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Western press fetishizes Ukrainian amputees as limb loss epidemic grows

Posted by johnlilburne <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=johnlilburne' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 16, 2023, 11:19 am

https://thegrayzone.com/2023/08/15/western-press-ukrainian-amputees/

Re: Western press fetishizes Ukrainian amputees as limb loss epidemic grows

Posted by Dovetail Joint <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Dovetail+Joint' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 16, 2023, 1:16 pm, in reply to "Western press fetishizes Ukrainian amputees as limb loss epidemic grows"

The BBC is leading with a story about the systematic and brutal torture and routine mistreatment of Ukrainina prisoners of war. It's a piece by one of their Russian experts who is also, surprise, surprise, a Ukrainian!

Nowhere do they state, or seem interested that these grisly stories, cannot be independently verified. The sources are all Ukrainians, who, as we all know, never would dream of pushing anti-Russian propaganda.

Where is the BBC 'verify' group when one needs them?

Re: Western press fetishizes Ukrainian amputees as limb loss epidemic grows

Posted by John Monro <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=John+Monro' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 16, 2023, 9:30 pm, in reply to "Re: Western press fetishizes Ukrainian amputees as limb loss epidemic grows"

I'm not quite clever enough as a writer to have thought of the term "fetishes" in connection with the war wounded amputees, but thinking about it isn't this whole Ukrainian - Russian narrative the wider fetishism of war?

Brave New World...

Posted by Ken Waldron <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ken+Waldron' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 16, 2023, 2:14 pm, in reply to "Western press fetishizes Ukrainian amputees as limb loss epidemic grows"

...same as the old one. Otto Dix 1920:

Re: Brave New World...

George Grosz:

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