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I was more alluding to the view of some that seem to think everything on msm is wrong, mostly it seems, just because it's on msm.

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These people with alternative narratives can largely only exist because they say things that general news channels aren't, and the more fantastical, the better.

If they were saying the same things, what would be the point of them, and how could they possibly monetise it if news is available elsewhere for free?

They would literally have no purpose, and their incomes would be approximately zero.

ZaZo73 - Is your Alex Christoforou the same one that wrote this two years or so ago:

"Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters that it is important for NATO to respond to Russia “in a measured way”, as the warmonger chief referenced the Deep State hoax nerve-agent attack by Russia (evidence has yet to be provided by UK PM Theresa May). Stoltenberg then went on to cite a laundry list of fake “crimes” committed by the Russians, for which NATO must take into account should a member state suddenly invoke Article 5."

"Crimea has been with Russia for 8 years so best to just leave it with them"

Now that Ukraine has support from the most powerful countries in the world - both militarily and economically - why would Ukraine ever agree to that?

Surely they see this as their best chance - perhaps ever - to rid themselves of the Russians once and for all, after they've stolen their lands in Crimea, continue to destroy their infrastructure and of course sadly kill their citizens.

They can see that many countries are out to cripple Russia for the next few generations if necessary, so why not ride this wave as far as it can go? The G7 (according to Wiki), while having just 10% of world population, had just over 50% of global wealth and third to nearly half of global GDP in 2020, so they can easily afford to help out, and likely for a very long time if necessary.

BBC News - "Viewpoint: Putin now faces only different kinds of defeat"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61348287
(For those that don't like this type of "propaganda", then please don't read it - simples!)

The economic affects described accord with my thinking from the very start - and are fundamentally at odds with a number of people posting here - that Russia is backing itself into a very small and very expensive corner, and perhaps for a long time as well:

"The western powers will keep supplying weapons and money to Kyiv, and will not be lifting powerful sanctions on Russia any time soon.

Once Europe's energy dependency on it is greatly lessened, Russia has so little that Europe really needs, the US and Europe will be able to leave crippling sanctions in place with small cost to their own economies."

tfish - "Hilarious the pukys are hiding inside a soviet built construction."

With your lot trying to kill them, it's doesn't seem a wholly unreasonable thing to be doing - no matter who constructed it.

From theLocal.de, 7 May 2022 16:24 CEST:

Chancellor Olaf Scholz will address the people of Germany in a televised speech on Sunday, May 8th – 77 years after the German capitulation which ended the Second World War.

He will talk about the end of the war and the fighting in Ukraine, which he described earlier in the week as “the greatest catastrophe of our time”.

Government spokeswoman, Christiane Hoffmann, said the Chancellor decided to make the speech because it was a special anniversary and because two countries that had been victims of German aggression in World War II were now at war with each other.

In a speech on Friday, the German Chancellor said that “Russia’s cruel war of aggression and annihilation marks a radical break with the European peace order after the end of the Cold War”.

The commemorative speech, which will be recorded on Sunday afternoon, will be broadcast by ARD at 8.20 pm.

On this historic date, Scholz will also be hosting a digital conference with the other G7 countries to discuss the situation in Ukraine, and Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky will also be attending online.

rbrand's just winding everyone up with their "truth"/"untruth" nonsense.
They've stated that their "truths" are from such trustworthy sources as:
- Scott Ritter - convicted criminal, on a register (yes, that type of register, and for life) [sources: everywhere on the www]
- Patrick Lancaster - identified as filming with cadavers that were exploded using fake IEDs [sources: e.g. Bellingcat]

" Honestly what next - "Coca Cola have been sanctioned as we have seen a Russian soldier drinking some and they are therefore aiding the war" - I think not!"

Think again. "The Coca-Cola Company announced today that it is suspending its business in Russia" [Coca-Cola, 8 March 2022]

"Quincey [James Quincey, CEO of Coca-Cola Co.] was speaking during the CEO Council Summit hosted by U.S. newspaper the Wall Steet Journal in London, the UK. According to him, Coca-Cola could see its Russian business “entirely vanish at some point,” should the war Ukraine drag on for a while." [Yahoo News, 5 May 2022]

Foreigners are banned from selling, perhaps.
The vast majority of free float shares on the Russian market are owned by foreigners, or at least they were last year (80.7% at 01/07/2021).

Do you know what sanctions Putin is soon to bring in? I've not seen any details of these.

Not everyone in the EU agrees on sanctions so far, and it seems to be going quite well e.g. Hungary, which probably shouldn't be in the EU under Orban anyway

big-blue - I would read my post much more carefully (my attempt at sarcasm failed).

So on 9th May Putin is going to declare "victory"? So what? Why does what he say matter, when the explicit statement by many who are applying the sanctions is that Russia must leave Ukraine. I'm not grasping why 9th May matters, unless Putin claims "victory" and then immediately proceeds to leave Ukraine (a radical new definition of "victory", it seems to me). So enlighten me, please.

(Russia claim the UK [and other countries that say nasty things about him] can be nuked into oblivion with one Satan 2 nuclear missile in 202 seconds from launch, then I read that it can be overwhelmed by a enormous, radioactive tsunami caused by the detonation of a different type of nuclear bomb. Perhaps on the 9th May there will be the announcement of another way in which the UK [or similar] can be easily obliterated. However, I do think they've lost sight of the fact that there is only one UK [or similar] to destroy.)

Newdealz - Ok, I genuinely wondered if I had the right Scott Ritter - especially with all those people following him and praising his opinion!

Referring to Scott Ritter, is this the individual convicted of certain offences, who served a custodial sentence, and who finds himself on a certain type of register? (How embarrassed will I be if I have these Scotts completely mixed up!)

But if it is the same one, search literally anywhere on the internet for: (a) details for the offences (that he denied), (b) the sentence, (c) the custodial term, (d) the register type, and (e) the mandatory entry duration on the register.

Yep, sanctions do work.
I don't think some realised that the EU, as just one imposing sanctions relating to 2014, renewed theirs on Russia in January 2022 for another 6 months. And those sanctions were nothing like the ones now in place!
Some estimates for GDP in 2026 to be less than in 2013 - that's the definition of a successful economy!

"Foreign funds held 80.7% of shares freely floated on the [Russian] stock market as of July 1 [2021], the Moscow Exchange’s head of primary markets, Natalia Loginova, told media during a webinar. That was up from 65.6% in 2020, but slightly below 83.3% in 2019." [source: Reuters]

Whatever the proportion is now, such foreigners remain banned from selling, and may well run for the exit when they're allowed to, at least while the war continues.

Propaganda from the British Political Warfare Executive (PWE) during WW2:
"By spreading fake news and sensational rumors, intelligence officials leveraged “psychological judo” against the Nazis in World War II."
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/fake-british-radio-show-helped-defeat-nazis-180962320/

Perhaps the west should be engaging in deliberate propaganda targeting certain vulnerable groups (e.g. Russian soldiers, away from home, facing death or serious injury, not clear why they're fighting - and yet to find any evidence of those pesky "Nazis" - and each with a mobile device)?

You say Putin's regime is underpinned by financial rigour and prudence, whereas as I say it's undermined by extreme criminality, including significant financial crime. Putin is after all alleged to be the richest person in the world, not through his entrepreneurial skills, but by theft from the Russian people.

When Dmitry Medvedev tried to diversify the economy away from commodities, especially the oil and gas that are so topical at the moment, Putin stopped him. Putin also wasn't smart enough to recover the alleged $600bn of Russian foreign reserves, money that Russia will likely have to fight through the courts for and against claims for it made by Ukraine for reparations, which it's currently estimating (by Ukraine) at ~$500bn, potentially rising to $1,000+bn if this war continues for a significant period of time.

Worse still for Russia is that any peace talks will NOT include the lifting of any sanctions, the Ukrainians have stated today, firstly because they're not the sanctions of Ukraine, and secondly there's no reason to lift them while Russia illegally occupies any part of Ukraine. (see UKRInform.net)