Kremlin TV Descends Into Screaming Match Over Putin's War Failures

[steve2470]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-state-television-descends-into-screaming-match-over-vladimir-putins-war-failures-in-ukraine

As Russia’s war against Ukraine enters its second month, the grim picture of destruction and suffering is breaking through on state-controlled television. Before the invasion, military experts predicted a rapid takeover of Russia’s peaceful neighbor in a matter of minutes. Now that the reality is starting to set in, they’re grimly surmising that it will take several decades to subdue freedom-loving Ukraine.

State TV’s talking heads have tried in vain to paint a rosy picture of the Kremlin’s invasion, but the cracks are starting to show. On Thursday, with screens depicting dramatic images of demolished Mariupol flashing behind them, hosts of state television show 60 Minutes, Olga Skabeeva and Evgeny Popov, tried to point out the “positives.” They noted that Russia promised to pay compensation to some Ukrainians from the “affected” territories—10,000 rubles each, amounting to a mere $100 dollars.

To make matters worse, Ukrainians forcefully deported to Russia might end up in places like the Russian island of Sakhalin in the Pacific, with freezing cold temperatures and stark landscapes. After discussing news reports about ongoing relocations, Evgeny Popov helpfully pointed out: “But in Sakhalin the salaries are the highest in the country!”

The chorus of concerned voices in Russian state media blamed their country’s information war failures on the fact that the Kremlin’s propaganda channels have been banished in Ukraine. State TV pundit Nikolai Starikov proposed: “When we talk about the organizers of the info-war, I’m convinced that their place is on the same bench where Nazi criminals will be tried.” The hosts, who for years agitated for war against Ukraine under false pretenses, nervously looked on without commenting.

[ffr]

1. If Russian propaganda dies, so will the RW media empires

Without out unified message and Russian Rubles supporting media brainwashing, the whole house of cards could come crashing down.

Fingers crossed.

[wnylib]

2. +1000.

[Ford_Prefect]

3. WOW...Read the whole piece. The Russian media are as deluded as GOP Senators in judicial hearings.

[jaxexpat]

12. I think they drink kool-aid from the same waste can.

Correction, I don't "think" they do. They simply do.

And like the old "just say no" folks us'ta say," .....it all starts with that first hit, that first toke or that first sip. Before you can say Bob's-your-uncle, you're hooked, doomed and destined to spend the rest of your days ...........addicted."

[YoshidaYui]

4. let them scream

maybe someone will be brave enough to shoot PUTIN in the head and be done with it.

[Mr. Evil]

6. I like the way you think!

[YoshidaYui]

7. (EVIL LAUGH) BWA-HAHAHAHA

[First Speaker]

10. Yes...let Putin be Stauffenberged and be done with it...

[jaxexpat]

13. Perhaps, actually "done-in" rather than the poor sideways example that was Herr Stauffenberg.

Makes one wonder, however, if the legendary Stauffenberg did not have an unseen hand in the length of Putin's tables of late.

[burrowowl]

5. K&R

[Carlitos Brigante]

8. I love it!! Hopefully it's the same collection of assholes who were, oh so smug election

night 2016.

[FakeNoose]

9. Democracy rears its ugly head. The Russian people are letting Pootie know

... just how much they hate his guts. It feels good, doesn't it?

[roamer65]

11. We haven't seen anything yet.

Give it another month or two of sanctions.

[jaxexpat]

14. Yes. I'm taking bets we'll live so long. Who'll see me?

[live love laugh]

15. I hope the same for America's info wars

“When we talk about the organizers of the info-war, I’m convinced that their place is on the same bench where Nazi criminals will be tried.”