Serious question
A media I assume you normally don’t believe in the west
You know trust since it’s opposed to Russia ?
Why trust their veracity now?
I think our media is quite horrible.
It does not mean I think Russian media is better.
There are conservative and alternative media outlets in the US and elsewhere.
I think we continue to live in an age where cell phones make the kind of old school 20th century propaganda difficult.
Putin cannot carry off the 1930s style Holmodor genocide. He wants to though. Cell phones are a root tool that makes complete information shutdowns impossible. Russia is a much more closed communication system than Ukraine and that is why I trust them so much less. Putin murders journalists with impunity. I don’t think the same can be said for Zelensky even though I am sure Russian propagandists work with relatively greater energy in places such as the Donbass.
Putin is the person you are afraid the US is becoming. He must conquer nations regularly or else the public challenges his absurdly dictatorial powers. I don’t disrespect anyone’s desire to not have eternal war but I am confident that deterrence is how war is prevented. Putin is in Ukraine because we were weak in Afghanistan and Biden is intrinsically weak. I think a unipolar US led world is better and ultimately more peaceful.