Al Carns has warned of a "shadow of war" at Europe's door, as hostile intelligence activity against the UK has jumped by more than 50% over the past year.
It definitely reinforced my skepticism of news media, contrasting the old newspaper reports of the first day of the battle vs what we know from hindsight and then just looking at how conflicts like Ukraine are covered vs the footage on the ground. For example, how many times have you heard of “Russian meat waves”? If you just read certain media reports you’d think it’s the opening scene of Enemy At The Gates every day, while I have yet to see anything even close to a mass infantry attack. You’d think if such footage existed it’d be everywhere as proof of the “Russian disregard for human life”…
Thanks for the recs, I think it’s work worth doing.
It definitely reinforced my skepticism of news media, contrasting the old newspaper reports of the first day of the battle vs what we know from hindsight and then just looking at how conflicts like Ukraine are covered vs the footage on the ground. For example, how many times have you heard of “Russian meat waves”? If you just read certain media reports you’d think it’s the opening scene of Enemy At The Gates every day, while I have yet to see anything even close to a mass infantry attack. You’d think if such footage existed it’d be everywhere as proof of the “Russian disregard for human life”…