Putin’s blitzkrieg hasn’t exactly gone as planned.
Not many in the international community even pretend to believe the Russian line that it was forced to launch a “special military operation” to prevent genocide.
It’s far more difficult to massage world opinion, or hide atrocities, when virtually every move is being streamed live on the cellphones of 40 million Ukrainians.Given the ubiquity of electronic media, it is telling that Putin’s reasons for attacking have not been vindicated with gruesome footage of mass graves, or of jubilant crowds embracing their anti-fascist liberators.
Russia has also cut access to several foreign “fake news” websites, including Deutsche Welle and the BBC.YouTube, TikTok and Facebook followed suit. These tit-for-tat gestures are of symbolic significance only. Often, the censorship backfires, as it did on Monday when the Channel One live news broadcast – with an audience of 17 million – was interrupted by one of the station’s producers, Marina Ovsyannikova.
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