and different organisations and representatives that there is a difference in occurrence of perhaps less intimidation of military build ups in comparison to what we re really seeing, which is quite heavy intimidation of these build ups. before we came on air i went down a rabbit hole on twitter looking at your stuff, what you re pointing out and other open source investigators were tracking, as you say those military convoys the geo locating videos by identifying roadsides, bends in the road and we will come on some of those techniques in a moment but ijust wonder, how do you know that what s being posted hasn t been put up deliberately to fool the likes of you? that s the dangerous game. i think the best thing to say is that as allison may have mentioned before, none of us are really qualified in this field. we enter this field without a specific degree or registration. but that s the best thing
necessarily to counter our battle against those narratives but ratherjust pick out and tease out the details of what s happening on the ground. as you said, there s so much information that s doing that from locals filming vehicles driving past to aerial traffic to satellite imagery as well. and it s the combination of all those sorts of things that, when cross referenced with the narratives that are coming out in state media and different organisations and representatives, that there is a difference in occurrence of perhaps less intimidation of military build ups in comparison to what we re really seeing, which is quite heavy intimidation of these build ups as well. before we came on air, i went down a rabbit hole on twitter, looking at your stuff, what you re putting out, and other open source investigators who are tracking, as you say, those military convoys they re geo locating these videos by identifying road signs, bends in the road, and we ll come on to some of those techniq
necessarily to counter our battle against those narratives but ratherjust pick out and tease out the details of what s happening on the ground. as you said, there s so much information that s doing that from locals filming vehicles driving past to aerial traffic to satellite imagery as well. and it s the combination of all those sorts of things that, when cross referenced with the narratives that are coming out in state media and different organisations and representatives, that there is a difference in occurrence of perhaps less intimidation of military build ups in comparison to what we re really seeing, which is quite heavy intimidation of these build ups as well. before we came on air, i went down a rabbit hole on twitter, looking at your stuff, what you re putting out, and other open source investigators who are tracking, as you say, those military convoys they re geo locating these videos by identifying road signs, bends in the road, and we ll come on to some of those techniq
and they should respond, and by and large we are seeing positives. olga ivshina from bbc russia was monitoring the news conference. she told me more about what we heard form president putin. we need to remember that this press conference is first of all oriented for an internal russian audiences and this was exactly the message for an internal audience. in a way, mr putin is creating these dangerous dragons, you know? blaming it all on the west, saying that russia is only responding to build ups from the west and then he is, sort of, gloriously defeating those dragons, or at least that is what he is showing for his internal audience. but for an external audience it is also very important, you know, in the way he is sending a message. he said that he s looking forward for negotiations with the west that are due injanuary and definitely the military build up of russian troops is giving him some strong
only responding to build ups from the west and then he is, sort of, gloriously defeating those dragons, or at least that is what he is showing for his internal audience. but for an external audience it is also very important, you know, in the way he is sending a message. he said that he is looking forward for negotiations with the west that are due injanuary and definitely negotiations with the west that are due in january and definitely the due injanuary and definitely the military build up of russian troops is giving him some strong position during those negotiations and the same is with this gas prices in europe. again, you know, bush is an important gas supplier blusher is an important gas supply. this gives putin additional strength during these negotiations and that is exactly what he wants. he also addressed exactly what he wants. he also addressed the exactly what he wants. he also addressed the crackdown - exactly what he wants. he also addressed the crackdown on i exac