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How a former US Navy sailor became a Putin propagandist
Task & Purpose ^ | April 19, 2022 | Jeff Schogol

Posted on 06/09/2022 5:33:15 AM PDT by tlozo

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The most popular of the pro-Kremlin influencers identified by researchers is Patrick Lancaster, a Missouri-born Navy intelligence veteran and self-described independent crowdfunded journalist embedded with the Russian army. Since December, Lancaster’s YouTube channel has grown from 57,500 subscribers to more than 500,000, with daily dispatches from Russian-occupied Ukraine. His videos are often breathless reports with graphic footage of dead bodies, violence for which Lancaster claims Ukraine is responsible. The scene in at least one video was reportedly staged. Lancaster often appears on Russian state media and on the Texas-based conspiracy theory radio show “Infowars.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/russian-propaganda-efforts-aided-kremlin-content-creators-research-fin-rcna32343

1 posted on 06/09/2022 5:33:15 AM PDT by tlozo
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To: tlozo
Headed to the Front with Patrick Lancaster
2 posted on 06/09/2022 5:39:58 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: tlozo

I think this describes one of our pro Soviet trolls here.


3 posted on 06/09/2022 5:41:02 AM PDT by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinion.)
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“ The Kremlin’s goal is to undermine American’s faith in democracy”
Lol.


4 posted on 06/09/2022 5:42:44 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: tlozo

The Ukraine war is metaphor for the nation-state versus the one-world government billionaire psychopaths.

You’re either for one or the other. There is no third door.


5 posted on 06/09/2022 5:46:06 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Contempt for pre-born human life breeds contempt for post-born human life.)
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from the Task & Purpose “About” page...

“Our contributing writers have included Medal of Honor recipients, President Barack Obama, Senator John McCain, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, leading influencers, noted authors, and more than 500 military service members and veterans who have shared their hard-earned knowledge and expertise with the broader community.”

https://taskandpurpose.com/about-task-purpose/


6 posted on 06/09/2022 5:49:04 AM PDT by Flick Lives (The CDC. Brought to you by Pfizer)
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To: tlozo

That’s pretty funny. They’re asking the Rand corporation for expert testimony on propaganda? How many wars have these A-holes started with their MIC think tank? Notice you don’t see these warmongering DC demoniacs on the ground in Mariupol handing the microphone to ordinary citizens to hear what they have to say. And what do they have to say about the facts? Just their worthless opinions. How is their “assessment” different from what those 50 intelligence officers had to say about Hunters laptop: “….it has ALL the hallmarks of RuSsIaN ProPaGAnda…”


7 posted on 06/09/2022 5:49:17 AM PDT by Antioch (Against stupidity even the Gods struggle in vain….)
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8 posted on 06/09/2022 5:49:26 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: tlozo

Sounds like a good guy as I doubt he considered Mariupol to be an ‘evacuation’, like our media did.

Thanks, I’ll check him out!


9 posted on 06/09/2022 5:50:10 AM PDT by BobL (My hatred of Necons/Globalists exceeds my love of Ukraine or any other country, other than the US)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The Ukraine war is metaphor for the nation-state versus the one-world government billionaire psychopaths.

The Ukraine invasion by Putin is about Russian imperialism.

10 posted on 06/09/2022 5:50:12 AM PDT by tlozo (Trump-the Russian invasion of Ukraine is " truly a crime against humanity")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The Ukraine war is metaphor for the nation-state versus the one-world government billionaire psychopaths.

You mean certain billionaire psychopaths versus other billionaire psychopaths?

11 posted on 06/09/2022 5:50:26 AM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: tlozo

Lancaster and his family ( Ukrainian wife) live in Donbass ( though he evacuated his family to Russia for safety)

He walks the walk. Knows what is really happening there. Speaks to the locals. Has been there long before the Feb invasion.

He is on a death-list by Ukrainian internal security, along with Canadian journalist Eva Bartlett.


12 posted on 06/09/2022 5:51:08 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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Ukrainian Official Admits She Lied About Russians Committing Mass Rape to Convince Countries to Send More Weapons

And it worked.

https://summit.news/2022/06/09/ukrainian-official-admits-she-lied-about-russians-committing-mass-rape-to-convince-countries-to-send-more-weapons/

The top Ukrainian official who was fired for spreading misinformation has admitted that she lied about Russians committing mass rape in order to convince western countries to send more weapons to Ukraine.

Lyudmila Denisova, the former Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights, was removed from her position following a vote of no confidence in the Ukrainian parliament which passed by a margin of 234-to-9.

Parliament member Pavlo Frolov specifically accused Denisova of pushing misinformation that “only harmed Ukraine” in relation to “the numerous details of ‘unnatural sexual offenses’ and child sexual abuses in the occupied territories, which were unsupported by evidence.”

In an interview published by a Ukrainian news outlet, Denisova admitted that her falsehoods had achieved their intended goal.

“When, for example, I spoke in the Italian parliament at the Committee on International Affairs, I heard and saw such fatigue from Ukraine, you know? I talked about terrible things in order to somehow push them to make the decisions that Ukraine and the Ukrainian people need,” she said.

Denisova noted that Italy’s Five Star Movement was originally “against the provision of weapons to us, but after [her] speech, one of the party leaders… said that they will support [us], including by the provision of weapons.”

Despite the fact that her claims about mass rape were false, they were repeatedly amplified by legacy media outlets like CNN and the Washington Post.

“The media was quick to put this woman’s BS claims out but couldn’t care less about correcting the record,” writes Chris Menahan.

Indeed, there have been innumerable outright hoaxes and falsehoods throughout the war where so-called ‘fact checkers’ have been noticeable by their absence.

These include radiation leaks at besieged nuclear plants which turned out not to have occurred, the media’s complete misinformation about what happened on Snake Island, the ‘Ghost of Kiev Hoax, as well as the ‘attack’ on a Holocaust memorial that never happened.


13 posted on 06/09/2022 5:51:23 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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Thanks, I’ll check him out!

LOL, like your not already one of Lancaster's fans.

14 posted on 06/09/2022 5:51:37 AM PDT by tlozo (Trump-the Russian invasion of Ukraine is " truly a crime against humanity")
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15 posted on 06/09/2022 5:52:19 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: tlozo

To be fair, you’re a Biden Republican.


16 posted on 06/09/2022 5:52:46 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: tlozo

As stated by Putin himself!


17 posted on 06/09/2022 5:53:08 AM PDT by Does so (https//youtu.be/3PxEWB6W8ig ......Uke's Independence Day Parade. Anthem starts at 15:00)
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To: escapefromboston

Democracy is America is long gone. Our democracy is similar to Saddam Hussein or Castro.

I think I will put my faith in God, not the WEF/NWO, thank you!


18 posted on 06/09/2022 5:54:02 AM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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To: BobL
Russian generals lead from the front, and sometimes this gets them killed.

It also has the benefit of inspiring the troops when "the brass" is sharing the danger.

Unlike our own generals, who "lead" from far in the rear, and then "retire" to MIC corporate boards and MSM "contributor" gigs.


19 posted on 06/09/2022 5:54:56 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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Get your gun and go to the Ukraine and fight for the globe-homo regime. Bidenistas are deluded fools.


20 posted on 06/09/2022 5:55:52 AM PDT by WMarshal (Neocons and leftists are the same species of vicious rat.)
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