Posted on 03/04/2022 6:51:01 AM PST by SeekAndFind
If you have been monitoring the coverage of the conflict in Ukraine, it is amply clear that a narrative is being pushed.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is being compared to Winston Churchill during World War II; he is leading his people during perilous times to become an inspiring figure. He refused a safe passage offer from the U.S. with the quip: “I need ammunition, not a ride”. He streams videos from the deserted streets of Ukraine and posts photos with his cabinet. Photos of Zelenskyy surface in military gear on the battlefront. To sum it up, Zelensky is being portrayed as Churchill, Rambo and social media influencers all rolled into one.
Not to be left behind, a former Miss Ukraine, and the First Lady of Ukraine, Olena Zelensky, reportedly joined the army. There are teary moments of Ukrainian soldiers bidding farewell to their families and children in the streets waving at them as they depart for war. There were photos of Russian soldiers holding Ukrainian girls as hostages. We see harrowing footage of injured Ukrainian children, slain Ukrainian soldiers, and explosions. We see courage as a brave Ukrainian child stands up to a Russian soldier, almost ordering him to leave her country.
It is all so poignant and inspiring until you fact-check the images.
The photos of Zelensky in military gear were from February 11, 2021, and April 9, 2021. The photo of the Russian soldier holding Ukrainian girls at gunpoint was a 2005 photo from the West Bank. Neither the first lady of Ukraine nor the former Miss Ukraine is joining the armed forces.
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However, the Ukrainians have an advantage: Russian forces are really in Ukraine and are invading.
There are no Ukrainian forces invading Russia.
Nauseating and the folks that have bought all of it should be embarrassed as they are taken for fools.
The two major news agencies in Soviet Russia were Pravda, which means "Truth", and Izvestiya, which means "News".
The Russians had a saying using the names of these two news agencies.
In the Truth there is no News, and in the News there is no Truth.
If it wasn’t for that simple fact it would be difficult to pick a side.
So this means the whole thing is fake? Yeah right. Although I always say “ I don’t believe anything I hear and only half of what I see “
How DARE you attack the media narrative here!!! We need to get people prepped for WW3, you IDIOT!!!
Of course there will be incorrect stories or inflated numbers. The fact that an evil Putin, invading Ukraine, causing tremendous death and destruction, is a given.
I have yet to see any pro Russia propaganda. Could be because the news media in the west is blocking everything Russian.
I don’t think there is any accurate way of knowing what is happening there.
Bttt
Eventually the truth will be told but not while a war is raging. That “truth” by the way will be told through the perspective and bias of the writer. What is being released is often propaganda and is rereported by the media depending on their own bias. The truth, if there is any, gets lost or obfuscated along the way. This has always been the case throughout recorded history. When Caesar sent dispatches to the Roman Senate announcing his victories, he never included Roman casualty figures. However he always seemed to request more money and reinforcements be sent to him.
Ukrainian forces have been killing people in the Donbas, combatants and civilians alike, for the past eight years.
Yeah and it’s even easier if you don’t trouble yourself to engage your brain and learn about the underlying situation and the history of what’s gone on in Ukraine since 2014. It’s easy to just ‘choose a side’, which of course just happens to be the same side that the media who just got through blatantly lying to your face for two years straight about covid, wants you to take.
You’re batting 1000, champ. Keep up the good work.
To me, the point is: it’s our media operating as they always do.
Fox is still hyping the nuke plant story - obviously disappointed it’s still standing. A fizzled flare sets fire to an office building and suddenly it’s Chernobyl, Part 2.
Bannon’s War Room is about the only respite (if he could work on his stuttering interruption style, he would be very good).
There have been statements from Russia that may or may not be true, but aside from that I haven’t seen any propaganda. Certainly nothing like the insanity that’s going on with the pro-Ukraine side.
It’s sickening to watch all these people just lap this stuff up. Idiocracy is a documentary.
Dirty hands on all sides.
Yeah, I’m funny that way about uses of blunt force military aggression in civilian areas.
I haven’t had a dog in this fight from the beginning. But I can see how it happens. Doesn’t matter in the USA, gibbering about here it doesn’t affect anything but people’s blood pressure.
I do wish the Ukrainian citizens the hand of God’s mercy, they are the ones suffering the most.
Europe doesn’t seem to be any help, but for the last 50 years have they ever been? I don’t know.
Be skeptical of all media coverage on everything.
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