Quote Originally Posted by OngBonga View Post
That all might be true, but you're presumably getting that from Western media sources.

Controlling the narrative is what the media does, whether it's our media or Russia's.
I do read some western media on this, but mostly I keep up on telegrams, some independent conflict journalists, and the Eastern Border podcast. I don't actively read pro Russian sources, but the latter, while pro Ukraine, routinely cites pro Russian sources.

Ong observation: has an odd array of subjects on which he is confident and those for which he inexplicably clings to agnosticism