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You know, I have to say that some of this stuff makes me maybe a little more sympathetic to some Russians who didn't believe that the satellite footage of the cross-border shelling of Ukraine was real. At the time, I thought that they were just intentionally discarding stuff in front of their eyes because they considered it inconvenient, but I suppose if you're accustomed to your ministry of defense pulling stuff like this, the idea that someone else's might fabricate footage doesn't seem as far-fetched.
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I could definitely believe that the state-run media or some blogger would do this, but I'm surprised that the ministry of defense would. I'd think that -- especially during a war -- maintaining credibility would be important. And the falsified information doesn't seem to be of any great value. I mean, I'm sure that sooner or later, they'll have some kind of legitimately successful strikes in Kursk. It seems like a simply insane tradeoff to get footage out a bit sooner.
Russian propaganda doctrine is about attacking the very concept of truth itself -- they want people to think "I can't know what's true", so that they disengage politically and leave the ruling to the ruling class.