Recently, Russian propagandists on the state television of the Russian Federation discussed possible ways to destroy the United States as their main enemy.. Some have suggested killing “only” a few tens of thousands of American military men as a mitigated option: “Who liquidates them, where they are liquidated and in what form - it doesn’t matter. There is absolutely nothing to lose, ”said commentator Evgeny Satanovsky. Others leaned towards a full-blown nuclear strike that would end America's existence.. But this gang of future defendants would like to save one American: “In our country, they accepted one American, a good American who we would not want to kill - Tucker Carlson,” said Dmitry Drobnitsky, an Americanist..

The war in Ukraine began a year ago today, on February 24, 2022, when the Russian military rolled across the eastern border of the country. But in many ways, the Russian invasion of Ukraine was the endpoint of a much longer story. pic. twitter. com/BtbJvCgWKl.

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) February 25, 2023.

The love of Russian propagandists for the American Fox News TV host Tucker Carlson is understandable: in his programs, Carlson almost verbatim repeats Russian anti-Ukrainian propaganda, sometimes adding some fiction from himself. Thus, Carlson accuses Zelensky of “forbidding the Christian faith in the country” and also ordered the arrest of “nuns and priests”. In addition, Carlson tirelessly promotes former US President Donald Trump and continues to praise him for his desire to dissolve NATO and be friends with Russia..

It was Carlson and his Fox channel who, after the 2020 elections, promoted the so-called big lie, assuring viewers that Trump won, and Biden stole the election with the help of various frauds.. Fox and his team inflated the passions of listeners, leading some to the point that they took up arms and stormed the Capitol in the nation's capital..

Carlson has millions of viewers in the States. As a rule, these are right-wing conservatives who want to see Putin as a supporter of conservative “traditional values” and bring to power in the United States an authoritarian leader who will forcefully introduce these “values” into society, whether people like it or not. It is for them that Carlson and his associates are building a world of alternative facts, where conservative values \u200b\u200band their champions do not conflict with reality..

“Why do we give so much money to Ukraine? And what Russia has done to us? ', the administrator of a small university in the conservative state of Virginia asks me.. She and her husband watch Fox every night, and they are the same viewers whose opinion is shaped by Carlson's lies.. But Carlson and his colleagues in propaganda are also influenced by the worldview of news consumers.. An alternative reality, as it turned out, is created by the mutual efforts of propagandists and the public.

The interdependence of propagandists and the audience is evidenced by the investigation of the company Dominion, which produces voting equipment (Dominion Voting Systems). The company is suing Fox News for defamation after Fox officials repeatedly said Dominion voting machines intentionally distorted the 2020 election results..

" As a result of the slander spread by propagandists on the Fox channel, the company's reputation has suffered in 28 states and the company has suffered huge financial losses..

The information provided in the Dominion statement revealed the cynicism of American propagandists, who are not much different in deceit from their Russian counterparts..

Fox News team checked the facts and called allegations of wrongdoing in voting " Nevertheless, the channel's hosts continued to claim on the air that the elections were rigged.. At the same time, Carlson and his colleagues did not hide from each other that they were well aware of the true facts.. They wrote to each other in internal correspondence that the assurances of Trump and his associate, lawyer Sidney Powell, are pure nonsense.. So, Carlson wrote to colleague Laura Ingram: “Sidney Powell is lying. I caught her. It's a crazy house" Ingram was of the same opinion, writing to Carlson: “Sidney Power is completely crazy. No one can work with her." When Fox Politics editor Chris Styrowalt was asked if he thought Dominion rigged the election, he replied in the negative: " Complaint filed by Dominion says all Fox witnesses said they did not believe any of the channel's allegations about Dominion and vote-rigging.

Fox News was the first news outlet to name Biden the winner in the state of Arizona, effectively predicting that he would be the next president.. Following this post, Fox's ratings plummeted..

A filing filed by Dominion alleges that Fox fed its viewers a false narrative of electoral fraud because Fox's " On this channel, viewers were told that Trump won the election, and Biden lost, and fed fantastic conspiracy theories.

Many Americans would like to think that "

Wanting to keep their audience, the Fox channel and its employees rushed to lie despite the facts they knew. When one of the Fox journalists stated on the screen that " Seriously…. What the fuck? I'm totally shocked. This needs to be stopped immediately. This is detrimental to the company.. Share price is declining. This is not a joke,” he wrote to a colleague.

The law protects journalists from liability if they report false statements, but the law does not protect the intentional propaganda of deliberate lies..

In the end, lying can hit the finances of the Fox channel and its team hard and make these liars think. The slandered company Dominion has filed a serious $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox, and Dominion has a great chance to receive compensation..

Independent judiciaries are a pillar of democracy and a defense against the alternate reality created by propagandists, and the American liars at Fox News will see this firsthand.. But if Trump or another anti-democratic leader like him comes to power again, the courts will be the first institutions that an authoritarian leader will begin to bend and break, following the example of authoritarian and lawless Russia..

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