In the past, Western sanctions against Russia attempted to spare the majority of the population by targeting mostly individuals and selected military-...
Evacuation trains have been leaving Kiev every day since at least early March. But never mind facts, let's listen to some bullshitter obsessed with pr...
Well, you have to assume that there is a negative selection at work here: how else could these people climb up the power hierarchy and stay there? The...
Speaking of consolidating power, these two articles by the Russian journalist Farida Rustamova are interesting. She has talked to her contacts among t...
I am sorry I started this. You have shown that are quite capable of holding both sides of this imaginary argument that you are having with yourself, s...
You are projecting. I never asserted anything of the sort. Russia has invaded Ukraine, it is fighting a war entirely on Ukrainian soil and holding som...
Yes, I know you've dumped a lot of bullshit commentary in this thread. I stopped paying attention a long time ago - I just chanced on that delusional ...
They will declare a glorious victory regardless of what happens. Remember, as far as Russian authorities are concerned, Russia did not even go to war ...
Funny how that works, isn't it? So, you keep asking, what about our propaganda ("our" being the collective West, I assume). Well, unlike a lot of othe...
Yeah, looking back over the past year, it almost looks like the authorities knew all along that all that tosh about human rights and freedoms would so...
Some, uh, experts seem to go along with this narrative: http://i-6uf0utvje8gy-cdn.plushcontent.com/uploads/resized/files/de/fnywdlildn439vnr.png On a ...
I don't see Ukrainians needing encouragement or persuasion - they are the ones doing all the persuading. And they are the ones doing all the fighting....
Yeah, I mean, those primitive people over there have no agency of their own, do they? They are nothing but pawns of the powerful. They couldn't have r...
I have seen this saying variously attributed to Seneca, Marcus Aurelius and Leo Tolstoy. It was also adopted as a favorite motto by the Soviet physici...
Sorry, I don't have anything to contribute to this discussion. To be honest, I am skeptical of such advises: Putin/Russia/Europe/etc. ought to do this...
Here is a NYT podcast with a transcript relevant to the topic: Jane Coaston and Peter Pomerantsev, who both know a good deal about propaganda, discuss...
Don't feed the trolls. Here is an interview with a woman who got out of the besieged Mariupol two days ago. You can listen to it if you understand Rus...
Russian state-controlled media is still pushing the "biolabs" story. I would be worried if it was about chemical weapons, because that could mean that...
Yeah, this seems to be a common theme here. I don't know anything, I don't believe anyone, I don't give a fuck, but I am going to bloviate at length a...
Russian army reserve is not like US army reserve - it is not just a branch of the military that you can join for a few years of service. In Russia eve...
They haven't called in reservists yet (by law, that can only be done in wartime, but then again, "law" is a very flexible thing in Russia), but they a...
That's the number of active duty troops as of 2020 per Wikipedia, but that would include both conscripts and professionals (Russia has both). By law, ...
Fox and Tucker Carlson are well loved by Russian propaganda. https://russian.rt.com/ussr/news/974175-nuland-karlson-biolaboratorii-ukraina "Fox host C...
There is a whole crackpot conspiracy subgenre of "perpetrator spilling the beans in public for no reason." Government officials supposedly confessing ...
This bioweapons story is Pizzagate-level insanity. And yet adult people of adequate intelligence take it seriously, pour over Nulland Q&A for vague hi...
This pretty much sums up the useful idiot position. US - bad. Therefore, any anti-US propaganda should be given extra credence, any US ally should be ...
Although I don't read most posts on this thread, I see that our useful idiot support group, having exhausted the neo-Nazi theme for now, has jumped on...
Among Russian elite and media personalities there was evident confusion and even dismay initially, but most regrouped and closed ranks, or else are ke...
More worrying is the recently intensified propaganda claiming that biological weapons were being developed in US-sponsored labs in Ukraine. Such claim...
Which is another sign of how hypocritical and divorced from reality this Nazi rhetoric is. Just before the invasion, Dmitry Medvedev (former PM and th...
Yes. And tragically, after some initial restraint, that is the tactic to which he has defaulted in Ukraine: heavy bombardment of cities intended to br...
Don't believe a rumor until it has been officially denied. Joking aside, I fear that Putin, cornered and desperate, will turn to the tried and true so...
This is true, as far as it goes. Soviet victory in The Great Patriotic War (WWII) was of great importance to Soviet ideology, and in Putin's Russia it...
Belarus's handling of the pandemic was disastrous, but that had nothing to do with what the West did or didn't do. Lukashenko's "solution" for the pro...
Lukashenko is holding on to Putin for dear life. Until recently he was eking out a living by skillfully maneuvering between Russia and Europe, keeping...
And Valery Gergiev has been kicked out of everywhere. Two of the greatest musicians of our time. Sad. (Although, truth be told, they sold their souls ...
I listened to that podcast earlier, and I don't know what to think of it. Not that I was fully on board with the "conspiracy theory," but the way they...
A Russian military expert commenting on Putin's statement said that he couldn't parse it: the term that he used, though it sounded official, wouldn't ...
I'll do it just once, not to convince Isaac, but to counter the misinformation. Anyone interested can read more about those events online. What happen...
I don't know, ask @"Isaac". He is saying that 2014 Revolution of Dignity was a US-backed coup that put Neo-Nazis in power in Ukraine. (Coincidentally,...
Russian propaganda is referring to all Ukrainian fighters (including, apparently, the regular army) as "nationalists." Even official statements invari...
So far they have been acting with relative restraint, i.e. they have not employed the kind of heavy bombardment that characterized their tactics in Ch...
Then again, a common mistake is to regard Putin as an (evil) mastermind who has it all perfectly planned, calculated and under control. That is hardly...
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