[Military Martial Plane] Author: Lele
Recently, a comprehensive report on the Ukrainian official's achievements in the battlefield were circulated on the Internet. In this list, the Ukrainian armed forces shot down nearly 100 Russian helicopters and more than 80 other fighters in a total of 20 days of battle, and even hundreds of tanks and and thousands of various types of technical equipment. If this data is from an unknown media on the Internet, then the outside world may just laugh it off. However, this data is actually leaked by Ukrainian President Zelensky through his official bound social media account, in the video played to the outside world.
▲Related reports from domestic media
In fact, on March 5, a Ukrainian woman named Liupov Zibulska, who was certified as an adviser to the Ukrainian government and military, posted on social media that a woman in Kiev successfully shot down a Russian drone using a can of pickled cucumbers on her balcony. What is even more unbelievable is that this post of pickled cucumber shooting down military drone was reprinted 45,000 times and 268,000 likes in a short time after it was posted. All these are really eye-opening.
▲Related posts on social media
Since it basically lost the battlefield air supremacy on the first day of the war, the Ukrainian army basically did not have the initiative in the battlefield after the war began. During the more than 20 days of war, the Russian army was basically taking the initiative to attack, while Ukraine was passively defending. Although its combat effectiveness was indeed not as unbearable as the outside world had previously expected, it was indeed an unimaginable thing to say that the Ukrainian armed forces could shoot down more than 180 Russian fighters in the 20 days of battle. Especially when Ukraine loses almost all S-300 long-range air defense missiles, most medium-range air defense missiles, and has not received support from other countries like missiles and , only some portable air defense missiles, , and other countries support "Sthorn" field air defense missiles. Perhaps it could have unexpectedly launched a certain blow to the Russian low-altitude fighter jets, but if it could shoot down more than 80 fighter jets in front and back, it would be too difficult.
▲Ukrainian-equipped S-300 lost a lot of money after the war started
As for the posts of using pickled cucumbers on their own balcony and shooting down Russian military drones, it can be said that it challenges the outside world's IQ. What is even more unbelievable is that these two rhetorics that should have been questioned immediately were praised on social media one after another. This ridiculous result can't help but give people a ridiculous feeling. However, behind this series of events, there is another issue that must be paid attention to, that is, why so many people believe that Ukraine’s statements that can easily detect something wrong?
▲The Internet attempts to restore the pictures on the scene
After the outbreak of this war, a series of changes occurred almost immediately on international social media. The first is that a series of information released by the Russian side or favoring the Russian side will become without a trace in a short period of time. However, news released by Ukraine or favored by Ukraine will spread quickly, and even false news spread like "Ghost of Kiev" and "Thirteen Soldiers of Snake Island" appeared. As the situation further develops, this situation even evolves into an official account from Russia, which is also "banned" to a certain extent. A large number of weapons and equipment data lost by Russia have been amplified, and even a large number of Western companies with economic activities in Russia would rather suffer huge losses than withdraw their investment.
▲The loss of Russian military equipment is often magnified on social media
It is under this long-term unilateral publicity that the public opinion in most Western countries finally occurred.The Ukrainian army shot down 180 Russian fighter jets in 20 days, and the Ukrainian people used pickled cucumbers to destroy Russian military drones is indeed incredible, but these incredible events have been recognized by a large number of people on social media, but in itself proves the phased victory of this war of invisible gunpowder. The public opinion war that was once only in the imagination and even did not attract much attention from the outside world has actually been clearly displayed in front of the world and demonstrated its own powerful power.
▲The Russian army was indeed shot down a certain number of fighter jets, but it is difficult to believe that there were nearly 180 total aircraft. The Libyan War before the Russian-Ukraine War, as well as the war between Azerbaijan and Armenian , there was actually a large number of war news, and the trend of widespread spread on social media. But both the influence of the warring parties at that time and the technical level of the war restricted the further spread of the two, especially at home. This has made few people in China realize what kind of power the live-streaming public opinion war has in large-scale modern wars under the influence of modern social media. This time, all over the world are witnessing the development of the war situation day by day, and are receiving information from the battlefield almost continuously. In the end, although the Ukrainian army did not win the victory on the battlefield, the continuous publicity of a large number of social accounts of governments of different levels of Ukraine led to other countries' attitudes towards this war in a direction that was beneficial to Ukraine.
▲Ukraine's equipment losses are often selectively ignored by social media
In fact, before this war, the West had shown to varying degrees in many text propaganda, even in film and television works, to different degrees, reducing the contributions of the Soviet Union to participate in the anti-fascist war . A new generation of young people in the West who grew up under this influence only knew about , Normandy, and did not know that there were many situations in Stalingrad. So much so that some information praised with emotion that perhaps when the next generation of young people in the West grow up, they know in their minds that the role of the Soviet Union in the anti-fascist war will undergo a complete subversive change. Judging from the huge influence of social media on public opinion during the Russian-Ukrainian war, this prophecy is gradually becoming a reality.
▲This war has accelerated the development of many things
Today, the firefighting on the battlefield of Russia and Ukraine is still continuing, and the confrontation between the two sides in other fields outside the battlefield has not stopped. However, the series of impacts this war has brought to other parts of the world have gradually been shown. Germany, which was the first to be hit, not only announced an increase of 100 billion euros and invested in the research and development of advanced defense equipment, but also recently announced the purchase of 35 US-made F-35A stealth fighters and 15 "Typhoon" fighters jointly developed by 15 European countries. Compared with Germany's previous years of hesitation on whether to introduce the F-35A, and the huge change in making a decision in less than a month, the outside world generally believes that this war is the most critical factor in changing Germany's defense policy. The silent transformation of other European, Asian, and even American countries affected by this war is expected to gradually surface, and even the entire world will adapt to a new beginning.
