Paul Roderick Gregory: Truckers halt Moscow traffic as Putin shifts the blame
Journalists watch a TV broadcast of Russian President Vladimir Putin's annual state of the nation address at a press room at the Kremlin in Moscow on Dec. 3, 2015.
Putin cannot condemn hundreds or thousands of ordinary workers as fifth columnists and CIA agents. Instead, the Kremlin propaganda machine has begun a campaign that pictures the truckers as unpatriotic misfits whose aim is to create a neo-fascist “Russian Maidan.” In addition to propaganda, Putin will use all his repressive power, while proclaiming sympathy for the truckers—a new kind of hybrid warfare. Putin’s minions will fine truckers, confiscate their property, and threaten their operating licenses.
