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Ukraine Was Invaded and Occupied by Microsoft, Too

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Summary: Microsoft is taking advantage of the war to cement monopoly in Ukraine and attract the budget of unwilling 'investors' (like taxpayers)

Microsoft puff pieces from AP (via ABC) are repeating Microsoft marketing/talking points without any investigation, scrutiny, or even the most basic analysis. Churnalism parrots. This is the shallow kind of nonsense we're gotten accustomed to seeing from and about Bill Gates (pieces funded by Gates to cover Gates). They pretend that taking over another nation's infrastructure is some kind of charity, with wording like "Microsoft's financial commitment of more than $400 million enables the Ukraine government and other organizations to continue using the Microsoft cloud and its public data centers across Europe", the company’s president, Brad Smith, announced at the annual Web Summit tech conference in Lisbon, Portugal."



As we noted earlier, they're just trying to hijack the country's infrastructure, furthering their own financial agenda while potentially hiding their losses and pursuing more bailouts from Biden's administration. Some explained to us that these 'donations' or 'aid' ("Microsoft's financial commitment of more than $400 million") can be manipulated into means of hiding major financial losses, calling them "giveaways" instead. The video above explains this point a little more clearly, we hope...

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