Ukrainian Voices

How Russian Propagandists Reveal Putin's Intentions

Julia Davis, Andreas Umland

• Publisher: ibidem
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9783838279091
• Edition: 0
• Topic: History
• Index: History

This collection of essays and articles, written between 2019 and 2023 for such outlets as The Daily Beast and The Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), illuminates recent Russian international affairs through the lens of Moscow's propaganda tactics. For more than two decades, the Kremlin's agitators have been tasked to lay, in advance, the groundwork for various domestic and foreign actions by the regime of Vladimir Putin. Thus, Russian state-controlled media provides crucial clues for deciphering the—often sinister—goals that the government of Russia was and is planning to pursue abroad, from election interference to military invasions. The goal of the sum of these activities is the establishment of a new world order—with Russia at its helm.Before the large invasion of 24 February 2022, Russian state media portrayed the West as incapable of opposing Russian aggression. Putin's propagandists cheered for war against Ukraine, predicting it would be quick and victorious. Misreading the ability of the West to unite and miscalculating Russia's capabilities in confronting determined Ukrainians, Russia ended up in a quagmire of its own creation. In 2023, Putin's decorated propagandists face the possibility of future scrutiny and potential prosecutions for their proactive incitement of genocide. They unravel, along with the Kremlin, having to tell multiple conflicting stories and condemn the same players they used to lionize. Backed into the corner, they resort to nuclear threats and demand even more blood from Ukraine, whose only crime is its desire for democracy and freedom.

Table of contents

• Foreword
• Preface
• Russians Praise Trump, Taunt Zelensky, as Ukraine Signs On to Peace-Plan Proposal
• Russia’s State TV Calls Trump Their ‘Agent’
• Did Russian Prime Minister Medvedev Drop a Grim Hint About Putin’s Latest Power Grab?
• This Is the Real Goal of Putin’s Propaganda Machine
• Can Trump’s Art of the Arms Deal Get More Stupid? The Russians Are Loving It
• ‘America’s Dying’ Russian Media Is Giddy at Chaos in the USA
• Russian Media Is Rooting for Civil War in America ‘The Worse, the Better’
• Russian State Media Roots for Violence as America Counts Its Votes
• Russian Media Is Angry and Desperate Over Biden Win
• Russian Media Wants Moscow to Grant Asylum to Trump
• Russian Media Mourn as Putin Acknowledges Biden’s Win. But Say Trump ‘Burned’ U.S. on His Way Out
• Putin Gleeful After Trumpsters’ Violent Insurrection
• Russian Media: ‘Traitors’ Like Alexei Navalny Deserve Death
• Russian Media Pushes the Lie That Capitol Rioters Were Antifa
• Top Kremlin Mouthpiece Warns of ‘Inevitable’ War With U.S. Over Another Ukraine Land Grab
• Russian State Media Gears Up for a War ‘Against the West’
• How Putin Made a Fool of Tucker Carlson
• Russia Targets Fox News Fans in Bid to Become the World’s Anti-Woke Capital
• State TV Host Mocks Black January 6 Cop in ‘N-Word’ Fueled Rant
• Russia Is ‘Enjoying’ America's Failure—and Cozying Up to the Taliban
• The Russian Public Is Being Primed for Another of Putin’s Wars
• Russian State TV Drops Deranged Love Letter to Its Darling ‘Trumpushka’
• Russian Citizens Are Now Being Prepped for Nuclear War
• How Tucker Carlson Is Boosting Russia’s New Propaganda War
• Trump’s Mega-Fans in Moscow Declare They’re ‘Ready to Elect Him Again’
• Welcome to the Fantasy World Where Putin Already ‘Won This Round’
• Russian State TV Is So Ridiculous Right Now It Looks Like a Farce
• Kremlin TV Asks ‘Where’s the Champagne?’ as Ukraine’s Kids Are Prepped for War
• Putin’s Own Minions Are Exposing Him for the Liar He Is
• Sanctioned Russian TV Host Cries About Losing His Italian Villa
• Kremlin TV Tells Ukraine to Listen to Fox News Guest and Kneel to Putin
• Russian State TV Just Blew Up Putin’s ‘Nazi Ukraine’ BS
• Even Russian State TV Is Pleading With Putin to Stop the War
• Wild Kremlin TV Hosts Threaten the U.S. With Nuclear Strikes Unless Sanctions End and Reparations Are Paid
• Kremlin TV Descends Into Screaming Match Over Putin’s War Failures
• Putin’s Minions Demand Grotesque ‘Rewards’ for Mass Killers in Ukraine
• Russia Airs Its Ultimate ‘Revenge Plan’ for America
• Putin’s Stooges: He May Nuke Us All but We Are Ready to Die
• Putin’s Puppets Admit Their Army Has Been a Total Embarrassment
• Kremlin TV Betrays Darling Trump in Crazed Defense of Putin’s War
• Kremlin TV Names the Country Putin Will Invade Next
• Putin’s Lap Dog Humiliated by Fed-Up Guest on His Own Show
• Team Putin Dishes on the Moment They Could Win It All
• You’ll Never Guess the Lie Putin Has Come Up With Now
• Putin’s Lies Have Kremlin TV Flailing and Fighting On-Air
• Kremlin TV Says if Putin Ran For U.S. President, He’d Win—and Trump Would Be His Veep
• Putin’s Pals Furious Younger Russians Don’t Want to Die in Ukraine
• Russia’s Panicked Confession: This Is What Scares Us Most
• Kremlin TV Desperately Wants You to Move to Russia Right Now
• Putin Cronies Threaten ‘Hundreds’ of American Coffins on Live TV
• Team Putin Admits Their Worst Case Scenario Is Coming True
• Team Putin Threatens Maniacal Response to Bitter War Losses
• Putin Crony Belts Out Song in Cringey Push for More Russian Troops
• Team Putin Begs Rich Russians to Help Save His Failing War
• Russia Desperately Tries to Sell Its Ukraine War Draft as Citizens Flee
• Putin Crony Says He Drafted Russian ‘Kill List’ of Western Officials
• Team Putin Wakes Up. We Never Should’ve Laughed at Ukraine
• Kremlin TV Exposes the Real Goal of Putin’s ‘Revenge-Bombs’
• Top Putin Lackey Urges Russians to Choose Violent Death Over War Defeat
• Putin’s Top TV Puppet Threatens 7 Countries With Air Strikes After Poland Blast
• Kremlin TV Stars Combust as Russians Admit War Is Aimless
• Putin’s Cronies Turn on Russian Elite in Paranoid War Frenzy
• Russians Fear They’ll Soon Be Starving ‘Like North Koreans’
• Putin’s Henchmen Threaten ‘Tens of Thousands’ of Dead U.S. Troops
• Putin’s No. 1 Cheerleader Rips into Russia’s War Failures
• Gloom Envelops Putin’s TV Propagandists
• ‘Morality Shouldn’t Get in the Way’—Russia’s Genocidal State Media
• Team Putin Melts Down Over International Arrest Warrant
• God’s Propagandists
• Russia Laments the Loss of Tucker Carlson
• Married Putin Stooge Accused of Hiding Kids With Secret American Lover
• Team Putin Spars Over Baffling Russian ‘Victory Plan’ in War
• Russian State TV Anchors Aghast That Putin Didn’t Kill Prigozhin
• The Kremlin Has a Batshit New PR Position: There Was No Armed Mutiny
• Kremlin News Stars Unravel in Post-Mutiny Television Fiasco
• Top Putin Crony Curses Audience and Berates Colleague On-Air
• Kremlin Flacks Tease Next ‘Global’ Targets of Putin’s Wrath
• Putin Stooge Loses It When Confronted About Prigozhin’s Death
• Who Assassinated Prigozhin? Duh, the English
• ‘Woe to My Enemies’ Rages Russia’s Mouthpiece-in-Chief
• Russia Lauds North Korea’s ‘Square-Headed Dude’ and His Pauper Legions
• Putin’s Pals Brag: Elon Musk ‘Really Is Our Agent!’
• ‘Only Good News Today’—Russia’s Propagandists Delight as Israelis Die
• Russians Divide Over Terrorist Attack on Israel
• Putin Flack Claims ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ of Jews on Kremlin TV
• Israel Conflict Rekindles Russian Antisemitism
• Women Enter the Putin Regime’s Crosshairs
• Give the Kremlin an Inch and it Will Take Half of Europe
• Reality Check for Putin as Russians Get Damn Tired of War
• Putin’s Pals Think the GOP Just Won Them the War in Ukraine
• ‘Shocking’ Reality of Ukraine Blowback Hammers Putin at Home
• Putin’s Sham Election Rivals Can’t Even Keep a Straight Face
• Kremlin Cronies: Putin-Tucker Interview Will ‘Blow Up’ U.S. Election
• Putin Nearly Bores Tucker Carlson to Death With Two-Hour History Lesson
• Tucker Carlson Misses the Bullseye
• Putin Says He Was Not Impressed by Tucker Carlson
• Putin’s Pals Link Death of Alexei Navalny to Tucker Carlson Interview
• Putin Plants ‘Info-Bombs’
• Russia Issues Chilling Warnings to Navalny’s Widow
• Putin Inc. Fears Navalny Even Beyond the Grave
• Trump is ‘Unhinged’ But We Love Him, Say Kremlin Mouthpieces
• Putin’s Friends Celebrate Re-Election With Photos of Mass Hanging
• Moscow Terror Attack: A Lie Too Good to Waste
• Kremlin Glee as US Dithers on Lifesaving Ukraine Aid
• Whiplash as Russia Toasts Derided Marjorie Taylor Greene as Their Top New Hero
• Putin’s Propagandists Rage Against the Republican ‘Betrayal’
• Afterword