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Thread For Exposing Blatant Propaganda


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2022 Mar 11, 9:40am   20,660 views  219 comments

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Ukraine and the war for your mind
The conflict on the ground isn’t the only one — there’s plenty of propaganda afoot too

March 11, 2022

Deterrence works. Russia’s nukes are the only thing keeping the US from full-out war in Ukraine just six months after retreating from Afghanistan. The unprecedented propaganda effort by Ukraine and its helpers in the American mass media to drag the US and NATO directly into the fight has failed — so far. But the struggle — the one for your mind space — is not over.

To understand what follows, you have to wipe away a lot of bull being slung your way. Insanity is not the only explanation for Putin’s actions of the past few weeks. From a Russian standpoint, he is carrying out a rational political-military strategy in Ukraine, seizing Russian-speaking territory such as Donbas, demilitarizing eastern Ukraine by force, and most of all creating a physical buffer zone between his country’s southern border and NATO. That zone may end at the Dnieper River with a loop around Odessa, or it may end at the Polish border, depending on how smoothly things go on the ground and on what level of “back away” message Putin wishes to send NATO.

It’s unlikely that Putin is making the first moves toward some greater conquest. All the bad takes saying “if we don’t stop Putin now, he’ll invade Moldova/Estonia/Poland/all Europe just like Hitler” ignores that the German military in World War Two had some 18 million men under arms. The Russian army today has 1.3 million, the best of which are going to be in Ukraine for a while.

Every war has its “is the juice worth the squeeze” question. Is what you can realistically hope to achieve worth the cost of getting it? For Putin, that means solving his border problem at the cost of maybe a few thousand men and another dollop of weak sanctions. He understood the needs of Europe meant sanctions would never harm sales of the fossil fuels which make up most Russian exports. But nyet to Paypal for you tovarishch! Putin could also look to history and see how decades of sanctions have not changed much in Cuba, Venezuela, Iraq, Iran and North Korea.

Putin most importantly also knew NATO would not fight him on the ground for fear of starting a nuclear war. That is exactly what nukes are for — and is the history of the Cold War in a sentence. Having nukes allows a country to do certain things any way it wants because its actions stay below the threshold of risking atomic war. This is why the US could destroy Gaddafi and Saddam (no nukes) and why the US will never attack North Korea (nukes). Under US pressure, Ukraine in 1994 relinquished the nukes it inherited from the former Soviet Union, enabling the invasion here in 2022.

Being a nuclear superpower makes things easier; the US can fight all over Central America and the Middle East, and Russia in the ’Stans, Crimea and now Ukraine, and none of that is important enough for the other side to consider using nukes to stop it. It is not like America does not know how to step away from a fight which isn’t ours: Crimea, Chechnya, Rwanda, Hungary ’56, Czechoslovakia ’68, initially Afghanistan ’79, even to a certain extent in Syria 2016. Putin knows that. Biden knows that. NATO knows that. Ukraine, however, still thinks it can change the game.

Ukraine knew on Day One it didn’t have enough men or weapons to defeat the Russians. Its only hope to remain a unified nation (it is easy to imagine a divided Ukraine, Western Zone and Russian Eastern Zone) is outside help. A no-fly zone, some airstrikes to blunt Russian advances. Maybe some of those Polish/NATO pilots planning to ferry F-16s to Ukraine stay to fly them in combat? Something, anything.

That’s why America is being blitzed with Ukrainian propaganda, and your brother-in-law is ready to head to Europe with his never-cleaned hunting rifle. The goal is to change public opinion such that a weak guy like Joe Biden starts to doubt himself. The goal is get Biden to take that Pentagon meeting laying out options for some limited bombing, or to listen to those analysts saying the US could set up a small no-fly zone on Ukraine’s western edge to facilitate humanitarian aid. Drop in some Special Forces. Something, anything.

The purpose of the propaganda is to get Biden to sign off on something hopefully small enough that it falls below the threshold of provoking a nuclear response. A risky and delicate tasking. The bad news is Ukrainian propaganda is working. A non-partisan 74 percent of Americans say NATO should impose a no-fly zone in Ukraine. And that’s even as we are just getting started.

A quick propaganda recap. We’ve had the hero phase with the non-existent Ghost of Kyiv and the supermodels with guns. We’ve had the Russians-are-going-to-kill-us-all phase, with the faux threat of invasion to the West and the faux scare the Russians were going to create a Chernobyl-like nuclear accident by shelling a power plant. We are currently moving through the “not verifiable atrocities” phase. Alongside this is beefcake talk about Zelensky, the likes of which we haven’t seen since before the cancellations of Andrew Cuomo and Michael Avenatti. The fact-checking mania of the Covid era is in the dustbin of history as American media removes all the filters on pro-Ukrainian content.


The quality of the propaganda is not important (any scrap metal on snowy ground is breaking news of another Russian helo down, even if the metal has “Acme Junk Pile” written on it). The quantity is important, the attempt to overwhelm American mind space to the point where logic is shoved into the back corner. There is a growing cottage industry of “experts” explaining how to can go to war without going to THAT kind of war. Dissenting voices are few, and are often labeled as “Putin lovers,” with late night hosts hurling homophobic slurs at them like high school kids.

It all sounds silly when the effect of propaganda is to convince Americans higher gas prices are the cost of freedom, or booking an Airbnb they’ll never stay at will save Ukraine, or refusing Russian dressing on a salad. But it is deadly serious. There are two battles now playing out over Ukraine. The one on the ground — and the one on your social media seeking to drag America into the mud.

Only half a year after the sad ending in Afghanistan, it is stunning to watch America again contemplate going to war for some abstract purpose far removed from our own core interests. And this time it is the risk of a nuclear exchange to remind us of our mistake, not just an inglorious departure from Kabul.


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40   mostly reader   2022 Mar 12, 12:38pm  

richwicks says
Then have Ukraine agree not to join NATO
Why? NATO already demonstrated that it's not interested. Answer: because it's a BS demand.

richwicks says
Stop the conflict in Donbass, and take away Russia's complaint about it.


IT WAS RUSSIA THAT STARTED CONFLICT IN DONBASS AND ONLY RUSSIA COULD STOP IT
IT WAS RUSSIA THAT STARTED CONFLICT IN DONBASS AND ONLY RUSSIA COULD STOP IT
...
IT WAS RUSSIA THAT STARTED CONFLICT IN DONBASS AND ONLY RUSSIA COULD STOP IT

Repeat this until you reach enlightment.

richwicks says
Then put it into writing in a treaty and strip Russia of yet another complain and reason for this stupid conflict.
Russia annexed Crimea. Ukraine had no practical ways to get it back. Yet Putin starts war because Ukraine doesn't sign a treaty. Riight.

What else Ukraine can do to appease Putin? Blow him? Sounds reasonable.

Meanwhile, I found one pearl of your efforts. This thread is the perfect place to dissect and analyze your MO. Wait for it...
41   richwicks   2022 Mar 12, 12:41pm  

mostly reader says
richwicks says
Oh? Post a link to one of my points being debunked please. I don't remember this happening.
I debunked NATO argument multiple times here.


Well post links. You only have 262 posts.

https://www.patrick.net/user/mostly%20reader

You make claims you've debonked, show me where you have. Post links.

Russia has official complaints - they could be bullshit, just like the US often lies about why they go to war and make dishonest demands which are met and ignored anyhow. The demands of Russia are almost certain to be met, so what is the purpose of dragging out the war? If Russia is making false demands, like the US ALWAYS does, meet the demands and if the war continues regardless, it shows Russia to be full of shit, like the US was full of shit about Syria, Libya, and Iraq.
42   mostly reader   2022 Mar 12, 12:45pm  

richwicks says
Well post links. You only have 262 posts.
Oh fuck. You don't even read what's been written directly to you. Here: https://patrick.net//post/1344006&#comment-1825559 Search for "obviously"
43   richwicks   2022 Mar 12, 1:04pm  

mostly reader says
richwicks says
Well post links. You only have 262 posts.
Oh fuck. You don't even read what's been written directly to you. Here: https://patrick.net//post/1344006&#comment-1825559 Search for "obviously"


And this post debonks "the NATO argument" how?

Ukraine can simply say, in writing "we have no intention of joining NATO for at least X number of years". But they refuse to do that.

The United States has a meat puppet as a pretend president. Zelenskyy is the same thing. If Zelenskyy wasn't a puppet, and was instead an actual leader, he's just agree to all of Russia's demands, and strip Russia of every single excuse they have for the invasion, and save a bunch of lives.

But he doesn't care, doesn't matter if he does. He's a puppet. He's just a fucking pile of meat with a CIA hand stuffed up his asshole, making his mouth move. They want death and destruction - good propaganda. The big fear our CIA goon squad has, is maybe the war would end if Ukraine agreed. Can't have that, that would lessen the propaganda.

That's that kind of rancid shit that runs this nation, and runs Ukraine.
44   mostly reader   2022 Mar 12, 1:10pm  

richwicks says
And this post debonks "the NATO argument" how?
It. Asserts. That. NATO. Is. Not. Interested. This shouldn't even be contested. With Russia already having NATO countries at it's borders, it's an obvious pretext. Sign it just to reconfirm that it's a pretext? After Budapest Memorandum, any agreement signed with Russia may as well be signed on toilet paper. Because that will be it's final use.

And so, you just employed that wack-a-mole technique.
45   AmericanKulak   2022 Mar 12, 1:20pm  

All that's needed is a letter from the NATO secretary or France and Germany to say "No NATO membership for Ukraine" plus a pledge not to join.

Ukraine HAD a Neutrality Pledge in their Constitution from Independence to prior to the 2014 Coup.
46   richwicks   2022 Mar 12, 1:38pm  

mostly reader says
richwicks says
And this post debonks "the NATO argument" how?
It. Asserts. That. NATO. Is. Not. Interested. This shouldn't even be contested.


Then put it in a fucking treaty and strip Russia of an excuse to go to war. Why do they refuse to do this very reasonable thing?

The reality of the situation is that Ukraine's puppet leadership, the NATO puppet leadership, and the US puppet leadership want people to die. They want to drag out this conflict as long as they possibly can. That's why they won't sign that agreement. People are prevented from leaving Ukraine, citizens are being encouraged to make molotov cocktails and get killed. Zelenskyy is doing everything he can to ensure the maximum number of civilians are killed.

The US has goddamned biological labs in Ukraine. Why? Why are there UNITED STATES biological labs in Ukraine, on the border of Russia?

We have domestic enemies, not foreign ones. That's why. They are bloodthirsty murderers. They were running a child rape ring through Epstein. They just love to be fucking evil. I'm sure the fucking psychopaths right now are doing lines of coke and fucking hookers dreaming of WWIII. They'd like nothing better.

mostly reader says
And so, you just employed that wack-a-mole technique.


Your assertions are meaningless, they are just your statements, your beliefs. Why won't Ukraine and NATO make a public statement with a signed document? Because they want as many people to die as possible, because as Eisenhower warned us, the MIC runs not just this country, but Europe too.


original link


It's these fuckers causing this.
47   mostly reader   2022 Mar 12, 2:08pm  

This would be a 101 on how to detect one of the propaganda techniques.

Intro: most real-life situations have a large number of variables and moving parts. It's not always clear how they fit multi-dimentional world into a coherent picture based on incomplete and ambiguous data. Slight mis-interpretation of data points - a little bit to the right here, a little bit upwards there, skip this data point because it doesn't fit, stretch another one because it supports - and you get one pictures. Change the direction in which you move the points - and you get a different picture, which may also be consistent, yet be in conflict with the first one. That's what this technique does, it paints the picture by slight manipulation of data points. Lying by omission is quite popular with this approach.

Now, case in point: https://patrick.net/post/1343769&#comment-1826046 It's about that infamous intercepted conversation between Nuland and Pyatt, and conclusion by our resident "Russia-good-US-bad" trumpet:

> The US overthrew Ukraine in a coup. Nuland is indicating who the next leader of Ukraine will be, a month before the "revolution". There's no way she could have done this if the revolution was a revolution - it was a coup. The United States picked the next leader, and you're being intentionally naive and ignorant if you believe they had no sway in who the next leaders would be.

He points out that the conversation happened a month before the Maidan revolution. Which is indeed correct.

Here's what he doesn't mention:
- That unrest in Ukraine and demonstrations on Maidan started in 2013
- That by the time of this conversation, the political landscape of the opposition has already shaped out
- That (likely) Russian puppet Yanukovitch was already a political corpse

Here's what I gather on the surface of this conversation: the wheels were in motion, and US saw an opportunity in this new development. We inserted ourselves into this picture. Some may say that we shouldn't have, and I won't argue. That's not a discussion that I'd be having.

However, that's not his assertion. The assertion is about US overthrowing Ukraine, which is simply not in evidence. Not based on that chat.

You may suggest that it still doesn't look good. I agree with that. You may also suggest that our involvement started much earlier. That would be speculation by association, but I still wouldn't argue, except for one thing.

Here it is.

We now know that Nuland's line was compromised. WHERE THE FUCK ARE HER CONVERSATIONs THAT WOULD FIT THE TIMELINE OF THE BEGINNING OF THE UPRISING?? Where are the conversations which would incriminate us in starting the whole thing? Something going back to November 2013, or even prior? (edit: to be clear, Maidan started in Nov. 2013, not 2014)

Russia invited this question by de-facto disclosing that her phone was bugged.

None. Nada. Zilch. Apparently, this is the best that they had. THIS IS THE BEST THEY HAD! They couldn't produce a conversation which lead to Maidan in 2013. They couldn't produce a convesation which would explain how all those mentioned players - Yatsenyuk, Klitchko, others - got to the top of the movement. They only produced the conversation which discussed how we wanted to play/shuffle the cards in the landscape which already was there.

Which doesn't stop some unscrupulous minds from throwing around the "US revolt" theory left and right, where it fits and where it doesn't. Because "speculation by association".

Moral? Pay attention to small details, that's where most of manipulation happens. Pay even more attention to what they don't say. Because lying by omission may be quite powerful.

One way to turn truth into a lie.
48   AmericanKulak   2022 Mar 12, 2:13pm  

mostly reader says
1. NATO. NATO had >8 year to enroll Ukraine. It didn't happen. I call BS

Until Russia gets a signed letter, it's a continuing threat. NATO members have conducted exercises in Ukraine just last year:
COSSACK MACE
https://foreignbrief.com/daily-news/ukraine-british-joint-military-exercise-cossack-mace-2021-concludes-today/?source=patrick.net
TRIDENT:
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/ukraine-holds-military-drills-with-us-forces-nato-allies-2021-09-20/

2. Bombing Donbass. It was Russia that started hybrid war in Donbass. He runs his mouth on and on about Ukraine bombing Donbass and not a peep about Donbass bombing Ukraine. When he talks about Ukraine bombing Donbass, he applies none of the critical filters regarding video (or other) materials that he applies to the other side

Donbas left because of a Coup of an Elected Government - not just the President, but members of Parliament were hounded out by a mob. Guess which region had their MPs and Presidential choice removed? They decided it was time to "Stop the Steal" by leaving.

There was other fuckery, like Donbas-area police, military, and civil officers being sacked, unpaid, or locked out of national and regional offices illegally and without any process after the 2014 Coup.

mostly reader says
3. Gives up Crimea. It already did. At least "for all practical purposes". Ukraine had no leverage to get Crimea back, and knew it. Ironically, Putin turned that script around. Now I can see a scenario in which Ukraine may get Crimea back.


Official recognition/Surrendering Claims is a Big Deal. It means there is no excuse for Ukraine to start something OR, if it joins a foreign alliance, it can't claim it's OFFICIAL territory is being occupied, so it's defensive to call on friends to help take it back. Which it can legally do at any time without the formal "Quit Claim" (or in EUIV: "Revoke Claim")


Because strategically, Russia is finished. Regardless of the outcome of this war.

No offense, but this is an ignorant remark. No country the size in landmass and culture like Russia is 'finished'.

What I'm seeing is a long planned response, including reminding people that the USSR was mostly self-sufficient and including new alliances with Chinese Finance and Industry.

Europe and the US is too dependent on CHYna to sanction it meaningfully. That's why you've seen the US try to threaten India. But of course, Modi would say "If you're going to sanction me for not sanctioning, all you do is help China and show how unfair you are - where are these same sanctions on CHYna for not sanctioning?"
49   mostly reader   2022 Mar 12, 2:18pm  

> AmericanKulak
It's simple:
- Do you deny that Russia started hybrid war in Donbass?
- Do you consider Russia to be a trustworthy partner who would abide by a signed treaty?
- Are you aware of the proclaimed goals of the Russian invasion?
50   richwicks   2022 Mar 12, 2:20pm  

mostly reader says
Intro: most real-life situations have a large number of variables and moving parts. It's not always clear how they fit multi-dimentional world into a coherent picture based on incomplete and ambiguous data. Slight mis-interpretation of data points - a little bit to the right here, a little bit upwards there, skip this data point because it doesn't fit, stretch another one because it supports - and you get one pictures. Change the direction in which you move the points - and you get a different picture, which may also be consistent, yet be in conflict with the first one. That's what this technique does, it paints the picture by slight manipulation of data points. Lying by omission is quite popular with this approach


What poppycock.

The truth is easy to ascertain because there's no contradictions in truth.

Lies are complicated, which is why you have to write a paragraph to explain why people shouldn't trust their lying ears. I have a little more faith in the reasoning of people, and I don't try to confuse that reasoning or question it.

Victoria Nuland was recorded a month before the CIA coup d'etat of Ukraine and in that recording she is openly discussing who the next "leader" of Ukraine would be - or the apparent leader. The CIA runs Ukraine just like they run the United States.

This:



is not our president. He's a meat puppet of the CIA - but this, obviously is.

51   mostly reader   2022 Mar 12, 2:21pm  

richwicks says
What poppycock.
You didn't even read it, did you? Read it. Compare timelines. Not just one point, the entire timeline.

I explained why your "CIA coup" assertion is dishonest.
52   AmericanKulak   2022 Mar 12, 2:22pm  

mostly reader says
> AmericanKulak
It's simple:
- Do you deny that Russia started hybrid war in Donbass?
- Do you consider Russia to be a trustworthy partner who would abide by a signed treaty?
- Are you aware of the proclaimed goals of the Russian invasion?


Russia responded to a Coup on a neighboring country that overthrew a DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED government, including non-pro-Western Parliament Members, not just the President.

Yes, Russia has abided by many treaties in the past. SALT and the anti-ABM treaty. You'll recall that trying to dance around those treaties with SDI and "Anti-Iranian" Missile Shields was done by the USA.

Yes, the goals are for a Neutral Ukraine and recognition of Crimea. As well as the Donbas, but that might be a point the Russians might give up in return for monitored Elections in Ukraine

Remember, Ukraine was Neutral by Constitutional Clause until the Coup of 2014, which resulted in a purge of Eastern Ukrainian MPs (and other officials) as well as the Majority-winning President.
53   mostly reader   2022 Mar 12, 2:24pm  

AmericanKulak says
- Do you deny that Russia started hybrid war in Donbass?
Yes or no?

AmericanKulak says
Yes, Russia has abided by many treaties in the past.
LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!! You can't make this up.
Righting it down.

"He cheated on me so many times. And I so many times was faithful to him!"
54   AmericanKulak   2022 Mar 12, 2:26pm  

mostly reader says

Yes, Russia has abided by many treaties in the past. SALT and the anti-ABM treaty. You'll recall that trying to dance around those treaties with SDI and "Anti-Iranian" Missile Shields was done by the USA.



Yes, Russia has abided by many treaties in the past. SALT and the anti-ABM treaty. You'll recall that trying to dance around those treaties with SDI and "Anti-Iranian" Missile Shields was done by the USA.
mostly reader says
LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!! You can't make this up.

Ad hom.

Which Treaties has Russia broken? Note: Legally withdrawing from a treaty != not obeying it.

Here is a treaty we talked of leaving:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWrsggtpv7E
That wasn't a violation, that was and announcement legally withdrawing from it.

We didn't violate the treaty, we left it. Big difference.
The burden is on YOU to find the total number of treaties that Russia is signed onto, and which ones they clearly violated, and what the percentage or ratio was.
55   mostly reader   2022 Mar 12, 2:31pm  

AmericanKulak says
Which Treaties has Russia broken?
Russia. Broke. Budapest Memorandum. I hope you are not going to say "it's a Memorandum, which makes it ok"

The one and the only. They backstabbed the country which they pledged to protect,.
56   AmericanKulak   2022 Mar 12, 2:34pm  

mostly reader says
Budapest Memorandum


Violated in 2004 and 2014 by the US and UK when they fomented coups, thus failing to:

Respect Belarusian, Kazakh and Ukrainian independence and sovereignty in the existing borders.

The dangling of EU Carrots and US aid for 'correct' domestic and foreign policies:
Refrain from using economic pressure on Belarus, Kazakhstan or Ukraine to influence their politics.

We have "Toria" Nuland on tape discussing who should replace Yankovytch before he was overthrown.
57   richwicks   2022 Mar 12, 2:35pm  

mostly reader says
richwicks says
What poppycock.
You didn't even read it, did you? Read it. Compare timelines. Not just one point, the entire timeline.


I have compared timelines. The audio call was made public 3 weeks before Yanukovych was deposed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2XNN0Yt6D8&source=patrick.net

That was posted on February 7, 2014

Yanukovych was removed from office on February 22, 2014

See how easy the truth is? That's why I prefer it. It's much easier to understand than a lie.

I don't think you're worth listening to, and frankly given the quality of conversation I've had on this site over the course of the last few years, I'm doubtful you have much of an impact here. I honestly don't think you're worth much consideration.

mostly reader says
I explained why your "CIA coup" assertion is dishonest.


Well, you attempted to lie about it. That's fine.

I'm well beyond the anger of having dupes and propagandists being around. They are NEVER going away. I fully accept that. I can't even get the littlest bit upset with them. Like disease, it's never going away.
58   FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden   2022 Mar 12, 2:42pm  

At George of the 2020 Color Revolution elites played on us. The martyr of the movement… fuck this government
59   richwicks   2022 Mar 12, 2:47pm  

Fortwaynemobile says
At George of the 2020 Color Revolution elites played on us. The martyr of the movement… fuck this government


Yeah, that's right. This guy is a hero saint:



And this is a white supremacist:



But it's all changed! We're getting COMPLETELY ACCURATE information about Ukraine now. They wouldn't lie about a war would they?


original link


Well.. They wouldn't be lying now.. :P
60   mostly reader   2022 Mar 12, 2:47pm  

richwicks says
I have compared timelines. The audio call was made public 3 weeks before Yanukovych was deposed.
So, you have ignored the emphasis - that the uprising started MONTHS prior. You also missed my point in capitals. You still wouldn't touch it. It destroys you.

I'll repeat that part:

We now know that Nuland's line was compromised. WHERE THE FUCK ARE HER CONVERSATIONs THAT WOULD FIT THE TIMELINE OF THE BEGINNING OF THE UPRISING?? Where are the conversations which would incriminate us in starting the whole thing? Something going back to November 2013, or even prior?

Russia invited this question by de-facto disclosing that her phone was bugged.

None. Nada. Zilch. Apparently, this is the best that they had. THIS IS THE BEST THEY HAD! They couldn't produce a conversation which lead to Maidan in 2013. They couldn't produce a convesation which would explain how all those mentioned players - Yatsenyuk, Klitchko, others - got to the top of the movement. They only produced the conversation which discussed how we wanted to play/shuffle the cards in the landscape which already was there.

Which doesn't stop some unscrupulous minds from throwing around the "US revolt" theory left and right, where it fits and where it doesn't. Because "speculation by association".

* "November" - because that's when unrest on Maidan started
61   AmericanKulak   2022 Mar 12, 2:49pm  

Fortwaynemobile says
At George of the 2020 Color Revolution elites played on us. The martyr of the movement… fuck this government


You got it.

richwicks says
Yeah, that's right. This guy is a hero saint:


Yup, a roided out drug addict never do well who beat up girlfriends, sold drugs, and invaded then burgled the home of a pregnant lady disguised in a security uniform, smacking her pregnant ass around. Nobody stays that big so long without Roids or Pre-Roids - see also Hugh Jackman, another Hollywood Special Exemption from the Rules All Else Must Follow. No 40 year old goes from reasonably fit to jacked in a few months by simply hitting the gym and eating chicken and broccoli and Protein Whey Shakes.
62   mostly reader   2022 Mar 12, 2:58pm  

AmericanKulak says
mostly reader says
Budapest Memorandum


Violated in 2004 and 2014 by the US and UK when they fomented coups, thus failing to:

Respect Belarusian, Kazakh and Ukrainian independence and sovereignty in the existing borders.

The dangling of EU Carrots and US aid for 'correct' domestic and foreign policies:
Refrain from using economic pressure on Belarus, Kazakhstan or Ukraine to influence their politics.

We have "Toria" Nuland on tape discussing who should replace Yankovytch before he was overthrown.
I addressed the Noland/Yanukovytch comment in a post more fitting for this thread. https://patrick.net/post/1344073&40#comment-1826473 But duly noted that you 1) compare "dangling of EU Carrots and US aid" to first hybrid war and then invasion 2) assert nonetheless that Russia is a trustworthy partner.
Got it.
63   richwicks   2022 Mar 12, 3:14pm  

mostly reader says
So, you have ignored the emphasis -


I'm just kind of ignoring you.

When I said I didn't think you were worth much consideration, I wasn't saying that just to insult you. I think it's quite a waste of my time to pay attention to what you write.

For example, it's entirely irrelevant even if Yanukovych was about to be removed anyhow, the fact of the matter is that Nuland is clearly deciding on who the next "leader" is going to be. That's a fact. It's not a supposition, it's not an inference, that's absolutely without doubt, true.

Now if Nuland wasn't such a stupid fucking whore, she would have denied the conversation, that would have been plausible at least. But she didn't. And to compound it our bullshit "news" media only reported her SHOCKING (!!! clasp my pearls !!!) use of vulgarity, and omitted the part where she was talking about who the next leader of Ukraine was going to be and who wouldn't be.

Our fucking system, it's just hilarious. They don't even respect the public enough to LIE to them at this point.

And you, you poor dope, you still believe it or claim you do, and are incensed I don't. Just ridiculous.

My government and my news, they are worth nothing more than my contempt at this point.
64   mostly reader   2022 Mar 12, 3:43pm  

richwicks says
Now if Nuland wasn't such a stupid fucking whore, she would have denied the conversation, that would have been plausible at least. But she didn't.
OMG. Is that enlightenment coming through? Nah, doubt it.

Indeed. She should've foreseen into what kind of message the propaganda machine will turn this conversation. She didn't, that whore, and (I can only assume) didn't make much of it.

But how is that timeline check going? Have you already discovered that Maidan started in 2013? Have you found answers to that inconvenient "how come that's the best they have" question? Or waiting for instructions?
65   richwicks   2022 Mar 12, 3:57pm  

mostly reader says
richwicks says
Now if Nuland wasn't such a stupid fucking whore, she would have denied the conversation, that would have been plausible at least. But she didn't.
OMG. Is that enlightenment coming through? Nah, doubt it.


?

mostly reader says
Indeed. She should've foreseen into what kind of message the propaganda machine will turn this conversation. She didn't, that whore, and (I can only assume) didn't make much of it.


You use "propaganda machine" in the way our government uses "insurrection" or "white supremacist".

I'm tired of newspeak, and people, like you, who commonly use this sort of tactic, simply can't be taken seriously. We've had the audio for nearly a decade.

mostly reader says

But how is that timeline check going? Have you already discovered that Maidan started in 2013?


It's irrelevant. It doesn't matter what happened prior.

I know exactly how my government overthrows other governments. I know what they did in Operation Ajax and PBSuccess. I know how they fund astroturf campaigns, and you do as well, since they did it in the United States with Antifa and BLM. It took our intelligence agencies 4 years to toss out Trump. How long did they work in Ukraine? I don't know, but Nuland said they pumped in 5 billion dollars for the effort.

If the coup was not successful, and it failed, the audio recording is still important because it shows US intervention in Ukraine something we shouldn't be fucking doing. Self determination IS I believe a human right, our nation, or rather our intelligence agencies, subvert that.

The reason Hunter Biden, a cokehead loser, is on the BOD of Burisma, is just because of US government intervention and blatant corruption. Who isn't fed up with this kind of shit? You're not apparently.

If our pederast pervert president Biden was LEGITIMATELY elected, I wouldn't have a problem with it, but he wasn't. He was installed by our intelligence agencies and WE have no right to self determination. Who is our enemy? Well, I'd put Russia pretty far down that list. They aren't fucking with our elections, but that lie can stand because our traitorous intelligence agencies have deemed it to be so.

A gestapo runs our country, we don't. You're a promoter of that gestapo, because you're either a coward or an idiot. Doesn't particularly matter which it is. Even the traitors that work in the intelligence agencies will be fucked by that machine in time. They're just useful idiots.
66   mostly reader   2022 Mar 12, 4:05pm  

richwicks says
It's irrelevant. It doesn't matter what happened prior.
It's super relevant. It destroys your narrative. Which you would've known if you read and comprehended my post.

You really should change your handle to "mostly writer".
67   richwicks   2022 Mar 12, 4:12pm  

mostly reader says
richwicks says
It's irrelevant. It doesn't matter what happened prior.
It's super relevant. Which you would've known if you read and comprehended my post.


The only point I've been making repeatedly is that Victoria Nuland was openly choosing the next leader of Ukraine before the position for leader of Ukraine was open.

When has that been part of the job description of the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs?

What right does the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs have to pick a new leader in Ukraine?

Now that she is Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs she's explaining why there are US biological research labs in Ukraine. What are they doing in Ukraine?

It's astounding. What a fucking snake she is.

mostly reader says
You really should change your handle to "mostly writer".


No, I prefer to use my real name when voicing my political dissent.
68   AmericanKulak   2022 Mar 12, 4:25pm  

mostly reader says
I addressed the Noland/Yanukovytch comment in a post more fitting for this thread. https://patrick.net/post/1344073&40#comment-1826473 But duly noted that you 1) compare "dangling of EU Carrots and US aid" to first hybrid war and then invasion 2) assert nonetheless that Russia is a trustworthy partner.


Not worth answering. It's very clear to everybody who isn't a Faux Skeptic that the US and Soros NGOs were deeply involved in organizing the Maidan Protests.

The support for the Maidan Protesters was present from day one when the US warned the then-Ukrainian government to be very careful with the protesters, basically treat them the way Blue Cities treated Antifa/BLM rioters, to let them run riot no matter what.

This is like saying "Mossadegh wasn't overthrown with CIA help, it was totally organic and domestic, yeah, that's the ticket."
69   mostly reader   2022 Mar 12, 4:36pm  

richwicks says
The only point I've been making repeatedly is that Victoria Nuland was openly choosing the next leader of Ukraine before the position for leader of Ukraine was open.
Of course she was. And that's a truth. And I further explained how you turned it into a lie. Omission here, omission there.. it looks like you know the drill.

Anyways, that was fun. Hope it helps someone.
70   richwicks   2022 Mar 12, 4:50pm  

mostly reader says
richwicks says
The only point I've been making repeatedly is that Victoria Nuland was openly choosing the next leader of Ukraine before the position for leader of Ukraine was open.
Of course she was. And that's a truth. And I further explained how you turned it into a lie. Omission here, omission there.. it looks like you know the drill.


Again, this is why I don't treat you seriously.

The Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs was openly choosing the next leader of Ukraine before the position for leader of Ukraine was open.

She had no business doing this. Obviously. This is some fucking insane level of fuckery of our government, and you just ignore it. Could you imagine if a Russian diplomat of ANY rank was openly discussing in a conversation who the next leader of the United States was going to be just prior to having the president ousted and then 3 weeks later, that's who the next "president" was?

I keep going back to this as if it's a big fucking deal, because it's a very big fucking deal. Ukraine is at war because of this. Think this asshole is really in charge of anything?



Do you?

A US puppet has been installed in a nation where Russia has been twice attacked before, and who is hosting biological "research" labs.

What
the
fuck??

If say, what happened in Ukraine happened in Mexico and Russia was behind it, you'd be singing and entirely different tune. What if Russia had biological "research" labs in Mexico?

And let's say the US went to war with Mexico over this bullshit, and the Russian puppet leader there refused to stand down, refused to surrender, and encouraged his civilian population to fight with improvised weapons? Zelenskyy is a fucking monster who is INTENTIONALLY getting people killed.

What would you be saying about this? I'd be saying the same thing as I am now

It's just crazy. You're crazy.
71   mostly reader   2022 Mar 12, 5:24pm  

richwicks says
I'm just kind of ignoring you... (followed by hundreds of lines of text and recycling the same points)
This is not what "ignoring" looks like.

"mostly writer". Seriously. Very fitting.
72   richwicks   2022 Mar 12, 5:31pm  

mostly reader says
richwicks says
I'm just kind of ignoring you... (followed by hundreds of lines of text and recycling the same points)
This is not what "ignoring" looks like.


Yeah, I was being sloppy in my writing.

What I should have said is that I do not respect your thinking at all, it's not worth my time to try to explain why it's wrong, and I don't think you could possibly change any minds to your version of what I laughably would call "thinking" anyhow so there's little point in going through the effort or time to explain what is wrong about how you bizarrely draw conclusions.

Or more succinctly, I think everybody here realizes you're incorrect, and you're incapable of realizing it.
73   mostly reader   2022 Mar 12, 6:09pm  

richwicks says
Yeah, I was being sloppy in my writing.
Indeed. You are also sloppy in your thinking.

richwicks says
Or more succinctly, I think everybody here realizes you're incorrect, and you're incapable of realizing it.

I wouldn't know that I'm incorrect until someone destroys my argument. You haven't, you've started shatting bricks instead. You probably understand that you've been owned. You should also realize that your argumentum ad populum just made you look like a FB snowflake.
74   Patrick   2022 Mar 12, 6:11pm  

https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/what-we-all-need-to-know-about-the?s=r&source=patrick.net


What we all need to know about the propaganda coming from "Ukraine"
More on the fake atrocities, a (real) false flag attack, and those parts of the story that the propaganda is NOT telling us

Mark Crispin Miller

A rundown of the many fake atrocities that millions think were actually committed by the Russians in Ukraine:
https://www.stopworldcontrol.com/ukraine/?source=patrick.net

An eyewitness of a Ukrainian false flag attack tells what she saw:
https://21stcenturywire.com/2022/03/12/witness-exposes-ukrainian-army-false-flag-operation-in-donbass/?source=patrick.net

“The White House is outsourcing propaganda,” by “briefing” TikTok stars about “Ukraine”:
https://t.me/realCRP/3605?source=patrick.net

For a fuller picture of the current crisis:
In a talk at Yale in 2018, Vladimir Pozner offered crucial background to the US/Russia relationship, which was already at an all-time low:

A sharp take on this madness, from Vladimir Golstein, Professor of Slavic Studies at Brown University:

The Truth Barrier
Words From A Russian Professor Of Slavic Studies: Western Powers, Was It Worth It?
Just to Sum Up. So Russia gets nervous about NATO pushing into Ukraine. Fine. People should understand it, including Americans, who were ready to go to war over Cuban missile crisis. Putin organizes a real diplomatic blitzkrieg. Lavrov and Putin meet dozens of western leaders in less than a month. Yet, all he gets is a middle finger…
Read more
12 hours ago · 68 likes · 24 comments · Celia Farber
“Those people’s lives don’t matter”: On the staggering hypocrisy of the outrage over “Ukraine”:
https://content.blubrry.com/last_american_vagabond/TDWU-3-10-22-FINAL.mp3?source=patrick.net

Dilyana Gatandzhieva, Bulgarian investigative journalist, on the US bio-weapons program—an article from 2018, and a recent interview on the US bio-labs in Ukraine:
The Pentagon Bio-weapons
By Dilyana Gaytandzhieva April 29, 2018

https://archive.ph/N0IAR?source=patrick.net#selection-395.0-446.0
75   richwicks   2022 Mar 12, 6:19pm  

mostly reader says
I wouldn't know that I'm incorrect until someone destroys my argument.


I'm satisfied you can't possibly ever find any error in your position because you're not intellectually capable of doing it.

I think other people here can easily see the error in your position.

I can't appeal to your standards because you have no standards. That's the minimum somebody needs to have, you don't them.
76   FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden   2022 Mar 12, 6:24pm  

richwicks says
mostly reader says
I wouldn't know that I'm incorrect until someone destroys my argument.


I'm satisfied you can't possibly ever find any error in your position because you're not intellectually capable of doing it.

I think other people here can easily see the error in your position.


You two, boys you’ll enjoy the convo a lot more if you take it less personal and insult each other less. Just old age advice. Patnet is a nice site, we should all learn to get along.
77   mostly reader   2022 Mar 12, 6:48pm  

richwicks says
I'm satisfied you can't possibly ever find any error in your position because you're not intellectually capable of doing it.


Your problem is, you can't find any error in my position either. But really, really, REALLY want to. So you try to counter by throwing more cliches into the air.

Just for your shopping convenience, comrade: https://patrick.net/post/1344073&#comment-1826473
78   mostly reader   2022 Mar 12, 6:50pm  

Fortwaynemobile says
You two, boys you’ll enjoy the convo a lot more if you take it less personal and insult each other less. Just old age advice. Patnet is a nice site, we should all learn to get along.
As of 02/23/2022 it got personal. Sometimes you have to call things for what they are.
79   richwicks   2022 Mar 12, 7:02pm  

mostly reader says
Your problem is, you can't find any error in my position either.


I'm just tired of talking to a brick wall. I don't think you're this obtuse. I just think you're simply dishonest.

It's sort of like this. I don't think I could convince Rachael Maddow that Russia didn't hack our election, and it's not because she's stupid, she knows she's lying. Similarly, that's how I feel about you. I don't think you actually hold the position you claim to hold. I think you're lying.

I think it's quite obvious that the US overthrew Ukraine, that the US picked the next leaders, that they were infiltrating Ukraine for a long time, that the leadership of Ukraine are all puppets of the United States, and that the US has been targeting Russia for a very long time. I think this is obvious to you, but you're lying about it.

There's a good saying I like, it is "you cannot wake a person that pretends to sleep". This is because the person isn't asleep, they are just pretending to be asleep. You, I think, pretend to be asleep, and there's no way to wake you. You will continue to lie, in every sense of the word, forever

I think people going through the tedium of this thread would come to the same conclusion I have anyhow.

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