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‘Everyone knows’ Kiev is embezzling Western aid – ex-Polish PM (www.rt.com)
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[–] 9 points 4 days ago* (6 children)

There's an obvious split between capitalist factions in Russia and the rest of the West.

RT serves Russian capital, not Western capital. Western media serves Western capital, but not Russian capital. Duh?

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  • [+] -10 points 4 days ago* (5 children)

    No shit, Sherlock? That was the entire point of how silly it is to take the word of Russia's state media with regard to their war of conquest in Ukraine.

    I don't look to centrist, right-wing, or capital protective media outlets to learn about the genocide in Gaza either, because I have more than two brain cells to rub together.

    'Serving capital' isn't some abstract strawman that can handwave away literally every criticism of any media outlets. It means something specifically, in the context of the motivations for the outlet.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 days ago* (4 children)

    And yet you still assume that the narrative of "conquest" must be true, because of what you've been told by Western media.

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  • [+] -8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

    Please share with the class the independent journalism that would illustrate how Russia's "special military operation" in Ukraine is justified and not simply a dick-measuring exercise for Putin.

    You can GTFO with any dumbass memes about Nazis throwing salutes, if a decade-long war was launched against every country that has Nazis then no country would be able to get their britches on in the morning.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago

    Please share with the class the independent journalism that would illustrate how Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine is justified and not simply a dick-measuring exercise for Putin.

    Previously:

    Previously:

    Previously:

    NATO expansion:

     
    NATO in general:

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  • [–] 8 points 4 days ago

    Do I need to show you the history of Western meddling in elections and color revolutions and coups? Or the Western ambition towards conquering Asia? I think those are pretty well known and speak for themselves.

    With that history in mind, we can't dismiss Russia's claims about Maidan being a Western-backed coup. Even if you don't want to assume Russia's side of the story is true, you're making an additional leap by assuming the Western "conquest" narrative.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago

    independent journalism

    i suspect that such a thing doesn't exist anymore -- it's all either state mouthpieces like rt that were created to dispense propaganda or it's propaganda laundered through american state department backed ngo's that dispense it tiny pieces on wikipedia, cnn, npr, cbc, abc, bbc, le monde, der speigel, etc. in the same way that fox news dispenses conservative think-tank "studies" to maga.

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