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Putin’s Energy War with Europe Seems to Falter

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Re: Putin’s Energy War with Europe Seems to Falter

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> Depends who you ask: Well, you will hear some opinion, based on some perspective. Almost always it is not whole truth, but a subset of facts. But there is so much more at play. What bothers me is how western news manipulative and no one really notice. News giving everyone a subset of facts, while omitting others, not painting the entire truth. They are not lying, but at the same time manipulate opinion of a large p…

What important piece of the puzzle are western media omitting that makes this not a war between Russia and Ukraine? What is the whole truth, according to you? Ironically, you're the one omitting right now.

I would the say the opposite is true, the western media is more than happy to discuss and (over) analyse every little detail of information that quite freely flows into our media machines from many different sources.

We agonize over failures and freely discuss tactics and events, report explicitly and react to horrors occurring, sometimes so much that we get a bit desensitized over time.

It could be argued that we sometimes omit too little. Unlike in Russia now where telling the truth can get you a criminal record and land you in jail.

Re: Putin’s Energy War with Europe Seems to Falter

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>Russian soldiers are shooting at Ukrainian soldiers, and Ukrainian soldiers are shooting at Russian soldiers. That's it. This is a gross oversimplification given that most soldiers don't do any shooting at all.

If NATO was at war with Russia, it would be absolutely clear for everyone. Iran and North Korea help Russia with military supplies, and there is no question if Ukraine is at war with them. Countries tend to help their friends during war.

> no question if Ukraine is at war with them

Of course there is a question. The whole point is that "at war" isn't a binary state, hence "who is doing the shooting" being a gross oversimplification.

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