The West does a terrible job of making sure we all know how criminal the Russia regime is. Isn't it time they start making this stuff front page news? I can see how, in the past, hoping to lull Russia into normalizing relations by offering access to the West, you'd want to minimalist these things, so your own citizens don't demand you hold them to account and apply leverage.
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The money laundering stuff through a Danish bank was front page stuff here in Denmark for weeks.
I think it was the main news in all of the Nordic countries. It wasn't just Danske Bank that got cought either, from memory at least DNB, Swedbank and Nordea have similar investigations ongoing against them just not on the same scale as Danske Bank.
I suppose I only check the US and UK news, and not as regularly in the past as more recently.
Even if it was headline news here, I just generally mean that the news will repeat false Russian claims and I don't feel like I hear about their dirt nearly as often as their fake claims. It would be helpful, for the sorts in the US especially on the right who want to pick up Russian propaganda claims as a stick with which to beat the Democrats.
Your average American doesn't know enough about what Russia really is, a criminal state.
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Traitor cnut.
Here we go?
The Russians have been building a pontoon bridge next to it in the last couple of days, after it was heavily damaged by the last strikes. Will be interesting to see if they have taken down both the pontoon and the Antonovsky bridge, if so the Russian troops in and around Kherson are cut off from any resupplies right now.
Another video from the strike, the precision of these hits are insane.
According to Zelensky. The number of dead russian soldiers is now 40.000. Absolute massive price to pay for the small gains Russia have made so far. And I think it's like 150.000 wounded.
https://www.president.gov.ua/en/new...nadihaye-vsi-vilni-naciyi-i-lishe-uyavi-76689
https://www.president.gov.ua/en/new...nadihaye-vsi-vilni-naciyi-i-lishe-uyavi-76689
Strelkov saying the bridge is out of order.
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That is precision.
The film Putin's Witnesses (2018) is absolutely fascinating and has a number of candid interviews from his early presidential years. He openly talks about wanting to ensure that he governs in a manner where he can seemingly step back into society once his term ends and have a family life, not understanding those who want to become a dictator for life. It's quite remarkable and he appears very sincere.
Some people really aren't following this war, are they? They think only of Russia, and what Russia may do to make their own lives uncomfortable, and not of the victim.
One of the first things they learn at KGB is to lie about everything. You and me can be fooled, but the various security services of the western countries? I don't think so. Which makes is very strange that western leaders where "surprised" he was lying all along. Like Merkel ( who grew up in East Germany ffs !!! )
Yeah, but his actions between when he was the #2 guy to Sobchak and then the #2 guy to Yeltsin tell a different story.
In a democracy the intelligence services have no executive power. So whatever they advise, its up to the elected officials to act as they see fit. See Trump and his distrust for the IC . That being said, it's indeed possible that the German services have been compromised from the get go.
The outrage on Twitter over Zelensky and his wife appearing in Vouge is pathetic.
Do you really expect any different from the Twittersphere?
I guess I shouldn't
Any there should not be any outrage? Doing photoshoot in the middle of a war where people are dying.
It might seem in poor taste, but the 1st lady in the interview in the magazine makes it clear that its to attract attention to their cause.
Which is fair given how people seem far less interested right now, their biggest fear (and sadly I don't think it's that unlikely) is the West slowly dials down their support as time goes on and domestic pressure ramps up for energy.
'We put unprecedented sanctions on Russia, they will think twice before doing anything like this again and we have shown the world NATO is truly united' etc etc. whilst Ukraine gets levelled.
Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard really did them over.
Because we don’t have photos of any other leaders of war torn countries ever in history..?
Well this looked like more of a fashion photoshoot.
It may seem a bit odd, but they desperately want to keep ukraine in the front covers, so they take any chance. As they should.
Worse than that, it's dangerous.
Well in a sense it seemed to have backfired. But then again most people on twitter seem backwards anyway. Still doing photo ops for a fashion magazine is not necessarily the best way to get positive pr for a war effort.
Fair enough. But it really looked odd tbh.
The selflessness from soldiers always amazes me. They could probably see people chilling right now in Kyiv etc on social media while they themselves are on the frontlines battling the Russians.
I couldn't do it.
I couldn't do it.
Perhaps not the best PR but the majority of this discourse is from conservatives/trump supporters hinting that the war is some sort of conspiracy.
It's somewhere between the fact that politics has become so tribal that people will discredit a country that has been invaded, its people killed and infrastructure destroyed, just in order to attack their political opponent who has provided aid (Biden), and the not so secret conservative political ties to fake news media and pro-russian agendas.
No doubt about that. Tbh even most europeans no feck all about Ukraine. So I'm not surprised about some Americans not knowing and not caring at all about Ukraine.
The wildest new conspiracy theory I’ve run into is that this war isn’t really happening because there isn’t enough media coverage showing video of it. From the mass media which, mind you, they don’t trust anyway. It’s all a big scam to funnel money to the rich, same as climate change.
I thought they were memeing but they were actually serious. At least the ‘birds aren’t real thing’ is almost amusing.
Agree, but it's determined by the media they consume and twitter is a cesspit in that regard. The whole point of fake news is to provide so many contrasting narratives that it blurs the lines of reality of what is actually going on. Specifically, by delegitimising the the oppressed/victim it aims to create confusion/indifference in the minds of the viewer.
Objectively at first there is a fairly discernible "good" and a "bad" and it is fairly clear to see what is going on. However, over time the drip drip of fake news is used as a machiavellian means of garnering support (or indifference) for agendas ranging from corrupt/devious to evil. This phenomena has plagued western politics in the recent past too. That's how I see it any way.
Second bolded part - the majority of idiots parroting that shite either aren't aware of the script they've been given to read from or are just bot accounts/aggregators.
Yeah, I think both had quite a lot of business dealings with Russians , povetkin wlad being one and the canceled valuev vitali being the other.Interesting indeed given that Wlad was actually quite friendly with Putin at one point.
I can't speak for them but I think they may have complicated feelings over Russian Ukrainian relations as I believe their father was a soviet major general who may have died due to the aftereffects of his involvement in chernobyl's cleanup.
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I never knew this. I cannot even imagine to be asked to do something like that.