Russia is allegedly fighting with shovels and stealing washing machines to harvest computer chips for its collapsing army, and at the same time they can invade all of Europe and are now accused of building an all-powerful space weapon
- Simultaneously being hopelessly backward and an overwhelming threat to civilisation is a common feature of propaganda to demonise an adversary
- Viktor Klemperer, a Jewish writer living in Nazi Germany, noted that Hitler’s propaganda against the Jews was defined by two distinct styles of language – either “scornful derision” of the inferior race or “panic-stricken fear” of their threat to civilisation
--- Glenn Diesen on x/twitter, Feb 15
