As your ancient quote demonstrates, this is not the first war to involve propaganda,false reports, etc.
You want us to be sure before we believe or report something. We do not have that capability.
I’m ok with people posting biased and questionable stuff. Then we in the comments can pick it apart and be skeptical.
It’s ok to post things that are flawed.
As long as a person isn’t systematically posting things in bad faith, where they know they are posting garbage over and over
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUnc496-PPmFZVKlYxUnToA
This guy does a daily update using maps from Russian and western sources.
I think he is from Belarus, so a bit of a Russian slant (keep that in mind) but at least somewhat balanced. I enjoy it as you get to see the overall context in X’s and O’s so to speak. Something that seems to be sorely lacking in this conflict.
Did you ever see “The Man Who Never Was”. It’s a British film about a dead person the Brits stuck fake D-Day plans in his pocket to make the Nazis think the Allied landing would be on a different location than it actually was. They waited for tide to go in and dumped his body in the ocean so he would wash up on the beach.
The Nazis thought they had it all figured out and placed the bulk of their troops at beaches far away from the actual landing site. It was all a bunch of lies the British put out to protect Allied troops:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Never_Was
“ before you post some claim on either side, make SURE you know it’s correct”
Lol hardly any of this crap is verifiable and it won’t start now 🤪
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