Unherd Freddie Sayers Kremlin Spokesman: "There is no war in Ukraine" May 12, 2022

I’ve often liked the COVID-19 coverage from UNHERD over the past two years but have grown to dislike its fruity English toff host, Freddie Sayers. In this interview Freddie displays the worst qualities of effete condescension and disinformation, frequently asking Russian diplomat Dmitriy Polyanskiy with disdain what line or talking point Russia cares to adopt to disguise what Freddie dear sees as a undeniable truth: Russia without any provocation or justification invaded the sovereign state of Ukraine and has failed miserably to achieve any of its goals. Freddie conveys that in woke-world Nazis deserve tolerance if not appreciation just like everybody else. Freddie cannot help giving himself virtue points for his “courage” in inviting a Russian diplomat to give his side of the story even though he does not want to hear it.

The very direct and unflappable Polyanskiy remains clear, focused and informative: one would never surmise from Western media coverage that U.S.-guided Ukraine had, just for starters, conducted slow-motion genocide against the civilian population of the Donbass since an illegal 2014 bought-and-paid for coup guided by the U.S. neoconservatives who then installed the puppets of their choice. It’s a shame that Polyanskiy rather than the bumbling Dimitri Peskov is not the Kremlin spokesperson. If someone does not see the difference between a violent but limited military operation and a full-blown war against Ukraine then I have no argument except to express the hope that NATO’s determination to frustrate the former does not necessitate the latter.