Quote Originally Posted by elevenism View Post
Right, I hear you.

But you could say the same about THIS country. Everything is questionable during war, hot or cold.

(not one inch eastward. They pull babies out of incubators and fling them on the ground. He has weapons of ass destruction)
No, there are freedoms in the west which mean anything a western outlet says has a substantially higher degree of verifiability and therefore probable veracity. While it would be silly to take all media as gospel, it is absolutely not the same as Russia, as many imprisoned and dead Russians will attest - not to mention the people suffering in Ukraine right now, this conflict buoyed as it is by the unchallenged domestic propaganda in Russia.

Re : one inch eastward - that was a promise not to overthrow the east German Republic during the cold war. Putin is hard at work creating a "both sides bad" narrative using selective interpretations of history spread online