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If the media reports something, believe the opposite. That's what I've learned in the last 2 years.

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He is a Russian propagandist.

Russia has been bombing schools, kindergartens and orphanages from day 1. Russia wants to subjugate Ukraine by killing off it’s leadership.

It’s inexcusable that Russia has invaded let alone spent years supporting the separatists and has been interfering in Ukraine just as much as the US, Soros and others. Russia broke the denuclearization agreement made with Ukraine years ago and so did the US and other signatories. Ukraine has been left in the middle as a pawn.

Obviously you are highly sympathetic to Russia. Russia rounded up protesters and locked them up. Just the kind of society that the Klaus Schwab envisions and Communist China has today. No different than Justine Trudeau or the US Democrat party mafia.

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The most egregious propaganda has been lifted from several movies—people running away, a woman hugging a soldier, etc. Just as the MSM re-used an undated 15 second video from an ER in Italy over and over on numerous local and national news shows throughout the past two years. “Fool me once…” No, I was immediately suspicious. Maybe it was my early misspent childhood (I was an extra in numerous tv shows) or my decades in Washington DC, or a natural-born cynicism, but I don’t trust news sources or the “sincerity” of elderly (and possibly intoxicated) partisan politicians. The propaganda is laid on as thick as frosting on a cheap carrot cake. Yes, what could be a better transition from a bogus “pandemic” than a rousing war? Who will remember the hysteria of self-flagellation during BLM riots or shrieking mask karens, or pressure to vaccinate after waving goodbye to Our Brave Soldiers(tm)? How could they top this? Something with Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump perhaps? I dunno, but I’ll have to hear about it 3rd or 4th hand because I don’t watch this crapola anymore. It’s just all too predictable.

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Like they say, "if you break it you own it". So don't break it, if you want to own it. Makes sense. Also, Russell "Texas" Bentley is reporting from Donbas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7MQg5lFovI&t=1006s

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So the videos of Russian tanks stranded in the middle of Ukraine because they ran out of gasoline are all fake? If the Russians are winning, it seems rather strange that they would abandon their armored vehicles in this manner. As far as Russia’s “professional army” is concerned, it’s full of inexperienced conscripts as well, 18-year-olds with iPhones and TikTok videos, trying to score dates with local women on Tinder.

Every ex-Soviet citizen is trained in the use of firearms. Every. Single. One. Men and women. Military training was a part of the Soviet curriculum. Handing out Kalashnikovs to volunteers is not reckless, it’s smart - guerrilla warfare is the only way to confront a more powerful enemy. That involves placing weapons in residential areas to make them difficult to reach. “It’s Putin’s obligation to get rid of such dangerous weapons” - is the guy even hearing himself? You invade a country and it’s your “obligation” to destroy the weapons of the resistance? Interesting (and very telling) choice of words there.

Iraq and Afghanistan are actually good examples - for all of the US military superiority and might and “owning the skies”, the US military had their asses kicked by a bunch of determined fighters with AK-47s. It wasn’t until they bribed everyone (the famous “surge”) that the casualties stopped coming.

There are more idiotic takes. “Young people fleeing cities not because they fear the Russians, but because they don’t want to get drafted.” Is there any evidence to support this bizarre claim? I see the opposite - people volunteering to join the military all over the place. Recruitment centers have lines outside.

This video is probably the worst “analysis” of the situation I have seen to date. It doesn’t get more clueless than this.

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Doesn’t want to hurt the civilians? Kind of doesn’t square with history very well. When it came to the Covid response Germany and Austria echoed their past. I have no idea on this but I will look through the lens outlined in the video of propaganda and Syria and be very skeptical

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Please turn off the mainstream media for a while and watch this collection of videos that present a different view of the situation in Ukraine.

https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/ukraine

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Here is what a former Russian special forces Colonel in Afghanistan said in response to the video I sent him. Briefest of bios on him: Born and raised in Ukraine to two aerospace Ph.D's who worked on behalf of former USSR (my friend is age 52, his parents around 80); his grandfather was THE martial arts trainer to STALIN'S body-guards. Yes THE STALIN, you read correctly. He defected from the Russian special forces and joined the peace and freedom promoting White Lotus Society in the 1980's, which led to him being persecuted by the KGB and losing and eye in the process of "interrogation." He has lived in the US for the past 20 years under the name of Lama Tantrapa, a Tibetan name that reflects his being considered a reincarnated Lama. One cannot question that he has extensive background in the military and historical matter of this region, having a Master's in History and Linguistics as well from the Ukrainian State University. Here is what he said, and note that for the record, as a friend of his in the self-healing/Qigong world, I am well aware that US foreign policy and concomitant global militarization and propaganda is still the GREATEST THREAT TO WORLD ORDER. The old what goes around comes around, Karma thing: just that the US finds ways to attempt to morally, politically, and legally justify and cover up for ITS atrocities; whereas the rest of the world (aside from Britain, the original teacher of imperialism and its associated Dark Arts), is at pains to compete in similarly devious and treacherous ways on the world stage, as the US and Allies pulled off the textbook false flag invasion in Iraq.

Here is what my Ukrainian friend said in response to the video:

Thanks for sharing this silly video. The schmuck in it is either seriously confused himself or deliberately tries to confuse his viewers, in which case he is likely to be a mouthpiece of Russian propaganda.

He is correct about one thing: Russia wants to own Ukraine and make it work for it as a colony. That is why the infrastructure and utilities have not been completely destroyed (although a lot of oil and gas lines have been blown up, but there is plenty of oil and gas in Russia, so this kind of destruction matters not).

What he is completely wrong about is, well, everything else. The most glaring mistake or deliberate misdirection this guy repeated five or six times is that Russian forces would have destroyed the entire Ukrainian army and everything else in that country, if they only wanted to. His explanation of the reasons as to why the Russians back off and try to flank the Ukrainians, when running into serious resistance demonstrates obvious lack of understanding of the realities of what happens on battlefield. It is not the benevolence that informs the Russians to back off and spread out, but simple survival mechanism that is integrated into military training.

This poor schmuck sounds like he has no idea about military strategy, tactics, or even firearms handling. He clearly doesn’t recognize or acknowledge that the vast majority of Ukrainian men have served as conscripts in the military, which means that they are not strangers to handling Kalashnikovs or RPGs. A very significant percentage of the men in Ukraine are veterans of the gun battles in Donbas, where firefights have been going on non-stop for the last eight years. Such experience provided plenty of preparation for serving in the Territorial Defense Force for at least half a million men in Ukraine.

And the most despicable lie/disinformation that this guy spewed was that Zelinsky’s regime is trying to maximize the civilian casualties by positioning howitzers in populated areas. He either has no clue about how artillery works or deliberately runs a smear campaign on behalf of Putin. Simply put, large caliber guns just don’t work, if they are stuck in an areas with many tall apartment buildings, which is what Ukrainian projects are. Apartment buildings obstruct the view and limit the mobility of howitzers too much to shoot from such locations. Mortars would work much better, but they operate at much shorter distances than howitzers, so they have not been used nearly as much in this war, at least, not as yet.

All in all, I suspect that this guy is either an agent-provocateur or just an uninformed American that unwittingly ended up in the middle of a war zone and unsuccessfully tries to make some sense of it. If you think otherwise, please feel free to share your analysis with me, as I may be wrong, too, in which case I will be happy to stand corrected.

there are a few important issues that have yet to be covered:

1) The Russian Air Force “owning the Ukrainian sky" and false it is, because the Ukrainian AF verifiably shot down a number of Russian warplanes and helicopters;

2) The fact that the requirement for the Ukrainian men of fighting age to stay in the country is a standard procedure for any country at war;

3) The stupidity of such statements as “the Russian forces have to.. that are obligated to bomb the Ukrainian artillery,” since the Russian Army should not be in Ukraine in the first place.

Since this video was shot several days ago, there have been many new developments, including the following:

1) The indiscriminate shelling of purely civilian areas of Kharkiv and many other cities;

2) The new sanctions on Russian industries and President Putin himself and how he finds loopholes in them;

3) Putin’s announcement of his nuclear forces going on high alert, which puts the entire world in a greater danger of a nuclear war;

4) The first, unsuccessful round of talks between Russia and Ukraine being the farce, as Russian shelling actually intensified during the talks in Gomel.

Namaste,

Lama Tantrapa

Academy of Qi Dao, Founder

Mastery Magazine, Publisher

The Secrets of Qigong Masters, Producer/Host

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Coach Red Pill is awesome. It's like hanging out with someone who's an expert in Russian history just speaking off the cuff with you. Very honest and to the point.

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shawn

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Misinformation, on which side

shawn

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The media is definitely retrenching the misinformation tag line. Undoubtedly contingency plans are being drawn to handle all scenarios. Within the misinformation programs, who will be sacrificed who will be protected. Will we let them set the agenda of their own defence.

What happens when the truth does come out. Is anyone keeping track of what is being said and by whom. Will those people that spread the real misinformation be accountable. Will the media and corporate interests re-tangle the story so as to make themselves immune to the consequences of their words. The consequence of those words possibly causing millions of deaths. From faux science to faux fact checkers to corrupt politicians to corporate disinformation.

What will we do?

I would like to start a online discussion:

In Canada and USA we need forensic investigation starting at Mulrony(Canada) Reagan(USA) remember this is not political its an investigation of facts.

We are looking for legislation which looked innocent at the time or at least acceptable. The small steps in governing that led to our current catastrophe of propaganda.

Deregulation of media companies, single investment companies owning multiple positions in media, pharma, banking, technology etc…

keep in mind 10 years ago no one- left or right- would have agreed to allow media censorship as it is today. These end points did not happen by chance nor did the happen in one sweeping legislation.

Shawn663

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She's ex U.S.military, studied international relations at FIU: Here's her insightful take:

https://youtu.be/EyOznrfLHO8

let's not forget - the military industrial complex controls the news - as does big pharma.

Everything they say is to increase their influence, income, and power- it's never about truth.

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Thank you for posting this video - hopefully the Elmer Fudd group in DC stand down

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Lira was just on the Duran, which is an interesting source, focusing on diplomacy, with knowledge of Russia, the UK and geopolitics generally. I have personally found the Duran to be sanity inducing, an antidote to corporate propaganda. Once a week I believe that have an historical thing that is kind of fun, reporting the news of the Russian Revolution as if were the news of the day.

Lira shows up minute 50:16. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mbgjjEnbKc&t=1979s

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In war and religion, truth is the first casualty.

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Oh dear. This is going to look really prophetic in two days once the thermobaric MLRS get going. But then I suppose there will be a different rationalization from Stalinists-without-Stalin.

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