MarathonMike
Diamond Member
Good post. About all the average person can do is try to cross-correlate a story to several sources. Even that is not fool proof, but that is far better than leaping onto a single source that happens to say what you want and then touting it as fact.Many forget (or don’t realize) that there have been many generations of intermingling between Russians and Ukrainians. If only independent media sources would/could post live interviews with them, in bulk.
There are many individuals on social media claiming to be Ukrainian living in Kyiv, but footage is hard to verify without time/date stamps. Even then, if the footage is truly live from Kyiv, it is not possible to know with any certainty the level of honesty, false propaganda, or coercion.
Since around 2000, the modern world has had access to an abundance of information. Within an instant or on a whim one can learn most anything. Whether or not its factual, however, remains the crucial variable.
Determined truth sayers will not give up trying to get their message out, but will media be interested or capable of giving these interviews and broadcasting to the masses? The tech is there but is there the will? The truth (or closest to it) is most likely with the Ukrainian and Ukrainian/Russian people who live outside of Kyiv, Donbas, and Crimea, not from any political mouthpiece promoting a one-sided agenda.