Friday, January 17, 2025

Russia Tries to Use the LA Wildfires to Spread Anti-Ukraine Propaganda

Pro-Kremlin social media accounts and outlets have been spreading a baseless narrative that mansions belonging to Ukrainian military officers burned down in the Los Angeles wildfires.

Posted by LampLighter at 05:32 PM | 9 COMMENTS | permalink

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Of course they did Russia tried to use the LA wildfires to spread anti-Ukraine propaganda one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5259 ...

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-- Erica Marat (@ericamarat.bsky.social) January 16, 2025 at 10:37 PM

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... "It is the latest in a long string of assertions by Russian officials, media, and the pro-Kremlin online ecosystem that Ukrainian officials are corrupt and use foreign aid money to enrich themselves." La Ronzaud, a senior investigator at research firm Graphika, told NPR in an email.

"It's just so typical of what we see from Russia, [to] take advantage of an ongoing crisis for their own ends," said Darren Linvill, a communications professor and co-director of Clemson University's Media Forensics Hub. ...



#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-17 12:24 AM

But we should not try to tell anyone it's just propaganda because that would be fact-checking and the MAGAmotons are totally opposed to fact-checking because their cult leader uses lies to lead his flock of morons.

#2 | Posted by danni at 2025-01-17 05:58 PM

Vlad funds the fomenting of violence all over the Middle East and Africa, and probably funded the billionaire Hamas leaders in Qatar.

Try and find out where Vlad's mansions are. Just don't stand near windows while doing it.

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2025-01-17 05:59 PM

Look at the destruction within 25 yards of the ocean. Hard to belive that wasn't deliberately allowed to burn.

#4 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-01-18 08:57 PM

Were you expecting fire fighters to kick little kids out of the way, steal their sand castle buckets and start throwing water on the fire from the ocean?

#5 | Posted by jpw at 2025-01-18 10:10 PM

That's one way to fight a fire. I'd probably stick a hose in the ocean and pump it onto the flames. But then I'm not trying to buy up all the land.

#6 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-01-18 11:18 PM

How many pumps do you think are easily available on hand within the hours long time frame it would take before the structures were lost? Especially in the face of the weather conditions feeding the flames?

You seem to speak a lot about topics you have zero reason to be confident on.

Can you even easily connect a standard fire hose to an easily available pump?

#7 | Posted by jpw at 2025-01-18 11:53 PM

That's one way to fight a fire. I'd probably stick a hose in the ocean and pump it onto the flames. But then I'm not trying to buy up all the land.

#6 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-01-18 11:18 PM | Reply

Your ignorance is showing. Salt water is highly corrosive and would destroy a lot of firefighting
equipment if not flushed out which begs the question. Where are you going to find the freshwater necessary to flush out the equipment when you have to resort to using ocean water??

#8 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-01-19 12:00 AM

Firetrucks are mobile pumps that also carry hoses.

#9 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-01-19 12:42 AM

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