Usually during a conflict and shortly thereafter, people and media align with narratives that are entirely wrong. We live in a mixture of increased media noise and at the same time common narratives that should unite us. The current one is: The war on Ukraine is only the fault of Putin and he lost support within his own ranks and population.
True? Most likely not.
»What so many are saying about Putin today Winston Churchill said about Mussolini in a radio broadcast to the Italian people on 23 December 1940: ‘One man and one man only was resolved to plunge Italy... into the whirlpool of war.’ But it was not really true. Mussolini only lost the consent of the Italians when he began to lose battles.«
» Sanctions on Russia are causing real hardship […] Yet any economic suffering may well increase support for Putin, at least in the short term, as Russians blame Americans and Europeans.«, Nicholas Farrell
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| Benito Mussolini in Rome styles himself as Il Duce (Wikimedia Commons) |
The reasons are as obvious as problematic: both sides of the conflict want to reduce complexity and share the same story to be effective in fighting against the enemy. As understandable as that is, it is problematic because wrong measures and strategies might be the consequence of this misunderstanding of the facts.
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