Jewropean Union Whines After Russia Bans Deutsche Welle

Finally!

Russia is banning foreign subversion!

Of course, this isn’t the ideal context – they only did it after Germany banned their own media outlet, so it really is just tit-for-tat. By this logic, Russia won’t ban Twitter and Facebook until America bans VK, which they’re probably not going to do.

Euronews:

The European Union has slammed Russia for closing the Moscow offices of the German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW).

Russian authorities retaliated after a German media regulator had banned a Russia Today (RT) channel.

But an EU foreign policy spokesperson said the move by Moscow is “unacceptable and has no justification”.

“This is really bad news and a bad development,” said Peter Stano, referring to ongoing tensions between the West and Russia over Ukraine.

It “unfortunately illustrates once again their permanent violation of media freedom and their contempt for the independence of the media,” he added.

The sanctions against DW represent the first time a major Western media outlet has been banned in post-Soviet Russian history.

Germany’s government has appealed against the measures and called for a “de-escalation”.

Germany is arguing that Russia’s ban was more extreme than their own ban.

But this is really just splitting hairs.

A fat, short-haired woman went into a rage, dissecting the tit-for-tat argument.

German Culture Minister Claudia Roth said the retaliatory ban on DW was “in no way acceptable”.

“The equation lacks any basis,” Roth said in a statement, “RT DE is currently broadcasting without a licence and has not applied for a licence.”

Claudia Roth

“This is a completely different situation to DW, which is now having its licence revoked,” she added.

DW has had licences to broadcast in German and English since 2005, valid until 2027 and 2025 respectively, the media company stated.

“I therefore urgently appeal to the Russian side not to abuse the licensing problems of the RT channel for a political reaction,” said Roth.

“Clear steps of de-escalation are needed in the mutual relationship.”

Well.

Germany wasn’t trying to deescalate when they banned RT, they weren’t trying to deescalate when they have all of these politicians publicly agitating for war in the Ukraine.

There is context here that goes beyond media propaganda wars.

Russians should start to understand the importance of these media propaganda wars, however, because without them, nothing else is possible.

Russia should just ban all foreign media, outright, until there is some kind of peace. The plan of the West is obviously not to fight an open war with Russia. What they want is massive sanctions and a limited war which drains resources, and then they want to stage a revolution in Moscow with agitated people who blame the results of the sanctions and war on Putin. They will do that using agitating media, particularly social media.

It’s not complicated to see all of this.

These people have no shame