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You can't reason on the macro level either, because you know neither the real decision making of high level persons in control, nor sufficient scope of individu
by megous 5y ago
You can't reason on the macro level either, because you know neither the real decision making of high level persons in control, nor sufficient scope of individual facts (as you say). How can you reason on macro level if your input is either news you don't trust, or hearsay you can't verify?
As to the document you posted... That document is not from OSCE. OSCE just added a header to it. It's entirey written by https://democracyfund.ru/ https://democracyfund.ru/ . So it can hardly be described as created by a "western body". Also OSCE is not a purely western body anyway. It includes Russia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, and many other eastern european countries.
Most importantly, it's not a report from an official fact finding mission (which is a specialist endeavor to send observers to a location to gather facts regardless of the meaning of such facts, like movements and activities of armed forces, shots being fired, destroyed property, documenting casualties, etc.) with summary statistics, etc. The document you posted is composed of random interviews with released prisoners from UA prisons. I guess it has some value, torture by UA security apparatus may have been happening as described, but it's not relevant to what I asked for in my reply to you. (which was to take into account results from actual fact finding missions, which is about documented facts, not about interviews or hearsay)
And yes, news outlets are about clicks and speed and some about shock value, as we know. I agree with you that they sometimes report complete crap. Everyone needs to take individual news reports with a grain of salt. Game footage was reported as actual war footage by a Russian embassy on twitter during Syria war. There's stupidity on both sides, you know. ;)