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14. Of Course I Understand It

Reply to Doodley (Reply #13)

Mon Mar 7, 2022, 08:14 PM

Mar 2022

but I also know that thousands have been demonstrating because they know and disapprove and they have have the same media access as the others. There are boundless apocryphal of people who have tried to tell friends and relatives in Russia and the reply if that they are lying. Quite the same thing has been going on here.

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If Russians Don't Believe What Is Happening In Ukraine...It's Because They Don't Want To [View all] Me. Mar 2022 OP

please, it's MAGAts Skittles Mar 2022 #1

You're Quite Right Me. Mar 2022 #4

... Skittles Mar 2022 #5

They clean the ROTTEN things out. ProudMNDemocrat Mar 2022 #10

Spot on analysis. sheshe2 Mar 2022 #2

Yup. Or they agree. onecaliberal Mar 2022 #3

If they're like their parents, grandparents or older sibs... paleotn Mar 2022 #6

They know. They have to know. Chainfire Mar 2022 #9

Just like many Germans did believe the nazis were systematically sending Jews to the death camps JohnSJ Mar 2022 #7

Propaganda is a hellave drug, Yorkie Mom Mar 2022 #8

It is sooo much easier to believe what we want to believe, especially if the truth Biophilic Mar 2022 #11

+1 Me. Mar 2022 #15

I am struck by the parallels between our invasion if Iraq and Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Martin68 Mar 2022 #12

Don't you understand the Russian people don't have the same freedom of the media as we do? Doodley Mar 2022 #13

Of Course I Understand It Me. Mar 2022 #14

No, it isn't the same as here. Protests are illegal in Russia. The word war is being banned. America Doodley Mar 2022 #17

I Didn't Say They Have Access To The Same Media As Here Me. Mar 2022 #19

So, the entire Russian population is at fault and they aren't "letting on" what they know, Doodley Mar 2022 #25

Oh Honestly Me. Mar 2022 #26

+1, uponit7771 Mar 2022 #18

Same with Islamic extremists and the DSA types JI7 Mar 2022 #16

True. Alot of those who go along with Big Lies are not radius777 Mar 2022 #20

K&R - yip UTUSN Mar 2022 #21

I am sure that is true for many Meowmee Mar 2022 #22

Majority of Russians support Putin rockfordfile Mar 2022 #23

I Just Heard This Morning THat It Is 2/3 Me. Mar 2022 #24

I heard an interesting comment yesterday... kentuck Mar 2022 #27