First Part:
DW trying to push the propaganda line into the public with the grace and pertness of a pressure washer.
Second Part:
Security Analyst with his own firm trying to stay polite, while not agreeing with any point the DW propagandists have made, so others might still use his consultancy.
Defilee: Moderator not catching in the least whats going on here.
Gut, dass DW ja nie die Propaganda entdeckt dies selbst mit aller Kraft in die Öffentlichkeit presst.
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Same issue complex -
CNN Reporter for once in her life gets the wording right.
Head Moderator: “Volodymyr Zelensky, meanwhile, confirms that the goal of Kiev’s military incursion into Kursk, now nearly two weeks old, is to prevent Russian cross-border attacks by creating a buffer zone. It comes as Ukraine attacked strategic bridges in the Russian border region. [Horray ground vehicles now have issues closing in! Finally! No russian ground invasion into Sumy!]
CNN’s Claire Sebastian, joining me now live in London with more.
Claire, I mean, the attack on the bridges is clearly meant to disrupt, you know, the russian supply lines. How big of an impact could this have on the eastern front lines, where Russia is advancing?”
Emma Claire: “That’s really not clear yet. [Thats value western journalism speek for “currently, none at all”. The the one partial rail line leading to Charkiev is nothing that Russia especially needs. And there is no other strategic impact whatsoever.]
Amara, I think more immediately, the attack on those bridges could help reinforce this whole idea of a buffer zone. Right? Stop Russia from bringing in more reinforcements and more equipment into the part of the Kursk region that Ukraine now has established a foothold [in]. There, I think in terms of the Eastern Front is clear that Moscow continues to devote a lot of energy to this.
It has redeployed some forces, we know, based on various reports from, places like Crimea, perhaps even Kaliningrad, up to Charkiev. But it is not it is much less willing to redeploy forces away from Donezk to, to defend Kursk.
And that is because they continue, as you say, to inch forward. We know that there’s fierce fighting in several villages, to the east of Charietsk, which is a small town, but still strategic.
And in the bigger military stronghold of Bokrovsk, which is still was held by Ukraine, they are now evacuating civilians with some degree of urgency, forcibly evacuating families with children, essentially saying that the Russians are far too close for comfort.
So a very important not only military hub but sort of transport intersection leading to other, military strongholds.
So that would be a major loss for Ukraine.
So I think the message Russia is sending that is that even though this has happened, their territory has been invaded in Kursk. They are not giving up on their goals in Ukraine.”
CNN Head Moderator: “And it’s remarkable. Yes. Two weeks in that. We’re talking still talking about Ukrainian held territory inside Russia! Do we have any indication from Ukraine? How much farther, how much longer it will go into Russia?”
Emma Claire: So I think what is clear at this point, some almost two weeks in, is that the pace of the first week where the element of surprise was still there, Russia was still at sort of shocked by the whole thing. That has definitely slowed. We’re not seeing the kind of lightning advance that we saw at the beginning. They are still, according to the Ukrainians, edging forward in some areas, one about 30km to the north of the town of Sudscha, which was where the initial assault was focused, a town that they now claim to fully hold.
And what we’re also seeing, of course, is this consolidation.
They’ve opened a military office in such, the bridges speak to that as well. The, the explosions on on those two bridges that we’ve now, confirmed it’s all about sort of building up their forces and their control in their, in the territories they currently hold, because, of course, they continue to maintain that this is defensive. And they need to stop Russia from using the region to fire back into Ukraine.”
Head moderator: “Emma Claire Sebastian reporting for us there from London. Thank you very much.”
So Emma Claire will probably lose her job for that kind of impertinence. Doubting the official ukrainian propaganda line and hinting at this being not the actual reason - will lose you your job in this business.
As we all know the job of a reporter is to say yes to the questions put to her by the head moderator in all aspects of Ukrainian official rectifications for actions in this war.
