{"id":332,"date":"2024-06-17T15:35:51","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T15:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=332"},"modified":"2024-06-17T15:35:51","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T15:35:51","slug":"the-thin-red-line-from-unthinkable-to-unavoidable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/?p=332","title":{"rendered":"The Thin Red Line: From Unthinkable to Unavoidable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>THE THIN RED LINE: FROM UNTHINKABLE TO UNAVOIDABLE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&#x270d;&#xfe0f;\" src=\"https:\/\/fonts.gstatic.com\/s\/e\/notoemoji\/15.0\/270d_fe0f\/32.png\">Article by Ambassador of Russia to South Africa Ilya Rogachev (23 May 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>READ IN FULL&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&#x27a1;&#xfe0f;\" src=\"https:\/\/fonts.gstatic.com\/s\/e\/notoemoji\/15.0\/27a1_fe0f\/32.png\">Key points:&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&#x1f539;\" src=\"https:\/\/fonts.gstatic.com\/s\/e\/notoemoji\/15.0\/1f539\/32.png\">Ukraine keeps losing the ground, yet given how much Washington and Brussels had politically, financially and militarily over-committed themselves to the conflict, they are more than reluctant to let Kiev lose. Insomuch as to consider putting their own troops on ground in Ukraine.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&#x1f538;\" src=\"https:\/\/fonts.gstatic.com\/s\/e\/notoemoji\/15.0\/1f538\/32.png\">What is happening in Western politics and mass media resembles attempts to \u2018shift the Overton window\u2019 with regard to the idea of the West\u2019s yet another war against Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Overton\u2019s concept is sometimes regarded as a theory of manipulation of public opinion which can even go so far as to turn the given society away from its traditions, culture and common sense-based values to opposite ones through propaganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&#x261d;&#xfe0f;\" src=\"https:\/\/fonts.gstatic.com\/s\/e\/notoemoji\/15.0\/261d_fe0f\/32.png\">&nbsp;In terms of the present-day relationship between Russia and the West this technology may be applied to brainwash people into going to war against Russia by gradually increasing the idea\u2019s degree of public acceptance: \u2018unthinkable,\u2019 \u2018radical,\u2019 \u2018acceptable,\u2019 \u2018sensible,\u2019 \u2018popular\u2019 and \u2018policy.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&#x2694;&#xfe0f;\" src=\"https:\/\/fonts.gstatic.com\/s\/e\/notoemoji\/15.0\/2694_fe0f\/32.png\">&nbsp;People remember President Macron\u2019s statements about sending French troops to Ukraine, but the efforts to lift the restrictions on discussion of the topic started back in 2022-2023, when Western leaders began repeating that boots of their soldiers will never ever touch the ground in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was the first step to \u2018get people used\u2019 to the idea, and thus turn it from \u2018unthinkable\u2019 into \u2018radical.\u2019 Right now the masterminds of Western propaganda are trying to make the \u2018radical\u2019 idea of an all-Western war against Russia \u2018acceptable.\u2019<a href=\"https:\/\/telegra.ph\/The-Thin-Red-Line-From-Unthinkable-to-Unavoidable-05-24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/telegra.ph\/The-Thin-Red-Line-From-Unthinkable-to-Unavoidable-05-24<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE THIN RED LINE: FROM UNTHINKABLE TO UNAVOIDABLE Article by Ambassador of Russia to South Africa Ilya Rogachev (23 May 2024) READ IN FULL&nbsp; Key points:&nbsp; &nbsp; Ukraine keeps losing the ground, yet given how much Washington and Brussels had politically, financially and militarily over-committed themselves to the conflict, they are more than reluctant to let Kiev lose. Insomuch as to consider putting their own troops on ground in Ukraine.&nbsp; What is happening in Western politics and mass media resembles attempts to \u2018shift the Overton window\u2019 with regard to the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ukraine-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopoliticsamongstates.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}