sycasey said:He is "educated" in exactly the manner he claims: by rejecting all "corporate media" (meaning mainstream American and Western European sources) and getting his info from "alternate" sources only. What kind of media often rushes to fill that void? Foreign propaganda. Not always, but it can have an outsized sway in such spaces.blungld said:It's disheartening to see KGB propaganda misinformation take root in someone who seemingly is somewhat educated in the politics of the region, but entirely uneducated in the long term infiltration by Putin into Ukraine and the ways he has tried to puppet the nation and create false narratives and BS manufactured "Russian nationalism." Look at all these Russian speaking citizens after we ban the speaking of Ukranian, etc.cbbass1 said:
Are you calling the annexation of Crimea in 2014 an "invasion"?
The annexation was a response to the U.S.-backed coup that ousted Yanukovich and installed Yatsulyek(sp?). U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland headed the operation, and arranged funding for Ukrainian neo-Nazi militias to provide the firepower needed to make it happen. All this was suspected, but finally revealed in the WikiLeaks documents & recordings. Nuland was famous for saying, "Yats [Yatsulyek] is our guy," and "F*** the EU!"
Putin wasn't going to simply hand over his entire warm-water navy, which is in Sevastopol (Crimea), to some U.S. puppet. So he annexed Crimea. Did he do anything beyond that? No.
If Putin was going to expand Westward, he would've done it already.
That's not to say that American media doesn't serve up propaganda. It does, and you should be wary of that. But you have to keep in mind that Russia, China, and other foreign adversaries produce plenty of propaganda themselves and learn how to tell the difference. You're not being an independent thinker if you just substitute one line of bulls*** for another.
This is why I eschew all media and just pull my opinions straight out of my ass: I'm an independent thinker!