Damage to President's reputation. A piece of tar in barrel of honey

Some facts may still need multiple proves, facebook, youtube, and twitter can be forged. Complete/correct them if you can.

In plain words, in 3rd episode at 49:10, President Putin presents Apache Taliban shooting as work of Russian troops. Moreover, American pilots English sound track replaced with Ukranian pilots attacking Donbass in 2014. Putin and Stone do look like complete fools by talking over this smartphone.

For example: https://twitter.com/CITeam_en/status/877192774742945792

This puts under doubt the reputation of Russian meida and intelligence. For example, completely ruins Russian coverage of MH17 and much more ...

But the damage can be much worse. It depends on reacton of the actors of this story.

If to double down, this will continue to destroy the reputation. (Peskov already doubles down and denies)
If to apology and submit even any other related, but correct video this can make situation winning for Russians.

Because mistakes happen. But insisting on the wrong thing means the person does not care for the truth. The person does not care about the journalist, his viewers, and public. So, who knows was the radar report about MH17 true or some substitution negligently submitted by MoD which does not want to loose their face now? Was the denial of April 4, 2017 chemical attack true? Or perhaps some glitch of Russian intelligece?

Ignoring the thing is the same as "doubling down".

Two days gone since discovery of a fake video fragment. Russian say like "video belongs to some member of MoD". But interview is between Putin and Stone. Stone did not interview this "member". Putin is the one who is responsible for the talk. 

Each hour, the reputation of Mr. President becomes worse. 

On the other side, if the person does not apologizes too often, the apology is a sign of strong, not a weak. It is a sign of a human. There is even no need to punish any of subordinates for nasty mistake. Non-apologizing makes more damage than, say, shutting down Russia Today for a month.

And as a side effect, readiness to admit mistake, raises the credibility of what already has been said on other issues.



Credits:

Debunking:
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    This is a beginning of proof:
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    Probably original blogers who discovered the fake:
    https://www.facebook.com/CITeam.org/videos/809100849242894/?fref=mentions

Original film.
The Putin Interviews. Part 3 of 4.
[46:39]
https://www.amazon.com/The-Putin-Interviews/dp/B071G817B9
or
https://www.etvnet.com/tv/dokumentalnyie-filmyi-online/putin-3-seriya/1133652/


American original movie.
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    http://www.military.com/video/operations-and-strategy/air-strikes/2-apaches-engage-taliban-platoon/1741618611001
        2 Apaches Engage Taliban Platoon
        Posted Jul 18, 2012 by vlogger

        Apache helicopters eliminate a platoon of Taliban setting up to ambush a U.S. special forces patrol. Footage taken during operations in 2009 in Afghanistan. THIS IS STRICTLY FOR EDUCATIONAL AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTING PURPOSES.
        Category: Operations, Air Strikes	
        More About: flir, taliban, missiles, enemy kills, editors' picks, air strikes, hellfire, afghanistan, shock & awe, combat, helicopters, apaches
        384 likes, 4 dislikes




Proofs that Dmitriy Peskov makes false statements
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    https://lenta.ru/news/2017/06/21/kadri/
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    More detailed:
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    http://www.rbc.ru/politics/22/06/2017/594a89dc9a79472ee1107a45?from=main
        Политика , 22 июн 2017, 17:14  70 009 
        Пентагон не стал комментировать видео Путина с «российскими ВКС в Сирии»
            What is RBC.ru:
            Rbc.ru - Wiki - Golden https://golden.com › wiki › Rbc.ru-NYJ8GAV
            The RBC Group of Companies (RosBusinessConsulting Group) is a group
            of companies and one of the largest multimedia holdings in Russia.


    Spokesperson:
    (appears erased as of Oct.28 2022)
    https://themoscowtimes.com/news/the-kremlin-is-standing-by-footage-of-russian-troops-in-syria-that-the-internet-says-is-fake-58232
    June 21, 2017
    In a statement on Wednesday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that the footage had been given to Putin by the Russian Defense Ministry. 
    "[Claims that the footage is American] are not true. I can confirm that these materials come from a report from the Ministry of Defense which was given to the president," Peskov said. "Statements [to the contrary] are incorrect and irrelevant."


O. Stone downplaces importance of the fake telling that Russia did a principal job in destroying of ISIS in Syria.
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