False Generosity: Rebranding Surrender as a Gift

Russian propaganda which Duncey Putin gets high on though has rebranded this ‘Istanbul Peace Talks’ troll as Russia being generous to Ukraine. And as the reason why when Ukraine walked away from this Siren, 100,000s of Ukrainians deserved death. That’s the meaning of the character ‘Istanbul peace talks,’ in Putin’s Disinfolklore-addled mind.

Source: Learning to See Abstract Concepts

Tested against the Code of Positive Trolls, “Istanbul Peace Talks” fails Tool 7: Generosity outright. What is presented as a generous peace offer is in fact a demand for capitulation — rebranded through repetition into a character whose “meaning” is that Ukraine deserves death for walking away.

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