Thread by @JensWeinreich

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Every day there is more evidence that the IOC and its President Thomas Bach are not to be trusted. The IOC is an obscene Olympic lying machine. It is currently producing nothing but dirty propaganda #RussiaWar #Ukraine.
Let me prove this to with a disgraceful example
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On 28 March, the IOC and its Deity Bach claimed: Russia's war of destruction in the Ukraine was only one of some 70 armed conflicts and wars in the world.
They relied on an analysis by the @CrisisGroup.
They knew exactly what they were doing ...
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Thomas Bach and his propaganda servants wanted to create the impression that the war of extermination in Ukraine was nothing earth-shattering at all, but merely one of more than 70 armed conflicts+wars.
This is wrong in several respects.
It is a deliberate IOC falsification.
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The IOC's filthy, unconscionable propaganda was unfortunately disseminated unchecked in media around the world. The world should never believe anything Bach/IOC claim. Propaganda with distorting alleged studies/analyses/statistics has been part of Bach's business for decades.
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I sent the Crisis Group a dozen questions last week. Among other things, I naturally wanted to know how the IOC's claims were assessed. Unfortunately, the questions were not answered in detail. The Crisis Group gave an evasive diplomatic answer today.
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"Crisis Group has not engaged with or provided specific information to the IOC."

But even the Crisis Group's diplomatic response leaves no other conclusion than that the IOC's claims are a propagandistic distortion of the analysis.
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I I first awaited the Crisis Group's responses to detailed questions. In the meantime, @RichPerelman has summarised the analysis in his TSX REPORT. I have put these 72 crisis (which have been distorted by the IOC) into an Excel spreadsheet. The overview based on Rich's work...
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Europe & Central Asia - 14 entries re 13 countries.
One war of extermination condemned by the United Nations. Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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Africa - 24 entries re 24 countries.
No war of extermination condemned by the United Nations.
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The Americas - 7 entries re 7 countries.
No war of extermination condemned by the United Nations.
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Asia - 15 entries re 13 countries.
No war of extermination condemned by the United Nations.
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Middle East and North Africa - 12 entries re 13 countries.
No war of extermination condemned by the United Nations.
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Please do not forget that Bach and the IOC have even combined their propagandistic falsification of the 72 crisis spots with a dirty criticism of Ukraine and the Ukrainian NOC: No other war-affected NOC complains and wants to boycott @Paris2024.
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I do not need to re-evaluate the trouble spots listed by the Crisis Group, which have been disgustingly distorted by the IOC in terms of propaganda. Rich Perelman has already done that and came up with these details
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"Among these 72 entries are only 36 situations of actual violence (50%), of which all but 6 are insurgent or jihadist attacks over internal control (30 of 36 or 83%). The other 6 include a modest cross-border incident between Rwanda and Congo and 4 Middle East conflicts ..."
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"... noted in specific areas: (1) Turkish fighting with the Kurds in northern Iraq, (2) the continuing Israel-Palestine violence, (3) fighting over internal control of Syria with government, rebel, Iranian, Israeli and U.S. involvement, and (4) the civil war in Yemen."
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"No wonder there have been no National Olympic Committee complaints.

There is only one conflict in which a sovereign nation has invaded another with the intention of destroying it: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine."
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"This war is totally unlike any of the other conflicts listed – one out of 72 – and its unique nature is confirmed by the formalistic “annexation” by Russia of the Crimea in 2014 and the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine in 2022."
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It's disgusting what the IOC is doing. It is pro-Russian propaganda at its core.

It is the false use of alleged studies/statistics/expertises, which is typical of Bach's sports policy.

I outlined this some time ago on the basis of his doctoral thesis.
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