Quote Originally Posted by Gilrandir View Post
So being free from outer pressure doesn't exclude self-censorship and traditional bias.
I never said otherwise.

Quote Originally Posted by Gilrandir View Post
Knowing how inefficient Ukrainian government are (and the mentioned Ministry of Truth is considered to be the least efficient) and knowing how little money and experience of informational war it has had hitherto I would say that it would hardly resist any informational aggression from Russia, still less go offensive on that front. The only successful attempts to counter Russian propaganda were exercised by non-governmental groups, such as Stopfake. But they all fight the products spun by Rissians and not invent their own.
That last part might be hard to prove.

Quote Originally Posted by Gilrandir View Post
It was not my bid. Being aware of basic tenet of the Russian World conception ("Russia is where Russian is spoken") and Putin's admission that the collapse of the Soviet Unoin is his personal tragedy I would say that his ultimate goal is re-creating the USSR in its boundaries.
So you think the Donbass is just a bridgehead to conquer all of Ukraine?