Wikipedia Takes Sides

Editor's note: The Ukrainian military has been shelling the Donbass region since 2014. This is a fact. What is not a fact is the actual number of people killed and how many were civilians and how many were militia members or soldiers of the DPR (Donetsk People's Republic) and LPR (Luhansk People's Republic)? This doesn't even address the fact of how many civilians the lunatic nationalists in the Azov Battalion have been torturing and killing. Some of the best alternative reporting coming from Donbass is being done by the Canadian independent investigative journalist Eva Bartlett:

Ukraine Intensifies Shelling of Donbass as Western Media Are Silent

"Where have you been for eight years?", "Where have you been for the last eight years?", or "Why have you been silent during the past eight years?" is a phrase widely used in the disinformation campaign in the context of 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine in support of Russia, mainly pointing out to what Ukraine has been "doing" to Donbas during the War in Donbas (2014–2022),[1] and that the Russo-Ukrainian War has been ongoing since the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea.[1][2][3] It has been described as Russian pro-war propaganda.[1][4]

How does anyone involved in reporting on what is going on in Ukraine without actually being there really know what the circumstances are? The deaths and the injuries are horrific on both sides. Whoever it was who edited Wikipedia with "Where have you been for eight years?", have they been to Donbass to investigate?

To all those bullshit politicians wanting an escalation of the war, have at least the guts to join the frontline yourself..... pic.twitter.com/UcYVXQbKvb

— Richard (@ricwe123) March 6, 2023

Disinformation? Who controls that right to determine what "disinformation" is? The authorities? Government? Big tech? Intelligence agencies? The media with their designated "fact checkers?" The BBC?

I love that two of the loudest pro-Ukraine celebrities are both visitors to Epstein Island. Bono and Sean Penn.

— Donbass Devushka (@PeImeniPusha) March 6, 2023