It’s pretty shameful to watch places like “The American Conservative” become Fake News outlets on behalf of Russia.
Just like with Elon Musk imploding, a short lived idol, how nuts will these people go when Russia’s defeat becomes too obvious to deny?
And what if it’s true?
Good grief, how can you denigrate any news source when yours are the Daily Mail and AP and Newsweak, et al?
Shameful is the correct word.
We know the media lies. We know the political elite, both Democrats and Republicans, lie to us. Why is the war news any different?
I saw Ursula von der Leyen’s video, both the original and the edited one. She unmistakably said Ukraine had suffered a hundred thousand military deaths. Deaths, not casualties, deaths.
So, using the wounded-to-kill ratio of 4:1; this means Ukraine suffered 500,000 casualties (400,000 injured and 100,000 killed). And if Zelensky’s figure of 5:1 to 8:1 is more credible, this translates to up to 900,000 casualties.
How can any country survive such losses? Is it Russian propaganda to point out that soldiers do not grow on trees?
If you want to believe a nation that is losing so many soldiers and whose power, water, and heat infrastructure are getting obliterated by missiles can win against Russia, then that’s your prerogative. But to accuse those pointing out the obvious as “Fake News” or Russian propagandists is uncalled and unfair.
The American Conservative magazine has always been extremely isolationist. They endorsed John Kerry in 2004 and Obama in 2008.
I must have missed that part.
One gets the sense that the American Conservative prefers Russia to win, even if it means the dismemberment of Ukraine and subordination of the remainder to a Russian proxy government. That would put a close Russian ally on NATO’s eastern flank, poised to enforce Putin’s demand for the subordination of Poland and other former Warsaw Pact countries to Russian influence. That is not a recipe for peace but for a direct war between Russia and the US and NATO. It is far better to stop Russia and Putin now.