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War w/ Sophie Pinkham and Nick Mulder

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The Difference Between Ukranian Military Resistance and Afghanistan Military Resistance

A lot of the coverage feels more like eucranian propaganda. Andii, using the word propaganda in a fairly neutral way, but it felt more like cranian war propaganda then like journalism. When people are exposed to that, they respond te a lot of people are not very critical news consumers in the us. People were primed by past events and past media coverage of russia, and now they're being sort of whipped, whipped into a very fervent state by the conflict. It's hard to imagine afghanis being celebrated for frantically making moltof cocktails as is happening in ukrane now.

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