For the people who kept telling me to take Politico seriously as a source of information . . .
. . . my message is, fuck you.
P.S. AP did the same thing with the same purpose of sowing the “WWIII” panic, so fuck them also.
Politico, Anyone?
Opinions, art, debate
Clarissa's Blog 
Wait, so there was no such attack?
LikeLike
The attack in the photo was committed by Russia in Ukraine this morning.
LikeLike
I’m not talking about the photo, which like you said, is clearly portraying a different event. I’m asking if the attack mentioned in the headline happened.
LikeLike
“asking if the attack mentioned in the headline happened”
“russia said” it did which is all that can be confirmed. A lot depends on how much credence you put into statements by the russian government (and a lot of that depends on how gullible and/or informed you are).
LikeLike
Yeah, it would be stupid to 100% trust any of the two sides in this (or any) war.
LikeLike
“stupid to 100% trust any of the two sides”
And it would be stupid to think that both sides are remotely equivalent in terms of lying.
The russian side has lied far more times and done so to a far greater degree about far more important issues than the Ukrainian side has. The lie ratio from 100: always lies about everything; to 0: never lies about anything…
My rough score from following the story closely and using cultural insider sources (russians and Ukrainians) rather than western ‘analysts’ who are usually wrong about everything.
russia: 90
Ukraine: 10
Ignore westerners and cultivate insider sources and you’ll probably come to the same ratio or very close to it.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Western analysts have been the biggest supporters of Ukraine, no? Are you seriously telling me there are mainstream news publications in the west that have been advocating for the Russian side in this war?
LikeLike
Politico, the AP, the NYTimes and especially the WashPo have done everything to minimize Russian war crimes. As we see in the picture I posted here.
This is like concluding that the Dems have been the biggest supporters of US blacks because Nancy Pelosi crawled on her knees while wearing a Kente cloth. They don’t openly say “we want the black population to remain chaotic and destroy itself through mass crime and abortion.” But that’s the result.
LikeLike
Also, Russian propaganda is heavily anti-Western while the Ukrainian is heavily pro-Western.
LikeLike
My point is that Politico and AP are not to be trusted at all because they are propaganda sheets and not news outlets.
LikeLike
They’re handy for checking up on the latest talking points, though.
LikeLike
True. There’s also somebody called John Oliver that is a sort of a deity to my colleagues. They quote him all the time and say his their source of news.
LikeLike
John Oliver is an alum of the John Stewart show.
One of those comedy quip reels that talks *about* the news just enough to make people feel informed, but also the humor is dismissive.
The end result is, everybody knows a handful of things that were in the news, but fed to them in a way that actively discourages them from finding out any more about them. They *feel* informed, without actually *being* informed. They’ve heard a joke about it instead.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Of course. There’s a war going on. Ukraine has been successfully waging a drone war on the invaders for a year now. It’s not reporting on the war per se I object to, obviously, but the falsification of photo images that happens constantly.
Remember how during COVID NYTimes put a photo of Potters Field on its front page suggesting that it was a secret mass burial site of COVID victims? This is the same kind of thing.
LikeLike
“Western analysts have been the biggest supporters of Ukraine, no?”
I dont’ follow American mainstream news…. which ones? The ones that say that Biden supports Ukraine?
I also haven’t looked for western analysts (the few I come across usually get basic facts very wrong and I end up on my ‘ignore’ list).
LikeLike
Literally every reputed western news outlet: NYTimes, BBC, WSJ, The Economist. The kind of publications that senior members of the administration talk anonymously to, the outlets that are supposed to shape public opinion.
LikeLike
“every reputed western news outlet”
Yeah, I don’t follow any of those. Most ‘pro-Ukrainian’ western sources that I’ve seen just repeat empty platitudes with no talk whatsoever of strategy or goals while being terrified of russian nukes.
Here’s clue: the more russia talks about nukes the less likely they are to use them, when several different russian government officials say that russia has no intention of using nukes… that’s when to get nervous.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I get my news about the war directly from Ukraine and Russia, and the amount of lies, carelessness and stupidity of Western news sources is extraordinary.
LikeLike
As for reporting Russia’s position, it would be extremely helpful to the Ukrainian cause if somebody finally did report on it. But it hasn’t happened so far, so I’m not holding my breath.
LikeLike