For a time it seemed that the West was winning the information war if not the real war in Ukraine. But I'm beginning to the think that the opposite is true. The censorship and opinion policing being undertaken by the social media giants and mainstream media doesn't work when work arounds are readily available.
If in fact Russia is winning the real war, then the West will take a real hit in the information war. The initial propaganda blast from the West was so overwhelming that it will be a Vietnam / Iraq / Afghanistan blow to Western credibility. I've been following a Singapore based analyst of the war who tries to be neutral, but has concluded that the Ukraine partisans cannot be believed whereas the Russian Ministry of Defense is reasonably accurate.
Here's a more in-depth look at this phenomenon: Russia is NOT Losing the Information War. Excerpts:
I frequently see the claim that Russia is losing the information war in Ukraine. This idea is widely believed, even by people who support Russia, and even some Russians themselves. As someone with relevant experience in that field, I can confidently say this is not true.
There is this idea that “both sides are equally bad” and everyone spreads disinformation. No. If a general or government spokesman says something, it should and absolutely must be a true statement, not a lie. If he says that 20 enemy tanks have been destroyed, that must be a true statement. If he says that we have had 500 soldiers killed in action, this must be a true statement. See, if a general lies about enemy casualties, and his own casualties, nothing he says can be trusted. This is why it is so important for official spokesmen and outlets to not tell lies.
The Nazi regime in Ukraine has lied, and lied repeatedly about everything. They have also gone to extraordinary lengths to make their lies appear credible with faked photo and video evidence. Absolutely nothing they say can be trusted. We cannot believe any claim coming out of their mouths. We cannot even believe a claim that appears to be true. It is better to ignore the Ukronazis altogether. Why waste precious time and mental bandwidth analyzing the words of someone who constantly lies? Just don’t. The more attention we give to fake news, the more people die (see my post Fake News Killed the Ukrainians and it is Our Fault)
Official institutions and media outlets are deliberately spreading lies, this is poisonous and destroys their credibility. I can never again listen to an American military spokesman and trust a single word coming out of his mouth...
As far as I can reasonably tell, the Russian MoD have told the truth and done their best to not distribute false information. This is the first and main reason I argue that Russia is not losing the information war. Both Ukraine and their NATO masters utterly destroyed their credibility, nothing they say can be believed. Russia still has their credibility intact, and that’s is a crucial part of winning the information war.
This is how I see the war news. Biden and the West accept Ukrainian claims immediately and indiscriminately. I've seen this before -- in Venezuela, for example, the US government and mainstream rushed to report atrocities by Maduro's troops when they were in fact committed by the anti-Maduro forces. The NY Times eventually released video footage and commentary proving the US deception, but this was never acknowledged by the MSM in general or by the US government. So I don't believe them now.
There's a pattern (from Intercept (NY Times indirect) link above):
EVERY MAJOR U.S. WAR of the last several decades has begun the same way: the U.S. government fabricates an inflammatory, emotionally provocative lie which large U.S. media outlets uncritically treat as truth while refusing to air questioning or dissent, thus inflaming primal anger against the country the U.S. wants to attack. That’s how we got the Vietnam War (North Vietnam attacks U.S. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin); the Gulf War (Saddam ripped babies from incubators); and, of course, the war in Iraq (Saddam had WMDs and formed an alliance with Al Qaeda).
Since then, we've had the horrific false flag chemical weapons attack in Syria.
I believe the initial information war victory by the West will prove as illusory as the real war victory. I believe Putin and Russia are doing the world a favor by calling our bluff. I've suffered a lifetime of disappointment at the conduct of our military-political-media leaders with regard to war related information, and its time for the truth to come out.
I could be wrong. I love our country and the greater freedom of speech we enjoy. It's time to use that freedom.
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