Russia-Ukraine thoughts week 2a: About those cosmonauts

I had originally had this with the rest of my Russia-Ukraine Week 2 observations, but that had gotten so long, I separated it out. And, I wanted to expand it.

Mainstream media can lie in the UK as well as the US. The Times of London was busted for lying about Russian cosmonauts' unis:

this is embarrassing.@thetimes literally just forced a political statement onto these cosmonauts, they've worn this uniform before lmao pic.twitter.com/b5TdrE2cJ1

— Perfect Sweetie Pagliacci (Devilish!) (@NeoPagliacci) March 19, 2022

The Beeb (and likely others) repeated the lie. Sky News along with the Beeb embedded:

Repeated without question by the BBC, Sky, etc. pic.twitter.com/KbSrnKKWYU

— Hyder Abbasi (@HyderAbbasi) March 19, 2022

Some Twitterati tried to defend this, like one respondent to the Tweet above claiming "the media don't have time to do what you do," in essence.

But it wasn't just Brits. Tex-ass' own, Helltown's own, "Space Guy" Eric Berger was among those repeating it.

And, as far as I know, none of these people have apologized.

Maybe that's because they WANTED it to be true.

Pagliacci went further and showed this isn't the first lie by relabeling in favor of Ukraine, this one committed by Ukrainians.

Annnnd a viral image of a Ukrainian baby born during the war which was retweeted by top bluecheck journos was in fact a Georgian baby from 2017.https://t.co/9HV8UH63qC

— Perfect Sweetie Pagliacci (Devilish!) (@NeoPagliacci) March 19, 2022

"Ooops."

stop it. pic.twitter.com/Cm8Hfwqlrp

— Perfect Sweetie Pagliacci (Devilish!) (@NeoPagliacci) March 6, 2022

And another one, stolen from Syria. The Ukrainian thievery also adds to the issue, re the Syrian photo, about this war being "different" cuz White Europeans.

At the same time, it further perpetuates Russia vs Ukraine stereotypes. They're the ones I've repeated here before, like the claims that only Russia engages in media censorship, only Russia has oligarchs and government corruption, etc., etc.