

Nazis. Terrorists! Satanists!? Putin's Rollout Of Big Lies Is Losing Its Punch
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Nazis. Terrorists! Satanists!? Putin's Rollout Of Big Lies Is Losing Its Punch
-OpEd-
BOGOTÁ — In time, lies are bound to implode. They'll crash faster than a troubled currency in a financial storm. When a deceitful government can no longer pull the wool over people's eyes, it is forced to seek more lies. That is what Russia's Vladimir Putin and his spokesmen have been doing: looking for new methods of bluster to justify his invasion of Ukraine.
When launched last February, the official explanation was the shameless lie of wanting to liberate the Ukrainians from a Nazi-style regime. Simultaneously, Putin claimed Ukraine was no country but a mistaken gift of the Soviet Union, which had provisionally granted independence to its 40 million inhabitants and 600,000 square kilometers!
When the Nazi nonsense lost its charm — because even in authoritarian regimes, media


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