The power of the new Ukraine

Mar 20, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -42% Medium Liberal

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  • Policy Leaning

    -42% Medium Liberal

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Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

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"To talk about European Ukraine isn't to describe an achieved state but a state of hope: hope of membership in the European Union - more meaningful to Ukraine, at least until Russia attacked, than membership of Nato."
Positive
20% Conservative
"Since 2017, as a result of that and of Brexit, Ukrainians have levelled up and Britons levelled down to identical rights of EU entry: 90 days' stay without a visa."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"Faced with an existential struggle against a powerful, ruthless neighbour, Russia, where nationalism now serves autocracy, an emergent class of Ukrainian liberals made common cause with Ukrainian nationalists."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"It might seem trivial now, when Ukraine is on fire and hundreds are being killed every day, when all that seems important is how many Russian tanks and planes and soldiers the Ukrainians have to blow up to make Putin stop, to talk about abstractions like nationalism and liberalism."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"At the same time, Pompeo nurses presidential ambitions."
Positive
18% Conservative
"Recently, Trump admitted that he was surprised by Putin's special military operation."
Positive
8% Conservative
"In marked contrast, Yovanovitch gives the Trump administration a thumping."
Positive
4% Conservative
"She brands Rex Tillerson's 14-month tenure as secretary of state as near-disastrous."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"At an Oval Office meeting in 2017 with Petro Poroshenko, then president of Ukraine, Trump asked HR McMaster, his national security adviser, if US troops were deployed in Donbas in eastern Ukraine, territory now invoked by Putin as grounds for his invasion."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"In the moment, she says, she also pondered if it was better to interpret Trump's question as suggesting that the commander-in-chief thought it possible that US troops were fighting Russia-led forces, or instead as an indicator that the president wasn't clear which country was on the other side of the war against Ukraine."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"How's that working out, Donald?"
Negative
-14% Liberal
"The ex-KGB spymaster and world-class kleptocrat was the guy Donald Trump wanted to be."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"Loyalty to subordinates was not Pompeo's thing - or Trump's."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"Loyalty to subordinates was not Pompeo's thing - or Trump's."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"On the page, Yovanovitch berates Trump for his obsequiousness to Putin, which she says was a frequent and continuing cause for concern among the diplomatic corps."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Pressure mounts on the Biden administration to do more for Ukraine - at the risk of nuclear conflict."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Amid Trump's first impeachment, over Ukraine, Yovanovitch testified: The policy process is visibly unravelling ..."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"Trump, she writes, saw Ukraine as a 'loser' country, smaller and weaker than Russia."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"According to Mary Trump, the former president's niece, Trump mocked his father as he succumbed to Alzheimer's."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"The author is the former US ambassador to Ukraine who Trump fired during his attempt to withhold aid to Kyiv in return for political dirt, an effort that got him impeached."
Negative
-36% Liberal
"Yovanovitch rightly places part of the blame for Putin's invasion on Trump."
Negative
-40% Liberal
"As for Tillerson's successor, Mike Pompeo, Yovanovitch lambasts his faux swagger and his refusal to defend her when she came under attack from Trump and his minions."
Negative
-76% Liberal
"As for Tillerson's successor, Mike Pompeo, Yovanovitch lambasts his faux swagger and his refusal to defend her when she came under attack from Trump and his minions."
Negative
-76% Liberal
"As for Tillerson's successor, Mike Pompeo, Yovanovitch lambasts his faux swagger and his refusal to defend her when she came under attack from Trump and his minions."
Negative
-76% Liberal

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Bias Meter

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : To talk about "European Ukraine" isn't to describe an achieved state but a state of hope: hope of membership in the European Union - more meaningful to Ukraine, at least until Russia attacked, than membership of Nato.
49% : Since 2017, as a result of that and of Brexit, Ukrainians have levelled up and Britons levelled down to identical rights of EU entry: 90 days' stay without a visa.
48% : Faced with an existential struggle against a powerful, ruthless neighbour, Russia, where nationalism now serves autocracy, an emergent class of Ukrainian liberals made common cause with Ukrainian nationalists.
39% : It might seem trivial now, when Ukraine is on fire and hundreds are being killed every day, when all that seems important is how many Russian tanks and planes and soldiers the Ukrainians have to blow up to make Putin stop, to talk about abstractions like nationalism and liberalism.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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