The russian media strategy is what Timothy Snyder calls "applied postmodernism". Basically you don't want to persuade anybody. You just want people to stop bel

The russian media strategy is what Timothy Snyder calls "applied postmodernism". Basically you don't want to persuade anybody. You just want people to stop believing in anything and to accept their fate. So you spread as much contradictory bullshit as you can and people just say "whatever, who knows, everybody lie anyway, I don't need to care about this". It's enough for dictator if everybody decides it's not their problem.