Reason vs Feelings / Contrast A Putin Interview With Any Biden Statement

Early advertisements tended to be wordy and full of facts, in an effort to logically convince people of the worthiness of the product being sold. As the advertising industry developed they found that emotions and icons worked better. So instead of a page full of text we now have a checkmark and everyone has been conditioned to know that it is shoes being sold.

A big jump in the PR world came during WW1 when the US government established the Committee on Public Information and put 20,000 men to work putting out official propaganda. It was a hard sell to convince Americans who had just re-elected Wilson on his platform "He kept us out of war" that sending Americans to fight in Europe for no rational reason was a good idea. But the men found that whipping up public hysteria about (invented) German atrocities, coupled with severe repression of dissidents, (including jailing them), did the trick.

A hundred years later we see that our rulers have perfected the craft of selling wars and other agendas with emotion, not logic.

Meanwhile, in Russia, the so-called "western" ideals of the Enlightenment seem to be more in style. Using speech, facts and logic to make a point rather than screaming that anyone who disagrees is spreading "disinformation" and should be cancelled, is still done.

Putin gave an interview two days ago and I saw it discussed by Alexander Mercouris, so I tried to find a transcript to quote the parts he discussed.

Although the Committee on Public Information is long gone, and the Disinformation Governance Board is supposedly "on hold", trying to use a search engine to find a transcript of that interview was a daunting task. Put in specific words requesting an interview transcript and you get page after page of irrelevant entries, largely consisting of the "Is Putin just crazy, or evil?" kind of propaganda that has not progressed much in 100 years.

But Yandex came through. So here is Putin countering the "The whole world is going to starve because Evil Putin is stopping grain shipments from Ukraine" line that is being pushed this week by the mockingbird media.

"First, there are some objective things, and I will mention them now. The world produces about 800 million tonnes of grain, wheat per year. Now we are being told that Ukraine is ready to export 20 million tonnes. So, 20 million tonnes out of 800 million tonnes amounts to 2.5 percent. But if we proceed from the fact that wheat accounts for merely 20 percent of all food products in the world – and this is the case, this is not our data, it comes from the UN – this means that these 20 million tonnes of Ukrainian wheat are just 0.5 percent, practically nothing. This is the first point.".........

"As for shipping out Ukrainian grain, we are not preventing this. There are several ways to export grain. The first one. You can ship it out via the Ukraine-controlled ports, primarily in the Black Sea – Odessa and nearby ports. We did not mine the approaches to the port – Ukraine did this. I have already said to all our colleagues many times – let them demine the ports and let the vessels loaded with grain leave. We will guarantee their peaceful passage to international waters without any problems. There are no problems at all. Go ahead. They must clear the mines and raise the ships they sunk on purpose in the Black Sea to make it difficult to enter the ports to the south of Ukraine. We are ready to do this; we will not use the demining process to initiate an attack from the sea. I have already said this. This is the first point. The second. There is another opportunity: the ports in the Sea of Azov – Berdyansk and Mariupol – are under our control, and we are ready to ensure a problem-free exit from these ports, including for exported Ukrainian grain. Go ahead, please. We are already working on the demining process. We are completing this work – at one time, Ukrainian troops laid three layers of mines. This process is coming to an end. We will create the necessary logistics. This is not a problem; we will do this. This is the second point. The third. It is possible to move grain from Ukraine via the Danube and through Romania. Fourth. It is also possible through Hungary. And fifth, it is also possible to do this via Poland. Yes, there are some technical problems because the tracks are of different gauges and the wheel bogies must be changed. But this only takes a few hours, that is all. Finally, the easiest way is to transport grain via Belarus. This is the easiest and the cheapest way because from there it can be instantly shipped to the Baltic ports and further on to any place in the world. But they would have to lift the sanctions from Belarus. This is not our problem though. At any rate, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko puts it like this: if someone wants to resolve the problem of exporting Ukrainian grain, if this problem exists at all, please use the simplest way – through Belarus. No one will stop you. So, the problem of shipping grain out of Ukraine does not really exist."

There is more to the interview. He relies on logic, facts and reason to make his points, which is why you will not hear US media mention this interview. They are too busy screaming about (invented) Russian atrocities. Hey, if it works, use it again and again.

Reason or emotion? You choose.