Ukraine Thread

[Gilrandir]

As for your sidenote on the german press, at least it is considerably more free in what it writes than the press in the UK, US and especially Ukraine and Russia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_Freedom_Index

I think you are mixing up two different notions - "free" and "unbiased". While US and UK press is certainly as free as the German one, one may question their being unbiased.
But, to be more accurate, all these terms are overgeneralizations: I think in either country there are various media which can be more or less free and/or more or less unbiased.

So you think there is actually nothing wrong with Russia's approach or are you saying two wrongs make a right as long as the second wrong was only in response to the first one? I mean either doing such a thing is fair game in which case it's perfectly fine and no big deal that Russia does it or you are participating in something that is wrong, you know, staring into the abyss and all that.

What I mean to say is that combating popaganda doesn't mean creating another propaganda. It may as well be spreading truthful information and revealing the falsehood of the aggressor's propaganda. These cases certainly don't qualify as "a wrong in response".

This is why I don't trust your analysis of what Putin wants.

No matter who may provide the analysis (or rather suppositions) of Putin's plans, it is only he who can say how close are our guesses. And he is unlikely to do it (at least not now). But I would like to hear your vision of his plans and we'll see if it is as sound as you believe.

As soon as you have someone down as your enemy, your mind seems to make stuff up about them.

The same holds if you view someone as your idol.