The Pentagon cannot confirm or deny reports of the Bucha massacre. Social media commentators are quite clear.
So what exactly do we know. There have been reports that the Russian army murdered several hundred or even several thousand Ukrainian civilians in Bucha. This news came from a source who has repeatedly been proven to be lying in recent weeks and who had a strong incentive to create such a hoax at this time, when a major battle is about to take place in eastern Ukraine and a large part of the Ukrainian armed forces are surrounded. So we are right to be sceptical, but it is certainly not proof that the massacre did not take place.
Furthermore, we know that the Ukrainian side acted in the way that we know from conspiracy theorists. You leave a time gap from the event, then only start talking about it, and every few hours you pull a different version (depending on how people notice the gaps in the previous one). The rumor that the Americans supposedly weren’t on the moon came more than twenty years after they landed, when a lot of things couldn’t be properly verified. Satellite images from Butch appeared five days late. If they had them, why didn’t they release them right away? All the more reason to be skeptical, but it’s certainly not proof that the massacre didn’t happen.
…it would be the first time in history that the guilty parties didn’t try to cover up the crime.
Besides, it would be the first time in history that the guilty parties didn’t try to cover up the crime. All the more reason to be skeptical.
Then there are the videos that were allegedly taken just after the Ukrainians entered Bucha. There are no corpses in them. But are the videos real? We can’t tell. It certainly doesn’t disprove anything.
Then there are the “guaranteed” analyses by specialists that all the corpses are rubber and that no event ever actually took place – from the moon landing to the attack on the Twin Towers to the Chuchtown massacre. When these people make the equally expert claim that the Bukhara was staged, one is inclined to believe that it really happened. But the proof is not there.
In short, we don’t know and probably never will. We do know that Russia wanted to convene the UN Security Council over the Bucha incident and that the UK blocked it. We can infer something from that, but, again, it does not give us certainty.
Keep our distance and keep our cool. And the same towards similar accusations from the other side
What about it? Keep our distance and keep our cool. And the same towards similar accusations from the other side (which are also plenty, but don’t get smeared in the mainstream media).
However, if you manage to keep a cool head, the news wasn’t for you anyway. It was addressed exclusively to those who are brimming with emotions, are themselves moved by the nobility of their emotions and need regular nourishment for them.
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…information came in that puts the whole thing in an even different light. Since the war began, hundreds of obscure videos have been circulating in which one side or the other tries to convince the public that the other is committing brutal war crimes. But yesterday, there was a breakthrough. New York Times analysts have assessed one of the videos as genuine. It shows Ukrainians killing Russian prisoners of war. A category one crime. It is now more than clear why it was necessary to fill the media with news of the alleged Bucha massacre. And why President Zelensky had to threaten journalists that anyone who poked around would face “at best jail time.”
