{"id":1490547,"date":"2024-09-18T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1490547"},"modified":"2024-09-18T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T10:00:00","slug":"the-media-is-exaggerating-the-impact-of-anti-proxy-war-posters-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/the-media-is-exaggerating-the-impact-of-anti-proxy-war-posters-in-italy\/1490547\/","title":{"rendered":"The Media Is Exaggerating The Impact Of Anti-Proxy War Posters In Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Media Is Exaggerating The Impact Of Anti-Proxy War Posters In Italy<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

CNN headlined an article last week about how \u201cPro-Russian posters appear on billboards across Italy<\/a>\u201d as part of their ongoing campaign fearmongering about alleged Russian influence in the West. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The posters themselves are innocuous though and simply call for an end to the\u00a0NATO-Russian<\/a>\u00a0proxy war<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Ukraine<\/a>. Some municipalities like Rome ordered them taken down for using the city\u2019s name and official symbol, but others let them stay up.<\/p>\n

Ukraine protested these posters and predictably demanded censorship.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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It turns out that all this is organized by a local activist who\u2019s connected to groups formed during the height of the COVID-19 lockdowns, thus meaning that they represent Italians with heterodox views.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This analysis\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0from February shares more insight into evolving national sentiments towards this conflict, which are increasingly trending towards opposition to perpetuating it, while this one\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0from last weekend reminds everyone that folks can independently arrive at seemingly Russian-aligned views.<\/p>\n

The insight from those two pieces discredits CNN\u2019s innuendo that these posters are physical proof of a Russian influence campaign.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rather, they\u2019re just manifestations of citizens\u2019 constitutionally enshrined freedom of speech, which is being practiced within legal limits in this case. Regardless of one\u2019s views on this issue, it\u2019s important that they don\u2019t exaggerate the impact of these posters, which are unlikely to change Rome\u2019s official stance towards the conflict.<\/p>\n

Public sentiment is always important to pay attention to, but only in rare instances does it lead to a change in policy.<\/strong> When this does happen, it\u2019s usually after elections and only if those who win do what they promised, which isn\u2019t always the case. Another example is large-scale protests that inflict serious economic damage on the state, but these aren\u2019t expected in Italy over this issue. Even if they occurred, however, forcible means could be employed for breaking them up and containing the economic fallout.<\/p>\n

At the same time, however, public influence campaigns like the one that\u2019s being legally waged by local activists in line with their constitutional rights could succeed in bringing more followers to their cause. In that case, some politicians might calculate that it\u2019s better to speak out more loudly in favor of whatever it is that the people in general or a strategic constituency thereof are agitating for. Depending on the national political arrangement, this could destroy ruling coalitions and lead to early elections.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s therefore just as much of a mistake to dismiss the impact of this poster campaign and those like it as it is to exaggerate their impact. <\/strong>What CNN and Ukraine are doing is counterproductive to their proxy war cause though by hyping up what\u2019s happening in order to push their anti-Russian fearmongering. By doing so, they\u2019re amplifying the activists\u2019 anti-proxy war message in ways that their posters could never achieve, plus they prove that there are people passionate enough to fund this public influence campaign.<\/p>\n

On a closing note, these same activists might soon be accused of \u201creceiving money from Russia\u201d in order to discredit their campaign and fuel the Russiagate 2.0 conspiracy theory that the American elite have concocted ahead of the next elections, but observers shouldn\u2019t take any such accusations at face value. <\/strong>All that\u2019s happening is that a group of people are making their political opinions known in a peaceful way, which only bothers those who are insecure about the merits of their own contrarian views.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nWed, 09\/18\/2024 – 02:00<\/span><\/p>\n

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