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Russia Posts Video Game Screenshot As 'Irrefutable Proof' of US Helping IS (bbc.com)
Plus1Entropy shares a report from BBC, adding: "But when I asked Putin, he said they didn't do it": Russia's Ministry of Defense has posted what it called "irrefutable proof" of the U.S. aiding so-called Islamic State -- but one of the images was actually taken from a video game. The ministry claimed the image showed an IS convoy leaving a Syrian town last week aided by U.S. forces. Instead, it came from the smartphone game AC-130 Gunship Simulator: Special Ops Squadron. The ministry said an employee had mistakenly attached the photo. The Conflict Intelligence Team fact-checking group said the other four provided were also errors, taken from a June 2016 video which showed the Iraqi Air Force attacking IS in Iraq. The video game image seems to be taken from a promotional video on the game's website and YouTube channel, closely cropped to omit the game controls and on-screen information. In the corner of the image, however, a few letters of the developer's disclaimer can still be seen: "Development footage. This is a work in progress. All content subject to change."
We can recognize Russian deflection.
Seriously, a still from a video game? Amateur hour, Ivan.
Until we won't even be able to prove it's fake.
Reality is a slackware box running on a 386 tucked away in god's sock drawer.
Headquarters of AC-130 Gunship Simulator: Special Ops Squadron game:
"THANK YOU, GOD!"
I do not believe in karma. "Funny"=-6. Do good and forbid evil. Yours, Oft-Offtopic Flamebaiting Troll.
It is the same guys who came up with the Trump Dossier then. Same level of "Proof." They think western media is gullible (because it is) however it looks a lot more believable when coming through left wing media rather than from a Russian twitter feed.
we can't be friends?
America and Russia are moving closer in many ways. During the Cold War, Americans were sometimes baffled when the Russians would tell baldfaced lies directly into the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Back then, most Americans believed in objective truth, while that has never really been part of Russian culture, whether under the Czar, Communism, or Putinism. But now America is finally catching up on the malleability of facts.
It's going to be really hard to find the truth about US foreign policy during the Obama administration. After all, the truth about the IS and Benghazi was likely in Hillary's emails. When will the Democrats finally allow a special prosecutor to be appointed to find out about the content of those emails and other crimes committed by Hillary?
I guess the 7 inquiries into Benghazi already completed by the Republicans were thwarted by Hillary's incredible Ninja training. Either that or you're just an asshole.
#1. Post obvious fake news.
#2. See who retweets and shares it.
#3. Update DB of extremely gullible people.
#4. Focus subsequent propaganda better.
#5. Profit!
Every end has half a stick.