Really disappointed in Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan.
He has good videos mocking people in America, but this feel like straight western propaganda. Showing the “statistic” that 80% of Russians support Putin, interviewing people who unironically say Russia has the real nazi problem, and showing media outlets saying how Kremlin propaganda is literally EVERWHERE. (It’s not) Contributing to this disgusting gaslighting campaign makes me reminiscent of Iraq during the Bush presidency.
I would have liked it more if he tried to find some people who were ambivalent and had more nuanced points of view but he “interviewed” the mayor of Lviv who was sperging about “well Poutine is acshually le Hitler”. Nothing about Donbas for the past 8 years, not present the video of the Ukie doctor saying to castrate Russian POWs, and not revealing confirmed Ukraine war crimes by the OWN western media outlets.
There isn’t a single opposing view or bad thing said about Ukraine to show that this war is fucking shit for everyone. Instead it feels like manufactured propaganda piece to already confirm the biases within the NATO feedback loop.
This video makes me frustrated more than usual, because while it’s not a surprise that a western person will parrot the only narrative that’s being given to them, the intentional disconnect is also being perpetuated through “authentic and neutral” journalists with a surprising amount of influence on Zoomers. The worst part is that all of this goes unquestioned, and if you have a dissenting opinion you’re a bot. They arrogantly proclaim that they don’t fall for propaganda and their side in the absolute truth. What a fucking shame.