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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I think it's obvious that Putin has to be killed in the name of global political stability.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Yeah, you know what's great for global political stability? Assassinating the heads of state of countries with massive nuclear arsenals.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'd rather have him tried and imprisoned at the Hague. He destroys institutions. Institutions must destroy him in the end, not guns.

PS: and before the tankies rush in with their whataboutisms: Sinwar, Netanyahu and Dubbya should be made an example of too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Unfortunately, the United States and Israel (ironically) have all but neutered The Hague….

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I don't know why you're being downvoted. The American Service-Members' Protection Act, known informally as The Hague Invasion Act, is a United States federal law described as "a bill to protect United States military personnel and other elected and appointed officials of the United States government against criminal prosecution by an international criminal court to which the United States is not party".

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So that's how Lil' Putler is being allowed to genocide unranians.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Not an expert on the ICC but I don’t think they have any means of enforcement other than public pressure on the international stage, or another country arresting the war criminal and then handing them over….

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also put Russian astroturfers on that list that have to be killed in the name of global political stability.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

How about we just kill everyone you, personally, find annoying, would that work?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can I just have a note book? Black leather bound notebook with a single pen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'll only use it for justice dude... I promise.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Man...can't have shit around here....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I'm just teasing. You do you. Have fun!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Why didn't you say this to the guy I replied to?

Also I personally find you annoying.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

As an homage to Putin Style ™? Or on a new, more creative level?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

One of the conspiracies around Prigozhin's death suggested that he was alive in Margarita island in Venezuela... which makes no sense. But finding wagner's mdrcenaries in Venezuela is kind of quaint.

Edit: vzla to venezuela

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Is it really so hard to spell out Venezuela?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

i usually write it that way and didnt realize

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (8 children)
  1. I watched the video and honestly just this one dude standing in this unidentified location for unknown reasons with a patch that maybe looks like a Wagner patch if you zoom in and squint, doesn’t really mean anything.
  2. I had no particular opinion about the Venezuela elections and no idea that anyone in geopolitics cared, until some of the Lemmy propagandists who also don’t like Ukraine started going HARD that Maduro was the best and totally won and González was a tool of US imperialism and Elon Musk.
  3. Fact check bot? Where you at? I sorta want to know what’s up with this site I’ve never heard of
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

They don't have an MBFC page, which is a bit weird since according to their Wikipedia page they've been around for 26 years. I couldn't find any bias rating info on them anywhere.

The story seems a bit sketchy. IntelliNews attributes the video to Jason Jay Smart -- a political consultant and writer for the Kyiv Post. The video didn't originate with him though. About 6 hours earlier it was posted by 'The Spot News' who are probably a fake news organization*. They don't seem to have a web presence beyond that twitter account. Spot News was used as the source for this article from Defense-Blog that pre-dates the IntelliNews piece.

The earliest post with the video I can find is here from 'Ukraine News 24 Hours', who are also not really a news org and just link to a telegram account. They claim that they posted it but, who knows? Most references to the video describe it as "appearing online" without any attribution, which itself is a bit sketch. No one really reputable is reporting this (yet?).

  • Edit: by "fake news organization" I mean that they are not a real news organization, not that they are necessarily posting fake news (though they could be!)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Amateur news organization or unaccredited news organization are two better ways of referring to Twitter accounts with two guys and a camera.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

At least in the case of 'The Spot News', I don't think that's what they are and I think it's giving them more legitimacy than they deserve. I don't believe it's a genuine effort to do reporting. They're posing as a news agency when they're just reposting stuff they find online. Even in that tweet, they're reposting a video as if it's their own.

There are a million of these grifty accounts/sites that claim to be 'The World's #1 Source for Global Breaking News'. Two people and a camera can do a lot of things, but they can't be that. The people and the camera can only be in one place at a time, right?

In just the last 12 hours, The Spot News have "covered" Aerosmith, an attack on Israel, Imane Khelif (with this scummy nugget: "Imane Khelif, who has male hormones and beats women, took refuge in Allah."), a Kirill Fedorov interview with a Russian soldier, bird-shaped Chinese drones, Eylem Tok's lawyer, and a Ukrainian attack on a Russian sub. That's quite the travel budget for a little operation out of Sheridan, Wyoming! They don't indicate who their "reporters" are. There isn't one human being associated with that account. These are all hallmarks of news grifters. What they're really doing is plagiarism.

'Ukraine News 24' doesn't make any big claims about being the world's top news source and, honestly, I'm not totally sure that they're even trying to claim that they're doing journalism even though they've identified themselves as a "media and news company." It seems more like news activism and 99% of what they seem to do is curate and amplify news about Ukraine (with attribution). There's no problem at all with them doing that. They don't seem to do any original reporting though. I was too harsh in equating those two but I think pointing out that they're not really a news org is appropriate because their name is kind of deceptive (intentionally or not).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Hey from a Russian-Ukrainian American guy I want to say thank you for actually caring about the facts and not just eating up the propaganda (because honestly I did)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah for the presence of mercenaries it's best to wait for corroboration. But the election in Venezuela has been heading news since the night Maduro abruptly stopped counting votes, refused to release detailed results, and just declared victory. Then the opposition turned out to literally have the receipts.

Yeah it's been kind of a big deal.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (21 children)

ruzzians are ruining the world

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is Wagner still a thing after last year's shenanigans?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

They are now fully integrated into Putin’s goon squad.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wagner Group? Weren't they part of the anti-Putin Faction when the war with Ukraine started to go downhill?

I would be surprised to learn they're operating anywhere at all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

They got folded back into the regime

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