Today on Russia Today:
Well, their main homepage rt.com is blocked. I get a "403" error-message.
Their german-language homepage https://de.rt.com/aktuell/ still works.
* An awful lot of opinion-pieces. It's almost as if RT has a really hard time finding people willing to report about the war itself and willing to stake their journalistic career and reputation on this reporting.
* An article how Zelensky has asked the EU for help amidst the russian onslaught. Von der Leyen has said that Ukraine may very well join one day, but joining is a complicated and time-consuming process. (Lots of legal and regulatory issues need to be taken care of first.)
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* An article how a russian general admits that russian soldiers have died but far fewer than ukrainian soldiers.
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* An article how the russian minister of defence, Shoigu, has given a public statement about the war. How Russia is not occupying any ukrainian territory. That Russia's goal is to save the ukrainian people from being used to attack Russia. That Russia only uses high-precision bombardments and any civilian casualties are the fault of Ukrainians because they use civilians as human shields.
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* An article about a semi-retired far-left politician in Germany, Gregor Gysi. (Full disclaimer: I dislike him.) He has lambasted members of his own far-left party for issuing a public statement that contradicts the party's public support for the german government and their actions in this conflict. He has accused these far-left party-members of being "emotionless" in the face of this horror. He has accused them of clinging to their old dogmas of the US and NATO being evil. He called on them to rethink their position, said that NATO had in his opinion not done anything wrong so far that would have warranted Russia's attack, and denounced Russia's government as imperialists.
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* An opinion-piece how the West forced this war onto Russia. By delivering weapons to Ukraine to be used against the Donbas rebels. How this public outcry has been organized by CIA spin-doctors. The author laments that nobody has taken the time to investigate whether the war is justified by Russia using preventative self-defence. The author laments how stupid politicians just parrot what they have been fed by the CIA. (Oh yeah. They cannot possible have their own eyes and their own intelligence-reports. No, the only sensible explanation is that everybody except you is dumb.) The author laments that the evil West refused to simply agree to Russia's reasonable demands: A full demilitarization of the sovereign nation Ukraine and an official annexiation of the ukrainian territory of Crimea by Russia.
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* An opinion-piece where the author laments that all the economic and social problems in Germany are evidence that Germany isn't a real democracy. Oh, and the anti-russian sentiment held by a majority of Germans and by the german government doesn't count as the will of the people because spin-doctors have manipulated public opinion to hate Russia. In short: In this author's opinion, Germany does not count as a demcoracy which is why Germany has no right to protect the so-called ukrainian democracy.
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* An opinion-piece full of excuses how the war is justified.
How the West bombarded Belgrad to stop the Serbians from killing civilians. (Except that we had evidence that these atrocities happened, while Russia hasn't delivered evidence about Ukraine committing atrocities in Donbas and Luhansk.)
How Russia is justified in protecting Donbas and Luhansk because the people there have russian passports. (Russia gave these people russian passports after they picked up arms against Ukraine.)
The author laments how nobody batted an eye when Ukraine said they intend to develop nuclear weapons and IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE SENTENCE he debunks his own argument, saying that Ukraine doesn't even have the capabilities for developing nuclear weapons. (So, Russia felt threatened by hypothetical nuclear weapons that Ukraine wouldn't have for decades to come???)
Then some conspiracy-theory how "The West" wants to conquer the entire eurasian continent.
As evidence for the bloodlust of the West, the author cites A COLD-WAR ERA WARGAME FROM 1987 how NATO would have sacrificed and bombed german cities to stop an invading russian army.
Then something about how ukrainian partisans fought for the Nazis in WII. (The author somehow forgets to mention that the russian invasion of Ukraine in WWII was so brutal that the Ukrainians welcomed the Nazis as liberators.)
The author finishes by trying to remind us of what's really important now: Whether Russia is able to retreat and extract its troops from the war in Ukraine that the West has forced onto Russia.
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