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As Russian jets have flown bombing raids against rebels in Syria, the search to justify this military effort has strained Kremlin propagandists and bewildered audiences. Unlike the war in Ukraine, the Kremlin is struggling to sell its action in Syria...

As Russian jets have flown bombing raids against rebels in Syria, the search to justify this military effort has strained Kremlin propagandists and bewildered audiences. Unlike the war in Ukraine, the Kremlin is struggling to sell its action in Syria to an unconvinced public, writes TIME’s Simon Shuster on time.com. “Most of the spin has derived from Putin’s claim at U.N. General Assembly last week that the terrorist threat from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is similar to the threat that Nazi Germany posed 75 years ago,” Shuster writes. “Such invocations of the fascist menace served Russia well during its invasion of Ukraine last year, as Putin managed to convince many of his countrymen that ethnic Russians in Ukraine were under threat from ‘neo-Nazis and anti-Semites.’” This military effort, however, is “shaping up to be a much more difficult sell.” This image, distributed by @AFPphoto, was taken from footage made available on the Russian Defence Ministry’s official website on Oct. 5, purporting to show a Russia’s Su-24M bomber dropping bombs during an airstrike in Syria. 

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