Originally posted by King Salvo
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Minus Western propaganda what's the real story on the Ukraine?
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I've been through this previously. Newsweek, of all sources, led with the 90% Russia support survey (Gfoeller and Rundell). You can find the link on Johnmenadue.com but note Izzy that Menadue isn't the source, the survey is a Newsweek report (Jeez this is tedious - like trying to explain something to an uninterested child),
The Empire benefits from the wide belief that propaganda only happens to others. I often say that those who have been propagandised into accepting the mainstream worldview are stupid, but, really, from what I can tell the successfulness of empire propaganda in taking over people’s minds has very little to do with anyone’s intelligence. I find that some of the smartest people uncritically regurgitate the same narratives about the world that you hear from the MSM including the ABC. Generally, intelligent people differ from the less intelligent only in that they have more clever justifications and defences for the perspectives they’ve been propagandised into believing.
Despite Aristotle's advice to be constantly sceptical, the tendency to meet authority-endorsed information with critical thought and scrutiny seems to have a lot more to do with the dumb luck of having been conditioned to do so by the kind of life you have lived. If there’s any sort of personal attribute that leaves one less vulnerable to propaganda, it could be described as a sincere devotion to the truth. A sincere devotion to knowing what’s true, and to seeing, thinking and living accordingly. This quality can emerge in people of any kind of intelligence.
A sincere devotion to the truth also happens to be the quality most essential for realising spiritual enlightenment (lookin' at you here King). It’s also the quality most essential for living a happy life. Whatever that strange sceptical spark is and whatever gives rise to it wherever it shows up, it’s pretty clear that it’s the guiding light that will lead our species to sanity.Last edited by Paddo Colt 61; 01-05-2023, 11:14 AM.
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When the president of the poorest, most corrupt nation in Europe is feted with multiple standing ovations by the combined Houses of Congress you know we’ve reached Peak Zelensky. It’s a farcical, almost psychotic over-promotion, probably surpassed only by the media’s shameful, hyperbolic railroading of the country into war with Iraq, in 2003
That was absolutely cringe and nauseating to watch.Cult like in fact. Perhaps surpassed by Pelosi then describing Zelensky and his speech ( which I chose not to listen to ) as ChurchillianWhen you trust your television
what you get is what you got
Cause when they own the information
they can bend it all they want
John Mayer
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The Pro Russian and Anti West Propagandists on here are having the same problems as their fellow Comrades do on other social media platforms in gaining any traction with their attempts to justify the Russian Invasion of Ukraine.
The denazification and demilitarization Reason has been well and truly debunked and replaced now with the old West Proxy War Narrative.
Facts are that all the financial and military support the Russian Federation provided to dissident groups to Russify Ukraine failed hence why the Russian Federation invaded Ukraine to Russify Ukraine by force.
The Russian Federation expected Ukraine to be a push over militarily based on their Crimea Annexation which was a view shared by both Russia and the Wests based on the perceived superiority of the Russian Military vs Ukraine's.
Both Russia and the West over estimated the ability of the Russian Military to wage war and under estimated Ukraine's Military ability in defending Ukraine against unprovoked Russian Military Aggression.
The Video " True State of the Russia Army" does provide reasons why and no doubt will have countries reviewing their own military's capabilities going forward.
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Y’see, that’s what I like about Lula, he called out Biden and the actor back when no one else would.
“This guy is as responsible as Putin for the war. Because in the war, there’s not just one person guilty.
The president of Ukraine could have said: ‘Come on, let’s stop talking about this NATO business, about joining the EU for a while. Let’s discuss a bit more first.
We should be having a serious conversation. OK, you were a nice comedian. But let us not make war for you to show up on TV.”
“The United States has a lot of political clout. And Biden could have avoided [the war], not incited it. He could have taken a plane to Moscow to talk
Stand up.
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Originally posted by A Country Member View PostY’see, that’s what I like about Lula, he called out Biden and the actor back when no one else would.
Here we hear from a leader unafraid to tell it how it is. All the while governments the world over succumb to political pressure, including our own ever rotating patsy pollies.
Stand up.
It was not a cake walk as expected and now Stalinist Little Legs Putin has no other choice but continue with the War he and his lackeys started.
Surely there is a coup in the making in Russia to end the Stalinist Little Legs Putin regime and negotiate an end to this War i.e the Russia Federation Military Withdrawal from Ukraine and a Nuremberg like trial of Stalinist Little Legs Putin and his lackeys for war crimes and crimes against humanity..
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