bent on aggression in Eastern Europe."

    • Des [she/her, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      that would risk alienating their support among MAGAs. i'm guessing there was very careful consultation with the U.S. state before this list was released

    • plov_mix [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      To be honest I do feel like Russia is almost providing cover for all the China hate since February, at least among the clueless libs