When Propaganda Backfires: ‘Europeans Admire Putin, Rather Than Hate Him’

‘It looks like Western mainstream is on its way out now that its all-stops-out Russophobia has reached a scale where its swipes against Russia and, above all, its President Vladimir Putin, have started to backfire on its very authors, independent Italian journalist Giulietto Chiesa wrote in his column for Sputnik Italia.
A number of public opinion centers in the West register a growing degree of concern and discontent as the invisible army of western spin doctors is no longer able to intoxicate Europeans’ minds with their hate rhetoric about the Russian leader, whose growing popularity in the world is rendering useless all their efforts to discredit him, Giulietto Chiesa continued in an article carried by Sputnik Italia.
“It appears that more and more people in the West now begin to trust the information coming from the ‘other side.’ Just as Western media call Putin a potential aggressor, ordinary Europeans now tend to admire Putin, rather than hate him,” Chiesa emphasized.”
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