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Its propaganda with a hint of truth to promote a certain perspective in the listener/reader so that he/she is influenced into being sympathetic to Russia and in the future, China when the latter wants to do anything, to say, Taiwan or any of its neighbours who would want to lean away from China and towards the U.S and the west.
i.e. “If you just did what we wanted you to do – i.e. kowtow to us and voted for your pro-China party, we wouldn’t have blown up your cities and people!”
At this stage, it is basically gaslighting. And it also works similarly to grammar and spelling errors in Nigeria spam emails, it targets people vulnerable to that mode of thinking – i.e. who are willing to gaslight others to excuse themselves.
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