claret59 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 27, 2023 10:25 pm
It is a truth that the first casualty of war is the truth ! You read and get conflicting accounts of the war depending on who is publishing it and who is reading it. The Russians would appear to be enduring unsustainable losses and yet they are still the aggressors, supposedly still going forward. Russia is such a vast country and with such a large population that losses seem almost irrelevant. I read somewhere ( If true !) that the losses of personnel are much higher from Eastern area populations than those in the West of Russia like Moscow and Leningrad . It sounds plausible and allows for a feeling that all is going to Plan when the contrary is true ( that word again.)
There is obviously propaganda on both sides, there are literally millions of accounts promoting the war from a Ukrainian or Russian perspective, of which only a tiny fraction are original and accurate
The tweet below highlights the issues - Russia essentially made a video of Ukrainian troops shooting at a mother and child in a car for purely propoganda purposes, knowing full well that the millions of pro-Russian fan sites would retweet or post them and also got Russian governmental organisations (like MFA Russia) to promote them
But because of the very people who are in that tiny fraction of original and accurate group of people who are reporting what is going on, it was found out within hours that it had occurred 30 miles behind Russian lines (possible to find by geolocation) so it was a complete set up from the start
On the other side, there are also the war tourists who are supposedly fighting for Ukraine, collect loads of cash and then turn out not to actually fighting for Ukraine
Its a minefield, and you can see on this thread from some of the contributors that not everyone has successfully navigated it
https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status ... 9308344320