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Thanks for correcting me on the spelling.
Claiming Russia of all nations is anti-imperialist though is such a stupid take it's not even ridiculous anymore.
Russia both doesn't have the financial capital nor the available subjects to imperialize, the west has far more financial capital and already has nearly the entirety of the global south under its thumb. Because of this, Russia is incentivized, for its own survival, to oppose the global north and its imperialism.
Russia is the most imperialist state currently in existence. No other nation has destroyed so many languages and cultures in its colonies. There is no other state that uses state run propaganda to extend its power in other nations to the extent that Russia does. No other state that uses its secret service to kill dissidents abroad. There is no other state that currently wages wars to extend its territory (apart from Israel, but it lacks other defining characteristics of an imperialist state). Obviously, the US is imperialist too and many European states used to be, but that in no way substantiates the claim that is Russia is anti-imperialist.
What a joke of a statement. The US has far more powerful outlets like this, see the Voice of X channels or Freedom House as just a few examples of how the US essentially runs the narrative in Western media.
Just using common sense you should be able to figure out that the country that runs the entire Western entertainment industry, which is exported worldwide and routinely submits to US government interests, has far more reach than Russia.
The key is state run. Obviously, US media has way more reach and is indeed dominating the "narrative" globally, but it's (for the most part) not propaganda, because it's not state run. People just like that stuff, I mostly hate it as well, but that's how the world is.
This is nonsense. Not a single definition of propaganda, Marxist, liberal, or otherwise, states that propaganda must be state-owned. All media trying to push a narrative is propaganda in some form. Private owners pushing pro-capitalist propaganda is still propaganda.
Further, the US does use state influence. Whether it be in the education system, or via state-funded NGOs like Radio Free Asia, the Victims of Communism foundation, etc the state supports the ruling class via propaganda.
On the level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the imbecile flatness of the present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
Amazing.
How propaganda works in Western capitalist states has been well-understood for decades.
By that standard PragerU is not propaganda because it originates from private funding. Do you wanna go back and think about that one, maybr try again?