this post was submitted on 20 Dec 2024
168 points (97.7% liked)

World News

39352 readers
3633 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News [email protected]

Politics [email protected]

World Politics [email protected]


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Summary

Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a televised year-end press conference, said Russia should have invaded Ukraine earlier with better preparation.

He defended his policies, highlighting strengthened ties with China, Russia’s aggressive nuclear doctrine, and military gains in Ukraine, while dismissing claims of setbacks.

Putin claimed economic "stability" despite sanctions but acknowledged 9.1% inflation.

He emphasized “sovereignty” as a key success of reducing Western reliance.

The press conference was highly choreographed and tightly controlled.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago

I've seen numerous people watching the stream live and I can't really comprehend that. Even fanboys should know at this point there won't be anything of value to hear. Safe scripted questions and non-answers repeating ad infinum is what every stream of his were and when shit actually happens it's rarely if ever announced beforehead, like the start of the war was, or mobilization, or almost anything. Even if your kid ended up on the frontline, his fate would be decided in the cabinets, not on the open air, and the only time he was close to actual communication is when Prigo went rogue, because Volodya needed to actually perform some damage control, and he did that with a lag when he was assured things are nearly settled. With prols - who cares? Years before and already a year+ after that these shows were a watermill hardly deviating from Tucker Carlson's interview and the only thing I do when I get caugh up in a room with these talks is look at his face for signs of make up\surgery and listen to his characteristical khe-khe coughing, wondering how much work they need to put THAT before people and cameras. Credit where the credit is due: he looks almost like a human, not aged an hour from his previous elections. People were joking about the fridge he sleeps in but he's really cared for by a little army of cosmetologists.

And, after remembering the Prigo guy, I recall his descendants in the media, military bloggers, sometimes coming directly from his media org, showed a lot of dissatisfaction with that show, more than usual. They are pocketed and allowed to say that and ironize at obvious bad takes, but that means they and their curators find that their target demographics - the most bloodfirsty and 'patriotic', who need to be spoken baldly with zero bs - lost connection to the government's agenda, frustrated by it, and still don't have a person to replace Evgeniy and somehow reignite them. Only in time of the riot he himself only once refered to 'gramps' who needs to leave, and now regular bloggers discuss what he said. It's not a lifechanger, but it shows some gradual exhaustion that too hopeful people like me can call a sign.

In other news, new year would bring a rare change in minimal price of booze. If anything, I feel upping the price of the most available and usual coping mechanism may have a bigger impact than whatever he could possibly say. And this small thing is rarely talked about in comparison, for, once again, they don't talk when they do real stuff.