More Russian disinformation from Comrade Ivan
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Sure it is.
Meanwhile you and MM swear by media now as gospel even though that same has been vehemently eschewed here since Free Republic began and continues to be on any other issue
So who’s pushing propaganda really?
“More Russian disinformation from Comrade Ivan
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As the Ukranian and American Oligarchs line their pockets with Billions of dollars and American weapons show up on the black market in the Middle EEast and elsewhere.
The Gayzone with Corn Popp.
I don’t doubt there are crooks all over Eastern Europe, but someone caused the munitions stored at the Saki airbase on Crimea’s western Black Sea coast to explode on August 16, 2022, munitions depot near the Russian village of Timonovo, the airbase at Saki, etc.
Just because Biden and the leftist crews nominally sides with Ukraine, doesn’t mean Ukraine is the bad actor.
It’s like Bill Clinton liking pretty women. Well, so do I. I’m not going to stop liking pretty women because Bill Clinton likes them.
I know you prefer the disinformation from Führer Zelensky.
Hush Hoser. And ask permission before posting to an American!
Yeah I followed the only and the only source for this is a Russian site.
No mention of a raise anywhere else on the internet.
I’m skeptical.
[More Russian disinformation from Comrade Ivan
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It’s probably true - on both sides. War is a colossal waste of resources and men. The chaos means people are given opportunities to steal and do things to their personal enemies that they would not be able to in peacetime. Did a black market exist in WWII Russia? Almost certainly. Did Stalin dine on caviar while millions of Russians starved to death? Almost certainly. In peacetime, during a time of relative (to wartime) abundance, Russia’s rulers lived high on the hog while Ukrainians died by the millions:
By day, in desolate mining towns, he would encounter throngs of hungry peasants looking for food who “preferred death to working on collective farms under the leadership of the Workers’, Soldiers’ and Peasants’ Parties.”
By night he often dined lavishly at official functions where “it was impossible to sit down to a meal without facing a table groaning with caviar, roast turkey, chicken, cold fish of every description, pastries, even the rarest of all luxuries: tenderloin steak.”]
Fraud and corruption exist in recall referendum efforts* and capital markets**. That doesn’t mean recall efforts and free markets are bad things.
Even in peacetime, government bigwigs are wasting large sums of taxpayer cash on personal expenses. Dave Hackworth ferreted one incident out probably just by sheer luck (presumably through contacts in the Pentagon during his military service). The fact that this incident occurred and probably many others like it, does not point to a need to disband the military. Chuck Grassley on the incident in question:
Colonel Hackworth conducted his own investigation. He gathered the facts and the documents. I, in turn, re- ferred Colonel Hackworth’s allegations to the inspector general, IG, for review.
This is what Colonel Hackworth re- ported in the press:
General Ashy flew himself, his aide and family cat from Italy to Colorado aboard a 200-seat Air Force plane; he flew his wife round-trip on an Air Force VIP aircraft from Colorado to Washington; and he made pala- tial renovations at his headquarters.
The IG concluded that General Ashy’s ‘‘wasteful escapades’’ cost the taxpayers $424,602.00.
Colonel Hackworth found out about General Ashy’s ‘‘escapades’’ from one of his beloved soldiers who was denied a seat—and free ride home—on Ashy’s airplane.
Colonel Hackworth’s comments were as follows:
The taxpayers got ripped-off for almost a half a million bucks by a member of our military elite and virtually nothing is being done about it. . . . The Air Force spinmeisters lied through their teeth about what General Ashy did. . . . Besides being a blatant waste of money, this incident is about deception and the art of diffusing re- sponsibility. . . . Ashy was fined a mere $5,020.00 and continues to have four stars and his finger on the nuclear button.
General Ashy wrote out a check for the fine and sent it to Air Force Head- quarters on June 26, 1995. However, in- stead of depositing his check at the bank, the check was stashed in a safe in Air Force Secretary Sheila Widnall’s office—for what I suspect was perma- nent safekeeping. At my request, the IG began making new inquiries and the check finally went to the bank on Sep- tember 15, 1995.]
Today's example brought to us by Max Blumenthal, Lindsey Snell, and JonPreston only deserves a D-. The authors should have made up a better fake doctor.
The article uses made up names, claiming that somehow a doctor who supposedly lives in Maine would be in danger if their real name was used.
Nothing says legitimate reporting louder than fake names.
I know there’s some truth to this but my experience is that in war time there’s never efficient use of resources it’s always inherently wasteful, war is chaos