The cry of conjecture will only get you so far in defence of the Russian stance and the fact you dismiss my arguments as thus suggests that you haven't actually been tracing the events in the Ukraine in the past year or Russian foreign policy in the last decade. You have dismissed irrefutable and powerful evidence without any cogent rebuttal besides conjecture which really reveals that you haven't considered the examples that i have provided.
i am not sure what you think the media is claiming without evidence. that Russia has provided arms to the rebels?
technically you can wheel out the old cries of propaganda, bias and conjecture, but that is GCSE critique, and something you have whipped out of you at any higher level of education as it has no real grounding. Conjecture perhaps but does the balance of evidence go in the favour of one camp? you balance arguments and available evidence you make inferences. It is conjecture for me to claim you are a Brighton fan, you could infact float around the web looking for political debate, but the balance of evidence suggests you are because you are on a Brighton forum, you are clearly an active member judging by your posts, and your views in the other ones will demonstrate you do in fact love the Albion. Technically everything is conjecture until you see it with your own eyes, even then we are liable to be deceived, there are very few things in this world with which we can speak of as irrefutable truths. Every news source is biased, we are people and not robots and we are a product of every situational encounter or privilege we are born with, but that doesn't make all news sources useless or unobjective, you need more substantiated criticism.
This isn't meant as a personal attack and you are entitled to your views, it is also very important to be critical of the information disseminated by mass media, however i often find that people go to an excessive defence of Russia or North Korea that leads to a complete rejection of the facts and evidence in hands and devolves in to fantasy where bias, conjecture and propaganda without a good base of evidence to make arguments from and i fear this is the case here. I am more open than most to Russia's position however it is impossible to deny certain factors which mitigate their moral standing in this affair, and i have to take a balanced view according to available evidence.
What kind of evidence do you want? things aren't black and white, Russia will never come out in the next few years and admit their support for the armed insurrection taking place in Ukraine or admit to the political murders conducted under Putin, it took long enough to get most of the Communist ones out and even then there are still many that are unverifiable. Sometimes inferences are all we can make, and usually are, but there is nothing wrong with drawing conclusions with a consideration of the evidence. You are welcome to your view however i feel you are trying too hard to refute the evidence in hand and to deny the proactive role that Russia has taken, it is hard to argue against because you have provided no justification for your stance besides 'conjecture' which really has no weight as criticism without elaboration.
