This from a new friend in Ukraine. It is important for Americans. Read his blog here.
“Why the West Cannot Admit that Ukraine is winning?” by Eliot Cohen in the Atlantic. Last night I was watching Bret Baer’s news show on Fox News. Last night, and most every night, Baer starts his report on Ukraine by saying “the Russians are slowly advancing,” as if Russian victory is inevitable. Only after speaking about Russia’s “slow advance,” does Baer list the litany of Russian reversals. Last night, Baer also reported that Ukraine has used the war as an opportunity to shut down an opposition party, without mentioning that the opposition party in question is the Opposition Party – For Life, a pro-Russian Party headed by Viktor Medvedchuk, who is on the lam. Members of the Opposition Party – For Life, including Medvedchuk, stand accused of taking money from Russia to finance the puppet government in Ukraine, that Russia hoped to install after their “lightning victory.” It seems that the US media Is incapable of starting a report about the war, without the narrative that Russia is advancing.
Has Ukraine Shut Down Opposition TV Stations – In the same Fox News broadcast, referenced earlier, Brett Baer alleged that Ukraine, using the war as a pretext, shut down opposition broadcast TV Stations, and then combined the stations into the “United Channel.” This is untrue and is yet another example of the misreporting by U.S. broadcast and cable news outlets that have plagued Ukraine for years.
The United Channel was established by necessity when, in the early days of the war the TV tower in Kyiv, used by all the broadcast TV stations in Ukraine, was damaged by a Russian air strike. The broadcast stations got together, and they agreed to establish the United Channel. Each of the broadcast stations were allocated a certain amount of time, and the United Channel had time for broadcasting critical information to Ukrainians. Also, the TV news broadcast produced by BBC, for which my wife’s daughter is a co-host, is now available on the United Channel. Previously, it had only been available on BBC/Ukraine’s YouTube channel. Much as they may try, it seems that American TV news outlets cannot get over reporting disinformation about events in Ukraine.
I am sure that if the Sutro Tower in San Francisco was ever damaged by an earthquake, that all the stations that use the Sutro Tower to transmit their programming would come up with a solution to stay on the air, just like the Ukrainian broadcast channels have done. I somehow doubt that Brett Baer would report that such an event would be the result of nefarious collusion.