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Alirat's avatar

Love your work!

I have quite a few (intelligent) friends who believe the mainstream narrative about the War in Ukraine and are horrified when I suggest some of the things they have been told are just not true. eg that Putin is an evil, crazy, despot who Russians hate, that Ukraine is winning and going to win, that this is an unprovoked war, that Russia bombed its own pipeline/bridge, that Ukraine is not corrupt or has influential Nazi groups, and that we need to give Ukraine more weapons so they can "defeat the evil Russia" etc,etc, I was wondering if you could write a more specific piece that I could give to them, helping them identify fake news and propaganda with a focus on the Ukraine conflict? Such as looking for reliable news sources that are consistent overtime, that are not always one-sided, and that are predictive of events that eventuate (to name a few things to look for?). An extended version of "Who is telling the truth" above? I gave one friend the Sy Hersh article to which they responded - "but he only had one source". I despair.

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Ed's avatar

tactics without strategy is the sound before defeat, sun tzu.

the us is flailing, the logistics tail for the tanks, and f-16's will be us all the way to turning over the engines to enter combat which due to range will be hundreds of klicks se of kiev.

beijing cannot have the errant province formerly known as formosa but kiev and their banderas must be given back russians they have been terrorizing in donbas......

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