Russian President Vladimir Putin promised Friday to “immediately” order a cease-fire in Ukraine and start negotiations if Kyiv began withdrawing troops from the four regions annexed by Moscow in 2022 and renounced plans to join NATO. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy rejected what he called an ultimatum by Putin to surrender more territory…

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      5 months ago

      A depressing number of people are extremely low information voters. It’s intended to sow confusion in their minds. If you can get them into a “they are all the same” mentality, then you can either get them to vote for you, or just not bother voting (and so not voting against you).

      Basically, people who use Lemmy etc are not their target audience.

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      5 months ago

      German Pro-Putin politicians have already jumped on this, loudly proclaiming they want peace. That does resonate with people, especially those who are afraid.