Posted on 05/01/2022 1:02:23 AM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
The Ghost of Kyiv was a Ukrainian fighter pilot. A lone warrior in the aerial defense of Ukraine’s embattled capital city in the early weeks of the Russian invasion.
Deftly maneuvering his 30-year-old, twin-engine MiG-29, the Ghost jealously guarded the sky over Kyiv. Fighting against the odds with antiquated weaponry, he shot down 40 Russian warplanes before finally succumbing to enemy fire three weeks into the war.
The Ghost of Kyiv, real name Stepan Tarabalka, died in the cockpit of his trusty MiG on Marchth 14, The Times reported.
Just one problem. The Ghost of Kyiv legend isn’t true. Even the Ukrainian air force, which once sort of embraced the tale, admitted so after The Times’ baseless story on the Ghost’s demise went viral on Saturday
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I’d say that about 90% of the so-called war footage coming out of Ukraine is propaganda. And their mouthpieces, the NYT, Reuters, CNN, MSNBC, Daily Mail, BBC, etc, can be trusted as far as you can throw them. Whom to trust then?
Anti-globalist, Hard-core conservatives, populists, and anti-establishment types like Bannon, Posobiec, Joe Rogan, Breitbart, Gateway Pundit, Paul Joseph Watson, Tim Pool, etc, are good sources for info.
The propaganda coming out of Ukraine started early, ill provide a small amount of it in a post below this, and after that post will be an example provided by Paul Joseph Watson of more recent Ukrainian propaganda, just one example of them relying upon Arma 3 video game footage; I imagine they are still doing this or relying upon other video games.
A past video showing Ukrainian jets flying over a building turned out to be fake, as have pics and videos of Ukrainians blowing up buildings.
India Today, 2/25/22: “Fact Check: Heartbreaking photo of injured child from Syrian war shared as victim of Russia-Ukraine conflict”
India Today, 3/1/22: “2005 photo from West Bank shared as Russian soldier holding Ukrainian girls at gunpoint”
“Ghost of Kyiv” footage turned out to be footage from the 2013 PC game, Digital Combat Simulator: World.
Numerous pictures of Zelensky wearing military garb on 2/24/22 are from him inspecting the border on 4/9/21. Is he still in Kyiv as we’ve been told? Ukrainian lawmaker Ilya Kiva said he fled to Poland.
India Today, 2/27/22: “Fact Check: Happy homecoming of US Marines shared as teary farewell of Ukrainian soldiers amidst the invasion”
India Today, 2/27/22: “Fact Check: This lady soldier with a rifle is neither the Ukraine’s First Lady nor Vice President’s wife”
India Today, 2/27/22: “Fact Check: Old image circulated as Ukrainian children sending-off army for war with Russia”
The media has told us so many lies like the Snake Island soldiers didn’t surrender (the New York Post, Sydney Morning Herald, etc confirmed they’re alive) only to find out they did surrender.
The pic of an old woman with a bloody face and bandaged head? It’s from Magnitogorsk, 2018.
The viral clip of Ukrainian men saying goodbye...Real? No, its from “The War of Chimeras” (2017).
The pic of an old woman with a bloody face and bandaged head supposedlyfrom a recent blast? It’s from the city of Magnitogorsk, 2018.
Women articles with children, saying there’s attacks all around, the end of the world is near, yet somehow they know exactly how many tanks have been blown up.
The “tank” that ran over the old man’s car was Ukrainian.
Paul Joseph Watson
Who wants to tell them?
[More fake war footage from Ukraine - from Arma 3]
They learned everything from the 2006 leb war. Green helmet man the prototype for getting tear jerkers riled up,even if a lot of it is self inflected or the result of placing women and children deliberately in harms way as a warfighting strategy
BUMP
Good reference, and quite apt.
And now we’ll have to deal with the Bidenistas who tell us to believe whatever the disinfo bot Nina Jankowicz tells us to believe, and she’ll tell us to believe propaganda coming out of Ukraine.
PJW is great.
A very disappointing aspect of the Ukraine war is/was the lack of sobriety among so many FReepers. Too many wailing while sucking at the MSM teat.
That will be her prime task. And you can bet dollars to donuts, she coordinates with Ukraine foreign ministry and the U.S intelligence swamp. They are so brazen because the power of T.V to manipulate is so effective. So much more so than written words. A lot of sheeple would happily send their sons off to yet another meat grinder based on the T.V manipulation. Only to weep later when the bags start piling up.
Yup. Way too many have drank themselves stupid on the globalist propaganda. Many of the loons screaming how Putin is the actual anti-Christ. When I asked one how he knew that for certain, he never replied.
The West doesn’t have any diabolical leaders /s
P.s. Is it Putin building the super surveillance/control freak state in the so called western democracies?
The whole reporting of the war is one false narrative in general.
(speculation) Russia is probably in mopping up what they have captured or destroyed while Zelensky cries for aid which he is probably skimming the top off.
Who knows what else is going on...how come no one is talking about what pm Bennett said to Putin when Bennett came to visit Putin, early on in the war.(early March)?
...all of the above .IMHO
Imagine that, a mainstream globalist publication like Forbes is telling the truth. The whole ghost of Kiev never passed the sniff test with me. No way am I that gullible. 40 kills? Get real. At least they could have lied a little more realistically, perhaps saying 6 or 7 kills which would be very incredible.
We’re living in “1984” now. Russia is East-Asia. We’ve always been at war with East-Asia.
They don’t reply. Emotional, arrogant idiots.
PJW is one of my favorites. Quality work.
Yep. They fall for neocon/neoliberal, uniparty propaganda all the time.
I was pleasantly surprised to see Forbes reporting this. Almost shocked.
You’ve got that right. I’ve been using 1984 quotes often.
I also am a fan of Farenheit 451, Logan’s Run, and others in this genre.
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