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What Vladimir Putin Told Tucker About Hitler’s Invasion of Poland

Posted on March 6, 2024 by David Roman

I’ve noticed that the Ukrainian propaganda machine, surely the world’s best-funded, has been running with the story that Vladimir Putin told Tucker Carlson, during their long, recent interview, that Poland was to blame for WW2 because it rejected Adolf Hitler’s … Continue reading →

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Bad Propagandist, Nobel-Prize Version

Posted on November 16, 2023 by David Roman

The subtle way of putting it is the way The New Republic put it in this 2016 subtitle: Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich crafts myths, not histories. So nice. There are other ways of putting it (shameless liar, dirty seller of … Continue reading →

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Most Twitter Posters on the Ukrainian War are Pro-Western Bots

Posted on September 23, 2022 by David Roman

A recent paper by a group of researchers at the University of Adelaide came to a (to me) shocking conclusion: out of a sample of five million tweets with multiple hashtags related to the Ukrainian war, posted over two weeks … Continue reading →

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Why did Russia Invade the Ukraine?

Posted on February 27, 2022 by David Roman

(Updated Nov. 18, 2022) If you’re wondering, you might as well check this great explanation by the veteran US correspondent John Helmer, a Moscow press corps fixture. Or you can read this confession, by previous Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko, that … Continue reading →

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Why the Ukraine is a Parody of a Country that Shouldn’t Be Defended By Democracy Lovers

Posted on February 2, 2022 by David Roman

Let’s promise to forever give up on comparisons with Munich 1938. It’s been decades, people: we can do better than to reuse the same old Chamberlain metaphors when country X messes with country Y and NATO is not willing to … Continue reading →

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