para bellum
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The propaganda that is concerning isn't the low-grade nonsense in social media. It's the propaganda that the Russian people are hearing every day that is worrisome. They are openly promoting genocide and wiping out Ukraine as a country.
Putin has shifted the narrative to "Russia is being attacked". There is a reason for that. The Russian laws prevent him from sending conscripts to fight in his "special military operation", and it prevents him from extending them past one year of service.
There is an exemption, and that is if Russia is under attack. In that case he can call up reserves, extend conscripts past one year, and put new conscripts into the theater of combat.
The war is not going his way, and he doesn't have ready reserves to throw into the meat grinder. The April batch of conscripts won't be ready until September or October, and they will not be very useful if they try to send them in without additional training. He needs people with combat experience, and he is having problems finding them.
Hence "Russia is under attack".
Putin has shifted the narrative to "Russia is being attacked". There is a reason for that. The Russian laws prevent him from sending conscripts to fight in his "special military operation", and it prevents him from extending them past one year of service.
There is an exemption, and that is if Russia is under attack. In that case he can call up reserves, extend conscripts past one year, and put new conscripts into the theater of combat.
The war is not going his way, and he doesn't have ready reserves to throw into the meat grinder. The April batch of conscripts won't be ready until September or October, and they will not be very useful if they try to send them in without additional training. He needs people with combat experience, and he is having problems finding them.
Hence "Russia is under attack".