Re: The usual bullshit
Spoken by someone who does not understand that people are not mindless automatons under authoritarian control.
Spoken by someone who doesn't really address my point, and instead demostrates why our 'leaders' are so desperate to expand their authoritarian control and create mindless simpletons who simply believe everything they're told. Or as Cooper puts it in the article-
In a wide-ranging speech due later this afternoon, Yvette Cooper will remind senior diplomats and European dignitaries of the methods that "malign foreign states" are using to undermine trust in domestic powers.
The easiest way for trust in domestic powers to be undermined is when they lie, act like idiots or act directly against their own citzen's interests.. Which is why trust in politicians is at an all-time low. And being authoritarian, the domesitic powers seem to think the best way to win back trust is to punish dissent, or censorship.
It's because they're defending their country against an invader which wants to turn their society into the same godforsaken hellish broken place that Russia..
.. Isnt? But again you haven't really addressed my point, instead demonstrating the power of propaganda and misinformation. So our 'leaders' are currently plotting to give another $100bn+ to defence companies to keep the conflict in Ukraine going for maybe another 18 months. Which isn't likely to change anything because Ukraine doesn't need weapons, it needs soldiers. Four years on, Ukraine's run out of volunteers and relying on conscripts snatched off the streets. Meanwhile, Ukraine's 'Monaco Battalions' and those fortunate enough to have escaped are sitting this one out. There are also a lot of Ukrainians defending their country, except on the side of DPR & LPR, because at the core, this is still the civil war that started in 2014.
So given this is a 'war' of attrition rather than territory, it would be sensible to conserve forces, because the UAF is running out of bodies willing and able to fight. Not apparently telling Pokrovsk forces to fall sideways to Myrnohrad, which is also now encircled and can't be supplied. Sirsky may be gambling that if they wait till the last minute and surrender, they might get some back in a prisoner exchange, but Ukraine doesn't have many prisoners to exchange, and Russia may decide to let PoWs sit the conflict out until it ends.
But you're probably also a victim of more propaganda, thinking Russia is a 'godforsaken hellish broken place'.. This is what you've been told, but you can find plenty of videos showing tourists around cities like Moscow, showing clean, tidy streets and plenty of food in the shops. They certainly look cleaner than most European or US cities. You were told Russia's economy is 'in tatters', but reality seems to show otherwise.
The only country in the world where the invading force steals toilet bowls and washing machines.
Uh huh. Which do you think undermines trust in domestic powers more? Corruption invesigations finding bundles of cash and gold toilets, or being told that Russia was out of missile components, and so resorting to recycling washing machines?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
