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Ignorance is bliss … especially in the Smolensk case
Ridicule is probably one of the oldest tools in the arsenal of political warfare. Making fun of an opponent serves to both undermine his credibility, and even to provoke him into angrily over-reacting. One method to discredit one’s political enemies is to mock them as “conspiracy theorists,” thereby implying that the targeted group is paranoid and psychologically unbalanced. Such a tactic requires little to no intellectual effort and allows one to conveniently avoid addressing the other side’s arguments.
Posted in Foreign Policy, Russia & Eurasia
Tagged Binienda Study, Bronislaw Komorowski, Donald Tusk, Foreign Policy blog, Gen. Tatyana Anodina, Hanna Kozlowska, KGB, Macierewicz Commission, Moscow, Poland, post-Soviet regime in Moscow, Russian MAK Report, Smolensk Plane Crash 2010, Vladimir Putin, Warsaw