Thread by @BretDevereaux

Journalists!

Yes, I see your sneer-quotes around "keep the peace" or "peacekeepers," but you need to be clear and explicit about the brazen lies.

An invading army of aggression is not 'peacekeeping.'

Russia has spent the last few days manufacturing transparently false 'provocations' to provide the pretext to invade Ukraine under the false guise of 'defending' two illegitimate breakaway republics that were never under threat.

Do not assume your readers know that! Most people are not paying close attention - but they may be about to.

So you have to state these facts *every*single*time.* Seriously, get a ready-to-go hyperlinked paragraph to copy-paste into everything you write.

Here, lemme draft it for you:"This war began because Russia, after several days of staging false-flag attacks in the territory that only Russia disputes, invaded Ukraine without provocation and in violation of international law."

There it is. That's the paragraph.

Every. Story.