""The first casualty of War is Truth"" Every side of this conflict is being exposed to a massive and relentless propaganda campaign. Neither side will report

""The first casualty of War is Truth"" Every side of this conflict is being exposed to a massive and relentless propaganda campaign. Neither side will report the (whole) truth. Each side has an agenda that is partially public and partially suppressed/hidden. This is nothing new or novel this time around. In years past it was relatively easy for the governments to ensure that their people only hear the "official authorized truth" and thus will remain easy to manipulate, obedient and angry. (Well shortwave radio and such innovations also contributed much earlier). If an individual has the ability to hear more than one sides propaganda it will at the very least illuminate a different perspective. It might start one thinking a bit more independently. In some cases, there will be nations that are not within the sphere of propaganda from one or the other and sometimes you can get a more objective voice from such a place. These days with the global Internet reading different stories is a possible blessing. If one side (or several) invoke the autocratic censorship of competing perspectives it highlights that the arguments and rhetoric being used by them is probably not able to stand up to careful scrutiny. Years, sometimes decades later, a more objective and nuanced interpretation is possible. When people have been indoctrinated to believe and accept that even hearing propaganda from the other side presents a grave danger, I start to get worried. At least those in the EU/UK/USA are in the middle of a torrent of propaganda. Russia and its loyal states are in the middle of a torrent of propaganda. (The concept of truth is a complicated philosophical problem that makes the use of the term always problematic. Does one truth exist? Does the truth exist? When applied in politics and war I think the answer is no. But in its simple form it conveys a concept)