At the end of October, the Russian media and Telegram channels reported that the US politician announced the need to destroy Russia, since this is an Orthodox Christian country with traditional values. We checked the reliability of such messages.
On October 31, numerous media publications and posts on social networks have appeared, dedicated to the statement, which allegedly made a member of the US Congress from the Democratic Party Jamie Razkin. It is alleged that the politician said: “Russia is an Orthodox country professing traditional values. That is why it should be destroyed, regardless of what price the United States will pay for this. ” They told their readers about this RT, "Moscow Komsomolets" Readovka, Eurasia Daily, URA.RU, newspaper "Sight" And Pravda.ru. In Telegram, the TV presenter shared news Vladimir Solovyov (1.4 million subscribers at the time of writing this analysis) and the regular guest of its broadcasts Yakov Kedmi (147 000), TV presenter Ruslan Ostashko (340,000), writer Zakhar Prilepin (304,000), the head of the faction "Fair Russia - for the truth!" In the State Duma Sergey Mironov (50,000) and deputy from United Russia Oleg Matveychev (46,000), as well as channels "The world today with "Yuri Podolyak""(2.8 million)," "Signal"(741 000),"Older than Edda"(634,000) and"⚡️ ?? Moldings of the militia of Novorossiya Z.O.V. (DPR, LPR, Ukraine, war)"(312 000). Also, Oxtri was quoted by ordinary users and publics in Facebook*, Twitter, "VKontakte" And YouTube.
The media and Telegram channels that bring the words of Raskin in their publications rely on one source-a fragment from the transfer of the conservative and sympathetic republican party of the Fox News television channel. On October 27, the host Tucker Carlson in his daily program “Tonight with Taker Carlson” Reasoned About how the “Biden religious war in Ukraine” negatively affects the American economy. It happened less than three weeks before elections to Congress. Starting with statements that beat previously that previously spread and do not correspond to the reality of statements like Cutting out centuries -old forests in Germany for the sake of receiving firewood or British freezing from the cold, Carlson accuses the democrat President Joe Biden of a mistaken decision to declare sanctions against Russian energy resources.
Bringing arguments in support of his position, the presenter claims that at the same time as the introduction of restrictions on oil and gas imports from the Russian Federation, the White House “suppressed” the production of fuel in the United States, and asks the question: “Putin did not interfere with Putin, all this impoverishes the United States. What could be an excuse for this? " Further, Carlson says literally the following: “Anyone who paid [attention to this] should have asked this question. This week, Congressman Jamie Raskin from Maryland, from Betesda, answered him. Russia is an Orthodox Christian country with traditional social values, and therefore it should be destroyed, no matter what it costs us. This is not an ordinary war. This is jihad. Jamie Raskin said this out loud, but many in Washington agree with him on both sides. They would like to see the World War Trans immediately (apparently, Carlson unites the phrase World War III and the word Trans, used to indicate regularly criticized On Fox News transgender. - approx. Ed.) ".
But did Jamie Raskin say this in reality? We studied his social networks, publications on the official website of the congressman, mention in the media and interviews - nowhere except in the retelling of the Carlson program, the politician is not mentioned along with a quote about the Orthodox Christian country with traditional social values.
October 24 (three days before the air of the Carlson program) a group of 30 congressmen from the Democratic Party Published An open letter to President Biden with a proposal to intensify diplomatic contacts with Russia on Ukraine. White House from this consistent Refuses, insisting that the beginning of negotiations is the exceptional prerogative of Kyiv. This position is shared by most democrats in the congress, criticized The content of the letter - its authors even had to explain that their initiative does not cancel the "unconditional commitment of the support of Ukraine." The next day It was recalled, since his “untimely” and “without final approval” was published by assistants to congressmen. Among the initiators of this appeal to Biden (and, accordingly, the negotiations, and not the “destruction” of Russia) was Jamie Raskin.
The next day, October 25 (Carlson's program, a fragment of which became viral, was released on the 27th), Raskin Published The statement in which he commented on the decision to recall the letter of Biden. The congressman explains that, from his point of view, the Ukrainian military and the authorities in Kyiv defend the “democratic future” of the whole world, recalls the words of the TV presenter Anton Krasovsky, on the air of RT calling To burn and heat Ukrainian children, the participation of women and representatives of sexual minorities in the defense of the country emphasizes, as well as strengthening horizontal connections in society and the work of volunteers. It is Ukraine who is almost completely devoted to the statement.
The fragment of this text closest in meaning to the Carlson, the fragment from this text is: “Now Moscow is the center of corrupt tyranny, censorship, authoritarian repression, police violence, propaganda, government lies and disinformation, as well as planning military crimes. This is the World Center for Antifeminist, anti -Giyan, antibraxgender hatred, as well as the homeland [conspiracy] theory "great substitution"For export (its author is considered the French writer Renault Camus, although Russian Officials And Pretty large media They made similar statements similar in meaning. - approx. Ed.). Helping Ukraine, we oppose these fascist views and support the urgent principles of democratic pluralism. Ukraine, of course, is not perfect, but its society is arranged on completely different principles of democracy and freedom, therefore, Russian oligarchic leaders and seek to destroy it forever. ”
Neither in this fragment, nor in his statement, Raskin does not use the words “Orthodoxy”, “Christianity” and “religion” (as well as adjectives derived from them), as well as the phrase “traditional [social] values”. The verb “to destroy” (to destroy) and the congressman synonymous to him exclusively when describing Russia's actions in relation to Ukraine. Raskin also does not connect the properties of Russian society in his text and the need for the United States to commit any destructive actions against the Russian Federation. There are no applications attributed to the policy of Biden, published on October 24, where the congressman, together with his colleagues, called on the American leader to activate diplomatic interaction with Moscow.
Thus, the host of Tucker Carlson (and after him the media and users of social networks) at least very voluntarily retold, and at the maximum significantly distorted the statement by Jamie Razkin, in which there was neither a wording about the Orthodox Christian country with traditional social values, nor a call for the destruction of Russia, "no matter what it costs us." The representative of the Democratic Party is really extremely negatively characterized by the Russian authorities and speaks of the need to further support Ukraine, but does not call for the destruction of Russian society or the state. On the contrary, at the end of his statement, Raskin writes: “The diplomatic work by the Biden administration will inevitably follow, since sustainable diplomacy always marks the end of the war - even with tyrants and despots.”
*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns the social network Facebook, an extremist organization, its activities in Russia are prohibited.
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