Re:Finland will seek NATO membership immediately
by ptr on Thursday May 12, 2022 @05:17PM
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> There is so much propaganda in this war it's borderline impossible to get anything but a cloudy view on things.
No, this is incorrect. You can definitely get a pretty good picture. Saying that “you can only get a cloudy view” is a common Russian propaganda tactic aiming to neutralize the target.
Re:Finland will seek NATO membership immediately
by herbst on Friday May 13, 2022 @02:57AM
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Why is everything that is against the main media russian propaganda these days?
Re:Finland will seek NATO membership immediately
by wiseowise on Thursday May 12, 2022 @06:36AM
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> Until recently Ukraine was only in media for their gov breaking human rights and stuff like this, and now it's suddenly the long lost brother we all love so much.
Citation needed.
Re:Finland will seek NATO membership immediately
by herbst on Thursday May 12, 2022 @06:50AM
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Kinda broad statement for a direct citation. However feel free to browse the Wikipedia article about the Ukraine many if not most of their recent crimes are listed there.
Re:Finland will seek NATO membership immediately
by wiseowise on Thursday May 12, 2022 @07:19AM
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Surely you can link at least one.
Re:Finland will seek NATO membership immediately
by darkteflon on Thursday May 12, 2022 @09:45AM
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You’re referring to transgressions under Yanukovych? That’s not a great example, since he’s famously a Russian puppet, removed from office in the Maidan Revolution.
Re:Finland will seek NATO membership immediately
by CRConrad on Thursday May 12, 2022 @09:58AM
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> Yanukovych? That’s not a great example, since he’s famously a Russian puppet, removed from office in the Maidan Revolution.
Coup! Coup! Remember, never call it the "Maidan Revolution", it was a coup! Oh, wait, sorry, you're not trying to prove you're a Russian troll, are you? ;-)
But honestly, I've found that's the easiest heuristic, at least on Twitter: Whenever someone talks about the 2014 "coup" (or "Putsch") in Ukraine, they're a Putler RToll (<-- tpyoed that at first, noticed how fitting it was, so capitalised it).
Re:Finland will seek NATO membership immediately
by herbst on Thursday May 12, 2022 @10:44AM
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Things didn't really get better since then tho (judging blindly from Wikipedia). I don't know anything about their political figures but whatever started to get downhill 2010 didn't stop under whoever is leading now.
Re:Finland will seek NATO membership immediately
by walrusfromspace on Thursday May 12, 2022 @10:17AM
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While it is not 1:1 with regards to human rights there was a pivot in the media away from Ukraine's "Problem with far right violence"[1] after the war started[2] into "Azov battalion is only 10% Nazi so there are no Nazis in Ukraine"
[1]Here I am quoting one of the articles in the image [2]https://i.imgur.com/tfJ7PtX.jpg
Re:Finland will seek NATO membership immediately
by herbst on Thursday May 12, 2022 @10:49AM
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Calling all citizens to a crazy war to die in pride for their lands and forbidding men to leave to country also is a very nationalist move for a non nationalist country IMO
Re:Finland will seek NATO membership immediately
by denton-scratch on Thursday May 12, 2022 @01:15PM
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Forbidding men to leave the country is rather natural, if you think you may have to mobilise or implement conscription (Russia's done it).
Until recently Ukraine was only in media for their gov breaking human rights and stuff like this, and now it's suddenly the long lost brother we all love so much.
Sure RT was full of bullshit, but so are many local papers, Facebook and everything else.
People taking clear sides when all they know is very filtered propaganda is sadening at least.