CBS News retracted a documentary it briefly released on Sunday after pressure from the Ukrainian government. The original documentary (watch it here) CBS put out examined the flow of military aid to Ukraine and quoted someone familiar with the process who said in April that only 30% of the arms were making it to the frontline.
“All of this stuff goes across the border, and then something happens, kind of like 30% of it reaches its final destination,” said Jonas Ohman, the founder of Blue-Yellow, a Lithuania-based organization that CBS said has been meeting with and supplying frontline units with aid in Ukraine since the start of the war in the Donbas in 2014. “30-40%, that’s my estimation,” Ohman said.
After the documentary sparked outrage from the Ukrainian government, it was removed from the internet by CBS. In an editor’s note, CBS said it changed the article that was published with the documentary and that the documentary itself was being “updated.”
The editor’s note also insisted that Ohman has said the delivery of weapons in Ukraine has “significantly improved” since he filmed with CBS back in April, although he didn’t offer a new estimate on the percentage of arms being delivered.
The editor’s note also said that the Ukrainian government noted US defense attaché Brig. Gen. Garrick M. Harmon arrived in Kyiv in August for “arms control and monitoring.” Defense attachés are military officers stationed at US embassies that represent the Pentagon’s interests in the country. Previously, it was unclear if there was any sort of military presence at the US embassy in Kyiv after it reopened in May.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said the retraction by CBS was not enough and called for an investigation into the documentary. “Welcome first step, but it is not enough … There should be an internal investigation into who enabled this and why,” he wrote on Twitter.
In the documentary, Ohman described the corruption and bureaucracy that he has to work around to deliver aid to Ukraine. “There are like power lords, oligarchs, political players,” he said. “The system itself, it’s like, ‘We are the armed forces of Ukraine. If security forces want it, well, the Americans gave it to us.’ It’s kind of like power games all day long, and so eventually people need the stuff, and they go to us.”
Other reporting has shown that there is virtually no oversight for the billions of dollars in weapons that the US and its allies are pouring into Ukraine. CNN reported in April that the US has “almost zero” ability to track the weapons it is sending once they enter Ukraine. One source briefed on US intelligence described it as dropping the arms into a “big black hole.”
Freedom of the press…for the government.
For the Kiev Neo Nazi regime “government,” no less! Calls for “internal investigations” when a US politician doesn’t like a news story in US media are usually seen as having a chilling effect on the free press. But the Neo Nazi Kiev regime is, apparently, above such petty concerns. As in all other matters, it simply can do no wrong.
That this vile entity has reached this level of invulnerability, to even mild criticism in US media, is astounding!
luckily, Ukraine as a neo-nazi state will no longer exist in… oh…. say a year or so
luckily, Ukraine as a neo-nazi state will no longer exist in… oh…. say a year or so
$+
Here it is:
https://www.bitchute.com/embed/g5OgTXkzzLy9/
I can’t believe for a minute that it was pressure from the Ukrainian government that got the documentary kiboshed. At least not without the complete backing of Washington. But, I’d bet it was Washington and they’re using Ukraine (sound familiar) to take the “credit” as to deflect from looking like they control the media.
Yes, this was a critique of Biden’s policy, and that is verboten in our mainstream press. Biden’s team has a lock on what can be reported, and how.
Where is Peter Jennings when we need him?
I recall him as being the ONLY MSM reporter that dared question Dubya’s motives for the Iraq war. In fact every time Jennings mentioned Dubya, he performed a barely perceptible eye-roll. You had to look for it, but it was there.
Best news anchor of my lifetime; I wept when that man died.
What a spineless, sniveling, cowardly organization CBS is. At least Amnesty International had the integrity to stand by their story in the face of “Ukrainian Outrage”. But CBS, a “major media outlet”, simply folds up. I would not be surprised to see them “apologize” publicly for daring to question Ukraine.
Bottom line, NO ONE with a brain was “surprised” by anything in the CBS story; it’s not “news”, it just reaffirms what anyone with any knowledge of Ukraine and it’s “democratic government” already knew; they are rotten to the core; corrupt, dishonest, vindictive, and parasitical.
I have great sympathy for the Ukrainian people, trapped between a rock and a hard place; I have none for the Ukrainian government, and the sooner that rotten edifice crumbles the better; and if that means “Russia wins”, so what.
True Heading:
“CBS Removes Documentary on Ukraine Military Aid After Pressure from US Government”
Mid-term elections are getting close and Biden avoiding the image of giving money and arms to totally corrupted Ukraine…!
Liberal World Order Dies of Logic Deficiency.
https://journal-neo.org/2022/08/08/liberal-world-order-dies-of-logic-deficiency/
So we are taking our walking papers from Ukrainians now? Unbelievable.
If you want to know why C.B.S folded then read the book ,THE GUARDIANS OF POWER & THE MYTH OF THE LIBERAL MEDIA , it tells you all you need to know , and you will never say free press again
CBS can retract the documentary and Amnesty International can apologize for its report but the truth does seem to be getting out that the Ukraine narrative being offered to us is bogus. Democrats and Republicans are both shameless
A notorious serial killer once commented, “Yes, I am a murderous devil that is true but at least I am not a politician !”
The chutzpah of the Neo Nazi Kiev regime demanding some kind of “investigation” into CBS is really breathtaking! Of all the odious, loathsome client/puppet states that the USA has sponsored over the years, the Kiev Neo Nazi regime surely must take the cake for its absolute hubris, its overweaning confidence in being the “tail” than can “wag the dog.” Zelensky and Co. flit around the world not asking, but demanding, this, that, and the other, as if it were their right. Not just “aid,” not just arms, money, sanctions, etc, etc from governments, but also absolute fealty and subservience to their sordid, repulsive, repressive, dictatorial, corrupt, racist regime from every insitution and the entire population of the entire world. To some extent, the US and NATO have no one but themselves to blame, because they not only created this Frankenstein monster, but, even more so, they created the propaganda avalanche about the Ukraine that they themselves can no longer resist, even if they wanted to. But, even so, these thugs amaze me with the scope and breadth of their demands!
It is kind of like what Israel has achieved, but on speed! What took Israel decades to achieve, in terms of propaganda production, dissemination, penetration, and invincibility, and lobbying power in its supposed sponsor government, the Kiev entity has put together, or had put together for them, in no time at all.
Who can give you such a “loathsome… Frankenstein monster?” It would be an evil genius, who wakes up every morning to admire her work as more Ukrainians die. If he had any, the mere presence of such a person on Earth would shake Plato’s faith in God.
Impressive post, PL!
It seems as though Ukrainazia is getting a tad snippy with its clueless benefactor.
The Neo-Nazis there are anti-Russia, and so is Wash. That explains it all.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba or Mr. Potato Head due to his round face and tiny nose, wants the lies and disinformation to continue.
With every shipment of arms and cash he gets a cut of the black market sale of US weapons.
Did everyone forget the Ukrainian cargo plane (AN-12) that crashed in Greece with 11.5 tons of mortar shells bound for Bangladesh? I wonder how much Zelensky, Kuleba, and the Biden Crime Family made off of that black market arms sale?
CBS was on to something but they were told by the American government to cover up the illegal arms sales story!
Ah yes, our “free” media at work.
We do have precedent for this, though, with the in-depth series of reports asking about and revealing Israel’s role in 9/11 being yanked off the face of the earth in short order. This Ukraine report being pulled is just one more piece of evidence that our system is rotten and cannot be trusted.
There is billions of dollars of aid flowing …billions. Do you think attempts at oversight aren’t going to be met with strongarm tactics?
Everything is a controlled lie. Go on other news sites like Yahoo and mildly question the Ukraine narrative. You will be censored.
Any info contrary to the propaganda and official narrative is now considered ‘fake news, and disinformation.’ 1984 is here, just a little late. Also, off topic, but ‘Helter Skelter,’ is here and also a little late as well. Blood lust in gov. and the streets isn’t a good sign for peace and love returning to the collective consciousness.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/08/how-ukraine-lost-its-riches.html#more
How Ukraine Lost its Riches.
CBS probably got threatened with an audit from the IRS if they stray from the BS narrative.