Specially from Russia! Documentary "SEARCH FIND TELL" (not my title not my content GGRF).

I don't quite know what to make of this video. I watched it end to end. I have effectively got skin in the game by dint of family connections and sit in an odd position of not wanting to believe either of the major players could either be so stupid or duplicitous to the detriment of seven billion people (I suspect that's self-preservation... possibly denial). However, it would be ludicrous of me not to look at the events of seventy years ago and think it's unthinkable in our time; from the comfort of our apparent consumerist democracy, all but inured to the effects of wars that by-and-large for the last few decades "always happen at their place, not ours."

Search and Tell (Russian viewpoint of the Ukraine-Russia war).

Clearly, as a piece of documentary film it's built around a certain dramatic `lean' possibly in a style relative to its home culture that makes me look at it with a slightly jaded eye, and in the slightly cynical knowledge that all of the links, the narrator connects together over a period of nineteen years directly, and with tangential links dating back seventy-six years, look to that same jaded eye like the kind of random connections conspiracy theorists put together to bolster their case.

However, the pragmatic me says to ignore the style; I don't get Bollywood, so why should I understand this guy's style straight off the bat? And instead, look at the overall content, however, propagandic it feels to my western European heart (for want of a better word), and wonder how close we actually are to war after thirty years from Glasnost? And from what felt like the end of all that cold war shit that plagued our childhoods, only to bimble through the nineties, noughties and now the twenties to find ourselves looking at new ICBM's that get here before the four-minute warning has finished telling us we are fucked.

I get the metaphor at the end regarding Russia being backed into a corner and feeling like it has nothing to lose, and better to end a horrible existence with a horrible end than to endure the horrible existence. But, that footnote also makes me think this could be very clever wrong-footing or coercion of people like myself and others, who do see our governments and media organisations as a bunch of hypocritical bellends in need of a dry slap. And that this is just another slice of misinformation to muddy already murky waters.

So the disclaimer is that I am posting this here because I don't know the truth, I suspect many of our politicians don't know the truth either, they just brief what they have been briefed on and take the paychecks.

There is plenty of information from both sides of the once Iron Curtain that suggests toxicity at a political level that exists almost entirely to justify military budgets and by dint of that, multi-billion dollar corporations that make things go BANG! So, My eye is jaded. I don't know what to believe anymore, but I do think the broader the spectrum you view the less likely you are to be taken in by any ideology. And you now have the opportunity to do likewise.