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“If it were not for Mr. Kiryeyev, most likely Kyiv would have been taken,” the general said.

He used his Russian connections to save Kyiv. He wanted to negotiate an early end to the war. Then the SBU summarily executed him claiming he was a Russian spy.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Sounds like a coup might be incoming.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Probably not the most, but:

“Capitalists are job creators.”

The jobs will exist with or without them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (8 children)

WaPo just publishes Bezos's marketing emails.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lol you didn't even bother clicking the link did you?

VOA is part of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), the government agency that oversees all non-military, U.S. international broadcasting. It is funded by the U.S. Congress.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Type: Statutory corporation with a royal charter

A statutory corporation is a government entity created as a statutory body by statute.

It doesn't matter what language you try to couch it in, "state funded", "editorial independence", whatever. It was founded by the state, is funded by the state, and is a government entity. If it quacks like a duck.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

mediabiasfactcheck, the site that squashes two complex spectrums (left vs right, unbiased vs biased) into a one dimensional line, making no distinction between centrism and being unbiased.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

and reliable reporting as you can get outside the BBC

"Russian state owned media bad. British state owned media good."

I guess you’re just assuming it’s bad based on its name

No, we know it's bad because it's literally run by the US government.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Putin isn’t a Nazi, Prigozhen is.

And even if it was Nazi vs Nazi, you shouldn’t be rooting for either side.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Why are you rooting for the Nazi private military?

 
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