My one comment on the Timothy Snyder criticism: a lot of what you say is valid, but both in the article and on the podcast you omitted this Snyder tweet: "If Russian propaganda for external consumption is cited, so must that for internal consumption. Propagandists long argued that Ukrainian dams should be blown. A Russian parliamentarian takes for granted Russia blew the dam and rejoices. See
@JuliaDavisNews"
I'm not saying this is some sort of winning argument, but if you are not following Julia Davis, you should -- what we get here is endless clips from mainstream (i.e. Russian government approved) TV. It really shows the info that the overwhelming majority of Russians are being fed, and much what Putin and the Russian ruling elite believes.
So while you don't see any reason Russia should have blown up the damn, the Russian elites definitely have thought that blowing up Ukranians dams was a good idea for quit a while.
My one comment on the Timothy Snyder criticism: a lot of what you say is valid, but both in the article and on the podcast you omitted this Snyder tweet: "If Russian propaganda for external consumption is cited, so must that for internal consumption. Propagandists long argued that Ukrainian dams should be blown. A Russian parliamentarian takes for granted Russia blew the dam and rejoices. See
@JuliaDavisNews"
I'm not saying this is some sort of winning argument, but if you are not following Julia Davis, you should -- what we get here is endless clips from mainstream (i.e. Russian government approved) TV. It really shows the info that the overwhelming majority of Russians are being fed, and much what Putin and the Russian ruling elite believes.
So while you don't see any reason Russia should have blown up the damn, the Russian elites definitely have thought that blowing up Ukranians dams was a good idea for quit a while.