He’s right though. Saying it in public, doesn’t help matters but at this point it doesn’t look like either the US or Russia are interested in repairing their bilateral relations. It’s not as if Lavrov has been courteous about the US either.
There is a reason why he got a poisonous warning.
Saw this yesterday but didn’t post it at the time:
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It’s interesting reading the comments and some indication of how the propaganda is being fed to the Russian people
Of course we don’t know entirely how much propaganda we are being fed but it does indicate that many Russians still believe that their actions are justifiable.
I read some of the eyewitness accounts that are held in our town in Germany relating to the second world war. At the end it was mainly teenagers and old men fighting as they were the only ones left that the Nazis could bully into action. One of the eyewitness accounts details what the Nazi propaganda said about atrocities that the allies would carry out if their positions were overrun and they failed to blow up the bridges. He went on to detail the surprise that the invading forces (I think it was an Ulster battalion) were for the most part quite reasonable both to surrendered forces and the civilian population. Of course atrocities did happen and in the East it was quite widespread.
It does point that in terms of a propaganda battle that captured Russian soldiers are both treated well and that information of this is communicated back to their families.Quite how that is done is another matter although Red Cross and UN agencies would be a reasonable route.
To be blunt, I loath Turkey.
I am against criminalising the Swaztika, and even more against criminalising the letter Z.