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Chrystia Freeland accuses Putin of weaponizing MPs’ ovations for Ukrainian SS veteran
(www.theglobeandmail.com)
But she accused the Russian President of exploiting the error by the former Speaker, who had apologized and resigned after the incident, for propaganda purposes.
“We can’t change the fact that he made that mistake. We can, though, all of us decide how effective Vladimir Putin is at weaponizing that mistake,” she said. “And I would really urge all of us to understand that Russian propaganda is real.”
Yes, the thing we did BY MISTAKE supports the claims made by our adversary, BUT its up to all of us to be dismissive of these claims, because they make my Uncles very upset
I fucking hate western politicians so much
every single time something like this happens, the response is "Yes, we might have done the exact thing that Russian propaganda accuses us of doing - but that doesn't mean that the propaganda is correct. It is still disinformation."