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| | [[User:Conservative]]: have you applied for [[USAID]] grant funding for your [https://decline-of-russia.blogspot.com/ Decline of Russia.blogspot]? And why not? All the sources you repost there get [[USAID]] funding. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|I don’t really care, Margaret]]</sup> 16:57, February 6, 2025 (EST) | | [[User:Conservative]]: have you applied for [[USAID]] grant funding for your [https://decline-of-russia.blogspot.com/ Decline of Russia.blogspot]? And why not? All the sources you repost there get [[USAID]] funding. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|I don’t really care, Margaret]]</sup> 16:57, February 6, 2025 (EST) |
| − | :As always, the burden of proof is always upon the claimant. And you provided zero evidence that all my sources for that blog got USAID funding. Just because you claim something is true and/or want something to be true, doesn't mean that it is true.
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| − | :Wealthy people or governments buy/start/influence newspapers, social media sites other big news outlets partly for the political influence or to help another business interest.[https://www.investopedia.com/billionaires-who-bought-publishers-5270187][https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/2024-03/Billionaires_and_local_news.pdf] And due to human frailty, political influence can sometimes be done for unethical reasons and as a result the new source may not always be accurate or tell the whole truth. If you get your news from a wide variety of outlets or subscribe to [https://ground.news/media-bias Ground News], you can better sort the wheat from the chaff in terms of bias and inaccuracies. I had a client that was a [[Tea Party Movement]] website and I helped pick out the news stories. We definitely covered the news stories that Tea Party people would like and avoided news stories that his audience would be less interested in. So if you used the news website as your primary source of news, you would be in a [[Echo chamber (media)|media echo chamber]].
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| − | :Although it may not occur, I would like to see Trump's leaked peace plan succeed around the time of Easter (See: [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14367923/Trump-peace-plan-Ukraine-Putin-ceasefire-Easter-Zelensky-NATO.html 'Trump peace plan for Ukraine' is 'leaked': Talks with Putin, ceasefire by Easter and an end to Zelensky's NATO dream among details in report]).
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| − | :And it would be good if Russia-West relations improved over time and Russian natural gas flows and oil flows increased to Europe. The war in Ukraine [https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2024-11-23/germany-is-kaput-why-the-economic-model-no-longer-works-in-the-proud-country-of-automobiles.html and its attendant energy cost rise has hurt Germany's economy] which is an important economy in Europe. I am partly of German descent and plan on visiting Germany. It would be nice to visit a prosperous Germany and not a deindustrialized Germany. It would also be good for Russia. The more potential buyers Russia has for its oil/gas, the more bargaining power it has as a seller.
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| − | :And if a nuclear arms control agreement was concurrently worked out (or at least started and eventually worked out) that would be a win-win-win agreement as it would be good for the USA, Russia and the world at large. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 22:24, February 6, 2025 (EST)
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| | == Here are more very, very, "worthy" causes we funded via USAID == | | == Here are more very, very, "worthy" causes we funded via USAID == |