Period. Western media has propaganda just like Russian media has theirs. Don't try to spin it as if the West is lying and Russia is not.
I would give you benefit of the doubt, but your post history shows you've been lamenting about the demonisation of Russian media, so your bias, as well as mine, is clear.
Both Western and Russian media are liars and full of Shenanigans. The only thing that matters is who is winning it. Many social accounts, streaming websites, news etc. must oblige to US policy otherwise they are banned or they face attrition.
Just see wion news. They have been speaking in favor of Ukraine in every news. But, they were banned because US thinks some news might be inappropriate for them. https://twitter.com/WIONews/status/1507378019563974659
I think it would be counter productive to bring attention to this.
They're a very small percentage of Ukraine population.
If ANY country got invaded some of the soldiers defending against invaders are going to be fascists, it's inevitable. If the US got invaded and you wanted to throw out the fascists out of the army you wouldn't have much of an army lol.
Defending against an invasion from a foreign country is not really the time to discuss political ideologies, bullets are bullets, once the russians are out they can go back to making less than 5% of votes...
> If ANY country got invaded some of the soldiers defending against invaders are going to be fascists, it's inevitable
> Defending against an invasion from a foreign country is not really the time to discuss political ideologies
Yeah, yeah, it is like they just popped into existence on February 24.
If Ukraine government was really bothered with them they wouldn't exist now (or at least they wouldn't be a part of the country military forces) and it couldn't be used by Putin as one of the means to justify the invasion. Yet...
ASBMilitary was banned from Twitter. They said their reporters in Ukraine were threatened due to the nature of their reporting, which challenged the Ukrainian narrative we're fed in the West.
Of course all Russian-friendly media platforms are banned. The narrative they bring is dangerous to the false image we're creating here in the west.
Social media platforms are waging war on "misinformation", removing content and opposing views en masse. This is not a secret. We're shielded against "propaganda", not aware we're steeped in propaganda.
The funny thing, even western news media reported on the resurgence of the far right and the prevalence of Neo-nazism in Ukraine, as well as its connection with government post-euromaidan. Referencing these very articles gets you stamped as a Russian bot these days.
The fact is that NATO countries are funding and militarizing neo-nazis in Ukraine in order to undermine Russia. And they're shielding them from bad press. Moreover, government forces (of which the neo-nazi militia is part of) has bombarded civilian areas of the seperatist regions for 8 years, and still do, which has killed about 14k civilians. There's complete silence about this injustice in the western press coverage of Ukraine.
What's most concerning is how normalized it has become to hate Russians.
Zelensky has banned all opposition parties that were critical of him in any way, claiming they "were all Russians", which looking at a few of the parties banned is clearly a joke.
Zelensky also banned all non-state approved news, forcing all information to be funneled through his one approved network.
sph|3 years ago
Period. Western media has propaganda just like Russian media has theirs. Don't try to spin it as if the West is lying and Russia is not.
I would give you benefit of the doubt, but your post history shows you've been lamenting about the demonisation of Russian media, so your bias, as well as mine, is clear.
cute_boi|3 years ago
Just see wion news. They have been speaking in favor of Ukraine in every news. But, they were banned because US thinks some news might be inappropriate for them. https://twitter.com/WIONews/status/1507378019563974659
FrenchDevRemote|3 years ago
They're a very small percentage of Ukraine population.
If ANY country got invaded some of the soldiers defending against invaders are going to be fascists, it's inevitable. If the US got invaded and you wanted to throw out the fascists out of the army you wouldn't have much of an army lol.
Defending against an invasion from a foreign country is not really the time to discuss political ideologies, bullets are bullets, once the russians are out they can go back to making less than 5% of votes...
unmole|3 years ago
> If the US got invaded and you wanted to throw out the fascists out of the army you wouldn't have much of an army lol.
What an absurd premise. How many servicemen do you know?
> the russians are out they can go back to making less than 5% of votes
Right, because there is no way they would draw more support after being lionized as heros.
belter|3 years ago
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220325-azov-regiment...
yucky|3 years ago
It's been interesting watching how quickly this narrative changed once Ukraine became the center of attention on social media.
justsomehnguy|3 years ago
> Defending against an invasion from a foreign country is not really the time to discuss political ideologies
Yeah, yeah, it is like they just popped into existence on February 24.
If Ukraine government was really bothered with them they wouldn't exist now (or at least they wouldn't be a part of the country military forces) and it couldn't be used by Putin as one of the means to justify the invasion. Yet...
seunosewa|3 years ago
djbebs|3 years ago
samvega_|3 years ago
Of course all Russian-friendly media platforms are banned. The narrative they bring is dangerous to the false image we're creating here in the west.
Social media platforms are waging war on "misinformation", removing content and opposing views en masse. This is not a secret. We're shielded against "propaganda", not aware we're steeped in propaganda.
The funny thing, even western news media reported on the resurgence of the far right and the prevalence of Neo-nazism in Ukraine, as well as its connection with government post-euromaidan. Referencing these very articles gets you stamped as a Russian bot these days.
The fact is that NATO countries are funding and militarizing neo-nazis in Ukraine in order to undermine Russia. And they're shielding them from bad press. Moreover, government forces (of which the neo-nazi militia is part of) has bombarded civilian areas of the seperatist regions for 8 years, and still do, which has killed about 14k civilians. There's complete silence about this injustice in the western press coverage of Ukraine.
What's most concerning is how normalized it has become to hate Russians.
yucky|3 years ago
Zelensky has banned all opposition parties that were critical of him in any way, claiming they "were all Russians", which looking at a few of the parties banned is clearly a joke.
Zelensky also banned all non-state approved news, forcing all information to be funneled through his one approved network.
This was after banning all males age 18-60 from leaving the country. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2022/02/25/russia-...