Do you realize how ridiculous your argument is? There are many eye witnesses, and video recordings of a number of civilian killings, and satellite photos of the corpses. And you you think there is some wildly complicated staged set of murders.
So why don't you explain how, in your theory, Ukrainians murdered hundreds of their own people in an area under the control of the Russian army. Did the Ukrainians fly in using bat capes at night? Your argument is nonsensical.
If you are working in a cubicle in St. Petersburg you will get fired for incompetence.
Don’t bother. A section of FR has increasingly become a caricature of everything it originally stood against. FR was originally about conservatism, both fiscal and social, small government, rule of law, faith, doing the right thing, strong military, strong Christian values, etc. In the old FR we used to laugh and marvel at the lies liberals told, at how they’d twist things to try and force a narrative, at how weak-minded they were to believe things that were so patently false.
That FR still exists, but it has been diluted by a newer cohort of people who are all about conspiracy theories (including the ridiculous- I still follow a lady here who claims Trump is secretly controlling the WH - she is one of the diehards).
Now there are some who are openly supporting Russia.
Don’t get me wrong - I am not saying the media does not lie. Of course it does. Propaganda, from all sides, has existed since human beings could speak.
But just because ‘the media lies’ doesn’t mean that people automatically believe the opposite is true. Just because Ukraine is not necessarily a bastion of democracy doesn’t make the Russians the good guys! Just because the Azov Battalion is comprised of neo-Nazis doesn’t make the Russian army liberators!
And the conspiracies - goodness!
They get more insane and inane every month, and have been doing by so for a couple years now. As you mentioned, it is a real stretch to claim the Ukrainians committed those killings. It’s just another FR conspiracy.
Finally, in the old days we laughed at how silly the liberals were at DU. How misinformed.
And then here on FR I read someone claiming this:
“…ground war there is packed full of foreigners from Africa nations, and other dirt bag countries who only want a parycheck and see humans simply as target practice until they’re off to the next conflict they will fight in…”
Well, yes! Those are, indeed, ‘foreigners’ from ‘dirtbag countries’ in Ukraine - RUSSIAN foreigners from Russia!
Those are Russian mercenaries working for the Wagner Group, who had been doing mercenary work around the world (including Africa), being pulled back and sent to fight in Ukraine following the issues the Russian army has faced there (…by the way another conspiracy here is that the media is ‘lying’ about the failings of the Russian army).