Thread: Latest on the information war against Russia

See below:

Headline news:
Russian bombers heading for Blekinge (county in Southern Sweden).

Real story:
Russian military planes do NOT infringe on the territory of Sweden.

However, this isn't clear until you read the entire article and look at the illustration.

The headline indicates that it actually did infringe, making out that it was "heading for" a territory in southern Sweden. But the Russian planes turned well before getting anywhere near the area and well before the territorial border. The whole point of international territory is that anyone can fly there. NATO does it all the time.

The article claims "this is an exercise to train for an invasion". Yeah? Really? Did the Russian military say that? Is it clear from any of the events? (no to both..)

Cheap, false scaremongering and I wonder who decides that this kind of stuff is "news". I'd be the fist to complain if any of this was real. But it's not and the agenda is clear:

One article like this a month (+recurring submarine allegations) are supposed to make people feel "Help, the Russians must be planning an invasion — Let's join NATO".

That is the end-game, and this is going on in Finland and Sweden non-stop from media. Normal people do not want to join NATO but someone somewhere has decided to use media, to change that. At this pace, sooner or later we'll get there.

Originally Posted by Hanna

See below:

Headline news:
Russian bombers heading for Blekinge (county in Southern Sweden).

Real story:
Russian military planes do NOT infringe on the territory of Sweden.

However, this isn't clear until you read the entire article and look at the illustration.

The headline indicates that it actually did infringe, making out that it was "heading for" a territory in southern Sweden. But the Russian planes turned well before getting anywhere near the area and well before the territorial border. The whole point of international territory is that anyone can fly there. NATO does it all the time.

The article claims "this is an exercise to train for an invasion". Yeah? Really? Did the Russian military say that? Is it clear from any of the events? (no to both..)

Cheap, false scaremongering and I wonder who decides that this kind of stuff is "news". I'd be the fist to complain if any of this was real. But it's not and the agenda is clear:

One article like this a month (+recurring submarine allegations) are supposed to make people feel "Help, the Russians must be planning an invasion — Let's join NATO".

That is the end-game, and this is going on in Finland and Sweden non-stop from media. Normal people do not want to join NATO but someone somewhere has decided to use media, to change that. At this pace, sooner or later we'll get there.

Of you three, Norway did join NATO pretty long ago, and has it made things worse for them? It's still the most developed and democratic country of all Scandinavia.