The gist of the interview is that Ukraine will lose unless it receives the level of support that the west is simply not capable of providing.
The gist of the interview is that Ukraine will lose unless it receives the level of support that the west is simply not capable of providing.
a few of my friends are still talking like this in our group chat. I had to silence the chat for a while because I got so tired of them being like “Putin is fucked,” “Russia’s military is so inept, look at this pic of one of their broken down tanks,” “check out this video of a drone dropping a grenade on a single Russian soldier, epic!”
Needless to say I’ve been looking forward to this war ending, mostly because I want an end to the bloodshed but a small part of me just wants to enjoy watching all the “slava ukraini!!!” people being forced to confront reality lol
What I find amazing is just how effective indoctrination is. A lot of the narrative has already been proven wrong, and yet they continue to buy into new claims completely uncritically. They’ve been promising that Russia was going to run out of ammunition any day now for literally 10 months now. Yet, nobody is asking why Russia is using as much ammunition as ever today.
NYT just reported that the serial numbers on missiles they find in Ukraine indicate they’ve been produced recently. Yet, people still think that Russia isn’t able to produce missiles without western chips.
Somehow nobody in the mainstream is wondering how is it that Russia is consistently able to repel Ukrainian attacks since their army is supposed to be collapsing and the west is feeding everything they’ve got into Ukraine.
Nobody seems to be bothered by the fact that Russian economy hasn’t collapsed, the inflation is lower than in the west, and that Russia is making more money off energy exports than ever. Apparently this is an indication that the sanctions are working perfectly.
All of the above information is openly reported in mainstream western media. Yet, people just read the narrative and ignore the facts being reported.
It’s truly amazing to watch.
This part in particular blows my mind. Read between the lines, and you can debunk most propaganda like Xinjiang and Russia/Ukraine using Western MSM alone (seems the one thing they brazenly lie about is the DPRK). Yet libs still live in an alternate reality.
It’s also mind blowing how liberals refuse to accept that propaganda exists in the west.
They won’t. Look at how yanks talk about Vietnam and Iraq even now.
Almost every day I get news updates on telegram from TASS (a Russian news agency) about Ukrainian attacks being repelled, heavy Ukrainian losses, hospitals filled with wounded soldiers. And Russia is still not going as hard as they could be even after they said they were taking the kid gloves off lol.
TASS is not really impartial tbf
Maybe not but there’s no reason for me to distrust them like Western news. It’s mainly for following events in Russia, most of my other sources come from Telesur, CGTN, Global Times, etc
TASS seems pretty objective so far from my experience, simply because it doesn’t really editorialize. Just straight up “this is what current reports are indicating” or “this is what X person is saying” type stuff. Telesur and Global Times are good too, and so is PressTV, though these are more your typical news media whereas TASS is basically an aggregator. On the other hand I’ve found that CGTN and even RT can be very liberal and western-leaning at times, even though they are obviously still pro-Chinese and pro-Russian respectively.