You know, you bring to light the important point that Russia Today is the Russian government’s propaganda mouth piece for western audiences.
They have for the most part, mastered the appearance of being an independent somewhat objective-conservative news source that is one of the few to expose US corruption.
Putin realizes that Russia greatly benefits from the relatively inexpensive investment of propaganda outlets, that deliver toxic cognitive dissonance to demoralize, fracture and eliminate US moral authority.
He and others would say that the fact that the US has become so corrupt, decadent and a danger to the world that threatens financial and geopolitical stability, foreign propaganda should be the least of our worries.
Our greatest threat surface is internal, not external.
It is hard not to agree with that.
I never thought I’d see the day American’s would be so starved for objective news, we would come to rely on Russian gov’t backed news outlets to cover stories our own news will not.
Our fourth estate / fifth column are a shameful traitorous lot.
First, hardly no-one is even aware that RT is a state-run media outlet. And even those who are likely have no clue as to the 'details' provided above.
Second, as to 'covering stories our own news will not', since they are a Moscow-controlled news source, they can hardly be considered a credible source of news and information. Just the simple fact that they had stated in the days, weeks, and months after his death, that the RT founder described above, died of a heart attack--that there were 'no signs of foul play', when a later autopsy revealed he had been savagely beaten with a blunt object to his head, neck, and, I think, torso, should, in the mind of anyone with a working brain in their head, immediately eliminate them as a valid source of information. Indeed, they were specifically set up to spread disinformation, cover Putin's evil doings, and promote his big picture agenda (of restoring the Soviet Union and then-some with eventual control of the oil/gas-rich strategic Middle East). People really need to wake the hell up already and understand the big picture of what's going on.
Here's Pence from the Oct 5th, 2016, first VP debate...
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“When Donald Trump and I observe that, as I’ve said, in Syria, in Iran, in Ukraine, that the small and bullying leader of Russia has been stronger on the world stage than this administration, that’s stating painful facts. That’s not an endorsement of Vladimir Putin — that’s an indictment of the weak and feckless leadership of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.”
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Also from the Oct 5, 2016 first VP debate...
QUIJANO (Moderator): I want to turn now to Syria. Two hundred fifty thousand people, 100,000 of them children, are under siege in Aleppo, Syria. Bunker buster bombs, cluster munitions, and incendiary weapons are being dropped on them by Russian and Syrian militaries. Does the U.S. have a responsibility to protect civilians and prevent mass casualties on this scale, Governor Pence?
PENCE: The United States of America needs to begin to exercise strong leadership to protect the vulnerable citizens and over 100,000 children in Aleppo. Hillary Clinton’s top priority when she became secretary of state was the Russian reset, the Russians reset.
After the Russian reset, the Russians invaded Ukraine and took over Crimea.
And the small and bullying leader of Russia is now dictating terms to the United States to the point where all the United States of America — the greatest nation on Earth — just withdraws from talks about a cease-fire while Vladimir Putin puts a missile defense system in Syria while he marshals the forces and begins — look, we have got to begin to lean into this with strong, broad-shouldered American leadership.
It begins by rebuilding our military. And the Russians and the Chinese have been making enormous investments in the military. We have the smallest Navy since 1916. We have the lowest number of troops since the end of the Second World War. We’ve got to work with Congress, and Donald Trump will, to rebuild our military and project American strength in the world.
But about Aleppo and about Syria, I truly do believe that what America ought to do right now is immediately establish safe zones, so that families and vulnerable families with children can move out of those areas, work with our Arab partners, real time, right now, to make that happen.
And secondly, I just have to tell you that the provocations by Russia need to be met with American strength.
And if Russia chooses to be involved and continue, I should say, to be involved in this barbaric attack on civilians in Aleppo, the United States of America should be prepared to use military force to strike military targets of the Assad regime to prevent them from this humanitarian crisis that is taking place in Aleppo.
There’s a broad range of other things that we ought to do, as well. We ought to deploy a missile defense shield to the Czech Republic and Poland which Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama pulled back on out of not wanting to offend the Russians back in 2009.
QUIJANO: Governor, your two minutes are up.
PENCE: We’ve just got to have American strength on the world stage. When Donald Trump becomes president of the United States, the Russians and other countries in the world will know they’re dealing with a strong American president.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/06/us/politics/vice-president-transcript.html
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PENCE: What we’re dealing with is the — you know, there’s an old proverb that says the Russian bear never dies, it just hibernates.
And the truth of the matter is, the weak and feckless foreign policy of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has awakened an aggression in Russia that first appeared a few years ago with their move in Georgia, now their move into Crimea, now their move into the wider Middle East.
And all the while, all we do is fold our arms and say we’re not having talks anymore.
To answer your question, we just need American strength. We need to — we need to marshal the resources of our allies in the region, and in the immediate, we need to act and act now to get people out of harm’s way.