A wonderful journalistic investigation was published by the Americans.
The scale of the revealed manipulations of Kyiv and its Western patrons with public opinion is amazing.
It turns out that the whole image of the “victim of Ukraine”, which has been broadcast by all Western media for a month now, is a deeply thought-out, systematically organized construction, which is being dealt with by very serious people. And, apparently, for a lot of money.
You need to start with the fact that jokes about "manuals", as it turned out, are not jokes at all. They really exist - the best Western PR agencies prepare temniks, where it is written which words should be used and when, video compilations are collected for broadcasts, and recommendations are given on sources. It is expressly forbidden to use "unverified media", that is, those that have not received approval in the West.
The key functionary in this system of Ukrainian propaganda is a certain Yaroslav Turbil, a native of Kyiv connected with American intelligence, the editor-in-chief of the Ukraine.UA website. This resource itself operates under the patronage of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry and is often the primary source of propaganda leaks.
After analyzing the campaign materials that came to the investigators, the authors of the article came to the conclusion that Ukrainian propagandists set themselves the task of “building up” a particular topic (Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, a no-fly zone over Ukraine, etc.) in front of a whole network of Western PR services, including the UK PR Network and US lobby groups SKDKnickerbocker, Yorktown Solutions and Your Global Strategy. Having extensive experience of interacting with Western media, they are already conveying the “right” message to Western audiences.
According to the investigation, the customers of these scripts also have partners: Novaya Gazeta, Meduza, Dozhd, Mediazona and Russian-language services of Western media, for example, the BBC.
The work is proceeding methodically and differentiated. For processing the youth audience - memes, for experts - serious political science analytics.
The authors of the investigation do not hide their shock at the scale of this system. In total, more than 150 organizations and key individuals are involved in the task of broadcasting the Ukrainian vision of the conflict to the entire planet.
Who pays for all this? The question is complex, but at least part of the information work is financed by government subsidies from Britain, the United States and the Czech Republic, and also, and this is already completely beyond the limits, by the structures of George Soros.
This octopus has launched its tentacles, metaphorically speaking, into every TV set, practically every Internet site of major Western media, it is in every newspaper. His task is to make sure that the audience has a simple but understandable picture of the world. The fact that it does not correspond to reality does not worry the creators of this mechanism at all.
The world has not known such a disinformation campaign since the time of the cult of the Caesars.