Russia and Ukraine

[The Architect Of Fate]

Bel gives a lecture on sources and propaganda but uses two hucksters as a source. You can't make this shit up.



Scott Ritter? 

Ritter rejects the Western media's coverage of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and has voiced his perspective on multiple podcasts, including Andrew Napolitano's.[42][43] On April 6, 2022, Ritter was suspended from Twitter for violating its rule on "harassment and abuse" after he posted a tweet falsely claiming that the National Police of Ukraine is responsible for the Bucha massacre and calling U.S. President Joe Biden a "war criminal" for "seeking to shift blame for the Bucha murders" to Russia. The following day Newsweek reported his Twitter account had been reinstated.[44] Scott Ritter writes various NATO-critical articles for the Russian channel RT (formerly Russia Today).[45][46]

In July 2022, Ritter was added to a list of pro-Russia propagandists compiled by the Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation.[47]

Ritter's documentary In Shifting Sands was released in 2001. It argued that Iraq did not possess weapons of mass destruction because of the UN weapons inspection programme.[31] According to The Washington Times, Ritter's documentary was partially financed by Iraqi American businessman Shakir al Khafaji.[32] Al-Khafaji pled guilty to multiple felony charges in 2004 for his involvement with the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal.[33]

Ritter denied any quid pro quo with Al-Khafaji, according to Laurie Mylroie, writing for the Financial Times. When Ritter was asked "how he would characterize anyone suggesting that Mr. Khafaji was offering allocations in [his] name", Mr. Ritter replied: "I'd say that person's a fucking liar ... and tell him to come over here so I can kick his ass."[31]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ritt...of_Ukraine


Ritter loves Russia Today (
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/scott-ritter/

And shocker he also has worked with the Greyzone 
https://thegrayzone.com/tag/scott-ritter/

And Sputnik 
https://sputniknews.com/20220829/scott-r...37404.html




Andrew Napolitano? 

According to The New York Times, Napolitano "has a taste for conspiracy theories".[23] The Washington Post has described him as a "purveyor of conspiracy theories."[24]

Napolitano has promoted 9/11 conspiracy theories. In 2010, he said, "it's hard for me to believe that it came down by itself... I am gratified to see that people across the board are interested. I think twenty years from now, people will look at 9/11 the way we look at the assassination of JFK today. It couldn't possibly have been done the way the government told us."[25][26]

Napolitano has made numerous claims about the Civil War which are rejected by historians. These claims include that the Civil War was Abraham Lincoln's war by choice, that slavery was dying anyway, that Lincoln could have freed the slaves by paying the slaveholders and that Lincoln armed the slaves.[40][41] More specifically, in a Daily Show segment, he said that Lincoln started the war "because he wanted to preserve the union, because he needed the tariffs from the southern states," a claim rejected by a panel of three distinguished historians of the Civil War: James Oakes, Eric Foner and Manisha Sinha.[41] Napolitano argued that Lincoln could have solved the slavery question by paying slaveholders to release their slaves, a method known as compensated emancipation, thereby avoiding war.[40] Lincoln did offer to pay to free the slaves in Delaware, but the Delaware legislature rejected him.[40] He also asserted that Lincoln attempted to arm slaves, but two prominent historians of the Civil War said they had never heard of such an effort and PolitiFact rated the claim "pants-on-fire".[40][42] He has asserted that slavery was dying a natural death at the time of the Civil War, a claim that Eric Foner on the Daily Show panel rejected. Foner said, "Slavery was not only viable, it was growing ... This idea that it was dying out or was going to die out is ridiculous."[41]

Napolitano has also said that Lincoln enforced the Fugitive Slave Act "until the Civil War was over" by sending escaped slaves back to their owners. PolitiFact notes that "while there were cases when Lincoln enforced the law during the Civil War, he did so selectively when he thought it would help keep border states in the Union fold. When it came to slaves from Confederate states, the weight of the government actions fell heavily on the side of refusing to return escaped slaves." Furthermore, his claim that Lincoln enforced the act "until the Civil War was over" was indisputably false, as the Fugitive Slave Act was repealed in June 1864, more than ten months before the end of the war.[40]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Napolitano

[The Grand Nudger]

Its pretty hard to doubt that ole vlad the miscalculator wants to control ukraine when he keeps declaring parts of it russia forever.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Belarus has sent 158 tanks to Donetsk and Russia. At the rate the Russians are losing tanks, this reinforcement will last about two weeks.

Boru

[Fake Messiah]

Russia's state-funded RT, director of broadcasting Anton Krasovsky suggests drowning or burning Ukrainian children, makes hideous comments about the rapes by Russian soldiers in Ukraine, says Ukraine should not exist and Ukrainians who resist Russia should be shot.

[The Architect Of Fate]

Belarus has sent 158 tanks to Donetsk and Russia. At the rate the Russians are losing tanks, this reinforcement will last about two weeks.

Boru

More target practice for the Ukraine Anti -Armor Crews.

[LinuxGal]

Belarus has sent 158 tanks to Donetsk and Russia. At the rate the Russians are losing tanks, this reinforcement will last about two weeks.

Alexander Lukashenko might miss those tanks when the people of Belarus, who hate his guts, realize Putin can't keep his boy in power there anymore.

[The Grand Nudger]

Not in the least. Tanks are uniquely unsuited for domestic oppression. That's why he sent tanks..and not troops. If I were him I;d have only let go of the tanks if I got some more chemical weapons, though. Know when the other guy is over the barrel and take him for all he's worth, eh?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Russia is behaving like the psycho girlfriend who burns your house down so you can live together.

Boru

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Not in the least.  Tanks are uniquely unsuited for domestic oppression.  That's why he sent tanks..and not troops.  If I were him I;d have only let go of the tanks if I got some more chemical weapons, though.  Know when the other guy is over the barrel and take him for all he's worth, eh?

Just because tanks are unsuited doesn’t mean Lukashenko wouldn’t use them. Russian military thinking tends to be calcified (Lukashenko is a Soviet-style Russian in his outlook and policies).

Boru

[Belacqua]

The Basic Principles of War Propaganda

1. We don't want war, we are only defending ourselves!
2. Our adversary is solely responsible for this war!
3. Our adversary's leader is inherently evil and resembles the devil
4. We are defending a noble cause, not our particular interests!
5. The enemy is purposefully committing atrocities; if we are making mistakes this happens without intention
6. The enemy makes use of illegal weapons
7. We suffer few losses, the enemy's losses are considerable
8. Recognized intellectuals and artists support our cause
9. Our cause is sacred
10. Whoever casts doubt on our propaganda helps the enemy and is a traitor

-- based on Arthur Ponsenby's 1928 book Falsehood in Wartime

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