Changes

Reverse psychology was employed for the first year of the conflict, reporting Ukraine's staggering killed losses, in excess of 100,000 killed, as Russian losses.  This conditioned Western media consumers to believe support for the war was accomplishing NATO and the West's goals, lessening the shock impact of being lied and the horrors of war when it became apparent that the numbers were real, only the belligerent parties to whom the atrocities and casualty rates were attributed had been reversed.

Reverse psychology was employed for the first year of the conflict, reporting Ukraine's staggering killed losses, in excess of 100,000 killed, as Russian losses.  This conditioned Western media consumers to believe support for the war was accomplishing NATO and the West's goals, lessening the shock impact of being lied and the horrors of war when it became apparent that the numbers were real, only the belligerent parties to whom the atrocities and casualty rates were attributed had been reversed.

Virtually all [[mainstream media]] reporting was reversed: Ukrainian war crimes, atrocities, killing of civilians, casualty rates, and troops killed in action were reported, however universally attributed by the controlled media of the West as being Russian war crimes and casualty rates, a not Ukrainian.

Virtually all [[mainstream media]] reporting was reversed: Ukrainian war crimes, atrocities, killing of civilians, casualty rates, and troops killed in action were reported, however universally attributed by the controlled media of the West as being Russian war crimes and casualty rates, a not Ukrainian.  This avoided the need to invent stories out of whole cloth.  All Western reporting was sanitized in Kyiv through the [[CIA]], which shared office space in [[SBU]] headquarters.

== Soft power ==

== Soft power ==