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Viral Video Of Ukraine War ‘Crisis Actors’ In Body Bags Is Totally Fake
Forbes ^ | February 25, 2023 | Matt Novak

Posted on 02/25/2023 10:50:02 PM PST by familyop

The video, which has been digitally manipulated to show a text crawl at the bottom with figures of Ukrainian deaths, is actually from a climate change protest in Austria. The original video, which can still be viewed online, was filmed by Austrian news outlet OE24 in Ballhausplatz, Austria on Feb. 4, 2022, just a few weeks before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. And no one was trying to pass it off as being from Ukraine until it entered the right-wing media ecosystem.

(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: leftistinfiltrators; socialmediavirus; unamerican; zombies
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1 posted on 02/25/2023 10:50:02 PM PST by familyop
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To: familyop
Right-wingers normally don't operate in this way. Like the fake noose, this was more likely the work of left-wingers, someone of your ilk, and then pinned on "right wingers."

2 posted on 02/25/2023 10:58:31 PM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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3 posted on 02/25/2023 11:18:13 PM PST by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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me and my shadow ...


4 posted on 02/25/2023 11:22:45 PM PST by Peter ODonnell (We will never be safe until every last balloon is shot down, oops not that one, oh well)
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

Right-wingers normally don’t operate in this way. Like the fake noose, this was more likely the work of left-wingers, someone of your ilk, and then pinned on “right wingers.”
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For sure… that’s their modus operandi.


5 posted on 02/25/2023 11:26:15 PM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAXI)
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To: McGruff

Looks like there is another one to the right of the circled one.


6 posted on 02/25/2023 11:27:25 PM PST by cabojoe
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To: familyop

Wasn’t this reported - and confirmed- at least 6 months ago?


7 posted on 02/25/2023 11:28:47 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: familyop

What? Fake news during a war? What a surprise.

It’s worth noting that this report came from Forbes. Forbes was at one time a trusted and respected news source. Sadly, no longer. The tipsy guy standing on your local street corner is now just as good.

Why do I say that? The majority shareholder of Forbes is now a company based out of Hong Kong. Draw your own conclusions.


8 posted on 02/25/2023 11:40:31 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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Right-wingers normally don't operate in this way. Like the fake noose, this was more likely the work of left-wingers, someone of your ilk, and then pinned on "right wingers."

Well, I've seen plenty of so-called "right wingers" engage in wideespread deception and grifting. That said, they tend to be freaks. There's one on Twitter who calls himself a "Communist Conservative." But considering there are Putinists on this very forum who continually post links to people who even support the North Korean regime, maybe there are a lot more "communist conservatives" than we might be aware of.

On twitter, the leftwing appears to be split between the far left (like normal communists concerned with how racist the USA is and destroying "American hegemony"), but also a strange segment of communists who are actually just Neo-Nazis or former Neo-Nazis obsessed with "conservative values". They think Stalin and the USSR were "traditional" and masculine or some such stupid s***.

Bottom line, there are a lot of freaks around, and, unfortunately, there are some "conservatives" who are operating as propagandists for the Russian regime.

I would argue none of this latter group are really conservative or patriotic, but that's just my opinion on the inside. On the outside, you have a freak and a grifter who calls himself conservative and posting non-stop Russian propaganda. What else can you call him?

9 posted on 02/26/2023 12:08:39 AM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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EVERYTHING about the Ukraine “war” is fake news.

It really is......

There is perhaps some military operations going on but NO, it is not a war

but I’m sure John Bolton and Dickie Cheney would love for there to be a full blown war


10 posted on 02/26/2023 12:17:51 AM PST by Jaysin (Trump can’t be beat, unless the democrats cheat)
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I took a picture this morning of the destroyed Russian tank that was recently placed across the street of the Russian Embassy.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52711244972_4e0870283c_o.jpg
11 posted on 02/26/2023 12:24:40 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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That’s his personal body guard, Maksym Donets, and they really don’t look alike outside of intentionally blurry video captures on Russian propaganda channels. Some crazy conspiracy, eh?


12 posted on 02/26/2023 12:41:41 AM PST by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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And it’s interesting that the Forbes article doesn’t give us a link to the purported modified video but merely a purported screenshot. But I notice from some of the comments above, the article was enough to get some of our resident Other People’s Money Zelensky supporters riled up.


13 posted on 02/26/2023 12:54:44 AM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAXI)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

From what I’ve seen, the American “left” is in lockstep support of Zelensky and his regime. They are, of course, augmented by the neocons and the mob of gullible useful idiots.


14 posted on 02/26/2023 1:00:49 AM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAXI)
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From what I’ve seen

That doesn't mean much considering your historic tendency of being wrong about anything, hence your complete ignorance of folks like Greenwald (even appears on Tucker), Jimmy Dore (again, appears on Tucker despite being a far leftist), Noam Chomsky and an entire gaggle of leftists, BLM freaks, anti-semitic Muslims and outright communists in various colleges/organizations who are anti-Ukraine and Pro-Russia.

15 posted on 02/26/2023 1:15:49 AM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
"I took a picture this morning of the destroyed Russian tank that was recently placed across the street of the Russian Embassy.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52711244972_4e0870283c_o.jpg


Cool! Thanks!

16 posted on 02/26/2023 1:45:24 AM PST by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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When Biden and Zelensky had their press conference outside, he was there too. It’ was closer up.


17 posted on 02/26/2023 1:54:00 AM PST by HollyB
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

‘Communist conservative. Sounds like a left winger to me. The communist part gave it away.


18 posted on 02/26/2023 1:56:07 AM PST by HollyB
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To: McGruff

Where is the source video or picture of that?


19 posted on 02/26/2023 1:58:45 AM PST by Fury
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To: ETCM

...which is why they’re dressed identically, right?
Like the two Bidens, one with detached earlobes, one with attached?
Or Hillary’s body double after she took sick that one time?


20 posted on 02/26/2023 2:22:31 AM PST by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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