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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @stack_harder 16h \ on: Matthew Kratter's Bitcoin University Pushing Pro-Kremlin Propaganda. Why? bitcoin
I'll add my 2 sats as someone who watches Bitcoin University and also keeps up with Russian official media, aka propaganda, along with Russian opposition media.
I don't think Matt is actively simping or intentionally spouting Kremlin talking points, I think it is more that he is taking issue with the idea of the EU 'confiscating' money to use on defense spending.
He also doesn't like war in general and probably just doesn't think Ukraine can feasibly win hence why he thinks it should end at all costs (just my guess).
Russian media has points align with some bitcoiners in general, slamming the dollar, the debt, and things like that, but it's usually more obvious when someone is spouting direct Kremlin propaganda points.
If you speak Russian and follow the media, it's easy to tell when someone is getting all their info from the TV, because all state media uses the same language, I see it in my inlaws and it's nothing new, although the propaganda focus for foreigners is more subtle
Thank you for your comment.
If the sources Matt provided (or the Politico source provided in another comment) actually supported the literal confiscation of savings... or the taking of savings to 'fund the war' then I would support 100% his message.
But that's not what the Politico article says or the ones he references. An EU-wide credit union to increase investment and venture capital... is not savings confiscation.
Now when a government 'prints money' in a way savings are being confiscated. When the bank 'loans out' savings in a way they are being used for 'other things' at some risk to the depositors and someone, somewhere is paying for that risk or insurance... yes there is a story there and a message.
However that's not what he's talking about and in any case those are different things.
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