A Sri Lankan American, whose choice of title was different: viz: “Western Media fake Headlines on Russian Losses in Ukraine to Promote more war funding.”
Note the attached fake Western media headlines
Impeccable timing: Zelensky meets with Biden and lawmakers in push for more Ukraine aid …………. CNN – December 12, 2023 ……………. “90% Russian army in TATTERS”
“Ukraine cannon fodder helps to keep Europe safe from the marauding Putin!” … Meanwhile Russian tourists are travelling in large numbers overseas.
TURKEY
Turkey expects about 6 million Russians in 2023. Based on the current year’s booking statistics, Turkey expects an increase of the number of tourists from Russia. Cultural and Tourism Attache of the Turkish Embassy in Russia, Ilker Ozkan, announced preliminary data on the tourist flow for 2022 and gave a forecast for 2023.
THAILAND
The demand from Russian tourists has also surged forward bookings. Tourism Authority of Thailand expects more than one million Russian tourists in 2023, closer to the 2019 figure of 1.5 million.
SRI LANKA
From the beginning of January 2023 to the present, 57 thousand Russian tourists have visited the country.
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A NOTE from THUPPAHI seated comfortably in Adelaide
THE AUSTRALIAN newspaper run by the Murdoch press which I recëive [to keep tabs on ‘typical Australia’] is heavily slanted towards Ukraine and Israel in its presentation of the major confrontations in the world at present.
That said, let me note that when I was in Sri Lanka in March-April this year the only other in the swimming pool at Mount Lavinia were either Ukrainian or Russian; while a Muslim bloke from Mirissa whom I met in the sea off Galle fort indicated that the Mirissa beach was swamped with Russians.
This phenomenon requires incisive investigation and analysis. In total conjecture it seems to me that the populations of both Russia and Ukraine are so large and the capitalist upper class generated over the last 30 years are so substantialin number & capital that some personnel can get away from the situation within their own countries every now and then … or even, perhaps, more less indefinitely in some instances.
Would you agree with my perception that EVERY society has 10- 15% ultra rich/very influential people who are hardly impacted by the socio-economic or socio-political environments ?
I am afraid that I do not have the competence and reach to support or negate this CONJECTURE. Ther are many man societies I know next to nothing about.
To gain more sales, “The Australian” newspaper promotes itself with the slogan that if one subscribes to the newspaper then you will be an “Informed Australian”, whereas in reality, the newspaper aims to misinform Australians. Those that read it daily and take everything in it to heart can only become ill-informed, or worse still, deformed in the brain cells. Such newspapers destroy the brain cells, beyond repair if you read and rely on them too much.
The purpose of newspapers are not to inform citizens, but rather to shape the thinking of the population to an idealized notion that if you think the same as those writing in these newspapers, then you will be a “true Australian” and a patriot.
But if one cares about truth, then one must take all media sources, including newspapers, with a mighty grain of salt, and search for truth, knowledge and wisdom in better places.
The only worthwhile thing about “The Australian” is its art supplement published on Saturdays. The rest is trash.
The brain needs exercise just as the body needs physical exercise. That is why it is good to spend the first 30-40 minutes every morning doing intensive critical thinking exercises. If you do that, you’ll keep the brain active and healthy, you can easily spot fallacies and propaganda in any newspaper. If one doesn’t exercise the brain, it becomes lazy and susceptible to accepting propaganda as truth. In fact, the government relies on the public becoming lazy in the brain cells. Critical thinkers are dangerous.