https://old.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/t4x17l/welcome_cocktail_for_invaders/

here we go, I think this might be a peak at least so far
I'm reluctant to rehost this video and post it to jsp because I feel like even if it doesn't technically violate any rules (does it?), I actually wish it did

A ukrainian propaganda video shows them using child soldiers to build molotov cocktails. Redditors cheer on as the ungeared and untrained citizenry is raised as a last ditch militia with completely ineffective weapons to defend themselves against an unstoppable force, like its the Volkssturm in the fall of 1944. Nobody in the comments section has any questions about the morality, legality or ethics of videos of children making weapons or being mobilized to fight to the death in a desperate and pointless atrocity. There's your usual mix of low effort memes and comments that restate what is witnessed in the video without adding any commentary but add the words "I love...", which is seemingly obligatory in every reddit thread or youtube comment section. But the rest is full throated diehard propaganda urging kids to fight to the death and claiming the Russians are responsible for some kind of war crimes in the circumstances of this video clearly of uncoerced Ukrainian origin.

Its low hanging fruit to point out the comparisons like "imagine they were arab kids in an ISIS video with music going wahahalasalallahmuhjadhadeeee~". But I personally refuse to stop pointing out just how horrifying these are in and of themselves, because I've heard my whole life what the horrors were when Germany mobilized their common citizens and children as a desperate force to hold off the final advance in WW2. Today we're supposed to cheer it on because of some conflict that has all the moral righteousness and immediate relevance to us of the Lilliputian conflict over hard boiled egg endianness

Have you watched a video about what happened to the molotov cocktail guys?

I told my wife that honestly I don't want to hear or watch anything in regards to the war, instead we just have family members we Viber tell us how things are on the ground for them in western Ukraine and Moldova. Yesterday I had a guy at work tell me Russians are picking up weapons and rising up against their government...like what?

Personally for people that want at least some semblance of objective coverage try middle eastern/Asian sources. I found Aljazeera to be okay (still biased but not as severe as some of the western counterparts like Reuters/BBC.)

In Russia, the authorities are continuing to crack down on independent news coverage of what the Kremlin describes as its "special military operation" in Ukraine.

Last night, the authorities took independent radio station Ekho Moskvy off the air and blocked access to the website of leading independent internet TV channel Dozhd.

In recent days, the authorities have sent threatening letters to a number of independent media demanding they take content about the war in Ukraine down or be blocked.

According to the demands, media are not allowed to use words such as "war" and "invasion" and must not include "unverified" (i.e. not from official state sources) information about civilian casualties and killed and injured troops.

Today, Ekho Moskvy has said the prosecutor’s office is trying to block the station’s social media accounts too. Both Ekho and Dozhd continue to be hosted on some services like YouTube.


Ruskies trying to get their own to stop calling it a war.

The same is happening in the west. Russian news services are blocked and any locals who put out anything deemed pro-Russian are shut down. Can't let anyone listen to both sides anywhere.

Reuters is severely biased? LOL.

Al Jazeera is a pretty decent news source, though. They have their slight bias, but fairly good news from that part of the world.