Hey Fake News! If y'all are covering so much on Ukraine, at least make the prop guns look real!
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Looking at the headline, it appears this story is about civilians taking up arms in defense of their home.
Recently, CNN ran a story about civilians training to fight Russia, and they specifically mentioned that civilians were training with mock wooden rifles. They had several pictures of them in the gallery, which you're welcome to verify yourself.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/01/europe/gallery/ukraine-russia-training-fadek/index.html
Dollars to donuts this screenshot is of CNN showing civilians training with those same fake guns in a story specifically talking about civilian training, based on the headline.
Based on this evidence, it seems less likely that CNN is attempting to falsely pass this off as a real warfighter and more likely an out-of-context screenshot of CNN reporting on civilians training with fake weapons.
Erm... doesnt the on screen gfx say FOX news?
Derp. Yes it does. My bad. I've been busy.
Either way, though, the meat of the argument stands. This is almost certainly a story showing civilians training, not attempting to falsely depict a fake war. At least not with this screenshot.
I'm curious, have you ever trained with a firearm?
Edit: See u/DextertheCat's comment below in the thread.
Yes. I actually have a couple of NRA marksmanship medals, although not anything impressive.
In response, I think you train civilians in preparation for an imminent invasion with whatever you have on hand. If you don’t have weapons on hand, then you use plywood models to practice movements and tactics as best as you can until the weapons eventually show up. No point sitting on your ass being terrified when you could be training.
You’re training civilians to go up against a nuclear-armed country in a fight you know you ultimately can’t win. You aren’t going to be picky as to how you train civilians knowingly volunteering for a suicide mission.
Wow. Typical leftist fashion, you defend CNN...when it's not even CNN.
Ha. Yeah, it was not my intention whatsoever, but I can’t really deny the optics.
May be, but A mock gun is no good in a real war.
This.
It's as if everyone here collectively chose to act like stock footage and training exercises aren't a fairly common thing. By all means it's worth talking about and how it relates to the given context (for example, the many cases where the media has historically pulled war footage from COMPLETELY unrelated battles/wars), but it's also not the end all of points. There are certainly valid reasons for stock footage or photo shoots, such as this very one above.
Facts matter - don't jump to conclusions without considering the context and surrounding information. Be open to having discussions on topics without calling every single person you meet with a differing opinion a shill. This entire forum is supposed to be for discussion, but as of recent times it's most commonly circle jerking it seems.