What is the point of this? The Russian invasion in February has made salient the possibility of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan and upped the likelihood of WW-III and nuclear escalation in general (even though it left the front pages mostly, for military analysts possibility is now higher and ever increasing as the conflict drags on. Even though the Russians are struggling, don't underestimate China's ability to rationalize a move by concluding they have learned what pitfalls to avoid. If PsyOps against Russia and China prevent me from dying in a nuclear exchange, I'm all for it. February 2022 was a hinge point in history. It moves horrific scenarios into the plausibility that were, at best hazy potentials even a year earlier.

The US government rationalizing its own propaganda:

That didn't happen.

And if it did, it wasn't that bad.

And if it was, that's not a big deal.

And if it is, that's not my fault.

And if it was, I didn't mean it.

And if I did, you deserved it.

I mean who is hanging protestors in public squares after declaring the person guilty of "waging war against god"? Who is supplying Russia with Kamikaze drones to destroy civilian infrastructure in Ukraine? Iran. Who is committing textbook definition levels of genocide in Ukraine and mass executions, along with destroying civilian infrastructure. Russia. Who is launching simulated blockade and bombing runs on Taiwan because the House Speaker dared visit. China. Given the events of the last year, I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt on this.

A lot of US and non US citizens think the US should just curl up and act like nothing is happening and all the other countries are doing what they're doing because they're fighting American oppression. Russia didn't need to invade Ukrain, China doesn't need to attack taiwan, Iran doesn't need to promote terrorism all over the world. I don't think we should stand back and let that stuff happen.

Has anyone else been following the Twitter docs releases? It's an interesting way to propagandize. I don't think they have our best interest in mind sadly

“The U.S. propaganda network relentlessly pushed narratives against Russia, China, and other foreign countries. They accused Iran of "threatening Iraq’s water security and flooding the country with crystal meth," and of harvesting the organs of Afghan refugees.”

There is so much handwringing and unsubstantiated claims about Russian / Chinese propaganda networks operating on this site. Yet here is a story about how the US is running military psyops programs on their own populace that can’t even make it to the front page. The joke actually writes itself.

FBI, DHS, US military, i assume CIA would be there as well. Really why are world leaders/public servants on Twitter knowing the influence of US war machine. Unless they are in on it to censor their citizens.

This raises the question of other US social sites like Facebook, Reddit even Hacker news. Considering the comment count i assume these types of influences are very common and they do not want to rake it up.

Mastodon is good start. But we really need decentralize alternatives for all US social media sites.