I wouldn't trust RT to tell me the Sun rises in the East.
E.g. here. Miller's been gone a long time. Has the RT management stopped taking orders from Putin yet? (Unlikely, since it is his baby, after all.)
Oh, and there's Alex's helpfully provided linky, also too.
RT can't be trusted. Even in the worst days of the run-up of the Iraq war, contrary voices were in the Times and the Washington Post. You won't find anything approaching that at RT. You know this.
Yes, atrocities happen on both sides in wars. Civilians always get trampled. It's always a disaster for people in the middle. I'm not defending any particular action by Ukraine's military.
The Ukrainian woman was a civilian. There is no excuse, none, for the treatment she received. Also, the captured Ukrainian soldiers that were paraded through the streets was inexcusable. Civilized militaries don't do that. Militaries that want to drum up nationalism and jingoism, do.
Without Putin's support and his military invasion of Ukraine, the fighting in eastern Ukraine wouldn't have started in the first place, and it wouldn't be continuing now. The blood is (nearly) all on Putin's hands.
I've been bored by arguments about the "Neo-Nazis" and "fascists" in Kiev for quite a while. There is a guy, "Bob in Portland", on Balloon-Juice who throws that up almost every time Ukraine comes up. It's pointless to argue with him. It's like trying to argue about the impossibility of Noah's ark - without an agreed basis for discussion, it's pointless to imagine that minds will be changed. I learned that long ago.
Doesn't mean I won't push-back occasionally. ;-)
FWIW.
Cheers,
Scott.
In 2013, a presidential decree issued by Vladimir Putin dissolved RIA Novosti and subsumed it into a new information agency called Rossiya Segodnya (directly translated as Russia Today).[88] According to a report on the RT website, the new news agency is "in no way related" to the news channel RT despite the similarity to RT's original name.[88] However on December 31, 2013, Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of the RT news channel, was also appointed as editor-in-chief of the new news agency while maintaining her duties for the television network.[89]
Oh, and there's Alex's helpfully provided linky, also too.
RT can't be trusted. Even in the worst days of the run-up of the Iraq war, contrary voices were in the Times and the Washington Post. You won't find anything approaching that at RT. You know this.
Yes, atrocities happen on both sides in wars. Civilians always get trampled. It's always a disaster for people in the middle. I'm not defending any particular action by Ukraine's military.
The Ukrainian woman was a civilian. There is no excuse, none, for the treatment she received. Also, the captured Ukrainian soldiers that were paraded through the streets was inexcusable. Civilized militaries don't do that. Militaries that want to drum up nationalism and jingoism, do.
Without Putin's support and his military invasion of Ukraine, the fighting in eastern Ukraine wouldn't have started in the first place, and it wouldn't be continuing now. The blood is (nearly) all on Putin's hands.
I've been bored by arguments about the "Neo-Nazis" and "fascists" in Kiev for quite a while. There is a guy, "Bob in Portland", on Balloon-Juice who throws that up almost every time Ukraine comes up. It's pointless to argue with him. It's like trying to argue about the impossibility of Noah's ark - without an agreed basis for discussion, it's pointless to imagine that minds will be changed. I learned that long ago.
Doesn't mean I won't push-back occasionally. ;-)
FWIW.
Cheers,
Scott.