The missing ‘If’ that could get us killed: How Western media distorted Putin’s words

Dec 4th 2025 5:47am EST

The message was rather simple: Russia is ready to respond to aggression. But you wouldn’t know it if you read the headlines A depressing pattern has taken hold in the way parts of the Western press cover Russia: take a volatile subject, strip it of the conditional language that contains it, and then act surprised […]

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