The first thing people do to get what they want is lie because that is the easiest way. Remember the Ghost of Kyiv? Pepperidge Farms remembers.
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The Ghost of Kyiv (Ukrainian: Привид Києва, romanized: Pryvyd Kyieva,[1] pronounced [ˈprɪwɪd ˈkɪjewɐ]) is the nickname given to a mythical[2][3][4] MiG-29 Fulcrum flying ace who was alleged to have shot down six Russian planes over Kyiv during the Kyiv offensive on 24 February 2022. The origin of the myth is unclear, but it was propagated widely by both Ukrainian and Western media outlets, as well as official sources such as the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Security Service of Ukraine. The Ghost of Kyiv has been credited as a morale booster for Ukrainians during the Russo-Ukrainian War.
Two months after the story spread, the Ukrainian Air Force acknowledged that it was not factual, and warned people not to "neglect the basic rules of information hygiene" and to "check the sources of information, before spreading it".[2][5][6] Experts have stated that stories such as Ghost of Kyiv are part of Ukrainian propaganda or a morale-boosting campaign, or potentially both.[7][8][9]
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She has the look down, but when she speaks, she does not sound like a battle-hardened soldier. This video was made to shame young men into fighting. The white feather girls did likewise in the UK during WW1.
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The white feather was a widely recognised propaganda symbol in the United Kingdom, Australia and other Commonwealth countries.[1][2] It was most prominently used in the 'white feather movement' in Britain during the First World War, in which women gave white feathers to non-enlisting men symbolizing cowardice and shaming them into signing up for military service.
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This Vietnam so-called combat footage seems staged to me:
The soldiers put on a show for gullible journalists. No sight or sound of the enemy. Not even shell casings from the VC or NVA weapons. No airstrike or artillery called in by the GIs, just a few minutes of slinging lead and a medevac. On the whole, it looks like a "mad minute" to me. A mad minute was an American tactic, mostly for boredom relief, that they'd spray and pray for a minute in case any invisible enemy were nearby.
Fatal confrontations on and off the battlefield are over very quickly.
They don't act like men who just got out of combat. Here's the real McCoy:
I am not a combat veteran from the military, but I've seen and experienced plenty of violence up close.
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