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Jeffrey Sachs: We Are Now in the Early Days of World War III (infosec.pub)

submitted 5 days ago by Maeve@kbin.earth to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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Prof. Jeffrey Sachs argues that the world may already be entering the early stages of World War III, as the rapidly escalating conflict involving Iran begins...

Crosspost from https://lemmygrad.ml/post/10943030

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I didn't watch this video, so I dunno what lies are being spread in this case. Russian propaganda is a vast playground of sculpted bullshit, with a wide variety of sights to see. They're much better at it than the Americans. In the video I did watch recently, not realizing at first what it was, they were going with the general theme that the USA is totally going to lose the war against Iran. Why youtube's recommendations algorithm started trying to tempt me with this stuff all the time lately I have no idea.

These videos might be useful for finding out what the Russian propaganda machine wants you to believe, but not for anything else.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They’re much better at it than the Americans.

Why? Couldn't America be so good that people don't notice?

they were going with the general theme that the USA is totally going to lose the war against Iran.

After Vietnam and Afghanistan that's reasonable to assume. The interesting part is the discussion about why America doesn't care.

Why youtube’s recommendations algorithm started trying to tempt me with this stuff all the time lately I have no idea.

Interesting, isn't it? Why would a US company offer Russian propaganda?

These videos might be useful for finding out what the Russian propaganda machine wants you to believe

What's your argument for Diesen being part of the machine and not neutral?

[–] kbal@fedia.io 1 points 5 days ago

Why? Couldn't America be so good that people don't notice?

Hahaha — no. Well, some people, some of the time. Americans have more flavours to choose from. If you're genuinely ignorant of the basics of all this stuff, I don't even know what to recommend. Good luck out there.