Maté, the self-declared non-expert on Russia or Ukraine[1], still spouting nonsense about Russia. You'd be foolish to believe anything this mouthpiece of the Syrian government says.

[1] https://twitter.com/neil_abrams/status/1629925278905520135

Aaron Maté is a notorious war crimes and genocide denier. His takes on chemical weapons attacks by the Syrian regime (or Russia, for that matter) for example barely rise above the level of blatant, easily disprovable lies.

The same applies to Seymour Hersh. No matter what your opinions on the North Stream bombings and the perpetrator behind them are, his version of events is objectively false. Almost every detail mentioned in his article is very easy to disprove using just publicly available data. Only relying on a single anonymous source in order to make dubious claims has been a dominant motif in his work for at least a decade now.

Maybe the Ukrainian people want to live in a democracy, and don't want to be ruled by a Russian dictator.

Have you ever considered that idea?