BERLIN ¨C Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of Russia¡¯s overseas propaganda channel, RT, had a telling reaction to Iran¡¯s admission that its Revolutionary Guards Corps had accidentally shot down a Ukrainian civilian airliner last week.
¡°There are two schools of thought on how a big country that demands respect should behave if it messes up catastrophically,¡± Simonyan wrote in a Twitter thread. She went on:
¡°Some think the country must deny, deny, deny, never admit anything and never apologize for anything. Otherwise it¡¯ll just get strangled and ¡®it¡¯ll only get worse.¡¯ And simply because go to hell. Most decision-makers in most powerful countries I know, including our own, belong to this school of thought. The other school of thought holds up Iran as an example. Purely as a human, I¡¯m with the latter school. In my book, Iran manned up. Will things only get worse for it because of that, we¡¯ll see. When people wake up on the other side of the ocean.¡±
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