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"I'm not a Putin apologist, I just coincidentally reach the same talking points as Russian propaganda through my totally unbiased research!"
Putin was forced to start a proxy war, shoot down a passenger plane, annex Crimea, invade the whole of Ukraine and commit multiple war crimes, because the people didnโt elect his friends, you see. /s
I'm not a Saddam, I just coincidentally reached the same talking points as Iraqi propaganda through my totally unbiased research.
russian propaganda is actually far beyond this, claiming that they are saving the people of the donbas from genocidal ukrainian nazis, which that guy didn't say. Saying "hey maybe this isn't as one-sided as western media makes it out to be" is actually closer to a centrist position