• SpicyAnt@mander.xyz
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    11 months ago

    The actual title of the linked article is: Leaked German military documents laid out a doomsday scenario where Russia wins in Ukraine then invades Europe

    The article explicitly states:

    The documents are not a prediction but part of worst-case-scenario planning, a common exercise within militaries. A German official called the scenario “extremely unlikely.”

    So I don’t think that the title of this post is fair. Russia could go to war with NATO in 2024, and you don’t need a leaked document to tell you that. But there is nothing in this article that makes this possibility seem any more or less likely.

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      11 months ago

      The likelihood of Russia going to war with a NATO country is about as likely as Russia launching a nuclear strike on Ukraine.

      It’s not impossible but so very improbable.

      But in all seriousness this is such a huge failure of our media to resort to scaremongering instead of staring the facts.

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        11 months ago

        But in all seriousness this is such a huge failure of our media to resort to scaremongering instead of staring the facts.

        I agree.

        But in this case that is not what is happening… The linked article does not make the claim that is present in the title of this post at all!

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      11 months ago

      This headline is the one that loads in Google. Business Insider has changed it since then.

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        11 months ago

        I see - thank you for adding that context, I think that this title change is in itself quite interesting… Because then they did intend to use a sensationalist title, and only changed it later.

        I have double-checked out of curiosity and I do see that your post’s title is the title indexed by google:

        I am sorry for jumping into the assumption that you had changed the title yourself.