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This might be a little tougher than Putin thought...

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Yulia Latynina, a writer and journalist, worked for Echo of Moscow radio station and the Novaya Gazeta newspaper until they were shut down as part of the current war in Ukraine. She is a recipient of the U.S. State Department’s Defender of Freedom award.


I also don't think The Hill is a Russian propaganda outlet.

So...what was the "russian propaganda" in the article?

I don’t have the time or inclination to point out every single one. Let’s just go with the most blatant Kremlin talking point.

“the Russian dictator lives in an alternate reality in which he is fighting a world war against America — and winning.”

How do you square that statement with the reality on the ground as reported by Russian soldiers?

Sending 18 year old boys with little to no training, no food, etc directly into battle. That doesn’t seem, I don’t know, a little desperate to you?

This is winning? Hunh??



“We were sent here (to the front line) empty handed. No food, no drink, no radios, no thermal cameras. We have nothing. We buy radios at our own expense.”
 
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I don’t have the time or inclination to point out every single one. Let’s just go with the most blatant Kremlin talking point.

“the Russian dictator lives in an alternate reality in which he is fighting a world war against America — and winning.”

How do you square that statement with the reality on the ground as reported by Russian soldiers?

Sending 18 year old boys with little to no training, no food, etc directly into battle. That doesn’t seem, I don’t know, a little desperate to you?

This is winning? Hunh??



“We were sent here (to the front line) empty handed. No food, no drink, no radios, no thermal cameras. We have nothing. We buy radios at our own expense.”
“the Russian dictator lives in an alternate reality in which he is fighting a world war against America — and winning.”

Ummm...how in the F is this a Kremlin talking point?
 
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Ukrainian troops have secured foothold in the south, says senior official​

Ukrainian forces have secured a foothold on the east bank of the Dnipro River in southern Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s chief of staff has been quoted as saying.

Andriy Yermak’s remarks were the first official acknowledgment that Ukrainian troops were established on the Dnipro’s east bank in Kherson region, Reuters reports.

“Against all odds, Ukraine’s Defense Forces have gained a foothold on the left (east) bank of the Dniepro,” Andriy Yermak said in an address to the Hudson Institute thinktank in the US.

“Step by step, they are demilitarizing Crimea. We have covered 70% of the distance. And our counteroffensive is developing.”

 
But maybe if she published it under the pen name "Bell O'Really" with the title "Killing Putin", they would lap it up.
She's a neocon.
You don't have to guess what she calls for.
Moar war.


I have said it before, and I will say it again: I really like Anne Applebaum’s histories of the Soviet world. But man, her chronic neoconnery is awfully hard to take. Here she is in The Atlantic, talking about how if the world’s democracies don’t defend themselves, autocracy will destroy them all. Excerpts:

There is no natural liberal world order, and there are no rules without someone to enforce them. Unless democracies defend themselves together, the forces of autocracy will destroy them. I am using the word forces, in the plural, deliberately. Many American politicians would understandably prefer to focus on the long-term competition with China. But as long as Russia is ruled by Putin, then Russia is at war with us too. So are Belarus, North Korea, Venezuela, Iran, Nicaragua, Hungary, and potentially many others. We might not want to compete with them, or even care very much about them. But they care about us. They understand that the language of democracy, anti-corruption, and justice is dangerous to their form of autocratic power—and they know that that language originates in the democratic world, our world.
Wait … what?! If a country doesn’t agree with Davos-Man liberal democracy, it is “at war” with us, and must be treated as an enemy nation?! Even Hungary, a European nation and a democracy which, if it were a real autocracy, would not have to care about this weekend’s elections. If Orban is a shoo-in, nobody has told my Fidesz friends, who are on pins and needles. Is Hungary not a democracy because people here don’t vote in the way Anne Applebaum wishes they would?
 
Yeah-when they admit Putin is dead, do they put a bullet in look alike Putin's head?
I bet the fake Putins are like, what, I die when he dies???

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She's a neocon.
You don't have to guess what she calls for.
Moar war.


I have said it before, and I will say it again: I really like Anne Applebaum’s histories of the Soviet world. But man, her chronic neoconnery is awfully hard to take. Here she is in The Atlantic, talking about how if the world’s democracies don’t defend themselves, autocracy will destroy them all. Excerpts:


Wait … what?! If a country doesn’t agree with Davos-Man liberal democracy, it is “at war” with us, and must be treated as an enemy nation?! Even Hungary, a European nation and a democracy which, if it were a real autocracy, would not have to care about this weekend’s elections. If Orban is a shoo-in, nobody has told my Fidesz friends, who are on pins and needles. Is Hungary not a democracy because people here don’t vote in the way Anne Applebaum wishes they would?
Russians and Russia sympathizers love to hate Anne. That puts me squarely on team Anne.
 

Ukraine war: Army claims foothold on bank of River Dnipro in south​


Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's chief of staff Andriy Yermak has said that Ukrainian forces have gained a foothold on the left or east bank of the Dnipro river.
Russia has admitted that some Ukrainian forces have set up positions in a village but claims they will soon be wiped out.
If the area is held it would mean a significant advance for Ukraine.
Russia retreated from the right bank of the river a year ago.

 
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