(Feb 22, 2022, 16:15 pm)Iliketacos Wrote: "Russia has made up a lot of stuff..."
Please do tell us what all that "stuff" would be.
And Western establishment media is the arbiter of truth on the matter?
It is Western establishment media, primarily US and UK media, that is fabricating information and sensationalizing reports.
It is Western establishment media that has been calling for war and attempting to foment conflict.
It is Western establishment media that has ignored Kiev's persistent shelling of Donbass and the evacuation of Russian-speaking people due to those actions.
Fortunately, not all in the Western world are buying the narrative:
Why French politicians & media don't buy into US-UK-NATO's coverage of Ukrainian crisis
Published: February 21, 2022
France's oldest television broadcaster TF1 has reported on the Ukrainian government forces' shelling in Donbass. According to Russian Senator Alexei Pushkov, France is one of a few European countries who are speaking out about Kiev's hostile military actions against the people of Eastern Ukraine.
"Millions of Russian-speaking Ukrainians in the two self-proclaimed Donbass people's republics live under sporadic firing and shelling by the Ukrainian army against separatist forces," wrote French economist Hervé Hannoun and his German counterpart Peter Dittus in their 11 February op-ed for the French weekly Marianne. "The concentration of Russian troops on Ukraine's borders is obviously aimed at dissuading Kiev from attempting to regain direct control of the enclaves of Donetsk and Lugansk by force."
Dismissing the Western media narrative of Russia's "invasion" of Ukraine as a sheer "disinformation campaign," the economists noted that NATO is striving to present "Putin's moral obligation to defend these Russian-speaking populations – which Ukraine wants to progressively deprive of the right to speak their language – as a prelude to the total annexation of Ukraine by Russia."
Remarkably, Hannoun and his German counterpart are no peace activists but people deeply rooted in the European establishment, according to Karel Vereycken, a political analyst, journalist, and vice president of Solidarite & Progres, a political party founded by Jacques Cheminade.
The French politician notes that Dittus and Hannoun are both former officials of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS); Hannoun also served at the Banque de France and used to be the chief of cabinet of French Prime Minister Pierre Beregovoy.
In their op-ed Hannoun and Dittus called upon the French to leave NATO, arguing that it is "an absolute emergency." Paris made a grave mistake when it became a member of the integrated military command of NATO in 2009, under French President Nicolas Sarkozy, according to the economists. They warned that the current Ukrainian crisis is fraught with serious risks for France which remains a member of the expansionist US-led military alliance.
Quote:"Paris must avoid the military spiral into which the United States and NATO want to drag it," the economists stress, calling for "OTANexit" (NATOexit). Putting an end to France's alignment with NATO should become a leitmotif of the April presidential elections in France, according to them.
https://sputniknews.com/20220221/why-fre...40785.html
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The French calling for security dialogue with Moscow
Published: February 21, 2022
Most French political forces – with the exception of the Socialist Party and a faction of the Greens – have supported the necessity of holding a security dialogue with Moscow while casting doubt on the US-UK-NATO's Russia strategy.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a French presidential candidate, who presided over the La France Insoumise group in the National Assembly from 2017 to 2021, told TF1 on 6 February that Ukraine should remain neutral. He stressed that the NATO eastward expansion had been “felt as a threat by Russia” and advocated France's exit from the transatlantic alliance.
On the same day, Communist Party (PCF) candidate Fabien Roussel urged the French to "stop being aligned behind the war policy of the US," while addressing a gathering in Marseille. He said that France should "extend a firm hand, but an open hand" to Russia and "take the path of disarmament and peace."
Right-wing presidential candidate Eric Zemmour told France Inter on 7 February that Vladimir Putin’s proposal of Ukraine's non-admission to NATO is "completely legitimate," adding that "the Americans have done a lot to provoke Putin." He called the Russian president a patriot who "legitimately defends" the interests of his country.
Valérie Pécresse, the presidential candidate of the centre-right Les Républicains, repeatedly said that Russia's security concerns are justified and proposed "a new conference on security in Europe that could give rise to a pan-European security council from the Atlantic to the Urals."
Quote:"The strongest argument comes from Georges Kuzmanovic, the former foreign affairs spokesman of Melenchon, from whom he took distance, and now a sovereigntist campaigning for a national unity programme based on the patriotic and social values of 'De Gaulle and Jaures,'" says Vereycken. "Kuzmanovic, backed by Jacques Cheminade, openly calls for leaving the integrated command immediately, and reconstructing a sovereign arms industry that would allow France to leave NATO once again."
https://sputniknews.com/20220221/why-fre...40785.html
