Not that these things don't pose a serious threat, but the media absolutely loves hyping up various secret weapons for Russia.
"The Ukrainians have been doing well holding off the Russian invasion so far, but what will happen when Russia deploys CHECHEN SUPERSOLDIERS???!"
Cut to grainy footage of guys who look like Alexei Sayle doing a Haka in the forest.
"What will Ukrainian forces do when they have to face THERMOBARIC WEAPONS??"
Sky News shows arcing fire graphic.
I think the general reaction online is that it was a fertiliser plant blown up.
Putin even a cnut while offering tea, using his left hand.
When a Ukrainian plane is shot down , slip an ‘EU’ or equivalent army uniform on the shot down pilot and you have your red flag for Sputnik to say That’s it , I am going to …………………!,,,
Simply no. There are plenty of people and organisations who are essentially barred from television exposure and with good reason. If Gemma O Doherty were given a weekly show to proliferate her ideas, I can imagine some people would watch, but she doesn't get that because she is a kook.
The idea that we should hear all sides is nonsense if it's not qualified. I don't want to hear from sides who are spreading their ideas in bad faith, essentially attempting to commit intellectual sabotage. That includes RT at this point.
Going to bed last night I was really worried about that convoy. Great to see they've been held up
RT has been quoted by anti-vaxxers, conspiracy theorist and general loons. It spreads misinformation that is dangerous to society. Unfortunately a small but vocal cohort of the population are gullible. Maybe we will have less of this cohort believing and spreading nonsense when it is banned.
Thata actually a great tweet. Because the Swiss are "dont get involved HQ"
Its really a gauge of the reaction to Russia
The poster that you are responding to, @gmisk is clearly victim-blaming. Ukraine is not the culpable one here, Russia and only Russia is
Surely the best way to hit Putin would be to get oil prices lower. They’re not much more than a petrol station.
Why should it be?
Being able to live in peace? Russia has invaded them what twice in the last 8 years....why would they listen to a word they say.
It's a **** mouthpiece of lies it should have all funding cut off. It serves no purpose than to rile up the usual conspiracy cranks that have been lapping this **** up for years.
The Russian Central bank just raised its interest rates to 20%
David Starkey has a pretty good analysis of how we got to this point:
Nail on the proverbial head. I have said it before if NATO was genuinely the issue then why did Putin who was president of Russia at the time not invade the Baltic nations prior to their joining NATO in 2004. That was over 10 years after the Baltic nations regained their independence from Russian occupation and I would say that Russia's behaviour this week has shown the benefits of that decision by Lativa, Lithuania and Estonia.
Lets just hope they can hold out long enough for all the weaponry to get where it needs to and keep it coming so they have no ammunition issues.
and given the behaviour of Russia this past week I would not be at all surprised if Finland added NATO membership to EU membership before we hit 2023.
Is CNN and the likes broadcast in Russia? I presume it's not but have no idea.
I think they shouldn't broadcast in Western countries, they only exist to spread propaganda and create an anti Europe sentiment in the West. You could see it on this thread and many others how watching that crap can distort peoples worldviews in disturbing ways. It's more or less brainwashing but at a very slow pace.
I'm all for having different media types and difference of opinion but no good will ever come out of publicly broadcasting state propaganda from tyrannical countries who are in direct conflict with us. If we want to have an honest public debate about Russia let's do it with historians and the like, not Putin's paid mouthpieces.
Shutting them down hurts them financially, which is the point of the sanctions. If they want their precious channels be back on the air in Europe, it's up to the Russian government to stop acting like a rogue state.
I'm against the shutting down of RT in Europe, it should be let stay for people to make their own decision to view it or not. Shutting down media outlets is what you do in kips like Russia and China because those in power don't like what they see, we are better than that carry on.
They are managing to achieve this stalemate just before the weaponry starts flooding in from Europe.
No they not,the socalled Kinszhal and Zircon are conventional missiles
What's good for the goose...
ECB have reported that the EU subsidiary of Sberbank is collapsing or likely to collapse. They haven't given a timeline however it experienced massive outflows over the weekend seemingly.
In one way i feel more contempt for Alexander Lukashenko than Putin.
Whilst the EU are doing everything they can short of placing boots on the ground this d**k comes along to bolster Russian attacks.
Yes, its all very complicated with pressure applied from Moscow but even still!
Again i repeat why is there not harsher sanctions being imposed on Belarus.
Markets are open in Australia and the Rouble is down 30%.
Your knee jerk rant reactions !!! Excuse me for not being a fan of mass hysteria .
They should be seeing the price of RUB drop soon, any minute and then it will crash.
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