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I was listening to BBC news on the way home from work there and heard an interesting snippet which either:
a) confirms my status as a paranoid, tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy bampot
or
b) demonstrates just how far up the UK government's arse (and, by extension the US government's arse) the BBC is.
The report was about the latest Russian assault in Syria. For the last few months, anytime I've heard a similar story on BBC news, the Russians have been attacking "rebel held areas" and invariably painted as the bad guys. Tonight, for the first time that I've heard, the Russians were *now* attacking "Jihadist groups".
I thought to myself, "that's an interesting change of language," then the report went on to mention that the targets included "Chemical weapons factories"!
"F*cking hell! Anyone listening to this might get the idea that Russia are the good guys," I'm thinking, "I wonder what's brought about this sudden and rather dramatic change in tone" but before I could even finish my train of thought, the report answered my question for me:
"The attacks were launched following a telephone conversation between Vladimir Putin and president elect Trump."
I imagine this will continue for as long as the UK government thinks Trump and Putin will be getting along.
Of course I'm hopelessly biased here so may well have imagined the whole thing.
a) confirms my status as a paranoid, tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy bampot
or
b) demonstrates just how far up the UK government's arse (and, by extension the US government's arse) the BBC is.
The report was about the latest Russian assault in Syria. For the last few months, anytime I've heard a similar story on BBC news, the Russians have been attacking "rebel held areas" and invariably painted as the bad guys. Tonight, for the first time that I've heard, the Russians were *now* attacking "Jihadist groups".
I thought to myself, "that's an interesting change of language," then the report went on to mention that the targets included "Chemical weapons factories"!
"F*cking hell! Anyone listening to this might get the idea that Russia are the good guys," I'm thinking, "I wonder what's brought about this sudden and rather dramatic change in tone" but before I could even finish my train of thought, the report answered my question for me:
"The attacks were launched following a telephone conversation between Vladimir Putin and president elect Trump."
I imagine this will continue for as long as the UK government thinks Trump and Putin will be getting along.
Of course I'm hopelessly biased here so may well have imagined the whole thing.