Zelensky Wants to End a War
Bad reporting is a deliberate choice
The Washington Post yesterday published a 1,860-word article about Ukraine and got almost everything wrong. It repeats many of the dangerous batshit memes which have been circulating in English-language media since the invasion started in 2014. Maybe that’s because Robyn is the newspaper’s Moscow Bureau Chief. Dunno.
Russia’s war against Ukraine, we are often told, is a partly a civil war involving rebels and separatists fighting the central government in Kyiv in the country’s breakaway east. Such inaccurate terms misrepresent the conflict.
The bloodletting is often talked about as if it’s entirely internal to Ukraine, a domestic affair brought on by language politics, identity clashes and historical grievances. This is crazy. This is wrong.
