re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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Keep on getting your info from the clueless, bought/paid for, or useful idiot media outlets

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Your projection is both silly and revealing.

This is quite simple.
I've cited my sources.
You claim they are "Kremlin Talking Points."
Make your case.

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Keep on getting your info from the clueless, bought/paid for, or useful idiot media outlets

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crickets.

I can’t wait to see what bullshite sanctions Biden puts on Russia and their helpers tomorrow. I hate being political on here i’ve said it a lot but when i see bullshite i call it. I’ll do the same if Trump. It just seems all Biden’s sanctions already on Russia may have ended up helping them more in the end. To be honest i’m getting very aggravated and exhausted with this war. If the U.S. and the western world isn’t going to come together and collectively give Ukraine what they need to at least put them in a stronger position to negotiate from then it’s over, it’s just a matter of how many more have to die to get there. The sad part is that most of our militaries can give Ukraine non essential items that would not degrade our own forces and they can actually stand up to Russia because the average Ukrainian soldier for the most part has proven to be a better soldier than his Russian counterpart. We’ve been needing to increase our artillery and air defense stocks well before this war started though so hopefully that happens from all this and we finally start taking the world serious with Iran being bolder and bolder and China continuing to churn out military hardware at a much faster rate then we are.

You support Biden and the MSM "Russiagate" nonsense when you goon over Ukraine nonstop.

All of you do. You support leftists like Alexander Vindmann and the lies he spews. It's disgusting.

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it’s the same people in charge.

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There were a lot of changes from the Imperial period, and over the course of the Soviet Unions existence.

Imperial Russia was run by a mixture of ethnic Russians and Germans. Baron Mannerhiem and Baron Wrangel are good examples of the German nobility in the Imperial period. The imperial elite had extensive families ties to the rest of Europe too. The Bolshevik leadership was predominantly Jewish, but included a number of other minorities, from Poles to Georgians. These minorities lost out or were pushed out under Stalin, and by the 1950s, the USSR was increasingly dominated by ethnic Russians, but the very senior leadership was dominated by people who came specifically from the Ukrainian SSR. It had the strongest Communist party. Putin is very different from someone like Bhreznev because he’s an ethnic Russian from Saint Petersburg and a classical liberal. Bhreznev by comparison was from the provinces and was the son of a metalworker.

Well, Ukraine has independent media and is allowed to criticize the government and Russian media is government controlled and not allowed to criticize the government, so "domestic coverage" is a terrible metric.

Telegram is a good outlet for complaining. But you can also get a sense of social stress from state media.

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Ukraine has independent media

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It’s pretty tightly controlled, and Zelensky nationalized all of the television stations. But that doesn’t make it worthless, and you can get some pretty unvarnished comments from western freelance reporters. Neil Hauer is a good example.

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I've been following the his for almost two years, and I can't figure out what is real or bs information

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It is indeed hard to know what's actually happening between the propaganda, fog of war and the blinded ideologues. There are a few sources that make an honest effort to verify what they report.

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Changing the name doesn’t change the culture

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Elections do. 1991 was the Russian people's first legitimate democratic election in history. 1996 was the second and probably the last.