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But there's no sensationalism or propaganda here.

• Dalewyn 3y ago
  There's a mile wide difference between "disabling some brakes according to manuals" and "disabling all brakes and relying on just the thrust reversers". I know it's cool to harp that Russia is doomed, but propaganda is bad regardless whether it's coming from the Russians or the west.
  • flangola7 3y ago
    No one here is claiming Russia is doomed, I don't care about the west or Russia or whatever. Flying a plane without a full complement of brakes is foolhardy all by itself.
• ithkuil 3y ago
  Propaganda has an interesting dynamics where it feeds off human instinctive behaviour. It would be hard to convince people about things they don't believe in already. Propaganda works by amplifying what people already want to believe and by giving tools for people who already want to believe in something but don't know how to back their beliefs with arguments. This leaves people who don't believe in the thing surrounded by people who wouldn't otherwise have strong rhetorical skills suddenly tooled with a barrage of pre-canned arguments and "facts" to disarm any fruitful conversation. A consequence of this dynamics is that often even pure factual presentations of an event gets spontaneously turned into "propaganda-like" discourse without necessarily any active involvement by state agends