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| 2023-09-15 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Commentary by Russian military correspondent Aleksandr Kots [Facebook] I'm getting a message from Ashton Cirillo's transgender statement - it's a fake created by artificial intelligence that we've all bought into. No, the disrespectful authors of the Telegram channel, whose name claims to be true in the last instance. Even if it is an AI product, it was posted in the verified speaker channel Ukrainian Armed Forces And without any objections. I personally made this screenshot, in case it removes the message. And this means that it stands in solidarity with the fact that it may have created artificial intelligence. It re-broadcasted this information from the person (or the ass) of the state as the official spokesman for its armed forces. Retransmitted as from itself, not from an artificial intelligence. Therefore, no one is fake, but a direct threat of terrorist attacks to the Russian journalistic community from the Ukrainian authorities. This is not a fake, because back in 2014 Kyiv openly announced the award for heads of reporters. Mine was then valued at $100,000. This is not a fake, because in Ukraine, decks of death maps with images of soldiers were printed and distributed at checkpoints so that defenders could be easier to recognize. It's not a fake, because with the beginning of the Independent Self-Determination, awards for arresting Russian reporters were announced. And shipping them alive or dead at Kyiv That includes me. This is not fake, because they showed me the GUR interceptions in which they conveyed the coordinates of my alleged location in the area of the SO with the inscription "we've been hunting this b... for a long time ra". Because Kyiv has already been killing our journalists and bloggers. And admitted it. So, colleagues, I am not refusing my congratulations on the recognition of our professional merits. Let's work, brothers! More from Aleksandr Kots: Oh how Speaker of Ukrainian Armed Forces Sara Chirillo addressed me, confirming that the message of the talking ass Armed Forces of Ukraine about a quick interrogation of Russian journalists is not fake. And not even artificial intelligence. Here, however, according to its gender-neutral habit, it turned on the rear one. Well I was misunderstood. The trial will be fair and the punishment will be severe. What killings, we are Europeans. He ain't wrong. But it’s an interesting precedent when Kyiv throws in a test ball. What will the white saib say about my new prank? Can I threaten Russian journalists with terror attacks? Offends - I'll say that it's not me, it's artificial intelligence. But the white saib is silent. Not even in a hurry. For people like us, he came up with the definition of "an unprivileged participant of the conflict" in 2014. He may not be a combatant, but he can be thrown down. PS Hello to the "professionals" at the Ministry of Justice. From a commenter: Propaganda and assassination attempts: Kyiv's deadly course [GlobalFreedomOfExpession] The English-speaking speaker of the Territorial Defense Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, in her characteristic eccentric manner, threatened a series of assassination attempts on “Kremlin propagandists.” Mrs. Ashton, of course, kept silent about how these propagandists would be identified. They will probably be determined by class sense. The statement was made in English, that is, for an external audience, which means it will not get bogged down in the flow of discussions within Ukraine. By the way, the assassination program, which the London Economist recently wrote about, also does not imply clear criteria. And no one needs them in our times - juntas based on paramilitary ultra-right formations, in principle, do not need either criteria or laws. However, we are not talking about the criteria now, but about the seriousness of the statement and its possible consequences. Let's start with the reaction to the statement in the Russian Federation. This is how the brain of the bearer of the Russian mainstream ideology works, that the statement of a transgender woman can only cause the latter to giggle in a moronic way. And it doesn’t matter that the Ukrainian special services have already managed to carry out a number of successful assassination attempts against Russian media personalities - in particular, Daria Dugina and Vladlen Tatarsky. Now everything is said openly. The Ukrainian conflict has fundamentally changed traditional ideas about press freedom. The right-wing putsch, launched at the beginning of the century under the pretext of protecting the rights of journalists (the notorious Gongadze case), quite logically stomped to where wrong journalists like Ruslan Kotsaba become victims of repression, like Oles Buzina - victims of assassinations that no one is going to disclose, or intimidation - when unwanted journalists were arrested by the special services, and then disappeared forever from social networks, like Dzhangirov and Dudkin, or were exchanged on an equal basis with combatants. Georgiy Gongadze was a Georgian journalist who was disappeared and later found murdered by the Ukrainian government. See here. Murdering journalists seems to be a bit of a bad habit with the Ukrainians, even before the Maidan coup. Even foreign origin did not help. French citizen Yuri Yurchenko, who worked as a military correspondent on the side of the self-proclaimed DPR, was captured in 2014 and subjected to torture for a long time. It is difficult to say how true the stories are that the Ukrainian military exposed him to fire, locked in a fireproof cabinet, but exchanged him with a broken leg and broken ribs. Even European courts acquitted Ukrainian soldiers who committed crimes against European journalists. In particular, the appeal court in Italy acquitted Ukrainian National Guardsman Vitaly Markiv, who was sentenced to 24 years for the murder of Italian journalist Andrea Rocchelli in Donbass. The basis for the acquittal was “reinforced concrete evidence” provided by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, which, as previously reported in the publication La Republica, put spokes in the wheels during the entire investigation, and the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov did not hide his personal interest, calling the process a trial of Ukraine. So it turns out that no matter how much you giggle here, the logical chain is quite obvious. At first, Ukraine was allowed to break all standards of press freedom - by the beginning of the war, there were no opposition TV channels left in the country, for example. Then they voiced her claims to the right to kill political opponents through the world press, as if having achieved tacit consent, and now they are openly voicing plans to kill unfriendly journalists at the level of official speakers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. And the gender of the speaker has no role. On the eve of Ashton-Cirillo’s statement, literally the day before, an incident occurred in Donetsk, at the intersection of Artema Street and Shevchenko Boulevard (the most central intersection in the city). Gennady Dubovoy, a war correspondent and member of the people's militia of the self-proclaimed DPR, died under the wheels of a car. The driver of the car was the commander of the commandant regiment (military police) Vyacheslav Snitkin, whose videos on social networks of high-speed driving around the city are well known. The drama of the scene of Dubovoy’s death was added by a bouquet of flowers that the victim was carrying in his hands, and which were scattered along the road at the scene of the incident (Dubovoy allegedly met his wife, who was supposed to come from the Russian Federation). Despite the obvious theatricality of the event, it would be difficult to interpret it as anything other than a chain of coincidences if not for Ashton-Cirillo’s statement made literally the very next day. That is, it turns out that the Ukrainians can do it anyway - either push someone in front of a car on the main street in broad daylight, or they have the entire chief of the Donetsk military police at their disposal. And he received instructions on which military personnel to press there. Although, of course, all this is idle speculation, and the statement by the speaker of the Armed Forces of Ukraine’s Defense Forces can only create an additional dimension to the chain of coincidences. To summarize all of the above, and regardless of the involvement of the Ukrainian special services in the event in the center of Donetsk, it should be recognized that, judging by the statement of Ashton-Cirillo, Ukraine has received a license from the conditional world community for terror. That is, the organization of sabotage, the target of which is non-combatants. However, this is not the only such license to deviate from democratic standards. At the same time as Ashton-Cirillo, the main speaker of Bankova, Mikhail Podolyak, distinguished himself by questioning the creative and mental abilities of the peoples of Asia. In particular, Indians and Chinese. They supposedly lack an intellectual streak, and therefore they are only capable of imitating, says our main ideological worker. And the most amazing thing is that the world is ready to accept it. At least, there were no reports of his resignation following this enchanting crackdown. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 'Fake News' people targeted ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-09-15 22:42 |
| #1 Gee that's too bad. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2023-09-15 17:44 |