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Thursday, February 1, 2018
#DisinfoReview: A war by any other name
When Shakespeare wrote the famous words "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet", he pointed to the fact that what matters is what something is, not what it is called.
This week in pro-Kremlin disinformation, we noticed ample usage of the term "war". First off, the ban on Russian athletes in the upcoming Olympics was
yet again
described as a war on Russia. In fact, it was the systematic
state sponsored doping program in Russia
that made the IOC decide to suspend certain Russian athletes. Russian athletes not convicted of doping will be allowed to compete under the Olympic flag. Hardly a war, then.
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