Russian State TV Is So Ridiculous Right Now It Looks Like a Farce

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Julia Davis
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If you watch exclusively #Russia’s state TV, you might not realize that Putin’s forces are menacing #Ukraine and are on the verge of re-invasion.

Panicked pundits blame the United States & Ukraine and theatrically ponder: “Why won’t somebody stop Biden?”

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Russian State TV Is So Ridiculous Right Now It Looks Like a Farce
The TV propaganda has taken a farcical turn with Kremlin insiders begging President Biden not to start a vicious war in Ukraine. No mention of the Russian tanks.
6:38 AM · Feb 20, 2022

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Anyone who might be watching exclusively Russian state television would never know President Putin has massed his troops on the border of Ukraine, that Kremlin-controlled separatists shelled a kindergarten full of children and Russian forces are in position for an offensive against its beleaguered neighbor. On Kremlin-funded networks, the vision of events is presented not only upside down, but backwards. Panicked pundits blame the United States and Ukraine for the escalation, claim that Russia doesn’t want the war and theatrically ponder: “Why won’t somebody stop Biden?”

Chairman of the International Committee of Russia’s State Duma, Leonid Slutsky alleged that the president of the United States is painting “an absolutely inverted picture of the situation around Ukraine” and accused Joe Biden of misrepresenting “the alleged readiness of the Russian Federation to invade Ukraine.” Slutsky added that “the American president, talking about the “villain-Russia,” the very Russia that today accepts and saves the civilian population of the LPR and DPR, seems like a real character from [Lewis Carroll’s topsy-turvy children’s book] ‘Through the Looking-Glass.’”

And yet, it is Russia who has turned white into black, and black into white. If there were not so many lives hanging in the balance, you would describe current Russian state TV as a darkly comic farce.

Events on the ground are unfolding just as the American president had warned, based on the information provided by U.S. intelligence agencies. U.S. Ambassador to the OSCE Michael Carpenter said that according to U.S. assessments, Russia has placed somewhere between 169,000 and 190,000 troops near Ukraine’s borders—up from 100,000 at the end of January.

Having massed its troops and armaments on the Ukrainian border, Russia stands ready to invade Ukraine. On Friday, Kremlin-controlled heads of the self-proclaimed “republics” in Eastern Ukraine (LPR and DPR) started unprovoked evacuations of civilians to Russia, followed by suspicious explosions in the region. Russia’s state media immediately—and baselessly—blamed the Ukrainian military. State TV channel Rossiya-24 reported: “Let’s address the emergency event that took place several minutes ago.” The correspondent present on the scene said, “Everyone is trying to figure out what happened here.” The headline read: “The Ukrainian army struck the gas pipeline in Luhansk.”

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[marybourg]

1. They perfected the technique with tfg and Faux News.

[dalton99a]

2. "Big Bad Ukraine Threatens Russia. HELP!"

[EYESORE 9001]

3. Glad we don't have 'journalism' like that in the good ol' US of A

Right, Faux ‘News?’

[dwayneb]

4. The truly scary part is that there are believers right here in the USA

Plenty of Trump cultists that are willing to believe anything that makes Biden look bad. Putin leads these fools around by the nose, simply by feeding the memes and the poisonous disinformation into our social discourse.

These fools are going to hand power to Putin in Eastern Europe, by continuously weakening our support for NATO here in the USA.

[Beastly Boy]

5. I often wondered this myself: why doesn't anyone stop Biden from

invading Ukraine from Russia usung the full force of Russia's military?

Any ideas?

[keithbvadu2]

6. Russian tv starring Tucker Carlson

[mwooldri]

7. Hopefully the Russians treat state TV like..

... the citizens of the Soviet Union treated Pravda. Pravda meaning "truth" or more accurately the "truth the Soviet Union wanted you to believe".