[WhiskeyX]

The pro-Putin anti-Ukrainian posters on Freerepublic used some of these same fraudulent photographs and false Russian narratives just yesterday. Note the faked photo story of the pregnant woman.

[mosaicwolf]

Sounds like the Obama Admin to me.

[McGruff]

I don’t know how anyone can defend what went on in that Odessa Trade Unions Building. Freakin animals.

[goldstategop]

What those side with Kiev can’t defend is its repression in the East.

The Ukies say the referendums in Donetsk and Lugansk will have “no legal consequences.” But they do send a moral and a political message.

The Maidan regime is viewed as illegitimate by over half the population. It and its Western backers can brush off today’s vote as illegitimate all they want.

But what is clear is Ukraine is headed for a breakup if they do not soon come to their senses.

[Always A Marine]

I have no doubt that Russia uses social media trolling and fake stories to further its agenda in Ukraine and elsewhere. But we don't? The fact is that a major propaganda war is being waged on all sides, and hard facts are difficult to verify. This is true in any civil war, but especially so in Ukraine with all of the competing outside interests (USA, EU, NATO and Russia) whose hands are in the game.

All parties are treating Ukraine as if it was Armageddon. But the only outside player that has a strategic defensive interest in Ukraine is Russia due to its exposed southern flank. To the West, the play for Ukraine was a long shot chance to plant NATO's flag and dominate the Black Sea and Russia's military industrial center. The side that prevails will be the one to whom control of Ukraine is most vital, and that is Russia.

[Uncle Miltie]

Many of whom post here.

[Mike Darancette]

Vladimir Putin uses an invisible army of social media propagandists, in addition to conventional media, to support his narrative of an out-of-control Ukraine, to spread fabrications of atrocities by Ukrainian extremists, and to unleash destabilizing rumors on east Ukraine. If Ukraine unmasks the myths of Russia’s disinformation war, Putin’s target audiences, at home and abroad, must eventually reject his whole narrative.

Works amazingly well on this board.