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The Institute for the Study of War says Russia's propaganda machine will likely use the conflict in Israel to erode the West's support for Ukraine.

"The Kremlin is already and will likely continue to exploit the Hamas attacks in Israel to advance several information operations intended to reduce US and Western support and attention to Ukraine," wrote the Washington-based think tank on Saturday.

The ISW wrote in its report that after the Hamas attacks on Saturday, the Kremlin amplified information campaigns that accused the West of ignoring Middle East conflicts to support Ukraine. These campaigns also pushed the message that global attention — in particular, resources from the West — would shift from Ukraine to the Middle East.

The institute cited examples like Russian TV host Sergey Mardan stating in his Telegram channel that the West "will take its mind off Ukraine for a while and get busy once again putting out the eternal fire in the Middle East."

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[-] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 27 points 1 year ago

Russia supplies arms to Iran. Iran supplies arms to Hamas and was reported to have helped them plan the attack.

Hamas most likely used Russian weapons to attack Israel.

So of course Russia is going to capitalize on it.

Also, of course, Hexbear can't let too much shit talking about Russia happen so be prepared for some nasty DMs.

[-] GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Russia probably came up with this attack plan and fed it to their kgb operatives in Hamas. Their desperate to get other countries to stop supporting Ukraine, and this is just what they need to distract everyone, and give russian assets in other countries reasons to get aid to Ukraine cut.

The whole thing seems so straight out of the kgb playbook, it was probably orchestrated by Putin himself.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Forces the US to support 2 different wars.

E: lol, what’s the throwaway downvote for? We’re throwing military money at Ukraine and now Israel. 2 wars.

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