Ever since Russia launched its brutal war in Ukraine the Kremlin has banked on American conservative political and media allies to weaken US support for Ukraine and deployed disinformation operations to falsify the horrors of the war for both US and Russian audiences, say disinformation experts.
Some of the Kremlin’s most blatant falsehoods about the war aimed at undercutting US aid for Ukraine have been promoted by major figures on the American right, from Holocaust denier and white supremacist Nick Fuentes to ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon and Fox News star Tucker Carlson, whose audience of millions is deemed especially helpful to Russian objectives.
On a more political track, House Republican Freedom Caucus members such as Paul Gosar, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Scott Perry – who in May voted with 54 other Republican members against a $40bn aid package for Ukraine, and have raised other concerns about the war – have proved useful, though perhaps unwitting, Kremlin […]
I agree with you, Stephan, but cannot find the word anocarcy in my dictionary. What does that mean? I would assume it relates to an oligarchy.
Anocracy or semi-democracy is a form of government that is loosely defined as part democracy and part dictatorship, or as a “regime that mixes democratic with autocratic features.”
I guess your helper who writes for you just spelled it wrong. I do understand anocracy, but she spelled it anocarcy.
I am sure that the current administration is willing to fight the Russians down to the last Ukrainian while risking war with a nuclear power. The Empire may end up doing well if it doesn’t get us killed first.
I do hope we do not get in over our “nuclear” heads in defending Ukranians.