The war in Ukraine as an opportunity to teach critical thinking
Journal: Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching
Year: 2022

Although the war in Ukraine is the most extensively documented conflict ever, it is difficult to discern what is real, fictitious or from a state misinformation campaign. In the battle of spinning media narratives, the truth easily becomes a casualty. We explore the war in the context of various historical key events and reject a possible application of Baudrillard’s perspective that ‘there was no Gulf war’ to the current conflict. We note the eerie resemblance of Russian media fabrications with