Essay | It’s Time to End Magical Thinking About Russia’s Defeat
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Putin has withstood the West’s best efforts to reverse his invasion of Ukraine, and his hold on power is firm. The U.S. and its allies need a new strategy: containment.

The US and Europe admit that they’re been believing in their own propaganda about Russia and Putin.

    • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      7 months ago

      It’s an opinion essay. Why do people not understand that news organizations publish these, and that they don’t all represent the views of the paper? They will even publish multiple conflicting opinions. This has been a part of news for decades if not over a century. Why do people still not understand this?

      • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
        63·
        7 months ago

        Because they choose to publish it?

        Who wrote it doesn’t bloody matter.

        • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
          53·
          7 months ago

          I guess you just can’t imagine anything other than pushing one’s own agenda. The concept that a news organization might want to publish in depth, well articulated opinions from a spectrum of different perspectives is just unthinkable in this polarized age of “my narrative or nothing.”

          • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
            43·
            7 months ago

            I can imagine them pushing their own agenda. It’s exactly what they’re doing pushing this propaganda.

            Now let’s get to the real issue, why don’t think a newspaper isn’t responsible for what it publishes? Do you think they can wash it away by using a non-hired writer?

            • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
              42·
              7 months ago

              you just can’t imagine anything other than pushing one’s own agenda.

              I can imagine them pushing their own agenda

              DOH! That’s what I just said.

              Oh my lord. I’ve already explained above how opinion sections work, twice. Newspapers provide space for opinion pieces across different perspectives. I’ve actually been in a newsroom and seen the discussions. But you shouldn’t need that to understand an open shared space in a newspaper. Like I said, I guess it’s just over your head. Words on paper! Paper come from WSJ!