{"id":7441,"date":"2022-03-11T16:01:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T16:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7441"},"modified":"2022-03-11T16:01:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T16:01:18","slug":"the-alarmists-were-right-all-along-a-moscow-journalist-on-putin-and-the-new-russian-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7441","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe alarmists were right all along\u201d: A Moscow journalist on Putin and the new Russian reality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“For a long while, Russia has \u201cflooded the zone\u201d<\/a> and bombarded the population with so many contradictory accounts of reality that they weren\u2019t sure what to believe, or they were too cynical to believe anything. But now it\u2019s full Orwellian control of reality, and that\u2019s a much heavier lift because it\u2019s not about undermining consensus, which is easy; it\u2019s about enforcing one.”
…
“I have to be honest, there were a handful of people here who have been warning about this for a long time, who were telling people like me that this was going to be a fascist dictatorship one day, and we\u2019ve been dismissing these people. We were like, \u201cCome on, Putin is a cynic, he\u2019s evil in so many ways, but at least he\u2019s a rational guy. All he wants to do is get himself insanely rich. He\u2019s not going to do anything really drastic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But we were all fucking wrong. The alarmists were right all along, and almost every one of them is either dead or in jail or exiled.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“we\u2019re in uncharted waters. All these major foreign media outlets, like the New York Times and the BBC, are\u00a0fleeing Moscow<\/a>. That\u2019s never happened. The New York Times has had a bureau in Moscow throughout the entire 20th century, including three revolutions and two world wars and the entire Cold War. But now Moscow isn\u2019t safe for the New York Times. I really don\u2019t have the words to describe how unpredictable this situation is.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22967223\/ukraine-russia-war-putin-propaganda-reallity<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“For a long while, Russia has \u201cflooded the zone\u201d and bombarded the population with so many contradictory accounts of reality that they weren\u2019t sure what to believe, or they were too cynical to believe anything. But now it\u2019s full Orwellian control of reality, and that\u2019s a much heavier lift because it\u2019s not about undermining consensus, which is easy; it\u2019s about enforcing one.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“I have to be honest, there were a handful of people here who have been warning about this for a long time, who were telling people like me that this was going to be a fascist dictatorship one day, and we\u2019ve been dismissing these people. We were like, \u201cCome on, Putin is a cynic, he\u2019s evil in so many ways, but at least he\u2019s a rational guy. All he wants to do is get himself insanely rich. He\u2019s not going to do anything really drastic.\u201d
\nBut we were all fucking wrong. The alarmists were right all along, and almost every one of them is either dead or in jail or exiled.” <\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“we\u2019re in uncharted waters. All these major foreign media outlets, like the New York Times and the BBC, are fleeing Moscow. That\u2019s never happened. The New York Times has had a bureau in Moscow throughout the entire 20th century, including three revolutions and two world wars and the entire Cold War. But now Moscow isn\u2019t safe for the New York Times. I really don\u2019t have the words to describe how unpredictable this situation is.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[552,660,971,848,1545,295,513,316,315,661,311,158],"class_list":["post-7441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-dictatorship","tag-free-press","tag-freedom-of-speech","tag-invasion","tag-journalism","tag-journalists","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-tyranny","tag-ukraine","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7442,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7441\/revisions\/7442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}