re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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The modern state of the US media in a nutshell:

We’re 900+ pages into this thread, with most of us having the same General “anti-Russia” bias as the MSM, yet still none of us trust the MSM, and you don’t see any of us using the MSM as a source. We’re onto obscure blogs and Twitter accounts, and in one case, swiping right on Tinder to try to get an inside look.

This is true despite having some ideological alignment with them in this one particular case. I wouldn’t trust CNN to report on my birthday without questioning them every step of the way, even if everything they say seems accurate.

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You're absolutely right. I trust independent reporters using open-source techniques far more than MSM's who each have been guilty of scandalous wartime coverage... NBC (Brian Williams)...CBS (Dan Rather)....and Fox News (Geraldo)

Think about how the ordinary Russian doesn't have access to alternative sources and how that may shape this war for them.

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Ragip Soylu @ragipsoylu Ukraine plans to strike the Crimean bridge on May 9, Captain Janis Slaidinš, a representative of the Latvia National Armed Forces (NAF), said in an interview with Latvijas Radio.

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I am going to go out on a limb and assume that claim is BS. However, could you imagine the reaction if the crazy Ukies pulled that off?

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I know folks in Latvia and the Lithuanian services and this is bullshite.

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Of course it’s bullshite. Only Russia would be dumb enough to announce to the world and its opponent what its next move is going to be.

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#Russian Federation authorities informed family members of dead crewman from the cruiser #Moskva that the state will offer them no survivor compensation, because the warship sank by accident not in military action, and their son’s whereabouts are unknown

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#Russian Federation authorities informed family members of dead crewman from the cruiser #Moskva that the state will offer them no survivor compensation, because the warship sank by accident not in military action, and their son’s whereabouts are unknown

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Good ole Uncle Vlad. First he fricks your family over by sending your sons or fathers to die in a bullshite war, then fricks you over again by telling you you'll never have closure..or the survivor compensation that was promised.

What a swell guy.

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#Russian Federation authorities informed family members of dead crewman from the cruiser #Moskva that the state will offer them no survivor compensation, because the warship sank by accident not in military action, and their son’s whereabouts are unknown

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please tell me this isnt true

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We’re 900+ pages into this thread, with most of us having the same General “anti-Russia” bias as the MSM, yet still none of us trust the MSM, and you don’t see any of us using the MSM as a source. We’re onto obscure blogs and Twitter accounts, and in one case, swiping right on Tinder to try to get an inside look.

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I was trying to keep up with Ukraine on the PoliBoard until I came here for the first time. There's a little back and forth here but posters here seem to live in the real world and aren't obsessed about a corrupt, money-laundering political operation that bis Ukraine (from the Poliboard). I come here firstling in the morning for information. Posters are not cautious in the same way even Fox News is. And Fox News seems to always have an article about how Russia is threatening to obliterate us is we don't walk the right line.

As a side note Bill O'Reilly was hawking his book on the radio today with Glen Beck. In his latest book he touches on the advanced weaponry we have and in some cases space-based weaponry that apparently other countries are worried about and that are generally unknown to the public. I guess I'll get his book to read this. He has sources who gave interesting generalized information.

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I trust independent reporters using open-source techniques far more than MSM's who each have been guilty of scandalous wartime coverage...

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I agree. However, if there is one thing that CNN excels at, it's war coverage. Clarissa Ward is the best war correspondent out there. I will watch her. But as soon as they start talking about politics on that network, I switch to Animal Planet.

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i would assume weve gone HAM on trying to get some kind of missile defense systems up in the sky that can potentially hit things launched from the chinese or russian interior that our ground/ship based systems dont have the range for

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I have a close family member who worked for a contractor in the 1980's. He spent the better part of the decade helping to build a proof of concept "Neutron beam gun"

Basically an open-ended particle accelerator. They got it working, gave a demo and the project was mothballed for a cheaper ABM tech.... or so he was told...