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.
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.
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.
Dirty hands on all sides.
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.
Our enemies foreign and domestic are sure wagging the hell out of that scenario two dog.
The moronic virtue signalling is truly nauseating.
More Russian propaganda...only fools buy into this drivel.
Be skeptical...period.
Coverage of this is just so over the top. Even Marina Abromovic made a statement on IG.
No kidding. 😅
Give it a month or next Friday, this story is not Covid, so it will pass like the rest and the downstream effects of sanctions will bring pain even the click bait propagandist cant avoid. The Ukrainian people deserve our sympathy and prayers. no one else
Indeed. This is the same MSM and politicians who have been leading the charge the last two years of lies, propaganda, misinformation and distortions.
In spite of what is or isn’t happening in Ukraine these people are still liars and hate you.
Unity? My arse!
Thoght provoking piece. Truth is always the first casualty of war.
Zelensky sounds like a Democrat as far as his political goals have been concerned. A lawyer, he only gained recognition politically because he PLAYED the role of President on a TV show. Pro-abortion, pro-pot, anti-gun.
Kinda betting he’s changed his mind on that last one by now.
But... unlike the DNC... He’s also been removing immunity from law makers and trying to reign in the influence of Ukraine’s oligarchs and was at least trying to play nice with Putin before all of this. Those blaming Zelensky for Hunter Biden’s Burisma dealings need to check a calendar because Zelensky has only been in office a couple years while Hunter’s illegal activities stem from 2015.
Putin on the other hand is authoritarian in pretty much everything he’s done. While he’s apparently Russian Orthodox, he’s also pro-abortion and anti-free speech. His attack on Georgia is really damn similar to what he said pre-Ukraine. This doesn’t even touch on the bullsh*t in Crimea. Like Joe Biden, I’m not seeing anywhere he actually earned a living and appears to have gone straight from school into the KGB. Unlike Joe Biden, Putin is ruthless enough to get things done no matter who he has to have disappeared.
Either way... It should be none of our concern. “Not our monkeys, not our circus.” Keep our government, and military, out of it until it DOES concern us.
As an anarcho-Capitalist though... I would love to see import/export restrictions done away with and our private industries profit off selling “bullets, beans, and band-aids” to either side... or even both. Instant job creation. Not to mention trying to land rebuilding contracts once the dust settles.