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In 2022 we released our documentary, the Ukraine Narratives, covering the Russo-Ukrainian war, the second episode of our documentary series known as “MEGA”, at the time the documentary was made we expected that this would be a short conflict and we rushed to get the production out quickly, believing that soon enough Russian troops would be storming into Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, raising their flag and proclaiming victory, our thinking was that such a rapid explosion of conflict would create a lot of competing narratives and information warfare, and we sought to play our part in that conflict by examining media discussion surrounding the war, and explaining its background from various perspectives, sorting the misleading from the truthful.
Judging by the response we got, our Ukraine Narratives project was a success, commenters from around the conflict zone, those with families in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, alongside general audiences, praised us for our “measured critique and analysis” and “complex conclusions”, and for being “honest and understanding”, safe to say it’s a production to be proud of.
But a lot has happened in the year since then, we originally planned to move on from Ukraine and look into new topics for the MEGA series believing that the war would be over shortly after the Ukraine Narratives released, when we made the Ukraine Narratives video we were rushing to get it out, believing that soon the whole topic would become out of date, with Russian troops marching into Kyiv and claiming a victory prize. But, like many in the early weeks of this conflict, we overestimated the Russians and underestimated the Ukrainians.
Instead of this war being a rapid Russian led blitzkrieg, it instead became a long, drawn out battle of attrition, because while the Russians had all their technology and weapons, superiority in seemingly every way, so did the Americans when they fought the Vietnamese, and we all know how that ended. Even in this day and age all the technology in the world can’t save you from the stubborn persistence of someone on their land.
Because of the continuation of the war, and the shift in its balance of power, we felt a need to go back to work, it’s important to examine the conflict and its context in more depth, and cover the events that have passed since our last report, necessitating a new production that can help people understand one of the biggest historical events at the start of this decade.
In other words, we have a lot of catching up to do, welcome to MEGA: The Ukrainian Divide.