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{"id":463,"date":"2017-07-30T20:51:01","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T18:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourcontinent.eu\/?p=463"},"modified":"2017-11-12T01:48:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T00:48:29","slug":"putin-apologist-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourcontinent.eu\/2017\/07\/30\/putin-apologist-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"The Putin Apologist Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>OurContinent presents: the<\/strong> <strong>Putin Apologist Agenda<\/strong>. Find out what are the most common agenda points, arguments and ways of arguing used by apologists of Vladimir Putin&#8217;s Russia. Very handy, if you need to debate them!<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Putin Apologist agenda<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1- There is no such thing as truth <\/strong>\u2013 Accepting certain things as facts is a question of loyalty, not of truth seeking. If the facts speak against Putin\u2019s Russia, create confusion. It\u2019s not about proving Putin right, but about convincing people that there is no right. \u201cWhat can one really know? Nothing is certain. No one will ever find out what is true anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>2- \u201cThe West is just as bad\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 Portraying Putin\u2019s Russia like a free and peace-loving country would be an almost impossible task. It is much easier to deflect the attention by stating that \u2018the West is just as bad\u201d. For every injustice committed by the Russian regime, you come up with an injustice by any Western country, real or perceived, now or in the past.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3- Selective suspicion of the media <\/strong>\u2013 Because most Western media report on Putin\u2019s crimes, label them \u2018mainstream\u2019 and \u2018fake news\u2019, and only trust media that claim to be &#8216;against the mainstream\u2019, like unofficial online outlets, social media accounts and media owned by the Russian state, like RT and Sputnik. The only criteria is that they have to be pro-Putin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4- Complain about \u201cRussophobia\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 Despite their country\u2019s size and nuclear arsenal, Russians are actually an oppressed minority in the world, misunderstood and stigmatized by everyone. Russia is the eternal victim of the West, of the media, and of history. All of Putin\u2019s transgressions are justified because of this victimhood. To make this clear, constantly complain about bigotry and prejudice against Russians, so-called \u201cRussophobia\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5- Forget Putin\u2019s friends<\/strong> \u2013 Whether you are politically left or right, there is always a way to align Putin\u2019s position with your own, just forget about all those friends of his that you don\u2019t like. If you are right-wing, you see Putin as an enemy of Islamism and the left, conveniently forgetting his alliance with Iran, Hezbollah and Venezuela. If you are a leftist Putin apologist, you depict the Russian president as heading a struggle against Western \u201cfascism\u201d and \u201cimperialism\u201d, but ignore his far-right friends in Europe and the US.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6- \u201cNot pro-Russia, just anti-war\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 Instead of admitting that you are an apologist for a dictatorship that invades its neighbours, you claim that your defence of Putin\u2019s Russia has, in fact, very noble intentions. Your goal is simply to prevent further escalation between Russia and the West. You are nothing less than a hero who jumps in to protect the scared Russians who feel threatened by Western imperialism. 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