Posted on 02/05/2023 8:48:37 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
Mick Ryan, AM @WarintheFuture Feb 3
“Putin raises the Nazi ghost as a way not just to discredit his enemies with a false charge, but to immunize himself from having a far more plausible charge flung at him.” Putin’s Big Lie - at @TheAtlantic
Institute for the Study of War 4 Feb
“ISW continues to assess that Russia is concentrating troops and military equipment to stage a decisive offensive on the western Luhansk Oblast and Bakhmut areas.”
Ministry of Defence (UK) @DefenceHQ Feb 4
United Kingdom government organization
Tank crews from the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been quick to master the controls of the mighty Challenger 2 this week.
I predicted this weeks ago.
The UKR tank crews are combat veterans, not raw recruits just out of basic training.
In the USAF, we called this "differences training".
I'm sure the UKR tank crews are singing this song:
"Put me in coach, I'm ready to play."
“These drones will be able to locate and track RU vehicles operating at night.”
Looks like they have the range/duration to acquire targets at max range for HIMARS.
By design?
My guess is YES.
So, here is your preferred Google definition:
OK, seeing as you as difficulty understanding words I'm going to walk through this nice and slow for you.Propaganda: “information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.”
information, - you are posting a lot of information every day. (Repetition is an important tool of the popagandist, by the way.) So: in the first instance we're in the ball park. What about the information?
especially of a biased or misleading nature< - OK, Speedy notice it doesn't say: Propaganda: false information, lies. Already your chosen definition is proving my point. The first type of information used by propagandists is BIASED information. Being BIASED isn't the same as being FALSE. For instance if I say "Greenland is in the Pacific Ocean" that is simply false. BIASED information is when an author or editor carefully selects only some information or only some facts to support their point of view.
I'll give another example you see frequently from antiSemites. They will post a chart with all the Jewish members of the Biden administration and say "see, the Biden administration is run by Jews". And, sure enough there is a grid of 20 pictures, and they are all Jewish. The problem of course is that there are at least 100 people at the same level within the administration. So the chart will have the Sec. of State, Antony Blinken and the Sec. of the Treasury, Janet Yellin, both of whom happen to be Jewish. But it will have conveniently ommitted the Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and the Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, who are not.
Selecting only the facts that help push the narrative, while completely ignoring the facts that counter it: that is what is meant by BIAS
Your repeating post, by it's very nature is extremely BIASED. You post only information about the war from a single source (who is himself considered extremely biased). You cover only, literally, one side of the war. "How much Russian stuff has the Ukrainian military blown up today?"
You make no effort to cover the destruction of Ukrainian equipment by the Russian military. You make no effort to check the claims of the Orc site you use. You present extremely biased information, and you present it in a biased fashion.
You studiously refuse to even spell the word "Russian" properly. Litterally every use of the word is with the double Z mis-spelling. That's another classic popaganda technique. Again, the antiSemites have made wide use of it, and have all sorts of derogotary names from mild to wild for Jewish people. You see some of them here on FR (sometimes used ironically): "jews" (lower case, not a real nation or people), "the Jooos" (derogatory mis-spelling, your favored technique), and then on into more vile pejoratives.
Another classic propaganda technique. Do not treat all subjects in a story equally: Some are denigrated and dehumanized. Make the BIAS of the author flagrant and obvious.
Next is the misleading part of the definition. In my example above you have misled the reader. The Biden administration is not overwhelmingly staffed with Jewish people, but the antiSemite is misleading readers with his BIAS'd selection of data.
You are clearly working hard to mislead people with your daily posts. Your narrative is that Ukraine is kicking butt on the stupid and incompetent "Ruzzians" and any day now the "Ruzzians" will turn tail and return to Moscow.
Of course that's false. We're hitting the 1 year anniversary. Odd that despite all the supposed glorious destruction of Russian equipment that you and your source so relentlessly document Russia is still controlling approximately 1/5th of Ukraine. (A lot more than before the war started.)
So, the information you are posting meets both the criteria laid out in the definition of "propaganda" you selected. It is both biased and it is misleading.
Moving to the last part of the definition provides the context: to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. You are clearly promoting the Ukrainian cause. I don't think even you will disagree with this simple observation.
So, in summary based on your own preferred definition you are clearly engaged in a propaganda operation here on Free Republic. Every day you post biased information from a biased source, with the specific intent to promote your favored political cause (Ukraine!) and a specific point of view (Ukraine is militarily proficient and superior).
You are a propagandist, my dude. It's just that simple!
It would be great if you moved on from that. Free Republic tolerates your operation (so far), but it's not the way the site is designed to be used. Most people here post articles from a variety of sources, in a more informal and whimsical way. Your operation, by contrast, almost looks like it's a job, so regular and nauseatingly predictable it is!
Later, Pokey!
"Ukraine's Winning Guys! Really!!" - Pokey the Propagandist
@nexta_tv 3 Feb
“”Gazprom” has classified statistics on gas production and exports, following a record collapse in the history of the Russian gas industry.
“Gazprom” last reported on December 15: it showed that in the last two weeks of 2022 gas production fell by 24% and export fell by 60%.
Last year, Gazprom sold 101 billion cubic meters of gas to the non-CIS countries - half as much as a year earlier, company head Alexei Miller reported in January.
Thus, Gazprom lost its largest sales market, which took more than 50 years to build.”
Although it sold half as much in total in 2022 as it did in 2021, the first half of 2022 saw almost no decline. The annual average masks how deep the decline was in the second half, where it will likely remain long term. I think more than 80% of its former gas exports have been lost, over the last 6-8 months, and the Nordstream pipelines are rusting heaps of metal on the sea floor.
Putin did that.
Great Post!
OK
Choose the source that supports your own best judgement
The actual source is supposedly a foreign intelligence service which can be quite honest ….internally
And is close to assessments of retired military analysts who can speak independently of current US and NATO policy
You are seeing very little real intelligence from America or Europe
What they want you to believe is leaked to their operatives in the NYT WashPo and other mainstreams
Your best tell is to watch the actions that occur, politically
One Professional Russian Troll Tells All - your co-worker speaks out.
https://www.rferl.org/a/how-to-guide-russian-trolling-trolls/26919999.html
The entire purpose of FR is to “to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.”
This is a partisan site, whatever the disagreements in it, so your critique applies to nearly every post on FR, certainly to all or most of the commentary. You will not find love for the Democrat party, certainly, and no effort to be fair to it. And that applies to all sorts of related or tangential issues. I don’t think I have ever seen a pro-abortion or pro-gay or antigun post, say, that was published as other than agitprop or to be disparaged.
EVERYTHING on FR is a “propaganda operation”, by your definition.
“You are clearly promoting the Ukrainian cause” - and why not?
And, just one specific point, out of many that could be addressed - “You make no effort to cover the destruction of Ukrainian equipment by the Russian military.”
The first part of the Oryx summary has:
“Ukrainian Tank losses Running Total: 459
Ukrainian Artillery losses Running Total: 207”
If you go to the Oryx site its got the same video/photo evidence for Ukrainian losses. https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-documenting-ukrainian.html
@EuromaidanPress Feb 2
Mainstream Swiss politicians are now calling for the 96 mothballed Swiss Leopard 2 tanks to be sold for as little as one symbolic franc to Poland, Slovakia, and Czechia, replacing the tanks that their governments plan to send to Ukraine - Bloomberg
These will be the 2A6 I think. Looks like one.
The 2A4’s are in use as training tanks.
I don’t think Canada has tanks in active force units at the moment.
Just words, for the sake of words.
Why not quote the comments of the person you’re replying to, and be specific. Otherwise. your words are meaningless.
Posting definitions is cowardly, and nonsensical.
@visegrad24 8h
"BREAKING: Washington has sent Tokyo an official request to station hypersonic LRHW missiles on the Japanese Islands in order to counter the regional missile gap in relation to China
LRHW is scheduled to become the first hypersonic missiles to enter service in the U.S. in 2023"
Putin’s energy weapon misfired in both the EU, and the Ukraine.
@visegrad24 11h
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, brought 35 million LED light bulbs with her to Ukraine.
People will be able to get them at post offices.
She writes:
“Every kW of energy saved is precious to counter Russia’s energy war”
@visegrad24 Feb 4
BREAKING:
The European Parliament has voted in favour of sending modern fighter jets and long-range missile systems to Ukraine.
“some factual information in your posts”
Its all factual, RuZZian boy.
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