Tarik Cyril Amar, whom RT describes as a “historian from Germany working at Koç University, Istanbul,” in an April 17 article under the above title compares the current massive Russophobic propaganda in Germany as being on a level of that of Joseph Goebbles’ notion that propaganda’s “sometimes literally stunning success is built on two primitive, yet powerful—and very old—tricks: the broken-record principle and the litany effect.” He says the purpose of the “often astonishingly crude propaganda,” is that the “political elites and mainstream media are desperately trying to prepare them for war against Russia. And this time, not by proxy, that is, by way of a devastated Ukraine and dead Ukrainians, but directly.”