The Anti-Corruption Foundation, which criticizes Putin and is reputed to be the best independent pollster in Russia, just did a poll in Germany & France. It asked: who’s responsible for starting the Ukraine war?

Here’s Germany’s result:

Here are the polling numbers from France:

It appears that both in Germany and France, more people believe that the US is responsible for starting the war in Ukraine than believe that Putin is responsible.

Leonid Volkov of the Anti-Corruption Foundation claims that these numbers show how effective Putin’s propaganda is in Germany & France.

This is a laughable explanation of the numbers given that populations of Germany and France are exposed to US propaganda to a far greater degree than they are exposed to Russian propaganda. In fact, much of Russian media is even banned in EU at this point.

One can only imagine what these numbers would look like if the populations of Germany and France were not being bombarded with US government propaganda about the origins of the Ukraine war.

  • GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    if someone accused you of trying to ‘annex’ your own arm and leg and then tried to dismember you with an axe in order to prevent you from genociding your own cells, i’d probably side against the axe-wielding psycho too.

    You know, in these conversations I frequently find myself needing g to remind the other person that countries aren’t people, but this takes it to the next level. This analogy is completely disconnected from the real world and the independent humanity of the people involved.