KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — In a dramatic escalation of East-West tensions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian nuclear forces put on high alert Sunday in response to what he called “aggressive statements” by leading NATO powers.
Every day is Opposite Day at the Kermlin. You can know the truth because it’s always the opposite of what they say. How many times have they been caught in a lie? FSB got caught red handed planting bombs on Russian buildings in order to justify the Chechnyan invasion. They denied their separatists shot down MH17 and opps got caught. Those little green men aren’t Russian soldiers, they are just private citizens just roaming around armed as they please, really. So many examples!
No soft power? How is the Black Widow sitting in an American prison for funneling Russian money through the NRA? What is RT, but a propaganda exporter? Why did Wikileaks stop criticizing Russia, exclusively? It’s becoming clear that soft power is all they have.
You act like RT is such a big deal in the west. It was just banned in the EU. So much for free press. On the contrary, lots of people use facebook, twitter, and google, watch BBC and CNN. And they are publishing made up stories about a “Ghost of Kiev” which was actually from a video game. Also publishing pictures of a bandaged woman next to an exploded building which was actually from a gas accident in 2018. There are 25 such cases of disinformation corrected here: https://maldita.es/malditobulo/20220224/hoaxes-misinformation-russia-ukraine/ This is just on day one.
A lot of this disinformation comes straight from Ukrainian officials, who claimed things like Turkey was closing off their straits to Russian warships, which they had to later deny. They also claim absurd casualties on the Russian side, which the US only accepts a fraction of. Again, there are dozens of examples.
Remember that even Washington Post admitted the idea that Donald Trump was colluding with the Russian government a conspiracy theory after it was discredited. Julian Assange is a whistleblower like Snowden or Chelsea Manning who the US is desperately trying to silence. If you mindlessly believe whatever the US propaganda says, then you see him as a state enemy, when he is actually reporting what the government is doing that they are trying to keep a secret from us.
Michael Flynn’s guilty plea and the Mueller report were seen as a smoking gun that something really was going on. But Flynn’s plea was retracted and the result of the Mueller report was a big embarrassment for Rachel Maddow and her friends. But I bet you still think Russia gate is real.