HOW TO TURN AMERICAN MISSILES INTO RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA BULLETS? THE AMERICAN ANTI-MISSILE SHIELD FROM DEVESELU
HOW TO TURN AMERICAN MISSILES INTO RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA BULLETS? THE AMERICAN ANTI-MISSILE SHIELD FROM DEVESELU

Author(s): Luminița KOHALMI
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: propaganda; informational war; anti-missiles shield; Deveselu; Putin; NATO; USA
Summary/Abstract: While in Romania held the commissioning of one of the elements of the NATO’s antiballistic defensive shield, the propaganda machine of the Kremlin was trying to impose the idea that the capabilities installed at Deveselu by US and NATO have an offensive end, threatening the Russian Federation security. The present study is aimed at identifying the design of the informational campaign for the inauguration of the Aegis Ashore system in Roma that Russian Federation used to push its own political and military agenda in order to provide a geopolitical alternative to Atlanticism and the US domination. Media analysis show that the techniques and instruments used in the Russian propaganda campaign are dosed in such a manner that they may deem Deveselu as one of the greatest American military threat at the border of the Russian Federation. In this context, the Deveselu argument, once included in a negative psychological, emotional and aspirational horizon, can be frequently used by the Kremlin for the mobilisation of foreign and domestic publics against US and NATO.

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