re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

So maybe more of a "protect the brand" type move.

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Cernovich
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Embarrassing that you people are sharing those obviously stage pics of BASED GRANDMA with an AK. Half of them don’t even have magazines loaded. You really think it’s that bad now - only babuskah is left to fight? Unbelievable. What a fricking joke.

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Glenn Greenwald
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To understand how war propaganda functions and thus to know how it manipulates you, you probably have to have lived through it as an engaged adult. Millions of Americans (and Russians) never have. Last comparable moment in US was 2001-3: Good v. Evil, Freedom v. Mad Despots, etc.

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Joe Kent for WA-3
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You don’t need military experience to understand or work in foreign policy.

However, if every time a problem presents itself & your go-to is US military intervention, you need to go enlist in the infantry.

Not JAG, pilot, intel etc. go be a grunt, taste what u are offering.

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Seeing more and more on Twitter about much of the Ukrainian positives/heroism being proven false. Apparently some of the photos of Zelenski, the Ghost of Kiev, Snake Island, etc. Becoming more skeptical.

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See my tweets from Cernovich and Greenwald below.

This is really the first time in the social media era that we have seen war propaganda and most people don't know how to handle it other than blindly swallow it.

You have to ask:

1. Why is this coordinated propaganda being pushed so heavily by the mainstream media, big tech, and political class?

2. Who benefits?

3. What is their end game?

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the Ghost of Kiev,

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This one is almost certainly false

Watch him not even be in the city right now

My issue with this is that you all skip over the part where propaganda is a permanent fixture in war for both good and bad actors.

Legends and propaganda can exist for reasons independent of NWO conspiracies.

And none of you ask questions about your own obsessive and ardent views about the motivations at play. Why might someone want to build an army of people who refuse to believe any government or any media?

@phildstewart

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(Reuters) - A NATO battlegroup being formed for Slovakia in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine will include 1,200 foreign troops and a Patriot missile defence system manned by German and Dutch personnel, Slovak's defence minister said. Slovakia shares a border with Ukraine

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My issue with this is that you all skip over the part where propaganda is a permanent fixture in war for both good and bad actors.

Legends and propaganda can exist for reasons independent of NWO conspiracies.

And none of you ask questions about your own obsessive and ardent views about the motivations at play. Why might someone want to build an army of people who refuse to believe any government or any media?

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Yep. Everything isn't one big conspiracy AND the majority of folks are just sharing stuff that they have seen across the web. Whose to say what is propaganda and what isn't? It is the Age of Information. Of course, there is inaccuracies.

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Seeing more and more on Twitter about much of the Ukrainian positives/heroism being proven false. Apparently some of the photos of Zelenski, the Ghost of Kiev, Snake Island, etc. Becoming more skeptical.

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There are selfie videos of Zelensky walking through Kyiv with landmarks in the background. I'm not sure what the "conspiracy" is there.

Yeah, to be clear, I think a lot of what we're seeing isn't the full truth.

But Ukraine has a very vested interest in promoting the idea that Ukraine can hold off Russia. Sure, perhaps part of that is hoping eventually they can pull in NATO to save them. While I don't want to be manipulated to that end, IMO that is not a nefarious motivation. I don't think there is any question that real people are fighting real battles for their lives and their home. I don't think that's fiction, and that they're trying to bring me to their side - dishonestly or not - doesn't really offend me.

Might media and our elites have nefarious motives? Yeah, probably. That doesn't mean it's not a real war with real victims who I prefer over the invading force.