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2022-03-30 Home Front: Politix

Our Lying Corporate Media II: Demonizing Putin

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Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-30 01:54|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 They are tools of the Deep State, it should be expected.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-30 01:59|| 2022-03-30 01:59|| Front Page Top

#2 They're lying. The propaganda campaign is ridiculous. Putin's been restrained.

Defense analysts are finally beginning to speak out against all the BS that's being pushed at us.

"We need to understand Russia's actual conduct," says a retired Air Force officer, a lawyer by training who has been involved in approving targets for U.S. fights in Iraq and Afghanistan. The officer currently works as an analyst with a large military contractor advising the Pentagon and was granted anonymity in order to speak candidly.

"If we merely convince ourselves that Russia is bombing indiscriminately, or [that] it is failing to inflict more harm because its personnel are not up to the task or because it is technically inept, then we are not seeing the real conflict." In the analyst's view, though the war has led to unprecedented destruction in the south and east, the Russian military has actually been showing restraint in its long-range attacks.

As of the past weekend, in 24 days of conflict, Russia has flown some 1,400 strike sorties and delivered almost 1,000 missiles (by contrast, the United States flew more sorties and delivered more weapons IN THE FIRST DAY of the 2003 Iraq war).

The vast majority of the airstrikes are over the battlefield, with Russian aircraft providing "close air support" to ground forces. The remainder—less than 20 percent, according to U.S. experts—has been aimed at military airfields, barracks and supporting depots.

A proportion of those strikes have damaged and destroyed civilian structures and killed and injured innocent civilians, but the level of death and destruction is low compared to Russia's capacity.

"I know it's hard ... to swallow that the carnage and destruction could be much worse than it is," says the DIA analyst. "But that's what the facts show. This suggests to me, at least, that Putin is not intentionally attacking civilians, that perhaps he is mindful that he needs to limit damage in order to leave an out for negotiations."

Posted by Sniting Ulirong9511 2022-03-30 02:12|| 2022-03-30 02:12|| Front Page Top

#3
Of course. If Putin was willing to crater Ukraine just to get at the leadership, Zelensky would be a red daub somewhere in the rubble. And there's nothing NATO could do about it without getting Americans killed. Granted, Biden could even go that far, but then the deepState would take out Biden before that. Russia is fully prepared either way. So any pulling back of hostility or dial down from the Kremlin means they're genuinely not interested in creating misery for everyone, just for certain people. Zelensky is making civs fight under threat of being branded traitors. Not only civs but anyone he can find. Enlisting free radicals, mercs, anyone to protect his presidency. This is real criminal behaviour.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-03-30 07:05|| 2022-03-30 07:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Zelensky is making civs fight under threat of being branded traitors. Not only civs but anyone he can find. Enlisting free radicals, mercs, anyone to protect his presidency. This is real criminal behaviour.

Yes it is. Zelensky more than anyone is responsible for this war. Why did he suddenly change his time last year and start declaring absurd goals like "taking back Crimea" and joining Nato?

Who goaded Zelensky to begin taunting the Bear in 2021? He didn't behave that way during Trump's time. Quite opposite actually

Posted by Kojo Glesing7372 2022-03-30 09:01|| 2022-03-30 09:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Who goaded Zelensky to begin taunting the Bear in 2021?
The same people who staged the Maidan coup in 2014 and kicked over the hornet's nest in Libya. The Biden foreign policy team is full of Obama retreads, including Nuland and Sullivan

Posted by Lionel Platypus7180 2022-03-30 09:15|| 2022-03-30 09:15|| Front Page Top

#6 Zelensky is making civs fight under threat of being branded traitors. Enlisting free radicals, mercs, anyone to protect his presidency.
Hollywood should have given Zelensky an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. A kleptocratic shit-stirring Loki impersonating a patriot

Posted by Lionel Platypus7180 2022-03-30 09:20|| 2022-03-30 09:20|| Front Page Top

#7 #2 They're lying. The propaganda campaign is ridiculous. Putin's been restrained.

This article -- which is not from "USAA" by the way but from the dissident website USSA -- shows all the ways the propaganda operates. It's really breathtaking how the "lying corporate media" have ignored salient facts and either memoryholed or simply blocked out everything Putin has said.

The linked article reviews these point by point. It's amazing how sane and rational the Russian case actually is -- you would never know it from all the BS that's been spread by our left wing globalists and kleptocrats.

How many Americans or Euros know that the US pushed the Kiev regime to rip up the Minsk II Treaty? To demand Nato accession? That Zelensky was demanding nukes and openly declaring his intention to seize Russia's most important naval base?

How many know that for 8 years the Kiev regime installed through a US coup d'etat has been waging war on and terrorizing Russians who live in the eastern regions of the country?

Do Americans even know that Putin repeatedly warned the US that these actions were intolerable and represented a real and present danger to Russian security?

Posted by Lionel Platypus7180 2022-03-30 09:42|| 2022-03-30 09:42|| Front Page Top

#8 ^ They don't have a clue. They've been brainwashed just like they were brainwashed about covid

Posted by Jegum Flans3034 2022-03-30 10:01|| 2022-03-30 10:01|| Front Page Top

Posted by Omaing Stalag1261 2022-03-30 10:50|| 2022-03-30 10:50|| Front Page Top

#10 Maybe one of you people has a piece of your soul left and can see truth and reality?

https://zona.media/article/2022/03/30/pressafsb

Posted by Omaing Stalag1261 2022-03-30 10:57|| 2022-03-30 10:57|| Front Page Top

#11 ^ From link by Stalag

[They] hid in schools, covered themselves with civilians, bombed the drama theater from the inside , hid along Kronshtadskaya Street, hid in kindergartens, bombed the maternity hospital while operations were taking place there . It was very scary,” Ustinova says.

I wouldn't put it past the Ukranian paramils to bomb Ukranians for the benefit of the BBCs and Daily Mails. Or false flag and shit. If Putin will not kill enough civs, someone has to right?

Posted by Dron66046 2022-03-30 11:09|| 2022-03-30 11:09|| Front Page Top

#12 ...come on, the Taliban got away with it for 20 years. If it works, someone else can follow the script, right. And what does the Taliban get for doing it? What they wanted and having the useful idiots give them aid in the billions.

There are no good guys only the lesser of evils. See - supplying Stalin in WW2

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-03-30 11:15|| 2022-03-30 11:15|| Front Page Top

#13 The war started in May 2014. It's been going on without a break for 8 years. The precipitating cause was a new regime in Kyiv brought to power by a US-aided coup. There's extensive documentary evidence implicating American officials (Nuland, Pyatt) in that coup.

There's also tonnes of evidence that Obama administration and former Clinton administration officials colluded with the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington to spread lies and disinformation about what was actually happening in Kyiv and in the eastern regions where the war was raging.

The Russians and many US foreign policy experts have been consistently warning the West for many years that these provocative and reckless actions by American operatives would eventually push Russia to protect its vital national interests on its southwestern border. Just like the US would if China were provoking a Mexican puppet regime to demand the return of Texas, use paramilitaries to kill Americans on our southwestern border and build up a hostile military with China's help and encouragement.

Posted by Spiting Squank2423 2022-03-30 11:28|| 2022-03-30 11:28|| Front Page Top

#14 The next thing I expect to hear from these obnoxious claques is that it was the Ukrainians who invaded Russia exactly when the Russian army had forces on the border for exercises, and unfairly used modern weapons to attack the long convoys of Russian armor that entered into Ukraine in response to that invasion. Notoriously corrupt governments are supposed to have weapons systems that are disassembled and don't work, or use bad logistic practices to destroy their own forces. Don't the Ukrainians know enough to steal from their army enough to make it a laughing stock?
The Russians at least know enough to follow the American example and screw up everything they touch. Ukraine used to be pretty good at screwing up. Didn't Zelensky know how?
And none of you guys mention the wonderful opportunities all those refugees have gotten to travel abroad like they were on vacation. They should be thanking Putin for that, and for the opportunity to escape from Zelensky's brutal tyranny.

Posted by Goober Choluque6459! 2022-03-30 12:46|| 2022-03-30 12:46|| Front Page Top

#15 I guess orders went out to fluff this article in particular.

(The press didn't demonize Putin -- he did that himself.)

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-03-30 13:52|| 2022-03-30 13:52|| Front Page Top

#16 [They] hid in schools, covered themselves with civilians, bombed the drama theater from the inside , hid along Kronshtadskaya Street, hid in kindergartens, bombed the maternity hospital while operations were taking place there . It was very scary,” Ustinova says.

I wouldn't put it past the Ukranian paramils to bomb Ukranians for the benefit of the BBCs and Daily Mails. Or false flag and shit.
Posted by Dron66046

I wouldn't either, Dron66046. The Daily Mail are making money hand over fist with all the sensational lies and bullshit they're vomiting up every day.

Posted by Clinese Unaviling5373 2022-03-30 13:59|| 2022-03-30 13:59|| Front Page Top

#17 Ref #16:

"The first casualty of war....etc, etc."

Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-30 15:11|| 2022-03-30 15:11|| Front Page Top

#18 Do Americans even know that Putin repeatedly warned the US...

who is this Putin guy everyone keeps talking about?

OK, OK, more seriously, Putin has been clear about what he considers a red line as far as NATO goes. I wonder if the reason the US did not believe him was because none of our politicians actually mean what they say, much less have the stones to act on it.
Example: Biden saying Putin cannot remain in power

Posted by SteveS 2022-03-30 16:55|| 2022-03-30 16:55|| Front Page Top

#19 When you start with the assumption of a false flag and "reason" from there, what it tells me is you assume the side you support is likely to commit atrocities and are desperate to plant doubt.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-03-30 20:54|| 2022-03-30 20:54|| Front Page Top

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