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>But a closely related story of "ship, go fuck yourself" was propaganda. The way it was told implied that solders died heroically, whereby they were taken pow and later returned to Ukraine.

That was because after the soldiers said that the feed got cut off and Ukraine didn't hear back from the soldiers until Russia said they were captured. So up until as it was revealed they were captured, the worst was assumed.

>but not a single photo of destroyed Ukrainian equipment

There are many photos like this, did you even bother to look?

Oryx's blog for example has 1,040 photos of destroyed/captured Ukrainian equipment



To the extent that I want Ukraine to win, I'm also ok with western media joining their propaganda effort.


I'd prefer to be given the truth. Explicitly asking to be deceived, well I can't understand that.


Yeah, that's never been the way journalism works, though. Read multiple sources, figure out what truth you believe you can infer. That's all there is.

Tolerating propaganda from friendly sources who are at war is hardly asking to be deceived.


It is precisely asking to be decieved. Precisely, exactly and specifically.


Seems like you are not that familiar with propaganda. Good luck.


> There are many photos like this

Not in the mainstream press.


And?




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