The Russian weaponisation of media statements is another practicality in the State’s way of guiding and controlling events. The usual method is employed across the territory to maintain a united message as order around the world is torn apart in its nationalistic imagination.
The President starts it off by calling the leader of Ukraine a “Nazi” and this catcall is repeated by officials at high and low levels, but it’s only the start of their effort to demonise their enemy. Underneath each start point given to them from the Kremlin’s cheat sheet are their own additions based on their antipathy.
This is the cascading nature of hostility in Europe’s only closed State, a standoff ‘partner’ in human affairs that doesn’t engage properly and only politely refuses at certain times. It’s a combative stance that has caused trouble repeatedly and still pertains to be the problem. This is the type of fight that Ukraine has on its mind as it struggles now to survive.
