Friday, October 14, 2022

How it's going over there...

Cathy Young has a piece up on how Putin's latest attempts at escalation have backfired:
One kind of escalation made evident after the airstrikes against Ukrainian cities is in the moral degradation of Russian propagandists, who are no longer even trying to hide against the pretense that the Russian military in Ukraine is saving peaceful Ukrainian from “Nazis.” You might even call it the escalating Nazification of Russian propagandists. As Kirill Martynov, a commentator for the independent Novaya Gazeta put it: “When you spend long enough justifying a war of aggression, you turn into Goebbels.”

Meanwhile, Medvedev tried to jump salty on Twitter and wound up getting hilariously savaged...