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To: Les H who wrote (48041)	9/30/2025 9:31:30 AM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 48879

The EU, UK, and Ukraine are using a mix of expanded surveillance, censorship, and spin in an attempt to control the narrative in Europe and influence it in the U.S. As I wrote in the first installment of this mini-series, Delusion, Deception and Dipshittery: Hasbara on the 8th Front, the western powers seem to be making competing desperate bids to maintain narrative control, and it is very hard to parse the difference between deliberate deception, delusion, and what is just plain dipshittery. I’ve covered Israel’s battles on its “8th front” in part one and will talk about the Trump administration’s narrative management efforts in part three. This edition will cover the efforts of the EU, UK, and Ukraine to redirect the narrative energy in their home countries and especially in the U.S., with a goal of re-establishing the proxy war in Ukraine as a top priority. They are also resorting to expanded censorship and surveillance in an effort to keep their local populations onside with increasingly unpopular policies and governments. nakedcapitalism.com Every successive war from Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, and Gaza has been met with expanded media control and censorship. The American press has always been tightly controlled, but there was regular coverage of the wars and government collaboration with paramilitary forces (aka Al Qaeda, IS, etc.) in the Israeli and British press until around 2015. More censorship and surveillance coming in the form of digital ID's currently being promoted by Larry Ellison and Oracle