I still believe that the US has lost soft power as a result of the campaign and the quality of the discourse in politics. And I think that continues when you look at the way Trump has continued to use Twitter for provocative statements designed to manipulate the press. Many of these don\'t create attraction or admiration for the US. On the other hand the fact remains that despite the political differences, which are quite considerable, the US is a stable society which has a transition of power by ballots not bullets. I think that has some effect of enhancing American attractiveness. But, by and large, I think the poor quality of the discourse has probably hurt American soft power. \r\n
Joseph Goebbels, Hitler\'s minister of propaganda forced the German people to open the windows of their homes while raising the volume of their radio sets to the maximum so that ideas broadcast through the radio could be heard by every German whether they liked it or not.
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Police Scotland has announced that the hijab will become part of its official uniform as it aims to create a more diverse force. The force said they hope the move will “encourage women from Muslim communities, who may previously not have seen policing as a career option, to reconsider”.
According to a report prepared by the "‘Israeli' propaganda committee during the Second Lebanon War" and developed by a secondary body of the Foreign and Security Committee Specialized in Publicity and Foreign Relations (2007), "Israel" failed to face up to the intense propaganda campaign carried out by Hizbullah's Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah during the [2006] war. The findings also concluded that the "Israeli" campaign did not succeeded in winning over the "Israeli" public but rather increased its confusion.
According to certain sources, America's "soft" war against Hizbullah is fully underway. The same sources added that the US Assistant Secretary for the Department of the Treasury, Daniel Glaser, told Lebanese officials during a meeting in Washington that it was "forbidden for Hizbullah to enter into our banking system, and if Lebanon wishes to enter our banking system, it must respect the laws of the United States, including the recent financial law directed against Hizbullah."
In justifying his rejection, Khudiyev wrote that when it comes to confronting the moral or media war, it is not fit to resort to the ways and means used by the state to combat crime and outlaws. For [the media] war is used primarily to acquire the hearts and minds of the people, gain their solidarity, collaboration, and support
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Limor points out that the unit played a key role in electronic warfare against the Iranian nuclear project, and contributed to the development of the "Stuxnet" virus, which in 2009 targeted and disabled the computerized systems that control the centrifuges responsible for uranium enrichment in Iran's nuclear facilities.
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