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.