I was not going to post here anymore because it triggers me too much unfortunately. And I can only repeat that the way Russia and Putin are portrayed in western media has been very negative for quite a long time now. And it is impossible to understand this "manufactured crisis " without a bit of background info - and the Americans themselves have admitted that their goal is retaining full spectrum dominance, that means prohibiting other countries's rise to power that could threaten their "superpower status". And we all know US has used dirty tricks and orchestrated coups , not only in Ukraine but decades ago in South America etc.
You can read about their tactics in books like "the grand chessboard" by Zbigniew Bresinski for example. He explicitly mentions Ukraine as an "entry point" in order to weaken and destroy Russia. Which is why with the overthrow of Yanukovich who was too russia-friendly "the most blatant coup in history (according to George Friedman of STratfor)" was orchestrated by the US in Kiew in 2014....
Anyways what I was going to say is this :
to all of you reading this, who are convinced that Russia is not a democracy, that Putin is an "evil dictator" and that there is no freedom there.
For one week, I dare you to leave your mainstream media and TV behind and do the following :
consume ONLY Russian state-sponsored media.
That would be Tass, Sputnik and RT afaik, who have English translations. (or maybe Vasilisa knows others, please write them down)
Only read and watch those.
And mentally take notes - how do they broadcast news. How do they portray world affairs etc.
Do they report in a neutral way or do they take sides, resort to name-calling, vilifiying etc.
Do they quote sources, or do they only "state" things without backing their facts up.
Watch videos with interviews of for example Putin and Lawrow. You can find those with English translations online. Listen to them directly.
Do this for the sake of balance and for trying to see the other side too. Because that is one of the basic rules in a court of law also:
auditur et altera pars. And that is what western media tries to destroy by prohibiting Russian media outlets in the west.
After that week you can go back to your own media.
You can read about their tactics in books like "the grand chessboard" by Zbigniew Bresinski for example. He explicitly mentions Ukraine as an "entry point" in order to weaken and destroy Russia. Which is why with the overthrow of Yanukovich who was too russia-friendly "the most blatant coup in history (according to George Friedman of STratfor)" was orchestrated by the US in Kiew in 2014....
Anyways what I was going to say is this :
to all of you reading this, who are convinced that Russia is not a democracy, that Putin is an "evil dictator" and that there is no freedom there.
For one week, I dare you to leave your mainstream media and TV behind and do the following :
consume ONLY Russian state-sponsored media.
That would be Tass, Sputnik and RT afaik, who have English translations. (or maybe Vasilisa knows others, please write them down)
Only read and watch those.
And mentally take notes - how do they broadcast news. How do they portray world affairs etc.
Do they report in a neutral way or do they take sides, resort to name-calling, vilifiying etc.
Do they quote sources, or do they only "state" things without backing their facts up.
Watch videos with interviews of for example Putin and Lawrow. You can find those with English translations online. Listen to them directly.
Do this for the sake of balance and for trying to see the other side too. Because that is one of the basic rules in a court of law also:
auditur et altera pars. And that is what western media tries to destroy by prohibiting Russian media outlets in the west.
After that week you can go back to your own media.