Comments by "The Zero Line" (@The_ZeroLine) on "Ukraine is losing the media war to Israel" video.

Some context on Shuster’s Time hit piece: he gloated on Twitter about using rubles in Crimea in 2015 + past article titles include “Ukrainians Want Russia to Invade,” “No, Russia Will Not Interfere in Ukraine,” & “Nazis Have Hijacked Ukraine’s Liberal Uprising,” Anyone noticing a theme? It’s amazing Time let a man openly hostile to Ukraine author this story. Finally, his anonymous “sources” included Arestovych whose ambition is to become president. A guy now living in Europe after becoming unpopular when he argued Ukraine should not do away with a Russian centric culture and blamed an AD mssile for civilian deaths after it hit a Russian missile that then fell to the ground in a residential area.
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@kashmirha I didn’t even know he was Russian when I made those points. But that’s even more damning and goes toward explaining why he was gloating about the rubles. It’s amazing the media hasn’t called him out.
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@XL0G Thanks. That is true, but while I may well be wrong, I simply do not trust him to not lie about his sources based on what he’s already displayed in terms of journalistic ethics and personal bias. While, I think he’d avoid major lies he could be caught out on, especially if Time editors are doing their due diligence. However, a status “mix up” of a cited source is the sort of seemingly small, but nefarious “error” that wouldn’t raise major alarm bells if caught and a “correction” was issued. If he’ll lie or at best misrepresent the facts on entire stories to fit a narrative, he’d twist (I.E., lie) a detail as small as this without second thought.
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@kogorun Russophilia?! I didn’t even talk about Russia in my post. I talked about a biased author’s agenda. So, yeah, you’ve instantly discredited yourself. And, actually my day job includes analyzing Sino and Eastern European geopolitics as well as the domestic affairs of these states. I was also double majored in Russian history major and political science at UCLA (not that that is especially applicable or makes one qualified in isolation).
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Question: why does the media, but especially POTUS never explain that the arms given to 🇺🇦 have cost tax payers nearly nothing as most were paid for in the ‘80s & were retired, retiring or being disposed of at huge expense? This could really change US public opinion about spending on 🇺🇦. Examples: DPICM, SDBs, MRAPS and HMMWVs were all being scrapped + Avenger retired. The $ values placed on the packages are put at what these systems would cost new and bought today. Seems like they were thinking of foreign optics + political capital and forgot about domestic ones They’ve also failed to mention how it’s paid for itself 20x over as US weapons performance so out shined Russia’s newest & best systems that our arms industry is getting huge orders from aero to artillery at the expense of 🇷🇺’s market share. All of which = jobs, revenue, etc.
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@Pierluigi_Di_Lorenzo False. The people of Donbas (and doubly in Crimea) definitely didn’t want 🇷🇺 to invade. 🇷🇺only sent the little green men after efforts to stir popular unrest by saying Kievan forces were coming to massacre Russian speakers failed. In addition to the fake news, they tried paying and arming some local thugs paired with + directed by the FSB to storm gov. building in the oblast in the hopes it would inspire an uprising. Besides, even if the fraudulent claim had been true, the title itself is what most people read so the title was both a lie and intentionally misleading.
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@Pierluigi_Di_Lorenzo No one said he’s in the KGB. But nice try. Fox News lies/distorts the truth every single day to fit an agenda and/or a narrative without being intelligence agency assets.
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@Teeurbo What party line? 🤪
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On YT or when interviewed you should address the below issue as it’d make a real-world difference: Neither US media or POTUS explain the actual cost of arms given to 🇺🇦 is a mere fraction of the stated values. Most of those given were already paid for in the ‘80s & were mostly used, retired, retiring or being disposed of at huge expense. Examples: DPICM, SDBs, MRAPS and HMMWVs were all being scrapped + Avenger retired. The $ values placed on the packages are put at what these systems would cost new and bought today. Seems like they were thinking of foreign optics + political capital and forgot about domestic optics. They’ve also failed to mention how it’s paid for itself 20x over as US weapons performance so out shined Russia’s newest & best systems that our arms industry is getting huge orders from aero to artillery at the expense of 🇷🇺’s market share. All of which = jobs, revenue, etc.
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