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TexasTowelie

(125,587 posts)
Mon Jan 12, 2026, 02:46 PM 11 hrs ago

How Russian TV is preparing viewers for a much darker war - Break the Fake - TVP WORLD



On Kremlin television, Vladimir Solovyov – usually the loudest cheerleader for the war against Ukraine – suddenly stopped pretending. The tone changed. For the first time in years, Russian state TV openly called the conflict what it is: a war – and a difficult one.

But instead of questioning Moscow's failures. Solovyov found a new culprit: "excessive humanity." By his telling, Russia isn't losing because of bad strategy, corruption or isolation – it's struggling because it hasn't been ruthless enough.

Join Jonasz Rewiński in a new episode of Break The Fake to find out why the rhetoric is getting darker.
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How Russian TV is preparing viewers for a much darker war - Break the Fake - TVP WORLD (Original Post) TexasTowelie 11 hrs ago OP
Sounds like ICE/Trump policy. Norrrm 11 hrs ago #1
"excessive humanity?" Like G. Gordon Liddy's "insufficiently ruthless?" Grins 9 hrs ago #2

Grins

(9,253 posts)
2. "excessive humanity?" Like G. Gordon Liddy's "insufficiently ruthless?"
Mon Jan 12, 2026, 04:24 PM
9 hrs ago

What is it with conservatives and governing with the barrel of a too-often warm gun?

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