Why would he want to kill Ukrainians? He wants revolution in Russia? As far as i know many Russians and Ukrainians have contact. Seems like nothing but false flags and media will never ask any questions. A photo and a call to CNN and it´s soon everywhere. "A missile that exploded near a Ukrainian railway station, which officials claim killed at least 50 people, had the words 'for' and 'children' painted on it in Russian." Who believe in this crap?
Why did he want to kill Chechans, Georgians, Syrians? Because he doesn't give a shit about who he kills. Since your rest of the post follows from this logic, your whitewashing is irrelevant.
Ukraine war: How Russian propaganda dominates Chinese social media By Deutsche Welle 2022/04/06 China may officially be taking a neutral stance over Russia's invasion of Ukraine but its online maneuverings paint a very different picture China may have wanted to present itself as a neutral party to the war in Ukraine, but dominant messages on its internet are portraying a different reality. As Russia continues to spread its propaganda about the war through different channels, a cyber monitoring group in Taiwan found that pro-Kremlin propaganda has also been spreading rapidly on Chinese social media. According to a report released by Taiwan-based Doublethink Lab, the close relationship between Russian and Chinese state media has helped to amplify Russian propaganda on Chinese social media platforms like Weibo. Analysts think it is part of Beijing's efforts to encourage solidarity between China and Russia as it deals with "foreign forces interfering in its internal affairs" and "foreign-funded Nazism." China's partnership with Russia has 'no limits' Russia has repeatedly used the threat posed by NATO's expansion and the rhetoric of neo-Nazis in Ukraine as reasons to justify its invasion. China insists that it remains neutral about the war and Beijing has yet to openly criticize Russia's actions in Ukraine. China's partnership with Russia has "no limits," according to Chinese President Xi Jinping, and this has also raised skepticism among democratic countries about Beijing's real stance on Moscow's military aggression. Jerry Yu, an analyst at Doublethink Lab, claims in the report that since the invasion began on February 24, Chinese state media and influential accounts on Weibo have been circulating Russian propaganda about Ukraine, while building the connection between Russian President Vladimir Putin's claim of "Ukrainian Nazism" with the 2019 anti-extradition bill protests in Hong Kong. "Chinese state media (Global Times/CGTN etc.) picked up Putin's anti-NATO expansion reasoning upon the outbreak of hostilities, and later went on to focus on the denazification angle themselves, citing Russian government officials' speeches and statements," he wrote in the report. Some experts view the efforts as strategically beneficial to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). "Clearly, there are at least parts of the party apparatus that have decided that strategically it is to CCP's benefit, if not China's, to support Russia's invasion and narratives about what's happening in Ukraine," said Sarah Cook, research director for China, Hong Kong and Taiwan at Freedom House. "Once that decision was taken, the propaganda and info control apparatus has moved in that direction, be it in terms of state media coverage, directives to media and online platforms, on what content is permissible and even should be amplified, or censorship of alternative views and information sources," she added. Other experts think the propaganda efforts are also an attempt to spark up nationalistic and anti-Western sentiments in China. "I've seen a lot of pro-Russia rhetoric that is also very much linked to and overshadowed by the anti-West sentiment of challenging the legitimacy of the United States, the West and NATO," said Maria Repnikova, an assistant professor in global communications at Georgia State University. How Russian propaganda proliferates on Chinese social media? The Doublethink Lab report points out that the Chinese public wasn't familiar with the discourse surrounding "Ukrainian Nazis" prior to the war, and relevant subjects didn't attract much media attention in China. Days before the invasion, Chinese authorities issued a directive that asked domestic media outlets to only publish content from official media outlets such as the People's Daily, Xinhua News Agency and China Central Television, which signed cooperation agreements with Russian state media in 2015. Soon after Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, Chinese state media outlets and the Chinese Foreign Ministry began to push out content that reiterated Russian media's claim that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had left Kyiv or Ukrainian soldiers had surrendered. Other content cited Russian officials' assertion that the Ukrainian government was a Nazi-led administration. Linking Ukraine and Hong Kong pro-democracy movement The report also highlights that on the third day of the war, influential accounts on Chinese social media platform Weibo began to recycle false news from 2019 that claimed the US government had funded members of Ukraine's far-right Azov Battalion and that the money was then used to participate in the 2019 anti-extradition bill in Hong Kong. "This tactic successfully linked the discussion of Nazism and the longstanding trope of foreign forces interfering in China's internal affairs in Chinese online discourse, influencing public opinion to support Russia's invasion of Ukraine," Yu wrote in the report. Overall, the report identified Russian state media's Chinese language social media accounts, Chinese domestic media, influential accounts on Weibo, and Chinese accounts on Western social media platforms as part of the influencers spreading Russian propaganda in the Chinese-speaking world. "As various media and internet platforms ban Russian officials and Russian propaganda channels, the impact of discussions on Weibo on the wider Chinese-speaking diaspora should not be underestimated," the report stated. "Chinese discourses continue to spread Russian political propaganda through Weibo, Douyin, YouTube and other platforms, creating a negative image of Ukraine among Chinese users." On March 24, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin refuted NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg's assertion that China is spreading lies and misinformation about the war in Ukraine. "Accusing China of spreading misinformation related to Ukraine is in itself disinformation," he said during a press briefing. Push back against Russian propaganda on Chinese social media While Russian propaganda has dominated information about the war in Ukraine on Chinese social media, there have been some efforts by individuals to push back against the propaganda. Wang Jixian, a Chinese programmer living in Odessa, has been uploading daily videos to multiple social media platforms including YouTube, WeChat and Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, showing first-hand information in Ukraine to the Chinese-speaking audience. However, his Chinese social media accounts were subsequently banned last month. "Is my voice so scary to you?" he said in one video uploaded to YouTube on March 18. "If not, why would all the social media accounts under my name be canceled at 3 p.m.? The only way for my parents to contact me has been canceled. Why can't you tolerate one of your citizens? I'm just a programmer, not someone fighting in the war." Wang told DW that he began to record these videos because he thinks a lot of the heroic acts by the Ukrainian people have been overshadowed. "I think the world needs to see their heroic deeds, but when I search for information about the war in Ukraine on the Chinese internet, most content portrays Ukrainian people as terrorists," he said in a telephone interview. "I think it's unfair for my Ukrainian friends and neighbors to be stigmatized. I also want to encourage Chinese people to reclaim their ability to think critically. I hope Chinese people can receive information from more perspectives and make their own judgments about the war accordingly," he added. Additionally, a prominent scholar in Shanghai also published an article that suggested China needed to cut ties with Russia over the Ukraine war, but hours after the essay was published by the Carter Center's US-China Perception Monitor, the website was blocked in China. How effective are China's propaganda efforts? ProfessorRepnikova told DW that even though there are some critical messages and fact-checking efforts on Chinese social media to counter the dominant anti-Western rhetoric, those critical messages are often quickly censored. "The strongest voices tend to be nationalistic and anti-Western messaging which aligns with the pro-Russia statement," she said. "Other voices that have tried to challenge that have been quickly censored." Freedom House's Sarah Cook says that, in addition to amplifying the Russian propaganda, muzzling dissenting voices is equally essential for the propaganda to be effective. "If the voices within China, including some very prominent intellectuals, or content liked by a Chinese resident in Ukraine, were not being restricted, then the propaganda would be much less effective," she told DW. While China may officially be taking a neutral stance, its online maneuverings suggest a very different position regarding Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Edited by: John Silk
There is no question that civilians get killed during conflicts like this one, this has always happened in the past, there is nothing new here. And both Russian and Ukrainians are guilty of this, they both have destructive weapons and are using them. But I don’t believe that the Russians are involved in genocide, that’s total bullshit, Ukrainian and Western propaganda.
The Russians are DELIBERATELY targeting civilians. When civilians have their hands tied behind their back and are shot in the head — this is not an accident of war. Putin and the Russians need to be held responsible for their war crimes.
From a pro marxist web site headquartered in Michigan. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/04/09/auch-a09.html Australia pushes for stepped-up NATO confrontation with China Oscar Grenfell @Oscar_Grenfell 6 hours agoAt a foreign ministers’ meeting in Brussels last week, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) paired an escalation of the US-led confrontation against Russia with bellicose condemnations of China and pledges to expand NATO’s presence in the Indo-Pacific region. The focus of the summit was on Ukraine. The political exploitation of Russia’s reactionary invasion, provoked by the US and NATO, to activate longstanding plans in Washington and Berlin for an aggressive war targeting Moscow was on full display. NATO and its member states pledged vast weapons shipments to the US-backed regime in Kiev, on top of the billions of dollars worth of armaments sent in recent weeks. This was linked to the other front in American imperialism’s drive to maintain global hegemony—its plans for conflict with China. That was signalled in the attendance at the meeting. US Indo-Pacific allies Japan and South Korea were invited to the foreign ministers’ meeting for the first time. They were joined by Australia and New Zealand, both partners in the US-led Five Eyes network. Foreign Minister Marise Payne [Credit: Australian National University] The Australian government, as it has during the past month, functioned as an aggressive attack dog of the Biden administration, seeking to use the Ukraine crisis to ramp up pressure on Beijing. According to Australian media reports, the country’s foreign minister Marise Payne lobbied for NATO to commit to greater intervention in the Indo-Pacific, explicitly directed against the Chinese regime. The Murdoch-owned Australian newspaper reported: “NATO has agreed to an Australian request to step up co-operation in the Asia-Pacific region, including in areas of maritime security, noting that China’s unwillingness to condemn Russia’s aggression in Ukraine poses ‘a serious challenge.’” In addition to a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Payne held a closed-door discussion with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, even though Australia is not a NATO member. In his closing public remarks, Stoltenberg declared that NATO had “agreed that we must support other regional partners under pressure, and we agreed to step up co-operation with our partners in the Asia-Pacific because the crisis has global ramifications. “We have seen what is happening in Ukraine is being closely watched around the world. We have seen that China is unwilling to condemn Russia’s aggression and Beijing has joined Moscow in questioning the right of nations to choose their own path.” In reality, the Chinese government has reacted nervously to the Ukraine crisis. It has pointed to the central role of the US in stoking the crisis, through the 30-year eastward expansion of NATO and the transformation of Ukraine into a US-armed garrison state on Russia’s border. But it has not endorsed the Russian invasion, nor provided it with any assistance. Despite this, US allies, led by Australia, have denounced China’s refusal to condemn the Russian operation as “unconscionable.” The Australian government, backed by the Labor Party opposition, has threatened to extend the sweeping sanctions imposed against Russia to China if it allegedly provides any aid to the Russian operation in Ukraine. Australian government ministers have sought to draw a parallel between Russia’s actions and supposed Chinese aggression against Taiwan. In fact the US has deliberately transformed Taiwan into a key flashpoint in its aggressive confrontation with Beijing. Biden’s administration, following on from Trump’s, has undermined the One China policy, under which Beijing is recognised as the government of all of China, including Taiwan. Biden has sent senior officials to Taipei, along with military advisors, and threatened war if Beijing seeks to establish control over the island. The plans for an expanded NATO presence in the Indo-Pacific coincide with the push by several European powers, including France and the UK, to extend their military influence in the region. But above all, the focus on China at the summit was driven by the US. The Australian reported that Payne and Blinken expressed “shared concerns” over the revelation last month that there was a supposed draft military agreement between China and the tiny Pacific nation of Solomon Islands. The US and Australia have both warned publicly against the deal, and are doing everything they can to prevent it from being signed. This underscores the fraudulent character of claims that the US-led build up in the Indo-Pacific is directed at ensuring the rights of countries throughout the region. Instead, Washington and its partners, like Australia, are seeking to shore up their hegemony over the Indo-Pacific and block growing Chinese influence. The aggressive character of this campaign was underscored by a joint announcement by Biden, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and British PM Boris Johnson, timed to coincide with the NATO meeting. Expanding AUKUS, an Indo-Pacific military alliance of the three countries established last September, they unveiled a program to build hypersonic missiles, some of which would be stationed in Australia. The development of these advanced long-range weapons systems, which could carry nuclear payloads, is part of an escalating military buildup by the three countries. Australia is planning to acquire nuclear-powered submarines, hasten its construction of missiles, build new naval bases and expand its military. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian condemned the hypersonic missiles announcement as a move that would “undermine peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region.” He warned that the “ultimate goal” of AUKUS was to “create the Asia-Pacific version of NATO and serve US hegemony outright. Asia-Pacific countries are of course firmly opposed to this.” The state-owned Global Times cited the comments of Yang Xiyu, a senior research fellow at the China Institute of International Studies, who said the Brussels meeting was a further step in NATO’s eastward expansion. “The US has used NATO to shift its global strategic focus and alliance system to the east. From the Iraq war to the Afghan and Syria wars, we have witnessed NATO’s more frequent military operations outside NATO and more NATO members’ presence in the South and East China Sea and the Asia-Pacific region.” Australia’s prominence at the NATO summit and in the hypersonic missile announcement demonstrates its central role in the US plans for war against China. This has a domestic political component. With a federal election due to be called, the Liberal-National Coalition government and the Labor opposition are competing with one another in their hawkishness and military aggression. Virtually every day brings a new government announcement of expanded defence spending. For his part, Labor leader Anthony Albanese is pitching his party to the military-security apparatus as a more reliable partner for the Biden administration. Labor has sought to outdo the Coalition, demanding over recent days that the government expel Russian diplomats from the country, in line with the actions of the US and several European powers. Albanese has denounced Putin as a “war criminal,” without any substantiation, echoing earlier comments by Biden that seek to block any diplomatic resolution to the Ukrainian crisis. The turn to a “khaki election” is also aimed at diverting widespread anger over the disastrous official “live with the virus” COVID policies, soaring inflation and accelerating social inequality.
Russia has a history of deliberately targeting civilians, it was on full display in their three previous outings under Putin so them repeating their successful strategy in Ukraine is not new. As for Ukrainians being guilty of same - they are defending their country, how do you think they are being guilty here?
New York Times: “With President Vladimir Putin’s direct encouragement, Russians who support the war against Ukraine are starting to turn on the enemy within.” “The episodes are not yet a mass phenomenon, but they illustrate the building paranoia and polarization in Russian society. Citizens are denouncing one another in an eerie echo of Stalin’s terror, spurred on by vicious official rhetoric from the state and enabled by far-reaching new laws that criminalize dissent.”