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Putin likes to portray his war in Ukraine as self-defense. A guest in a TV debate now reveals the actual goals and causes nervousness in the studio.
Moscow – A propaganda broadcast in Russia was briefly interrupted.
The reason: A guest could have revealed the actual war goals of Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
The political scientist and propagandist Aleksandr Sytin announced that the Ukraine war was not actually about Ukraine.
Moderator interrupts propaganda program - guest reveals Putin's war line live on television
The scenes from Russian state television were captured on X (formerly Twitter) by journalist Julia Davis.
Davis' contribution shows a short excerpt from a TV program in which several people talk about Russia's so-called "special military operation" in Ukraine.
Then there is a scandal.
Sytin makes it known that the war is not about Ukraine itself at all, but that Russia is on a course of expansion - which goes beyond Ukraine.
“NATO countries, European countries, want to somehow stop this expansionary course,” Sytin continues.
But they have no concept at all.
As he speaks, there is initially silence in the studio.
But then the show's host, Andrey Norkin, seems to remember his task again and interrupts Sykin.
“You can’t do that,” he interrupts the political scientist’s remarks.
“It is not expansion, but the defense of national interests and therefore the defense of our own security.”
But the moderator's interjection doesn't seem to be enough.
Looking into the camera, he says that we should really take a break now.
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Russia's official explanation for launching a brutal war against Ukraine is that it wants to defend itself against the expansion of Western powers.
Russia's most prominent example of this is NATO's eastward expansion, which Putin says poses a threat to Russia.
In doing so, he portrays war as a form of self-defense.
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Faux pas in propaganda television.
A guest reveals Vladimir Putin's actual war goals.
(Archive image) © Alexander Zemlianichenko/dpa
But he is actually interested in expanding Russia and reviving the former Soviet Union, whose collapse Putin described as the greatest catastrophe of the 20th century.
The affinity with the old Soviet Russia was also confirmed by the US historian Mary Sarotte to the
Frankfurter Rundschau
.
“Putin is obsessed with history,” Sarotte said.
“As I studied the sources, I noticed this obsession and pattern of using violence on historical anniversaries.” The war in Ukraine existed “because Putin wanted it that way.”
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