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To: BeadCounter

I think Rose is doing a commendable job in addressing these issues, it’s more like some are trying to shame her into not posting stories.


18 posted on 02/16/2018 4:33:32 PM PST by BeadCounter
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To: BeadCounter

Furthermore, I am sorry... but the Russian media, that seems revered here by some or other sources, posts some ugly things on America. There is some video clip from a video game in fact, they say “Look, this shows, the USA is helping ISIS” and that would be agreed with by some here. So, yes, definitely, I agree, a lot of untruths are tossed out here.

“Yelena shows reporters a video sent to her by the wife of another Russian mercenary reportedly killed in Deir al-Zor on February 7. She’s convinced it shows the U.S. air strikes that hit her husband’s convoy.

However, closer inspection suggests it is from a 2015 promotional for a video game called AC-130 Gunship Simulator: Special Op Squadron.

The video pops up on YouTube from time to time as genuine combat footage and even the Russian Defense Ministry passed it off in November 2017 as “irrefutable evidence” of alleged U.S. help for extremist Islamic State militants in Syria.”

https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-syria-mercenaries-killed-widow-says-thrown-into-battle-like-pigs/29039898.html


20 posted on 02/16/2018 4:45:53 PM PST by BeadCounter
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