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Evan Gershkovich Is In Trouble With Vladimir Putin
I hate to put it this way, honestly I do, but I don't see much utility in resorting to euphemisms or
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Perhaps, the owner of WSJ might have a conversation with its other corporate entities about the frequent usage of Russian propaganda it leverages? Maybe having one of their own taken in custody will finally wake them up?
More and more over time, less an amicable relationship with differing opinions, more a threatened and threatening posture on the part of the Russians.
Gershkovich sounds like one of those passionate, young reporters trying to do some good in the world by learning and reporting the truth. Okay, he was in the Urals. Would like to know what he was doing there that was so threatening.
I have to imagine from the Russian perspective that they are desperate. They are about to lose substantially more ground in Ukraine. In the next six months, Ukraine’s infantry and massive accumulation of western-made armor and heavy equipment is going to roll over the Russian armies in the east and in Crimea like caramel over a hot plate. It is possible that Russia has taken Gershkovich because they have a sick need for the attention of the United States
Russia at this point lacks but sorely needs the attention of the United States because of its abilities to influence Ukraine. At this point, Russia is being pathetic. They’re actually taking WWII-era tanks out of storage and shipping them to Ukraine.
Ukraine, being fortified with extensive heavy weapons from the west, is simply going to annihilate the Russian armies on its land. What country in world would invite war with an angry, substantial, and enabled army of Ukrainians?
Russians in Ukraine have been dying at a rapid rate. It’s only going to get much worse. It’s going to be a blood bath. I’m just wondering when will the US choose to intervene and influence the end of the slaughter?
When the Russians leave.
When will we get it through our thick heads that people who run other countries are allowed to run those countries as they please. International law aside, we will never be safe while “seeking the truth” in someone else’s house. I watch sport shows and new shows every day where someone avers that s/he has the the right to seek and know the TRUTH about something or other and tell everyone about it. People are insatiable gossips. There are actually few, if any, laws protecting random, uncontrolled truth seeking. And none allowing it when we are checking the facts in other countries. They can volunteer, but can’t really be compelled to pass on true information. Truth is a luxury of civilized society that people in power will always guard because it is the main source of power. Information confers power because it unbalances the level of uncertainty between individuals. If you know something that others don’t, you have an advantage over them. Who wants to willingly give that up?