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Cut it. End it. The U.S. govt will never "win" a propaganda war and by trying only becomes what it should be opposed to in the first place.
One man's propaganda is another man's truth. Our govt should stay out of the game utterly unless we are at war with the country involved, as in we were in a very real sense with the Soviet Union for 40 years. Your thinking is obviously far too colored by the cold war. I don't care what Russia does now, or if it's seething masses are free or not. It's none of my business. I only care what Putin does if it impacts our national interests. We have no need to try to 'spread our culture' via manipulation of the media. Our culture is already well known.
I've concluded that the Russian people are philosophically handicapped, unable to govern themselves and know it - hence their love of tyrants. Have at it, oppress and exploit each other till your hearts content. I just don't want to spend a dime of my money on trying to change it. We spent trillions crushing the Soviet Union and the Russians promptly turned around and gave the country back, willingly, to the former head of the KGB. 'Nuff said. No more good money after bad. The Russian people deserve whatever happens to them at this point.
Simpering gibberish. Government run journalism is an oxymoron - or are you so dipped in Americana that you can't see even that basic truth? Whether it's RussiaToday (RT - owned by the FSB), PressTV (Iranian govt owned) or our own version, it's not possible that such an organ won't do propaganda at some level.
My larger point is that we, as free people, are in no need of propaganda to communicate our values and "truth" via the govt. We express it in the civic space and freely all the time in our society. In other words, because we are free, the "truth" is already out there - and yes, it's spun and there are liars but it's also nowhere as simple as you make it out to be. We have no need of propaganda, cuz people who want what we have are sold without being pushed. Those who don't? Eff 'em. I could care less. Let Putin eat the Russian people for breakfast - they deserve it.
I surmise that you are of Russian or Soviet descent? Perhaps you've never met someone like me who hates the Russian people so for throwing away the liberty we strove to deliver to them for decades? You see, I read Alexander Solzhynetzyn's (sp?) Gulag Archipelago when I was 11, back in '73. I was raised watching the knife's edge that the world's balance of power rested upon, and knowing how horrific the Soviet Union actually was to its own and others around the world.
I took pride in being on the "right" side against the Soviets, and somehow thought that the Russian people would be grateful for their liberty to the U.S. I never, ever imagined the U.S. having to submit to the vicious smugness of a KGB monster, insulting and provoking us daily, leading the Russian people, having been handed total power by an ignorant, racist, angry and illiberal populace. It makes me wonder, maybe Russians deserved Stalin? Maybe, as in Hussein's Iraq, the second that jackboot is taken off the neck such folks just can't wait to start killing each other over something?
I don't really care what it is. What is clear is that Russia and its people aren't fit to sit at the table as an equal with civil and free countries, societies and people. I detest the Russian people for allowing this to come to pass. We should have just nuked Russia into oblivion and let mother nature start over.