theTranscriber:

USA's propaganda is the best in the world
they have Hollywood
they have the biggest press channels
they have the money

so they can make you believe whatever they want

That is why countries should also pay attention to the arts. Science and technology is never enough. Country's influence is never established through military might alone, there is also ideological and propaganda angle which is even more powerful. The west established theirs early enough with the press and later radio and television, movies, songs, novels and their style of education.. US for instance has CNN, FOX MNSBC, Hollywood, music and western writers. While Russia can defend itself against Western aggressor military, it cannot project its own values to the world and tell her own stories.China has learnt that and is struggling to penetrate Africa with Confucius institute, startimes etc

The arts is very powerful. George Orwell and other writers used Animal farm, Nineteen eighty-four etc to fight off communist propaganda during the cold war.

Nollywood gave Bakassi boys positive image it needed to fight crime in those days withe movies like issakaba, last prophet etc despite bakassi being illegal.

Same with Biafra. Save for the writings of Buchi emecheta, Chimamanda adichie and Chinua Achebe, the later generation across the world would still be stuck with British narrative of the war.

chiedu7:

Your level of mumuism makes me suspect ur fulani

What wrong has Ukraine done to Russia?

Pls try not to insult people you have no prior history with. I'm Yoruba but lived abroad for decades. For security reasons Russia cannot allow their next door neighbor Ukraine to join NATO because then NATO s strategic conventional missiles will be within striking range of Russia. They are all hypocrites because America is still punishing Cuba today for trying to allow Russian missiles in Cuba that would make America within striking range. It's called the Cuban missile crisis. Russian nuclear missiles are trained on the west with enough warheads to destroy them six times over and western warheads are also trained on Russia , but these are weapons of last resort ,conventional missiles can be used to gain an advantage.

Biafrannuke:
That is why countries should also pay attention to the arts. Science and technology is never enough. Country's influence is never established through military might alone, there is also ideological and propaganda angle which is even more powerful. The west established theirs early enough with the press and later radio and television, movies, songs, novels and their style of education.. US for instance has CNN, FOX MNSBC, Hollywood, music and western writers. While Russia can defend itself against Western aggressor military, it cannot project its own values to the world and tell her own stories.China has learnt that and is struggling to penetrate Africa with Confucius institute, startimes etc

The arts is very powerful. George Orwell and other writers used Animal farm, Nineteen eighty-four etc to fight off communist propaganda during the cold war.

Nollywood gave Bakassi boys positive image it needed to fight crime in those days withe movies like issakaba, last prophet etc despite bakassi being illegal.

Same with Biafra. Save for the writings of Buchi emecheta, Chimamanda adichie and Chinua Achebe, the later generation across the world would still be stuck with British narrative of the war.

Exactly. Very apt
Propaganda is very important