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You could try to understand what people on the ground think instead of what warmongering media tells you: https://youtu.be/i1I8SZeXGFo

Then, you would understand more what Chomsky is saying.

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Sure, what we really need to avoid the "warmongering media" is a British RT journalist rocking up after the last defenders have surrendered to talk about how the war has turned Mariupol into a "marvellous Russian City" and interviewing the celebrating leadership of the Donetsk People's Republic talking about the Great Patriotic War...

Russian propaganda.

Locals celebrating independence on the streets is propaganda? OK.

"Locals". Are you really so obtuse?

Kremlin propaganda is so poorly constructed, and yet, some people still fall for it.

Source: I spent the last two years+ full time in Ukraine, much of the last decade in Ukraine.

I'm not Ukrainian - I just know reality from theatre.

Where did you spend time? In the Russian-majority region or in the Ukrainian majority one?

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