Anti-Russia Propaganda Campaign Even Failing within U.S. Military

Dec. 9, 2019 (EIRNS)—Is the anti-Russia propaganda campaign starting to wear a little thin? Even in the U.S. military? The Voice of America cites (negatively) the second annual Reagan National Defense Survey, completed in late October, which found that nearly half of armed services households questioned, 46%, said they viewed Russia as an ally. Generally, the pollsters found the positive views of Russia seemed to be “predominantly driven by Republicans who have responded to positive cues from President Trump about Russia,” according to an executive summary accompanying the results, VOA reports.

This seems to be a problem for the Pentagon. “There is an effort, on the part of Russia, to flood the media with disinformation to sow doubt and confusion,” Defense Department spokesperson Lt. Col. Carla Gleason told VOA. “This is not only through discordant and inflammatory dialogue but through false narratives designed to elicit sympathetic views,” she said, adding, “we are actively working to expose and counter Russian disinformation whenever possible.”

Zero Hedge website suggests there may be other, reasons for increasingly positive views of Russia among the rank-and-file in the U.S. military that are more realistic but never discussed in the mass media. “Perhaps American soldiers are simply sick and tired of the U.S. military and intelligence machine’s legacy of ashes across the globe and recognize the inconvenient fact that Russia most often has been on the complete opposite side of Washington’s disastrous regime change wars,” Zero Hedge reports. “Perhaps U.S. military households are also smart enough to know the Cold War is long over, and only bad things can come from a direct confrontation with Russia, not to mention that involvement in proxy war in Ukraine has nothing to do with America’s national defense or to ‘protect and defend the Constitution.’ ”