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Originally Posted by CyberSEO
Do you guys know the story behind of this?
P.S. I believe your media just "forgets" to tell you about some significant facts what may change a whole picture. They just want to show you a victim of Putin's regime and you see it. This is how your government manipulates you every single day. Soviet propaganda was nothing comparing with all that shit you're being fed by CNN, Fox, BBC and others  |
Yup, that's sort of what we're discussing, it seemed like there was something else going on. I'm curious, you should enlighten us.
Far as the Western media goes, any American with half a brain (a minority) knows that CNN & Fox are Mickey Mouse style garbage. There is no question of this. If a person cites them as a real news source you know they are dumb. BBC I've been surprised how biased they've seemed with the Ukraine crisis, it seems they've skewed towards a more controlled corporate message in recent years - maybe some of the UK folks can elaborate.
Both sides seem pretty guilty of distortions here. I get a lot of my USA news from the New York Times, who actually have reasonable journalistic standards and still have a budget to do actual correspondence (not common these days), and though they're much more balanced than say CNN they still use subtly negative language when talking about China or Russia for example. Bums me out because it's unnecessary and there's enough bias in the world already, I don't need that shit from my news sources. I only have English-language Russian news to watch, but what I see there is on par with Fox, i.e. ridiculous. Nobody is telling this story straight, not even close.
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Originally Posted by CyberSEO
I don't know what's going on in the Putin's head. He is old and I think he has some king of age-related mentality problem. Russia as a country is not interested in invasion of the Ukraine.
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I've been surprised that Russia's kept the rhetoric & pressure up, gotta think it's a bluff because I see absolutely zero benefit from invading. Then again, there was zero benefit to invading Iraq and Bush did it anyway with predictable results - let's hope Putin has more sense than Bush, not a tall order but you never know.