(09-24-2022, 12:48 AM)Lucky2Last Wrote: Marty seems to struggle with the idea that the news he consumes is dishonest. It's not ALWAYS dishonest, but it's worse than he can bring himself to admit.

Putin has fired his top generals that were directing the operation in Ukraine.  He has called up 300,000 reservists.  He has threatened nuclear war.  Sweden and Finland have applied to join NATO as a result of this invasion of Ukraine.  Do you dispute any of that?  

If Russia had some sort of master plan to abandon the region the Ukrainians took back in the counteroffensive, why did they also abandon their equipment and supplies?  

What am I saying here that you think is not true?  

You have an overwhelming confidence that you can tell fact from fiction, and yet you get your "facts" from the Russian Ministry of Information.  You said so yourself in a post and you edited it out.  You would reject the testimony of a thousand witnesses if they contradicted your personal beliefs.  You tell me what I said above that is not true.

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