Subj : Re: Russia's Endgame
To   : Dumas Walker
From : Boraxman
Date : Fri Oct 07 2022 20:52:00

-=> Dumas Walker wrote to BORAXMAN <=-

 >  DW> As someone who lives in America, the news I have been hearing has not
 >  DW> been that Russia was losing since the beginning.  Matter of fact, the
 >  DW> news earlier on was very bleak for Ukraine.  It does not seem that the
 >  DW> Russia is losing narrative started up in earnest until after we gave
 >  DW> Ukraine a bunch of money.

 > Perhaps you're using different news sources. In Australia, the nightly news
 > says almost nothing about the conflict.  The main internet news sites here
are

 > mostly putting out stories about how Russia is in trouble, Putin is about to
 > die, Ukraine is winning. They've been doing this for months now.
 >
 > Maybe the U.S. news is more realistic?  That would be a pleasant surprise.

 DW> I will admit they've gotten where they don't say near as much as they
 DW> used to about the conflict, that is for sure.  It got pushed out of the
 DW> top spot in the news cycle when the FBI raided Donald Trump.  Other
 DW> things... hurricanes, etc... have managed to, in turn, push that out of
 DW> the top spot.

 DW> What we were hearing, and what we've been hearing lately, does sound
 DW> realistic.  Ukraine has gained some ground but Putin is rounding up the
 DW> reserves and others with military service and throwing them at the
 DW> problem, Putin has threatened using nukes, and some in his "circle of
 DW> advisors" have suggested using low-grade ones.

 DW> One other thing that has been in the news lately, and has been fighting
 DW> for the top spot, is the referrendums that were held in the sections of
 DW> the country that have long been Russian held that resulted in Russia
 DW> annexing them outright.

 DW> I don't think we've really been getting any serious either side "is
 DW> winning big" stories in a while.

A good point about lack of journalistic access to what is going on on the
ground.  I remember the Gulf War (the first one), and the level of detail in
the analysis and coverage.  All day coverage for days, which was a lot more
than the 2003 Invasion.

Now, people are talking seriously about being on the verge of WWIII, and its
not even the top stories.  I can go to news.com.au, and the headlines are about
Kanye, a Kardashian, some "racist rant" on a train, some Instragram rubbish,
and what some woman said on TicTok.  On our ABC new site, its not much better. 
Articles vying for top spot which are NOT news but merely some journalists
musings on some pet social issue they want us to care about.

So I think it is in part what you said, less information, but also in part that
we have a different breed of journalists who don't know, and don't care, to
report to us actual news.

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