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@ 2017-06-09 19:29:00
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"Here's a little mystery for HN. Have you seen the fictional BBC segment someone produced about an escalating conflict between Russia and NATO?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VZ3LGfSMhA

It made the rounds on HN a couple months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14101405

It's the only piece of fiction that has made me feel deathly ill in quite the same way Threads did.

The video is incredible. It's one of the best pieces of realistic fiction I've ever seen.

But how was it made? Who made it? And why? I counted at least 10 professional-quality actors with convincing, in-character costumes. See this timestamp: https://youtu.be/2VZ3LGfSMhA?t=1053

The uploader of the video is "Ben Marking", only 8k subscribers, and no online presence. They left a comment: http://i.imgur.com/MJVh31d.png Other than that, no one's taking credit.

So why make it? It's wonderful art, but is there anything more to it?

Whoever's behind this has also uploaded nine revisions since last year: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA9r2NNlWMitk1hhR7yj8SA/vid... including a Canadian and Australian version."

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[info]sintetika
2017-06-09 22:19 (saite)
perfekti!

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[info]artis
2017-06-10 00:36 (saite)
"Note: at 22:00-22:30, the British military commentator says that the conflict was forseeable because of the "encroachment" of NATO military forces on Russia and former-Russian controlled territories; it does not refer to Russia's "feeling of encroachment" which would be a more defensible statement. This endorses Putin's position that the Baltic countries, and probably Poland as well, are not "really" independent, but rather should be, to one extent or another, within Russian control and without the ability to resist."

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