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Isn't in this sub propaganda forbidden or only matters when the propaganda is from Russia? I get bombarded daily and it's becoming a bit ridiculus, especially because the level is really low. Is this a place for news or for people to push their own favourite propaganda outlet? I would understand if it was from reliable sources, but jeusus anything posted from a .ua domain seems to be allowed no matter what. Feels like being on reddit.
Sorry to interject, but the Ukrainian News Network is an independent outlet that exists since 2007, is one of the 10 most visited sites in Ukraine, and both the founder and the Editor in Chief have (after a quick check, let me know if you have evidence to refute that) no obvious connections to anything political.
The Article itself is also pretty factual. Romanias military has the same issue that other militaries have: Russian soldiers are undertrained if they were trained at all, drones are cheap, therefore some dumb guy in a hole in the ground loses his heading and crosses into the airspace of another nation. The default methods to shoot aerial threats down are not cheap. AIM-9X is expensive and so are fighter jet flight hours.
I propose to Romania the same thing Ukraine is doing: get a good Turboprop with a pilot and a gunner, and shoot them down WW I-style. It doesn't get much cheaper than that.
My criticism is not about the news outlet itself, even if, as the earlier responder to my comment pointed out, they make bold and unsourced claims, which is bad journalism practice, even if very common nowadays. My point is that every day this sub is bombarded with news about the war coming from ukrainian outlets, which will be of course extremely partial, as they have to be if they want to keep writing under martial law. I never see a russian domain posting news here because they would be rightfully considered unreliable. I'm amazed that instead every single ukrainian website is allowed here even if it's clear propaganda (euromaidanpress the worst offender) that uses as sources almost exclusively communication from the government or the state apparatus. We are being bombarded with one sided news that come directly from the Ukrainian state. That's not less propaganda because we are sympathetic with the country that it's producing it.
I just hoped that at least here there would be more attention, care and quality of the discussion.
Is your problem with the news site or the article in particular? Because the only part of the article that I'd complain about is:
What's the source of this claim? The overall assessment seems OK to me. NATO forces are regularly using high cost ammunitions to shoot down cheap drones. In the long term that's a problem.
Romania doesn't have the same amount of money the USA has for shooting millions of dollar of ammo to drones. Sounds right to me without sources.
Both, but i have a problem with the fact that propaganda is not supposed to be allowed here, but i see daily streams of dubious websites pushing bold and completely unsourced claims. I feel that they are allowed because that's the propaganda people like. I really hope i would find conversations of higher level around here, but so far it has been quite disappointing