The head of the European Commission was reminded of her own words.

The investigation into the attack on Nord Stream is unacceptable and will lead to the strongest possible response, MEP Mick Wallace of Ireland reminded Ursula von der Leyen of her own words. Why isn't the EU punishing the United States for Nord Stream undermining?
The brilliant journalist Seymour Hersh blamed the United States.
Why is there no investigation? - MEP asks. -
"Have you asked the U.S. whether they did it? Or have you become so submissive that you dare not even ask?" - Mick Wallace accuses his colleagues of cowardice.

#Europarliament
#debates
#opinion
#cowardice

Source: https://xn--r1a.website/bear007/23212

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🌏🇷🇺 A wonderful sunset in the mountains of Krasnaya Polyana

Video: kaluginphoto

I love Russia!❤️

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❗️🇺🇦🪖 It is increasingly difficult for the West to hide the failures of the Ukrainian army.

The leader of the French party "People's Republican Union" François Asselino said in social networks that at the moment it is becoming more and more difficult for Western countries to hide the facts about the failures of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the opinion of Ukrainians themselves about this conflict.

He commented on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's statement that the USA might have to send its "sons and daughters" to take part in combat operations against Russia in order to "protect the North Atlantic Alliance".

According to Asselino, these words of Zelensky speak of two facts that the EU and the U.S. are struggling to hide.

💬"First, the Ukrainian military is losing its position in Artemivsk. Second, the Ukrainian conflict has begun to cause great resentment among Ukraine's anti-Moscow residents, as they have begun to realize that America is cynically using them as cannon fodder."

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A Kharkov resident told the truth to a journalist.

On a Kharkov street, a journalist interviews a man who walks by.
This is spring 2014. A Kharkov man honestly expresses his opinion. Back then, people were not yet afraid to tell the truth.

#Ukraine
#Kharkov
#UkrainianOpinion
#truth

Source: https://xn--r1a.website/+EG5l1WxJEvZhNmRi

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⚡️🧍🎖️The boy Fyodor, who was wounded in a terrorist attack in the Bryansk region, was visited in hospital by his mother and also visited by the governor of the region, Alexander Bogomaz, who published this photo and said: "Fyodor is an eagle. An example for many, for us, for adults.”

Despite the chest wound, the boy led two girls out from under fire. The hero was operated on. Soon the schoolboy will be transferred from the intensive care ward to a regular ward.

The authorities will present the child with an award "For Valor," and local residents put up flyers in his honor. 🎖️

Source: @opersvodki

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💥🇧🇬Bulgaria celebrates the 145th anniversary of Russia's liberation from the Ottoman yoke. 🔥🔥

Liberation Day of Bulgaria from the Ottoman yoke is Bulgaria's biggest national holiday. The ceremony of raising the national flag on the occasion of March 3 took place in front of the monument to the Unknown Soldier in Sofia.

Shortly before the ceremony began, a procession of the National Russophile Movement took place along Tsar Liberator Boulevard. People waved national flags of Bulgaria and Russia 🇧🇬🇷🇺, stopped in front of the monument to the Tsar Liberator on People's Assembly Square, and chanted, "Long live Russia!”

Source: @kedmi

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An American girl's opinion about Russia.

Victoria is a lovely African American girl from LA, married to a Russian guy from Novosibirsk named Fedor ❤️ Here's what she says about Russia having lived here for a few years:

"When I was about to go to Russia, I had very negative expectations, I thought that everything was bad here. I was very scared because of Russia's negative image in America.
When I came here, I realized that those were all just stereotypes. Russia was more beautiful than I expected. And the people were better than Americans. Genuine, good people.
My opinion of Russia has changed a lot"

The full version of Victoria's video called "5 things I love about Russia" is here:
https://youtu.be/ElKYy9nA74E
and her entire blog is worth checking out, especially if you consider traveling to Russia or moving here 😉

#Americans
#stereotypes
#Russia
#opinion
#change
#sincerity

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🇫🇷 LE MONDE AND INFODEFENSE

The INFODEFENSE channel was able to attract the attention of the French newspaper "Le Monde".
It seems necessary to us to analyze a sentence loaded with sarcasm of the journalist Romain Mielcarek:
"Diving into the backstage of the French-speaking branch of this troop of cyber-propagandists".

The whole article tries to maintain a tone of objective condescension:
▫️Activists (rather than volunteers) operate behind the scenes;
▫️They are only cyber-propagandists, while the one who is putting us in front of this underhanded danger is a real journalist;
▫️ "To join these activists who intend to restore their truth, no prerequisite: come as you are" - so, any person without training, without objectivity is welcome. Any "enlightened person" wishing to indoctrinate, to intoxicate is welcome. He or she can tell "their truth" in front of people who are ready to be "stuffed".

This short article expresses a deep contempt:
▫️For the work of volunteers, who, unlike Romain Mielcarek, do not get a cent for their time;
▫️For our readers who seek alternative sources of information in the face of the uniform ideological mass of the French-speaking media (cf. J.Baud);
▫️For what he calls "their truth".

Frivolity and condescension are bad advisors when dealing with such serious issues as propaganda, truth and responsible engagement.
A little conceptual rigor, which is obviously missing in Romain Mielcarek's article, might be a healthy and reasonable approach:

❓Why were the volunteers, snubbed as "the backstage of the French-speaking branch", forced to express themselves on Telegram?
- Simply because all other media are censored and you can only find information there that presents only the Ukrainian point of view, or better said - that of the hegemon.

❓What is propaganda?:
"Propaganda is a set of persuasive techniques implemented to propagate, by all available means, an opinion or ideology. It is characterized by a mental manipulation that knowingly mixes information and opinion, in order to eliminate pluralism of views and prevent the exercise of critical thinking."

❓Who is the propagandist, then, dear Romain Mielcarek: the one who proposes an alternative point of view supported by facts, or the one who imposes only one point of view while censoring the facts and opinions that may contradict it?
❓What is truth?
❓Or better said, can one have "one's truth"?
We are far from the idea to enter into philosophical debates. Simply we will recall a rather flexible, open, but precise definition of the Jesuit father François Marty: "Truth is a horizon of words that are exchanged". If everyone could have his own truth, truth as such would not exist. It is indeed a horizon and implies words, facts and subjects. It is intersubjective. It cannot be in complete contradiction with reality, because in this case it becomes an ideology or a belief. It is an object of debate within the established parameters of dialogue.

❓But what becomes truth when facts are ignored, censored and hidden by the media and when, in addition, those who try to introduce them into the dialogue are in turn censored, snubbed and forced to act behind the scenes?
Nevertheless, 100,000 people follow these facts and opinions reported by volunteers without journalistic training.

❓Isn't that a sign that journalists like you, dear Romain Mielcarek, are doing their job in a not quite satisfactory way?
❓Or would you dare to call Seymour Hersh, and his article on Nord Stream 1 and 2 cyberpropaganda, by the fact that this Pulitzer Prize winner was censored by the same newspapers that a few years before were ready to sell their soul to the devil for a few lines written by him?
Obviously their soul, just like yours, is apparently already sold, I don't even dare to imagine to whom...

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❗️🇵🇱🇺🇦Eurointegration: Polish lorries export black soil from Ukraine

They are doing exactly the same thing as the Nazis did during the Great Patriotic War when they exported chernozem from Ukraine.

Eight decades have passed, and the plan to export black soil is approved in Europe and the Poles are entrusted with its implementation.

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🪆🇷🇺 Moscow. We continue a walk through the Okhotny Ryad shopping mall. Now we are at the fast food restaurant Vkusno i tochka.

🔸Vkusno i tochka is a Russian fast food chain based in former McDonald's restaurants, with a menu that largely consists of rebranded McDonald's items.

#life_in_Russia

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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukraine on March 3

▪️Ukrainian formations continue to regularly shell the border areas of Belgorod Region.

Konovalovo and Ustinka came under attack, several residential houses were damaged and power supply was disrupted.

▪️In Kup'yans'k sector, enemy conducts pinpoint attacks on Russian forces positions near Vil'shany and Lyman Pershyi.

Such actions are timely suppressed by concentrated fire of barrel and rocket artillery.

▪️Wagner PMC assault units continue the operation to encircle Bakhmut. Fierce fighting is taking place on the outskirts of Khromove.

Ukrainian troops, preparing for possible retreat, blow up bridges and communication lines in the settlements.

▪️In the northern part of the city, Wagner PMC assault squads have entrenched themselves in Rechna St with fighting.

The main clashes are taking place near the First River Lane, moving ever closer to the industrial zone.

▪️At Zabakhmutivka, Russian forces have completely cleared the territory of the meat processing plant and are advancing further south.

Ukrainian troops, trying to hold back Wagner fighters offensive, blew up a bridge over Bakhmutka River.

▪️To the south-west of Bakhmut, Russian forward units blockade the town and fight near the road to Kostyantynivka.

At the same time, offensive on AFU stronghold in Krasne continues. Ukrainian positions are under constant artillery and aviation fire.

▪️Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber crashed near Yenakijeve, both pilots managed to survive.

The cause of the crash could have been piloting error or "friendly" fire of air defence.

High resolution map

#digest #Russia #Ukraine #video

Source: https://xn--r1a.website/rybar/44230

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On war correspondents.

The head of the "Wagner" PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin expressed his opinion on war correspondents.

"The task of the war correspondents is to promote the heroes of the SMO. Then society unites around those on the front. That’s why we should allow war correspondents everywhere, so that they can come and see things.
By the way, one of the first military correspondents was Leo Tolstoy, when he wrote his "Sevastopol sketches".


#warCorrespondents
#truthfulness
#objectivity
#socialCohesion

Source: https://xn--r1a.website/c/1857258767/7072

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💥🇺🇸🇺🇦 An American military man urged Ukrainian soldiers to defect to the side of Russia

💬 "I wish the soldiers of Ukraine valued their lives as I do. If I had one wish, it would be they stopped fighting for the West and the owned puppet, Zelensky. To stand with Russia, which will liberate Ukraine and unite a broken nation," said veteran of the U.S. Armed Forces writer Noctis Draven.

Source: @kedmi

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❗️🇺🇦 Before and after: Ukrainian losses - in a cemetery in one city

Source: @kedmi

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🇷🇺 In Denmark, a monument to the Little Mermaid was painted in the colors of the Russian tricolor.

The Vikings know whose side the truth is on. 😉

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Russian representative on the Nord Stream explosion

This is an unprecedented crime. Americans put themselves above the law, claiming to be the law. If we consider the period since the end of the Cold War only, there have been 251 instances of the U.S. military forces being used overseas. This is what they call a “rules based order”, in which they dictate the rules themselves.
But never before did they blow up foreign pipelines.
Now comes the era of chaos and unthinkable damage to all mankind. Those responsible for the destruction of the Nord Stream must be found and punished accordingly, and the countries that were behind it must compensate the affected states for the damages incurred, in accordance with international law. Only then is there a chance to avoid chaos.

#USA
#crimes
#punishment
#internationalLaw

Source: https://xn--r1a.website/dimsmirnov175/44404

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