How Forbes became a relay of Kremlin propaganda

Yesterday, the authoritative magazine Forbes once again lost its credibility, sacrificing it every time pro-Russian opus of Kenneth Raposa, a well-known "economist", expert on China, Russia, Brazil and almost everything he sees appear on its pages what he hears, he writes planeta.press.

Every time I read his "expert" articles, in which he either smears Kyiv or the Biden administration with mud, or praises Moscow, I am convinced that the key theses are sent to him from Wisconsin Avenue, 2650. Well, or Rapoza himself requests a visit to Russian "diplomats".

This is already a question that could be answered by the FBI, because Rapoza has been promoting the pro-Kremlin agenda, at least since the beginning of the war between Ukraine and Russia, when he wrote about how, allegedly, all the inhabitants of Crimea love Russia and are happy to live under it occupation

And relatively recently - on October 14 - the "expert" saddled Moscow's squirming propaganda horse about how the USA and Europe in general are tired of Ukraine, and he would gladly have thrown it off.

Less than a month passed and Mr. Rapoza gave birth to a bunch of new ingenious inventions and recommendations to world leaders on how to behave during the energy crisis, which Russia had a hand in causing, deliberately cutting gas supplies to Europe since the summer.

In his article, he writes that the US allies in Europe today are almost begging the Russians to start supplying gas through Nord Stream 2 in order to bring down prices for this resource.

Seriously, I read a lot of foreign, including European, press, but nowhere did I read about how conventional Merkel or Rutte crawl on their knees in front of Putin (online, of course) and beg him for gas.

It is also characteristic that Rapoza's article appeared shortly after the statement of Biden's adviser Amos Hochstein that the certification of "Nord Stream-2", which is necessary for the pipeline to be put into operation, will take place at best by the end of the first half of 2022. Well, because the Federal Network Agency of the Federal Republic of Germany should have its say, and then the European Commission. That is, the process is long, and the Kremlin will definitely not reach its goal of launching the pipeline by the end of this year.

Therefore, Moscow is once again increasing the pressure on Europe - it has again reduced gas supplies, provoking a jump in prices. At the same time, on various media platforms, there are all sorts of insinuations that Europe must submit to the will of the Kremlin if it wants to keep its asses warm this winter.

Rapoza's article is just one of those types of materials. But it is decorated expensively - like a full-fledged analysis with arguments, figures and all the necessary paraphernalia.

His work from November 11 is full of decadence, mercantilism, complete lack of self-respect. Mankurt is one hundred percent, in general.

Rapoza, think about it, calls on Europe to send the USA further, since, they say, they made all the mess when they started actively helping Ukraine to contain the Uruk-Haevs from the East. By the way, most of Europe has also sided with Ukraine: the Germans, yes, love Russian gas, but they have become advocates of tough sanctions against the Kremlin, allocated a truck and a small cart of millions of euros to Kyiv.

But Rapoza, as we can see, diligently distorts reality and drives a wedge into the transatlantic alliance: Europe, forget about the States if you want gas. Swallow your pride and ask Russia to "save" you. Seriously, that's how I wrote it - "save".

That is, at first the hordes deliberately left Europe without gas, and now they need to beg for salvation. Disgusting advice, Mr. Mancourt.

And he doesn't stop there. Moscow is very, very offended by Europe and the United States, writes Rapoza, because of the sanctions introduced for the seizure of Ukrainian territory and the killing of thousands of Ukrainians. But Mr. Raposa doesn't think about it. Mr. Raposa does not know what war is. Mr. Rapoza lives in his bubble, which is filled with Russian petrodollars, and he is fine.

The hero of the garbage can

The article seems to be in Forbes. But it feels like you're reading nonsense authored by Rabov Simonyan from RT.

But it was written by an American journalist. Although... He is far from the first "American journalist" to be seduced by Russian petrodollars.

Take even the ultra-conservative magazine The National Interest, which has become a de facto division of RT in the States. Or, the other day, a propaganda film with the RT logo about Ukraine and its independence was released, where the wife of former Trump adviser George Papadopoulos, Simone Manjante Papadopoulos, became the interviewer.

Rapoza is another "warrior" of the Kremlin's information regiment, working as a lobbyist for the Kremlin on the other side of the Atlantic.

And if you look at his biography, it does not seem so strange that Rapoza became a repeater of Kremlin propaganda. After all, along with the respected The Wall Street Journal and the much less respected Forbes, Mr. Mankurt also managed to work in open dumps and in publications that are clearly attracted to the East. Well, or to the West, if you look at American maps.

At the time, Rapoza worked in the left-wing magazine The Nation, which had a decade behind it of wagging its tail in front of the USSR, and then Russia. And then Rapoza moved to The Washington Times. Not to be confused with the moderately conservative The Washington Post. The Washington Times is an ultra-conservative publication like Breitbart, only many times more helpful than Steve Bannon's brainchild. The Washington Times is a brand. If you meet someone from WT, then this is already a sentence. Most likely, the man is rare... Rapoza, in short.

But the USA, meanwhile, is a democratic country. There they try not to condemn, not to stigmatize. On the one hand, this is correct and one should always strive for it. On the other hand, there is one country on our planet where the Chekists are in power with their hands up to their elbows in blood, who have no principles and no honor. And with their hands, they constantly pollute the world around them, including all democratic values.

So they reached out to Forbes, who is probably committed to the principle of forgiveness and non-conviction for past sins.

As a result, Forbes (forb — also translated as plants, different herbs) sporadically shoots himself in the foot because he continues to collaborate with Rapoza. And here we are not talking about pluralism of opinion, but about the permanent publication of Kremlin propaganda.

And what's worse is that such articles find their readers in Ukraine, which seems to be more experienced in information wars. And not only thanks to pro-Russian platforms, but also pro-Ukrainian media, unfortunately. The problem, apparently, is that Ukrainians are still prone to betrayal; secondly, they accept the opinion of foreigners as the truth in the last instance. And this is provincialism in its pure form. Not every foreigner is a friend.

Therefore, without abandoning these habits, Ukraine will remain a victim of Russian information manipulations, accepting the Kremlin's lies in other languages ​​at face value.