Troll Watch for 18 March 2022

 Today in the Troll Watch the two primary narratives are as follows:

1. The variations on the theme of "Why don't you go to Ukraine and fight for them?" continues but has started to decline. Eighty four such identified posts were made on March 14, 2022 and that declined to twenty-three such posts on March 17, 2022. 

2. The previous variations on the hypothetical question of Mexico or Canada deploying Russian or Chinese nuclear weapons has declined precipitously. Forty-three such identified posts were made on March 14, 2022 and that declined to twelve on March 17, 2022. 

A new narrative has surfaced in which the West is being assigned responsibility for the potential use of nuclear weapons by Putin and Russia. The contention being that the West may 'force' Russia to use nuclear weapons if the West does not bow to Putin's demands. 

A potential narrative is developing in which Poland is being promoted as a new threat against Russia and also being promoted as a rogue member of NATO that 'intends to drag NATO into World War Three'. 

Noticeably absent for the time being are Chinese and pro-Chinese trolls. The Chinese and pro-Chinese accounts I monitor are for now conspicuously avoiding Russia-Ukraine topics. To a large extent they are also absent on topics about China. 

That is all. 


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