The Kremlin's disinformation campaign is apparently much more extensive than we hitherto realized. Here are just a few of the falsehoods the Ruskies have been pushing, according to Steven Chase on page A3 of today's paper:
- Chrystia Freeland is a shameless warmonger
- Justin Trudeau doesn't care about the lives of Indigenous children
- Canada is a colony of the US empire
- PM Fluffy is a tool of the wealthy, and not only that, he is also a neoliberal capitalist pawn of the oligarchy.
I'll be the first to admit I've been totally taken in by Putin's propaganda. As a matter of fact, these points of view have, at least until today, struck me as self evident and non-controversial. I might quibble a little with the particulars - for example, I don't believe Justin gives a rat's ass about ANY Indigenous people, children or adults - but the overall thrust, that Canada is a meek and docile handmaiden to US power... well, to have that exposed as a lie is quite a shock!
Then again, the only source for Mr. Chase's scary story are the Champions of American Exceptionalism at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, a so-called Canadian think tank that happily solicits and receives funding from the US State Department.
Forget Putin; who's keeping us safe from US propaganda?
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