Kremlin turns opinion over Syria with U.S.-style 'shock and awe' media blitz
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his circle have spent years criticizing what they said was Washington's calamitous 2003 military intervention in Iraq and its pernicious habit of meddling in the Middle East. But faced with marketing their own foray into the region for the first time since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan -- in Syria -- the Kremlin is borrowing U.S. government and broadcast tactics to replicate the media campaign that George W. Bush used to win American hearts and minds. Be it in Chechnya, Georgia or Ukraine, the ...
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