Is there a book written by a soldier that explains why people defend/enforce the power of evil people? Putin himself is not poisoning these people, someone is doing it for him. Why? Doesn't have to be from Russia. Any soldier defending any evil person - why?
Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?
The Suspected Poisoning of Alexey Navalny, Putin’s Most Prominent Adversary
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Re: The Suspected Poisoning of Alexey Navalny, Putin’s Most Prominent Adversary
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Can you give an example where Russia is portrayed unfairly?
You may start with this article https://medium.com/@dominicbasulto/russophobia-and-the-dark-... It has some great images, especially in the final part.
That's negative portrayal of a violent corrupt dictatorship.
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Why would they demonize a place that throws doctors out of windows, poisons political opponents, kills journalists, and has a horrible reputation for LGBT rights? Weird, right? /s
Well Saudi Arabia is hundred times worse than all we have in Russia on every point you mentioned. But guess who get all the sanctions?
Saudi Arabia exports oil but apart from that is generally just completely irrelevant. It is a terrible, despotic regressive craphole, but it doesn't have context enough in the world to come up a lot.
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There always were a lot of propaganda involved since forever. Even now Russia is demonised in Western Media, mostly quite unfair.
Given that Russia has used a nerve agent near where I live I'll give the media a pass on demonising Russia.
I don't know what happened there but the official version leaves some serious doubts open. For example there was a long time talk of a "nurse" that found them. Only by accident it was revealed that this nurse was the head-nurse of the UK forces, i.e. in the rank of a general, well versed in chemical warfare.
Also why was never the full tracks of the two Russians the victims revealed? There is CCTV on every corner in the UK. The story of the Russians was bogus but so is the official story.
It wouldn't be the first time the gov stretches the truth. See for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony
Edit: downvoting because it doesn't fit your world view? At least have the balls to reply.
Re: The Suspected Poisoning of Alexey Navalny, Putin’s Most Prominent Adversary
#55I remember an essay a few years ago (it was the Ukrainian poisoning?) where the author essentially said that Russia's brand has basically been spoiled for outsiders. (political brand certainly, but maybe overall as a country). As in, Russia is no longer a trustworthy seeming, interesting, attractive place to want to go visit or collaborate with or be associated with. I mean, of course it depends on the level of detai…
Woah... it's almost as if Russia has been the target of western propaganda ever since the establishment of the Soviet Union. What's up with that?
You are wrong. The Russia has been a target of the western propaganda ever since the Great Schism[1]
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Had Name any political, cultural, economic, literature, sports achievement in last 30 years to come out of Russia. That's right Internet trolls which are an evolution on kgbs psyops
nginx?
And IntelliJ IDEA of course, which I think many HN visitors are using in one form or another. This still doesn't change the original point that Putin regime has been very damaging to Russia.
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There always were a lot of propaganda involved since forever. Even now Russia is demonised in Western Media, mostly quite unfair.
Can you give an example where Russia is portrayed unfairly?
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on Russians in 2017:
"...the Russians, who typically, almost genetically driven to co-opt, penetrate, gain favor..." [1]
[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/james-clapper...
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Why would they demonize a place that throws doctors out of windows, poisons political opponents, kills journalists, and has a horrible reputation for LGBT rights? Weird, right? /s
Not to mention actively trying to meddle with US elections.
Well, the US is since WWII meddling with elections in other countries. And not only that but actively toppling foreign governments. The few millions some Russians may have spent on ads are a drop in the sea compared to the billions and billions that PACs and SuperPACs have spent.
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You may start with this article https://medium.com/@dominicbasulto/russophobia-and-the-dark-... It has some great images, especially in the final part.
That's negative portrayal of a violent corrupt dictatorship.
It started long before Putin and long before communists.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would they demonize a place that throws doctors out of windows, poisons political opponents, kills journalists, and has a horrible reputation for LGBT rights? Weird, right? /s
Well Saudi Arabia is hundred times worse than all we have in Russia on every point you mentioned. But guess who get all the sanctions?
Most of the current sanctions against Russia were a direct response to Russia's paramilitary invasion of a peaceful neighbor and theft of a large portion of their country.
If Saudi Arabia were to commit a comparable offense, I assure you they'd face a comparable response, or worse (remember what happened to Saddam Hussein).