Join CJ as he first gives an update on a few recent personal difficulties, and then goes over the following war propaganda techniques:

Demonize the enemy's leader.

Dehumanize the enemy's people.

Turn the conflict into a super-simplistic morality play.

Fabricate heroic stories about your side.

Fabricate and/or exaggerate enemy atrocity stories.

Exaggerate the enemy's intentions and/or capabilities.

Lie by omission/Cherry-pick.

Crop the story/truncate the antecedents.

Give your people empty symbolic gestures to signal their virtue.

Smear/demonize any of your people who question or criticize The Narrative.



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External Links

Scott Horton's recent 2-hour presentation on the Ukraine war

Darryl Cooper's recent Martyrmade episode on the Ukraine war

Scott Horton's recent appearance on the Jocko Unraveling podcast


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