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^^And the idea that US media is censored is absurd.^^
Are you kidding? The news is all over the place and even in our own news, that we openly censor news. The news reported by Wikileaks is overwhelmingly ignored, despite being extremely in the public interest and no published items have been shown to be false. Our media openly report that we censor news, for example we openly and proudly censor RT. I visited an Iranian news source that was very good, and only day there was a US Government message that come up on the domain saying that the publication was being censored. Censoring a story reported by CNN does qualifies as censoring, but it is precisely when we censor stories reported elsewhere, that our State PR doesn't want to be known, that the censorship is a real problem. RT censorship by USA:
https://www.vulture.com/2022/03/youtube-tiktok-met...Ask the question - have you ever watched full interviews on RT? The reason that the answer is likely no is will not be because you have carefully studied the credibility of the information independently, but rather that the censorship has succeeded in keeping you from understanding the story. You don't trust RT at face value - that is the final step where our propaganda is working successfully.
^^I fully support the expansion of NATO.^^
The expansion of NATO that has caused Russia to remove it by force, after doing all it could in its power to negotiate NATO to leave Ukraine. To support NATO is akin to a fellow in North Korea supporting an alliance of North Korea, China, Russia and Iran to surround the USA - every ocean and every inch of our border - with the NKKCRI alliance, including nuclear subs and missiles pointing over Washington. I would not support that alliance and I would suggest to dissolve it, just as I would suggest to dissolve NATO. It has no purpose that relates to defence after the Warsaw Pact was, entirely voluntarily, dismantled.
^^For current events, I do read various sources. But I also listen to Perun whom provides much more detailed analysis than any other media source I have found.^^
This is good.
^^Putin was disillusioned when the Soviet Union fell, and has since wanted to put it back together.^^
That is another concocted story by our military public relations. The idea is that Russia is wanting to expand and take territory all around Europe. There is no evidence of it and it is merely a fear tactic to motivate us to want to destroy Russia or to legitimise interfering with their government. Russia does, however, require a strict guarantee of a non-military region buffer its borders. This is not negotiable and given that they are a nuclear State, we would take their security concerns seriously rather than just ignoring them. I do agree that if Russia is not able to have that guaranteed after countless years, then, at the very last resort, it has sadly resorts to force to achieve it. However this was after every other peaceful channel has been attempted with great patience, and repeated warnings that went unreported in our media for two decades.
I don't blame Russia for not trusting Europe or Washington given how we have treated Russia as victim every year since the Soviet Union ended. Europe and USA have very little credibility in the view of Russia given how Russia has been treated with sanctions. Imagine you were leading Russia and you wanted to retain your sovereignty, that is, independence, with NATO placing weapons all around your borders. For what? It is really important to apply symmetry and imagine us in the same situation in USA with a hostile military alliance surrounding us, and our official statements that this is unacceptable being ignored.
^^He could even lose Crimea (which was an illegitimate annexation anyway, even if most Crimeans didn't mind).^^
I have been to Crimea numerous many times and I assure you the public there are emphatically in support of protection by Russia, and it would be devastating to them if Russia left. This doesn't fit our narrative, I know, but Crimea is going very well without Washington-commanded Ukrainian military and NATO wrecking the place, as they did with Donetsk and other Russian border regions.
