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2022-04-05 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Bucha: The banality of staged atrocities

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Posted by badanov 2022-04-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Patrick Lancaster's video of the girl killed in Mariupol by Azov savages

Posted by Lonzo Grumble8887 2022-04-05 09:51|| 2022-04-05 09:51|| Front Page Top

#2 If a nazi kills you, you are dead, dead, dead. If a Russian kills you, you are actually on a yacht in the Caribbean.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-05 09:53|| 2022-04-05 09:53|| Front Page Top

#3 I am not an oncologist. That does not make me "pro-cancer."

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-05 10:08|| 2022-04-05 10:08|| Front Page Top

#4 How long does the owner of Rantburg allow a Russian fascist to post their big lie trash here?

How long Oh Lord???

Posted by Omaing Stalag1261 2022-04-05 10:38|| 2022-04-05 10:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Omaing Stalag1261, I mean you...the Trolls are piling up pretty deep around here these days. The last gasps of the Nation of Thieves

Posted by 746 2022-04-05 10:47|| 2022-04-05 10:47|| Front Page Top

#6 I've had the misfortune of seeing someone's brains knocked out of their head with my own eyes. I don't say this to be macho; it's not something I ever wanted to see. I'm not a soldier or anything like that, and I had hoped to live a nice, long life without ever seeing anything like that.

But, since I have seen it, I had a good long look at the Bucha pictures; especially the one of the man in the blue jacket face down on the street with a spray of viscera below his face. It didn't look quite right to me - until those satellite images came out. Then it made sense. He'd been lying like that for weeks in the cold of Winter, so everything had frozen, changing color and consistency. Then the picture made sense.

God help us all, the Russians are practicing the Russian way of war straight out of the old Stalin playbook. Mass executions, gang rape, and even genocide are unfortunately part of that way, designed to break the spirit of the population and make them more docile. It worked pretty well in East Germany; but it isn't working on the Ukrainians. Whether they were or weren't a nation before, they certainly are one now.

I say this as large "L" Libertarian who is extremely suspicious of the Western media; a media prone to beat the war drums one moment (Ukraine) and to go completely quiet another moment (Somalia, Ethiopia) when it suits them. And I have been critical of much of the propaganda on both sides during this war - like Putin bathing in deer antler blood. (Please!) But as much as a Libertarian has any power at all, you can have the power to not lie to people. Or yourself.

The Russians are clearly doing many of the things they are being accused of. They are clearly guilty and need to be stopped. The trolls they are sending to this website are also clearly lying. The Russians also have a lot of nuclear weapons and a willingness to use them. So an extremely unsatisfying tightrope must be walked at all times, less the killing of thousands turn into the death of millions.

So let us all pray whomever in Washington is running the show behind the scenes is a lot smarter and more capable than the human marionettes they're currently hiding behind.

Posted by Secret Master 2022-04-05 12:02|| 2022-04-05 12:02|| Front Page Top

#7 Believe half of what you see and nothing of what you hear. Since PhotoShop, believe nothing.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-05 12:05|| 2022-04-05 12:05|| Front Page Top

#8 you are correct!

Posted by 746 2022-04-05 12:12|| 2022-04-05 12:12|| Front Page Top

#9 Omaing,

The propaganda on CBS is just as bad as the propaganda coming out of Russia. There are many victims in this war. The truth is prominent among them.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-04-05 13:02|| 2022-04-05 13:02|| Front Page Top

#10 And the Katyn Forest massacre was done by Nazis, not the Soviets...

NB: much, much less horrific accusations against US troops resulted in investigations, trials, and political fall-out. The Putinist line appears to be "didn't happen, we left earlier, besides they were asking for it".

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-04-05 15:10|| 2022-04-05 15:10|| Front Page Top

#11 It's well past time to start referring to Actual Nazis™ vs Media narrative nazis™

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-05 15:21|| 2022-04-05 15:21|| Front Page Top

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