You Can Never Read Enough in LIfe.

 Here's another source to consider when you are consuming the typical daily American diet of war spin.  This has been going on long enough for years now.  Read other sources, and listen to other voices if you really want to be helpful and stay informed

Obviously, the Western media, that is, the major American news organs (Fox, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, etc.) and their equivalents in Europe are unanimously and zealously pro-Ukrainian. And there are some very important reasons for that, including the fact that nearly the entirety of that media reflects a globalist and neoconservative perspective on the conflict.

Indeed, there is a real symbiosis between the major American media and the political establishment, centered in Washington D.C. That virtual unity includes both the Democrats and the Republicans, who, if anything, are more war like than their supposed opponents. Indeed, a friend of mine commented that he thought it significant that on the war the positions of Fox News and CNN were almost identical; he said that because he believed that since all the major news sources were in agreement, then certainly what they presented was truthful.

But that has not been and is not how I evaluate the news coming out of Ukraine and Russia. Every assertion I write about I try to back up with a variety of sources; I attempt to verify the best I can. Some of the information I present is highly contentious or debatable; I offer it to counter what I consider to be the over-the-top, at times hysterical reporting that shows up on Fox or CNN. As another friend recently said to me concerning the claims of Russian “war crimes”: “Maybe at the end of this thing we’ll see who was right."

I am certainly willing to continue to evaluate seriously what is reported, and I hope that at some point there will be a final accounting of what is fact, what is mere supposition, and what is indeed fake and propaganda.

Nevertheless, the more I read, each morning dozens of sources from all over the world, the more I seriously doubt the commonly-held mantra of the near-totality of our major news media. 

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Shame on anybody who tries to portray as traitors or haters those independent voices who would question what we are really gaining anymore by taking on, militarily, these political stances that always end up in total devastation and calls to assassinate other countries' leaders. 

They can't handle reason, so they seek to shut out and condemn those who question the elite decisionmakers.  That's not healthy for anyone in the end.  Much less America as a whole.

If you can't make your case openly in the marketplace of ideas, and tolerate those with dissenting opinions who question your facts, then maybe your ideas don't deserve to be funded and backed up militarily?  If you can't listen and read other sources, how can you learn and grow?