Have you actually listened to the video? Is there anything untrue that was said? Do you have anything substantial to criticize? Could you please engage with the content?

This video is not clickbait and has nothing to do with with the AfD. It is a serious critical discussion of the role of media in fabrication of war propaganda on behalf of western governments. It accurately decribes and analyzes how war propaganda is conveyed through deliberate choices of language, exclusion and marginalization of contrary voices, and how this propaganda has and continues to be produced by the mainstream media to support the government’s official narrative and agenda. The video talks about how the media covered various wars such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yugoslavia, etc.

They are also very racist.

it weren’t western weapons that made the Black Sea unsafe for the Russian Navy

Not true. What little success they had there was due to British naval drones. Those worked for a while until Russia adapted. Now you hardly ever hear of success anymore.

Ukranian drones did it.

Again, technically not the case. Most of them are Chinese, the Ukrainians just strap explosive shells on them.

the war on the actual frontline has become drone-heavy

Drones play a large and vital role but they have not and cannot replace the role of conventional artillery. In fact the most effective use of drones in this conflict has been as artillery spotters. The reason why Ukraine relies on kamikaze drones to such an asymmetrical extent is because they have little else left by now. It is done out of necessity, not because it is the optimal thing to do.

Further, there is a certain inherent bias in OSINT toward overestimating the impact of drones on the battlefield due to the fact that they come with their own video footage whereas an artillery shell does not film as it flies toward a target.

Ukraine started this war with their pants down

Not really. Ukraine had the largest and best equipped military of any European country except for Russia at the start of this conflict. They had been receiving training from NATO for years and even weapons. Then they were further pumped full with all remaining Warsaw pact equipment that could be scrounged up (which was actually a very large amount) when the conflict began.

and indeed if it weren’t for western systems and ammunition they would’ve lost it long ago

This is true.

at the same time they’ve been building up their own military production and becoming more and more independent

Quite the opposite. Ukraine began this war with far more of a military industry than it has now. It lost almost all of it to Russian strikes, and what is left are almost exclusively small scale decentralized production which can only produce small weapons (drones first and foremost) and ammunition but nothing on the scale of tanks, artillery systems, air defense systems, etc.

Ukraine is now more dependent on western supplies than it has ever been, and not just in the military sphere. Its entire government is being kept afloat by US and European money which pays the salaries of virtually everyone in the Ukrainian government. It even imports energy. Functionally Ukraine’s economy is dead.

Lol. If we didn’t do that then we would get accused of not including our sources. But i get your point, sometimes we can tend to be overly thorough.

I view this as being a bit like mathematics. The things we say make sense to someone who is already versed in the subject but for someone who doesn’t already understand or agree with certain concepts or ideas we don’t necessarily want to rehash arguments that were already laid out in works a hundred years prior so we just refer back to those in the same way that when you do modern mathematics you don’t need to repeat proofs that were already done in the 19th century. You can just take those theorems as given and if you are really interested in how they were derived you can still go back to the original literature and read up on it.

Of course you can still engage with and understand the more advanced arguments even without going all the way back to the basics but then you need to accept certain things as axiomatic, because it would take too much time to go back and explain them every time.

Let’s say for instance that we are talking about imperialism. To clarify what exactly we mean when we talk about imperialism we may briefly give the Leninist definition of imperialism. You can either accept that this is the definition or you can ask why. Why is it defined that way and why does it make sense? Well for that you would have to go and read Lenin’s work on Imperialism. Which in turn references but does not necessarily thoroughly explain certain concepts about the nature of capitalism that were worked out earlier by Marx.

You see, you can either choose to go down this rabbit hole and invest the time it takes to really go to the basics and build up from there, or you can take it as given that this has already been worked out and you can try and understand how we apply it to the modern day, which saves time and is more practical. Neither is wrong, it just depends on your personal interest.

someone in the comments is claiming that this guy is not a mercenary because he is a member of the UAF’s foreign legion

Irrelevant. All foreign fighters choosing to involve themselves in this conflict are mercenaries as far as Russia and the Russian justice system are concerned. They have repeatedly said this and have warned how they treat mercenaries. If you still go it’s a case of FAFO.

Because this isn’t 2022, territorial reality has changed, the deal Russia was offering back then is no longer on the table, it’s gone forever and not coming back.

The new regions are part of Russia according to the Russian constitution and will not be given up, and even in 2022 Russia would not have accepted Ukraine in any European military alliance, when the whole reason for this war is that a militarized and hostile Ukraine is unacceptable to Russia’s security. And Europe has chosen to be intractably hostile to Russia for the time being.

This won’t change even if the US disappears out of Europe entirely, and the deal Russia is willing to offer will keep getting worse for Ukraine the longer this goes on.

Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh

that Tibet wasn’t liberated during 1940s.

That surprised me as well when i first started learning about the liberation of Tibet. I had also initially assumed it happened concurrently with the founding of the People’s Republic. It’s sad that they had to wait ten more years, but at least they got there.

Tibet was liberated from slavery almost 100 years ago

Actually it’s more recent than most people think. The Democratic Reform in Tibet-Xizang happened only in 1959, that is less than 70 years ago. There are people still alive who remember the time before. Which is why this whole “Free Tibet” psyop has no chance in Tibet itself. People there have grandparents and great-grandparents who were serfs.

What bullshit. I bet liberals love this. Liberal Zionism apologia and Russophobia all in one.

Taking quotes out of context is a very liberal thing to do.

Lol. Ok.

It’s definitely better than Reddit from what i’ve seen. But i can’t really say more than that because you can’t really browse it much without an account on there which i never made.

They hated Thomas Sankara and they hate Ibrahim Traoré, no surprise here. Burkina Faso is liberating itself from neocolonialism and developing alongside the global majority. Cope and seethe, colonizers.

We don’t need it to be different. Socialism is and has always been a success.

The liberal version is much more insidious. It is much more effective at brainwashing people. I would rather have the straight up psycho version, that way a lot more people can recognize the reality of what the real function of police is under a bourgeois system and which class interests they serve.

Fascists

That wasn’t Hasan in the clip. Idk who that was cause i don’t follow any of this streamer shit. Hasan shills for AOC and Bernie though who are both in the “Israel has a right to defend itself from the barbaric Hamas terrorists” camp. He also did a podcast together with the now very vocally Zionist Ethan Klein who is married to an IDF war criminal.

Relations are definitely bad at the moment. But they’re always bad and they usually find a way to not end up in a war.