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Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress]
by
Branko
on 06/04/2022, 07:35:22 UTC

Your 'little war' accounted for a notable part of my confidence in 'the media' being adjusted in the right direction.  Back then I was a 'progressive' and a 'democrat' and while I didn't 'love' the Clintons, I did like and trust them and basically assumed that whatever Bill was supporting was basically the right thing.  Even then I could see that they would lie, but figured that it was for a good end-goal which I would/should agree with if I understood it better.

I remember one widely reported incident where one side was starving captured civilians in barbed wire prison camp.  A later analysis of the 'reporting' pointed out that the reporters were on the inside of the wire enclosure and they focused on a guy who had a congenital birth defect which gave him a sunken chest.  The science of fake news and crisis actors has developed a lot since then, and the incidence of it has mushroomed until now it is basically the standard for reporting and actual reporting on real information is a novelty for corporate media.

I was hanging out with a bunch of Croats because I was commercial fishing in Alaska at the time.  They were pretty fired up and radical (and fun to hang out and drink with.)  One of the American born 20-somethings was heading over to the old country there to fight right after the fishing season was over with full support of his family.  I don't have any reason to doubt that he followed up on his plan.  If so, I hope he survived.



During my time in uniform, we had few "cease fire situations", and both us and Serbs would sometimes break it for this or what reason. Not a single time
our or their side said "our forces broke cease fire", it was always THEM (from both sides mass media).
I remember one particular event when horrible crime happened to Croats by Muslim side in Bosnia, and I can tell you that any Muslim, civilian or soldier,
who would be unlucky to cross our path would not fare well. Few years later, I saw in a TV show that it was actually our (Croat) side that burned
bus full of Muslim civilians, filmed it and accused Muslims. Since then I'm very critical about garbage that we're fed with by mass media