The journalist says he went with people to check out signing up for the foreign fighter contingent and the person telling them to remove sim cards from their phones and sign up was an ex-military American volunteer in Ukraine
saw some of a show on Chernobyl(not the HBO one) yesterday and the parallels to their control of information or creating misinformation is identical to what’s happening today w this war. man the people of Kyiv and Ukraine have been through some shit these last 35+ years and that doesn’t include WW2 before then
The Soviet Union and KGB had the best foreign spy network in the 20th century. Mostly because they had ideological sympathizers in the west who actually believed in a communist utopia from the time of the Russian Revolution till that fiction faded away in the Cuban Missile.
I mean, the crimes themselves are horrible and rank up there with the worst crimes of this century, but I find it a little amusing that the best the Russians (and their propagandists on twitter / Western media) can come up with is that their enemies keep committing war crimes on themselves to make the Russians (and their allies) look bad. Residents of Aleppo somehow manufactured complex nerve agent and used it on themselves instead of, you know, the Russians or Assad's army.
It’s something that Soviet / Russian propaganda has been doing for decades. They said the same thing about the Holodomor in the 1930s. “The Ukrainians were starving themselves.”
sort of like how they said they’d be greeted as liberators in Finland and packed stuff for parades during the winter war just like they did for the invasion of Ukraine
That kind of close relationship with an imprisoned courtier or council member can definitely push the war score, unless you ransom him for gold if you need it. /crusaderkingsjoke
still awful but not as bad as during the Trump term. would be nice if the World would stop having awful shit happen to have music and other random not serious stuff trend more often
The problem is trolls and pieces of shit are easily pushed to the top of Twitter either through bots, maga people liking it, or (my least favorite) democrats quote tweeting it and amplifying it. No escaping the same characters every day
Have there been any reports on all the pows and captured citizens? I had assumed they were going to be leverage but neither side is publicly saying anything