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Dear mox,

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I understand what you’re saying, but I’m afraid the Kremlin’s grip on Russian media is too stringent and dissuasive for me to make the effort to try to separate the truth from the false and deceitful.

By controlling the media, Putin influences the thoughts, and minds of the Russian people and determines their opinions. He also rewrites the history books to indoctrinate the schoolchildren. He doesn’t care what the rest of the world thinks. That’s not his problem.

Russia rates 164th in the 2023 World Press Freedom Index out of 180 countries. By comparison, Australia is 27th, the UK 26th, Germany 21st, France 24th and the US 45th.

Here is an excerpt of the brief analysis of “Reporters Without Borders” that accompanies the Index :

« In 2022, the war in Ukraine enabled the Kremlin to begin a final “purge” of the Russian media landscape. Systemic censorship and the forced exodus of independent Russian and foreign media outlets have freed up space for the dissemination of coordinated propaganda by pro-government media. The ban on Western social media has benefitted Telegram, a platform whose users in Russia (164th) have more than doubled in one year. It is the method that independent media most use to circumvent censorship, but it has also been invaded by Putin’s propaganda networks, with some Telegram channels even tracking the movements of foreign journalists regarded as spies.

« In Ukraine (79th), the Kremlin's propaganda apparatus is deployed at great speed whenever the Russian forces conquer new territory – TV channels are jammed, Ukrainian media are replaced, and local journalists are hunted down.

« The Russian invasion has overshadowed the entire region, especially Belarus (157th), which is now under Russia’s control. The Index has been impacted by a marked deterioration in the press freedom situation in Central Asia, with a remarkable 50-place drop by Kyrgyzstan (122nd).

« The war in Ukraine has also affected Western Europe, which sometimes struggles to find a balance between security and freedom. Several countries have restricted journalistic work under the pretext of “national security” ».

Index : http://rsf.org/en/index

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Banjo Patterson.: How much checking of media items about the Ukraine war originating from the Russian Federation have you done yourself? Appears to me from nature of comments very little or none. Just been brainwashed by repeatedly seeing and hearing lies that it is just Kremlin or Putin's propaganda. Which should not even be checked out, let alone considered. In fact regarding the Ukraine war, information from the Russian Federation to many of those who have followed it has consistently proven overall more honest, detailed and reliable than that from Western mainstream media sources.

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Dear mox,

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You wrote :

« In fact regarding the Ukraine war, information from the Russian Federation to many of those who have followed it has consistently proven overall more honest, detailed and reliable than that from Western mainstream media sources. »
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That’s interesting, mox. Would you mind elaborating a little ?

Perhaps you could provide a few examples where “information from the Russian Federation has consistently proven overall more honest, detailed and reliable than that from Western mainstream media sources”.

You even claim that this is the opinion of “many of those who have followed it”.

How do you know that mox ? Can you substantiate it ? If so, please indicate the source of your information, e.g., opinion poll results, specific research, etc. I'd really like to check it out. I find that amazing – unless, of course, you're just referring to the poor Russian population that's brainwashed from the cradle to the grave and has no other source of information !

My main Russian media news source on the Ukrainian war is from Russia’s TV channel Russia 1 which I have to say is about 90% propaganda on that politically sensitive subject.

While I consider the remaining 10% to be factual, I can’t say it’s any more “honest, detailed and reliable than that from Western mainstream media sources” as you indicate. It’s basically the same – which is why I consider it to be factual – though any “bad news” is usually played down by Russian TV or not even mentioned at all.

I watch a daily emission on a French TV channel called LCI that has been focused on the Ukraine war ever since it began. It includes a French translation of the news and propaganda about the war from Russia 1.

How about you, mox, do you follow the news and propaganda on Russia 1 every day too ?

If you subscribe to a World TV network, I suggest you take a look at the French LCI channel. They have their own journalists on the ground in both Ukraine and Russia.

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Hi Mox, just wanted to express my support of your arguments. I'm of the opinion you're very much correct. I'd also like to congratulate you on your patience and politeness. Well done.

Further to the point, I'd like to add that Russia was indeed provoked into conflict with Ukraine primarily by Biden and western globalists (NATO). It was Biden, US Vice President at the time, 2014, and in particular his son Hunter, who both assisted deeply in the coup of Ukraine that saw the legitimate government of the day swept out of power. They did this for alleged, soon to be proven, large sums of dirty money. Problems in Ukraine have Bidens' fingerprints all over them. I'm also of the opinion that it was Biden, US President, 2022, who created pressures which forced Putin to commence the invasion. It was Biden who announced the invasion was imminent, before the war began.

My opinion, the war in Ukraine is not about Ukrainian sovereignty, but about western globalists (Biden) squeezing Russia, anti-globalists. Right at this minute Biden is ramping up the Ukrainian military with new long range offensive missiles. It would not surprise me that soon, Biden will have US boots on the ground to escalate the war further. Why? To prevent Trump from winning the Presidency this year. There is no other way Biden could possibly win (without cheating again). If Trump wins the presidency, the Ukraine war would be over in a few weeks. If Biden wins, the world had better start getting very religious and ready for the horrors to come.