• Forester@pawb.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    15
    arrow-down
    7
    ·
    edit-2
    20 hours ago

    Really a link from Russia today. Russia’s foreign-outreach Kremlin financed media outlet. I wonder how biased that would be regarding anything to do with Ukraine.

    • pancake@lemmygrad.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      20 hours ago

      Hungarian news sites seem to be posting this same piece of news, which supports its authenticity. The only bias here would be whether the media choose to report this or not (reporting bias). So far most European and American outlets are silent.

    • jackeroni@lemmy.mlOP
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      10
      arrow-down
      14
      ·
      20 hours ago

      Better than the dominance of western outlets constantly pushing pro-NATO expansionism under the direction of the imperialist empire that is the United States.

      • Jack@slrpnk.net
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        7
        arrow-down
        4
        ·
        20 hours ago

        Imperialist empire

        Pure poetry

        US is an empire no doubt there, but Russia also is one. Changing one for the other will not improve anything.

        • Forester@pawb.social
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          arrow-down
          7
          ·
          edit-2
          18 hours ago

          Hey now the US may be a failing empire but we’re not as bad as Russia …yet … we still mostly pretend and keep up appearance … but the mask slips more and more.

          • Jack@slrpnk.net
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            8
            arrow-down
            2
            ·
            edit-2
            20 hours ago

            Strong disagree here, the US have more genocides than Russia under it’s belt, have had destabilizing effect on the world for the last 50 years by making neoliberalism the defacto political ideology of the world and is the only county to use the atomic bomb(not to mention on non-military targets).

            It has always been good at marketing, but under that it’s all blood.

            • Forester@pawb.social
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              2
              arrow-down
              6
              ·
              edit-2
              17 hours ago

              Jack, I would argue that creating and supporting puppet governments is less bad than invading all of your neighbors and directly being in charge of the attrocities. I would like your opinion on this article. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/1/24/how-western-scholars-overlooked-russian-imperialism

              Also I shouldn’t have to explain this but my man. WWII total war. Technically speaking, if your country was involved in the conflict, you were a military Target . Was the firebombing of Dresden a war crime? Was the firebombing of Tokyo a war crime? Total war is not nice. However, there is a difference between bombing, a civilian population that works at the factories and the factories and just bombing civilian targets. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were flattened much the same as the damage incurred by the firebombing race preceding them targeting war material and infrastructure All up and down the Japanese coasts in order to soften the country for a potential brutal invasion.

              I would also remind you that every one of America’s imperial wars for the last 100 years has directly been because of our ambitions clashing with Russia’s and the fallout afterwards.