Hi, I’m Russian. The West doesn’t realize the good and the bad news about Russia
You know how you can tell you have a good propaganda machine? It&#x27;s when you launch a war, your poll ratings shoot up. When you kill loads of people in your war, it doesn&#x27;t come out in the newspapers, it comes out in the Lancet, two years after all the depleted-uranium dust has settled.<p>That&#x27;s the first gulf war.<p>In comparison, the Ukraine-Russia conflict is honestly the worst war from a propaganda perspective, for the aggressor, in living memory. If you&#x27;re at the point where you have to eradicate independent media just to stem the bleeding from every somewhat-honest person&#x27;s first impression of what you&#x27;ve done, you&#x27;ve completely lost control of the narrative.<p>Obviously, it is a war of aggression, but that&#x27;s true of a lot of wars in my lifetime. Rarely has a war of aggression in modern times raised so much opprobrium, and the basic reason for this is the absolutely puny soft power of Russia.