Are you actually claiming that the scale of absurdity between believing election fraud (something members of both parties claim, every losing election, going back decades[1]) and that Ukrainians are killing themselves, en masse, are remotely the same?
1. Here's Hilary Clinton continuing to make claims about 2016 in mainstream media: https://news.yahoo.com/hillary-clinton-maintains-2016-electi...
If people with a free press believe propaganda and lies, what do you expect of people who only have a state-run propaganda machine?
This is your error. They don't "only" have state-run propaganda, and these aren't a backwards, brainwashed, uneducated people.
I'm not in Russia, obviously, but from what I can gather from social media, although outside media is "banned", it's still easy enough to find. Similarly to how easy I can still find RT (or worse).
"A significant proportion of Americans believe the 2020 election was fraudulently stolen. And that’s with free press in America. Not at all hard to believe that a significant proportion of Russian people believe this lie."
Believing in election fraud and believing that a population are coincidentally killing themselves during a military incursion are not remotely analogous.
But for fun, once again, your statement appears to be: "if Americans can believe the 2020 election was stolen (the first sentence), then it's not a stretch to think Russians will believe the Ukrainians are killing themselves (the third sentence)."
It's right there for everyone to read. So what are you actually arguing?
I remember a very suspicious suicide in Argentina, and how some media were theorizing that he killed himself to make the government look bad.
You believe that the Russians believe this about the Ukrainians? A people with whom they share much culture?
>Propaganda could say they are killing themselves to make Russia look bad.
Yeah, it could say anything. How about demonstrating it does say?