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...America's jingoistic press outlets bear a major responsibility for this unnecessary war that has ravaged Ukraine...
Twitter ^ | 5/10/2023 | Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Posted on 05/10/2023 3:52:25 PM PDT by Nextrush

Just as they did during the Iraq War, America's jingoistic press outlets bear a major responsibility for this unnecessary war that has ravaged Ukraine and killed some 315,000 Ukrainians. Rather than seeking to contextualize events properly for their readers, the US media systematically deceived Americans about the causes and course of the war while faithfully parroting the Neocon propaganda narrative.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Russia; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: joebiden; rfkjr; robertfkennedyjr
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Whatever Mr. Kennedy has to say I say this when it comes to Ukraine I am not a Richard Ukrainium.

I don't drink the Kool Aid a lot happened before Russia launched its offensive in February of last year which the Mainstream Media ignores.

1 posted on 05/10/2023 3:52:25 PM PDT by Nextrush
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To: Nextrush

As do a number of vocal FReepers stuck in the Cold War.


2 posted on 05/10/2023 3:58:59 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Nextrush

There is ONE FACT which supersedes all other factors and excuses and explanations....

Russia did invade Ukraine.


3 posted on 05/10/2023 4:05:07 PM PDT by adorno
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To: Nextrush

The cause of the war is Putin’s paranoia.


4 posted on 05/10/2023 4:07:11 PM PDT by jdege
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To: adorno

Good for them.

Unlike America’s neocons they went to war in pursuit of their real interests.


5 posted on 05/10/2023 4:08:39 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: adorno
Russia did invade Ukraine.

Invasions occur all over the world since the dawn of history. Why are you so concerned about this one.? We have no national security or economic interest in this conflict. That is, unless you make lots of money selling weapons to Ukraine.

6 posted on 05/10/2023 4:09:23 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (I got the <ΙΧΘΥΣ>< variant. Catch it. John 3:16)
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To: Nextrush

Wait, so the limp-wrists who run the liberal media threatened Putin with their pearl-handled pistols and forced him to invade Ukraine?


7 posted on 05/10/2023 4:11:51 PM PDT by FormerFRLurker
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The cause of the war is Putin’s paranoia.

What was the cause of World War One?

8 posted on 05/10/2023 4:15:36 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (I got the <ΙΧΘΥΣ>< variant. Catch it. John 3:16)
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To: jdege

“The cause of the war is Putin’s paranoia.”

Absolutely.

Just recently Putin gave a speech wherein he said that Russia’s real enemy is the West, and that he is going to unleash “real war” against the West, as he has his aide with the Kremlin’s version of the “nuclear football” prominently visible.


9 posted on 05/10/2023 4:16:42 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: Nextrush
...America's jingoistic press outlets bear a major responsibility for this unnecessary war that has ravaged Ukraine...

Every single source we've come to totally distrust over the Plague Theater years, is 100% behind the Ukraine side in this. That's enough to make me suspicious.

10 posted on 05/10/2023 4:20:57 PM PDT by Lee N. Field ("He will swallow up death forever" Isaiah 25)
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“Why are you so concerned about this one.? “

He’s a Ukrainian loyalist and zealot.

And therefore an enemy of the American people.


11 posted on 05/10/2023 4:22:05 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: ought-six

better dead

than red - liberal


12 posted on 05/10/2023 4:23:43 PM PDT by Firehath
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To: P-Marlowe
Invasions occur all over the world since the dawn of history. Why are you so concerned about this one.? We have no national security or economic interest in this conflict. That is, unless you make lots of money selling weapons to Ukraine.

That's a pretty lame and dumb comment.

Try a smarter post. Everything you said in your post, makes no sense, not even as individual statements/sentences.
13 posted on 05/10/2023 4:26:14 PM PDT by adorno
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To: Nextrush

The only one responsible for this war is Putin with his ideas of restoring the Russian empire. He could end it tomorrow by bringing his troops home.


14 posted on 05/10/2023 4:26:54 PM PDT by Petrosius
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In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled ...America's jingoistic press outlets bear a major responsibility for this unnecessary war that has ravaged Ukraine..., adorno wrote:

There is ONE FACT which supersedes all other factors and excuses and explanations....

Russia did invade Ukraine.

That fact DOES NOT supersede all others.

Our CIA (Nuland) and other NATO countries collaborated to overthrow the leadership of the Ukraine for the purpose of installing their puppet who would war against Russia for them (proxy war). Merkel has since admitted that NATO only agreed to Minsk 2 in order to buy time for NATO to build the army in the Ukraine. NATO is collecting countries for it's one world rule aspirations and they would use the Ukraine to force regime change via war with Russia. There were historically red lines which they knew meant war, and they built up the Ukrainian proxy army and crossed those red lines. Putin invaded to stop the machinery of NATO from forcing regime change in Russia.

All this wailing about 'poor, innocent, defenseless Ukraine' is propaganda. This was a calculated escalation by NATO using the Ukrainians as cannon fodder.

15 posted on 05/10/2023 4:34:24 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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Why don’t you just answer the question? What’s in it for you? I don’t care if that piece of wasteland is ruled by Russia or the EU. At this point it’s going to cost 10 trillion dollars to restore it if Ukraine manages to eek out a stalemate.

Are you willing to let your grandchildren pay for that?

Ukraine will be better off if they lose. At least then they can saddle Russia with the cost of rebuilding. If the they win, then it will be NATO’s burden, which means yours and mine.

How much of your own personal money are you willing to invest in a Ukrainian victory? $5 or $5 million? Whatever it is, it ain’t enough.


16 posted on 05/10/2023 4:41:02 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (I got the <ΙΧΘΥΣ>< variant. Catch it. John 3:16)
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To: Nextrush

Kennedy has a point about the jingoistic media, which fails to do its traditional job of questioning government policy and holding government to account, including with its Ukrainian War policy. But it’s an odd sort of point, since the media is the propaganda puppet of the Democrat Party. Kennedy is using the media as a proxy for attacking the party he wants to nominate him as its Presidential candidate for 2024. Good luck with that.


17 posted on 05/10/2023 4:41:33 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: Nextrush

Have any Democrats apart from Kennedy come out against the Ukraine proxy war?


18 posted on 05/10/2023 4:51:16 PM PDT by Yardstick
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What’s in it for you?

That's a dumb question.

Are you willing to let your grandchildren pay for that?

That's another dumb question.

Ukraine will be better off if they lose.

That's an asinine statement.

How much of your own personal money are you willing to invest in a Ukrainian victory?

Another dumb question.

What is the price of freedom?
19 posted on 05/10/2023 5:03:31 PM PDT by adorno
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To: P-Marlowe; adorno
adorno believes the USA must be the WorldPolice™️.
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20 posted on 05/10/2023 5:06:34 PM PDT by CapandBall
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