When we shared yesterday that all interested observers should be very wary of the information from media sources around Ukraine, there was a reason for that. Question everything. Take nothing at face value.
If you have never experienced the propaganda push surrounding war, the totality of the inbound bullsh*t can be destabilizing, overwhelming and unnerving. It’s one of the reasons why CTH doesn’t share immediate information. Everyone has an agenda.
Everything we are seeing in U.S. media surrounding U.S. interests in Ukraine is a massive propaganda operation with the headquarters in the U.S. State Department and U.S. intelligence community. The sense of sympathy you are feeling is part of an intentionally manipulative operation from within this DC matrix.
The images, pictures, videos, speeches, soundbites and the cinematography broadcast by U.S. corporate media are all purposefully intended to create a very specific outlook within the American people toward the issues in Ukraine. The leftist United Nations, and the leftist U.S State Dept, will work together on this just like they have done in the prior examples (Ukraine 1.0, Libya, Egypt, etc.).
It is very easy to become a victim of psychological warfare intended to manipulate our opinions.
The neocons, war promoting agents working on behalf of the UniParty and the collective globalist interests, are all united in their effort.
Unfortunately, almost everything being transmitted from corporate news into our psyche is part of a battle for your mind. The goal is to create a self-fulfilling prophecy.
This is why people who are familiar with these types of tactics often tap-out when the drumbeats get loudest.
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The White House, which means the total globalist effort, tipped their hand earlier last week when they defined “strategic power” and their outlook toward winning the battle for the mind. Everything is about writing a script, creating a narrative, building a “better story,” where the globalists are the heroes. In essence, the “strategic power” battle is for your mind…
…”Ultimately, the goal of our sanctions is to make this a strategic failure for Russia; and let’s define a little bit of what that means. Strategic success in the 21st century is not about a physical land grab of territory; that’s what Putin has done.
In this century, strategic power is increasingly measured and exercised by economic strength, by technological sophistication and your story – who you are, what your values are; can you attract ideas and talent and goodwill? And on each of those measures, this will be a failure for Russia.”
Everything in modern warfare is storytelling.
Question all of it.
The stories of the 13 guards on an island telling the Russian naval ship to fuck off… yeah, it was a lie (turns out they surrendered). The “Ghost of Kyiv” pilot, the lady with the sunflower seeds etc., now all recognized as lies and propaganda. And do not expect it to stop, because it won’t. Thus, the nature of warfare for your mind.
I’m of the opinion that it’s 99% propaganda. .5% truth, .5% sh*t.
Zelensky is an outsider, both him and Trump were thorns in the sides of the globalist. Zelensky and Trump are loved by their people. Putin knows he has been played by the US state department. Ukraine has been used by the leftist in the United States as a quiet lil spot, out of sight, off the radar and a non nato member to launder their billions of tax payer dollars that they’ve stolen from the American taxpayers. When the corruption gets so deep that word of it gets beyond the borders then there becomes a situation. When elements of the United States starts bullshiting a ex KGB agent turned president of one of the biggest land masses on the globe, this is what you get. Putin knows Biden is owned by the Chinese and has been bought by the dirty laundered Ukraine money and ain’t going to do squat. Biden is compromised and weak, America is compromised and weak. why wouldn’t he do whatever he wanted too.
Xi will soon do what he wants also. Taiwan is next. This is what the American people get with democrats in power.
The movement towards the end of time, reset, globalist agenda or whatever you call it is accelerating at an alarming rate.
Now they are saying that there is a pesky new variant of Omicron that is more dangerous.
And Canada’s plan to ‘build back better’ have been revealed. And are more insane than even the U.S.
It’s not fun, but I wake up every day recognizing that we are living through one of the darkest periods in history. Not necessarily like a physical war zone, but a real battle of maintaining integrity, self reliance and basic values. But instead of despair, the realization just toughens the resolve to resist.
Compromise used to be fine when good faith was shown. But we now know that the globalists want it all their way. Any appearance of easing up is just a lie, and a strategy for coming back harder.
Trudeau’s contempt for the protest simply illustrates the real anumus of the globalists.
Maybe the fact that Soros is almost 90 is one of the reasons things are accelerating. His time is running out to personally bask in the glory of his brave new world.
Well, I’m not paying too much attention to the crap. It seems to me that everything is too immediate, too firsthand, for it to be true. And, judging from the photos, I’m right.
But, I must admit, Sundance, it is you who taught me how to see through it.
Thank you, Sundance, and thank you to your astute readers.
I watch RTAmerica for a balanced approach to the news. Yeah, I know it favors the Russian side, but it’s a small counterbalance to all the bs coming from all other news outlets. Russias demands were reasonable and easily accommodated, but biden and the globalists want war (and distraction from their own schemes).
The moniker JoeBama, h/t this site, takes on a whole new meaning when Plugs was Li’l O’s point man for Ukraine all those years. WHERE IS THE MONEY? Gut the DOS.
Sundance, you usually give us more info./evidence when disproving the b.s. that we see in the media.
Please, could you share more info. on the items listed in your last paragraph? The 13 guards massacre is on every website; I cannot find anything disproving it. Please help.
https://nitter.net/TuckerMax/status/1497614571011514372#m
Nothing I would call proof, just he said/she said. Russia claims the Ukraine forces on the island surrendered.
https://www.rt.com/russia/550603-snake-island-border-guards/
Here you go, Kitty. CNN admitting it “might be” bull means it’s definitely bs in my book.
https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-news-02-26-22/h_c487a2e10a21c203acd5092ee7689402
Oh…Ukraine is still a thing? Havnt paid attention all day.Just shutdown, been running hard. Figured by now it’d be out of the news cycle. Is Putin still Hitler?
Yep, Putin is still Hitler, insane, unstable, a monster, etc
https://kotaku.com/ghost-kyiv-russia-ukraine-invasion-viral-video-fake-pc-1848598266
Was able to find the “Ghost Pilot” story.
Did Kinzinger delete that tweet and change his picture? I don’t see it.
Our cousin lives in western Ukraine on a farm in Stry. The farm was taken by the Soviets awhile back and he has to file a claim to get it back but did eventually. He is texting my husband saying it’s ok where they are for now. His daughter lives in Laviv and he is worried of course. Interesting that Putin hasn’t killed the cell phone towers there. We are keeping up with him, all are safe now.
Thx for the report.
I can offer an objective observation from the son of one of our commenters Fredx100.
His son is a tank expert and noted that the Russian tanks he had seen were all Z class. Ukraine has anti-tank weapons that can defeat the armor of Z class tanks. An excerpt:
“Why would Russia invade a country with tank technology that was out of date in 1980s when their adversaries have lethal options to destroy them?
“what if a deal had been worked out. What if Russia agreed to come into Ukraine to lock down bio weapons labs, etc. under the guise of an invasion but they were very surgical pre determine strikes? What if Ukraine agreed to this invasion but as an assurance they would only allow easily defeated weapons systems into their
country as an assurance?”
Here is the original comment:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/25/ukraine-and-russia-officials-negotiating-a-meeting-biden-administration-tells-zelenskyy-to-stop-only-u-s-permitted-to-negotiate-with-russia/comment-page-2/#comment-8600520
Objective information is all we should accept. Start with that.
Sundance, understanding your admonition to discount MSM propaganda; what evidence do we have that the Ukranian soldiers on Snake Island surrendered, other than the Russian assertion that 82 soldiers surrendered?
There is very little reporting of the surrender. There is an immense amount or reporting that the 13 soldiers were killed.
There must be some concrete evidence that the soldiers surrendered.
Appreciate everything you bring forth.
I concur and wish Sundance would produce the proof. I hate to repeat it without proof.
https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-news-02-26-22/h_c487a2e10a21c203acd5092ee7689402
“Defenders of Ukrainian island may still be alive and now POWs, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine says”
What I’m reading is…
First, find and confiscate Russian oligarch money, but only from those our benighted State Dept and honorable Congress deem unworthy to their interests.
Second, print billions of US aid money for the Ukrainian People[TM] that can be laundered to all the “right”people.
Sigh. As much as things change, they stay the same
There are a lot of idiots posting at Gateway Pundit articles from SouthFront without even checking to find that it is a Russian propaganda site.
Ukraine has got a few going also.
I got thrown off of GP a while back for just pointing out that the SC really did not have diversity
I deleted my TGP bookmark, never to return. Similar to how I’ve deleted Faux News and Breitbart. TGP seems insistent on driving a particular narrative. If you dissent, you’re shadow banned.
I always found TGP to be clickbait
Somewhat … grain of salt and all that
There are many good articles and they’re fast-breaking
But there are also many with over-sensationalized headlines. I get down into the story and say “Wait – this isn’t what the headline trumpeted”
… so yeah, somewhat clickbait in my experience
It doesn’t matter what it is, it is always all about them. Gateway this, Gateway that. And they have a lousy format not just in the comment section but in reading the articles.
Click Bait is just another NAME FOR DISINFO. They are not on our side, repeat, they are not on our side.
They want money they worship money. FOR years going back Gateway Pundit was considered disinfo
Only recently and using the China Virus have others propelled them into a SERIOUS news site. That is not their history.
One of the brothers is married to a tawain girl HE said using an appeal to authority just Like Mike Adams. I have relatives, THE VIRUS IS REAL PEOPLE ARE DYING IN THE STREETS etc. all BS
Go ahead tell your self I only go for the articles (old saying by people caught with a Playboy years ago)
Gateway is what it says. THey always tell you what they are going to do be. Gates swing both ways.
TGP also shadow bans anyone who disagrees with its narrative.
Re: Southfront, please give recent examples of what you consider inaccurate information or propaganda. I’m familiar with the site. I await your examples.
Disprove E. Fudd, why doncha?
What media is not a propaganda site?
Exactly. All media is and always has been from a point-of-view. The dishonesty comes from pretending objectivity. They can publish the facts accurately, yet they are only the facts the entity chooses to publish.
I do believe you have the Right Ascension.
Svengoolie it is!
He has a store?
I miss Sven. Wish METV had a Roku app.
There is a really interesting post by Anon on the previous page 2. It’s hard to read because the margins are blown but it has some interesting video links.
It also says that Putin wanted to come over to the winning side in 2005 and join NATO. Instead of welcoming this, we pushed him away because arms companies wanted more sales with NATO expansion elsewhere. Also, Putin would have been arms sales competition. Russia would have been a much better fit than Turkey.
Keenan warned this was dangerous, but as Ike said, the Military-Industrial Complex put their crooked agenda before America’s interests as we are seeing everywhere today, including the Bio-Medical Security State.
I thought the purpose of NATO was to oppose The Soviets? Why let them in?
Russia =/= Soviets. Where have you been for the past 30 years?
Putin is the Soviets
NATO is against anyone who attacks a member, imagine that was China. How much easier would it have been to contain China if Russia was part of the alliance.
HA!
Putin would only do what’s good for Putin
Biden only does what’s good for Biden, too!
The Soviets are no longer around. The Soviet Union collapsed under G. H. W. Bush.
I can’t imagine the total panic CNN viewers must be feeling at this time.
IKR?
Kinda makes me chuckle.
CNN?
This morning, I flipped back and forth between Fox and Newsmax.
At least one of them showed the still shot of the “Ghost Pilot”.
Late this afternoon, neither channel is really pushing any more of the fear porn. They have both moved on to CPAC.
Considering that this morning, the fate of Europe and, really,
the entire world was at stake, shouldn’t someone still be covering this??
Odds are pretty good that someone tweeted, called, emailed, etc., and let the newscasters know that it was all b.s.
So, they moved on and never mentioned another word about the
inevitable WWIII.
All half dozen of them?
If Biden really wants to hurt Putin, he would reverse his stupid energy policies.
EXACTLY!
Speaks volumes. Doesn’t it?
The intent of joey & Co is to hurt America and Americans.
Yeah, well, we’re not exactly being led by people who know much about anything. All they know is that they’re morally superior to you. That’s their guiding star – what *feels* moral to them.
I’m speaking about a certain fraction of them. There’s another fraction that is just straight up corrupt. They wouldn’t hesitate to push your grandmother in front of a train if they thought they could gain something by it and could get away with it.
Look at ground reports. Look at neighboring states intel pictures of the situation on the ground. Day 4, Russians have not taken Kiyv. Ukranians are resisting, successfully in at least some areas. Personal prejudice is as effective as propaganda in clouding ground truth. Despise Biden, think Putin is still KGB. Appears to me Ukranians do not want to be Russians again despite all the shortcomings of their past governments. I’ll pray for their success. Democrat corruption is our problem, not theirs.
Distinction: I believer East Ukranians still want to be Russians. The rest of Ukraine do not.
I just want it to still be spelled and called Kiev.
So … I am guessing you never started pronouncing Nicaragua as … knee-her-ahh-wah?
Then force them to move to Russia if they like it so much.
It WAS Russia for nearly all of them when they were born. Why do you think older folks still say “THE Ukraine” instinctively?
Ukraine was part of Russia for almost a thousand years. In fact Kviv was the capital of Russia!
The Ukraine girls have really knocked me out ever since I first heard Back in the USSR in 1968 … I always assumed they were Russian girls from the Ukraine region. Just as those Russian girls from the Georgian region were always on my mind … and it’s on the Black Sea too!
This is it. But since the IC decided to feed China the intel, that NATO was going to take in Ukraine, knowing full well that they’d share it with Putin.
No big fan f Putin, but he warned them nd they decided to use a lie to push him.
My biggest hope is the Zelensky takes all their aide and still sits down with Putin and work things out
between them.
FJB, F the EU, FNATO Eff them all. May they all find themselves in hell soonest.
Why would Putin need Chinese intel. He has sources of info on the EU and NATO.If NATO was considering Ukraine, Putin would not need the Chinese to tell him. And our IC would certainly know that.
Never trust Europe
Europe sets up scheme to get round US sanctions on Iran
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/31/europe-sets-up-scheme-to-get-round-us-sanctions-on-iran
Just like the 3 year old Syrian boy washed up on the beach. Psyops.
Good one.
It’s simple really; don’t believe a word and question every pictorial presentation of any kind on any device.
They should’ve trained most of the people by now with their obvious lies and obvious reasons for the lies.
It’s just possible that the Committee for the operation of Biden’s strings decided to try and sandbag Putin into an assault on the Ukraine. Got him to believe we wouldn’t do anything or any one else and that the Ukraine was ready to fold. So Putin figures it’s a 6-8 hour drive to Kyiv and it’s done and the Ukraine becomes a puppet buffer state just like it’s big brother Belarus to the north. But no. Zelensky ain’t playing his role. He’s decided he’ll roll the dice and see if the Ukrainians will stand up or run. He doesn’t need the US for an escape hatch he’s got a few lined up I’m sure.
Believe nothing that you hear and half of what you see.
blob:https://theconservativetreehouse.com/24c24678-8c6d-409a-9918-7655cf77ea6c
This link didn’t bring anything up except “page not found.”
Why on Earth would anyone with at least 1 ounce of Common Sense think that the Criminals that Joe/Hunter Biden, The Clintons and the Obamas are in bed with are the Good Guys ?
WTF Over !
Sundance I don’t see it the same way. It is not Zelenskyy who is sending out the old photos. So they are kind of irrelevant. Zelenskyy is sending out photos of where he is now, and it is you, my friend, I think, who are disseminating a slightly false impression that all the Zelenskyy photos are untrue when that is not what the examples really show. I also wonder whether the fakes you have shown might not be breadcrumbs supplied to send you to follow down a blind alley. … Time will tell. … But in the meantime, the thing would be to take care not to blame Zelenskyy for what others have done. that is edging on rash judgment…
Uh huh. 🤔 Check please!
Me, I still remember how the media,pundits, politicians,etc. put out so much propaganda about Canada!
Nothing has changed. None of them have changed.
Probably worse since it is all happening thousands of miles away !
Remember the lady with the mobility scooter?
Sigh….
here is my take on the corruption in the Ukraine. The corruption was unlimited when the Russian supported leaders were in power. Zelensky was elected to get away from this. Unfortunately, when corruption is so ingrained in the system (bureaucracy) it takes a long time to reverse the trend. From what I have heard, Zelensky was moderately successful in addressing it. When we visited the Ukraine (still under the Soviets), the hatred for the Russians was obvious and out in the open. The Soviets did forced resettlements of Russians into the Eastern provinces, thus their loyalty to Russia.
I believe the cash cow for our elites was freely exploited by the US elites (both parties) while under Russian dominance, which why they want to return to the Russian puppet government.
CNN never disappoints:
And just like that – no more plandemic, no more maskholes, vaxxholes and mandates. No more inflation. No more supply chain issues. No more unemployment. The UniParty seals are applauding….
Ain’t propaganda and gaslighting great?
No more Truckers fighting for all our freedoms….
I see President Trump read my post🤩
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Last I heard the Deep State had 11 Bio-Labs in Ukraine, and Russia had taken out 8 of them with specific Bombing. Sounds like a Good Thing to me.
Back around 2014 Obama’s US State Dept Color Revolution Coup Team overthrew the Ukrainian Gov using ANTIFA NAZIS just as they did against the USA Gov of President Trump in 2020. They created Unrest with Operation Chaos with ANTIFA, and “Fixed” Elections with Electronic Voting Machines. Ukraine is used the Launder Deep State Money for Dems, RINOs, and [C]lowns [I]n [A]ction. Biden, Kerry, and Romney has their kids on Energy Company Boards in Ukraine, and rack in PayOff Money through Oil and Gas WHILE Killing US Oil and Gas. SEE THE CONNECTION YET?
The US DOD is DIRTY, See:
http://dilyana.bg/the-pentagon-bio-weapons/
PeeEss. https://www.barnhardt.biz/2022/02/26/for-aggressive-archiving-and-distribution-motherlode-on-us-bioweapons-labs-in-ukraine/
This war has been going on for a while. This is just an escalation. On the ground reports from Western Ukraine from a reporter who has been there for years:
https://www.youtube.com/c/PatrickLancasterNewsToday
The Media! The Propaganda! Keep everything a lie and cluster-frick, all in good fun, and money.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/what-the-russian-media-is-saying-about-the-war-in-ukraine-100046012.html
these photos are damning
I agree with Sundance!
My prime example is Canada.
For weeks we saw the lies and propaganda coming from Media. The pundits and politicians regurgitating the lies…
Common Sense tells me that with Ukraine-Russia being 4 thousand plus miles away…they are/will be..having no problems spouting lies and propaganda. And it will be even more preposterous than what they did to the Truckers!
Nothing has changed. It’s not like Canada was that long ago.
I do have to admit to getting immense pleasure out of the Epic troll Kinzinger fell for!
Maybe we should ask him if he’s going to erect statue honoring 🎖 The Ghost.
Just look at this whole thread. One Fake News war prop after another.
Cuts of MOVIE pics used as “real” pics of war. etc etc
Trump *did* say that “things will get interesting after the Olympics ends”…..
Olympics end and Russia Russia Russia/ Ukraine starts up *immediately*.
Trump was right……. AGAIN.
This one kills me.
The movie one on bottom. sheesh.
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US + NATO figures were posting a bunch of pictures of Zelensky out in kit bravely fighting off the Russian advance personally. Problem is, the photos were from last April.
https://bit.ly/3ItGg1J
RedPillPharmacist
Umm, yeah. They’re right there at the top of the page, in this very article by Sundance. 🙄
the link below appears to offer a report (facts it seems) on status of ops between the two sides:
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russia-ukraine-warning-update-russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-february-26
Also, Lee Smith has an excellent piece on Tablet summing up the multiple failures and schemes of US politicians (and, btw, corrupt folks in Ukraine and Russia). Well worth the read.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/ukraines-deadly-gamble
FWIW. I do admire Zelensky staying put and fighting as opposed to bugging out like the rat Trudeau and our own President, heading to Delaware once again for the weekend, in the midst of a crisis he arguably created.
I dunno, Zalensky in a combat helmet reminds me so much of that idiot in Mass. years ago, Dukakis.
One thing to note. The Russians have not yet won. It surprises me, but the Ukraine forces and people are not folding up the way I anticipated. Putin is at least somewhat humiliated at this point. Notwithstanding the ridiculous propaganda on both sides, this fight is stretching on longer than most thought possible, including me.
Elon Musk provides emergency internet service for Ukraine .,.
https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1497701484003213317
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Red Wave Riders
Be Aware of Misinformation/Propaganda on MSM
Example;
1.The video of the sustained Anti-Aircraft Fire, the amazing Tracer Round footage;
Entertaining but Fake, ReasonableTV on Dlive did a side by side comparison of a Video Game Clip.
Exact same footage. It’s from a Video Game
2. The photo Traitor Kinzinger posted of the kids shaking Soldiers hands, is a stock photo from 2016
3. The story of Russia bombing the apartment building, is now admittedly a Ukrainian rocket which veered off course, accidentally striking the apartment/killing civilians. Initial MSM reported Russia was intentionally bombing civilians
4. The mass casualty’s of civilians the MSM is pushing, is not being verified by local Ukraine reports. Yes, civilian casualties are being reported however not in mass numbers. Plus many of the Civilian casualties are Ukrainian civilians which took up Arms against Russian soldiers
5. The entire Snake Island story is beginning to unravel. Multiple reports the 13 Ukraine soldiers which told Russian Naval destroyer to F-off then eliminated by Russia are actually alive and surrendered to Russian Forces
Just be cautious what News you Receive. Give it a couple days to simmer before trusting the info.
Like everything the dems + neocons do it all a Hollywood production. Heck Sean Penn has been filming in Ukraine since Nov. 2021. The dems will screw around and create WWIII and ensure we lose.
“Everything in modern warfare is storytelling.”
sundance’s article is exactly what I’ve been thinking but my version was less detailed and not as comprehensive. Fox News has taken a deep dive to the center of the MSM’s corrupt news cauldron including some of their creative writer reporters on the edge of the action.
Many of the narratives are speculative or fictionally enhanced. There is however, no doubt that Putin’s decisions have turned him into a justified pariah in the world unless he can prove that Zelensky and the Biden admin were plotting an attack against Russia or some other grievous action which is highly unlikely.
There is undoubtedly courage, heroism and understandable fear being displayed by some Ukrainians but enhancing and even creating fictional stories diverts from a true reality. But it’s great for FNC’s ratings. I kept thinking Baghdad Bob was an amateur compared to some of FNC’s coverage.
Something very true is the fact that Poland has opened its borders to the fleeing people of Ukraine. They are welcome — as well as their pets.
And….another fake/reuse of a photo.
I’m beginning to think this is really all just Sean Pena’s movie being produced.
Do these people really not know that the interwebs is unforgiving?
Anyone watching the live camera feeds in Kiev and wondering why it’s so quiet over there? Yet MSM would have you believe there’s brutal fighting and bombing 24/7. Seriously, this is the quietest “invasion” I’ve ever seen.
There’s more to war than the destruction of soldiers and materiel, that’s expected and calculated.
Here’s where this war is being won and lost:
Russian civilian casualties: 0
Destruction of Russian infrastructure: 0
Destruction of civilian Russian property: 0
Russian children in danger: 0
Refugees who have left Russia: 0
Those numbers and others aren’t zero when it comes to Ukraine.