Do Not Trust Your Own Eyes When It Comes to Ukraine
Be careful of opening your mind too much to media outrage over Putin.
We made this mistake with covid hysteria.
Two reports about Biden ordering drone strikes which killed innocent children in Syria and Afghanistan were quickly passed over by the media. There are only some things they want you to feel emotion for. Whole families were slaughtered, yet no images of this wanton killing went viral on social media.
In contrast, get ready for countless images of Ukrainian blood and violence to be beamed all over the world.
Already I have heard reports of images and video from Ukraine’s conflict in 2014 being shown as though contemporary. What they also don’t tell you about 2014 was that Russia was not the only aggressors. And when Russians remember that conflict, they think of images like this, images concerning the killing of Russians in Ukraine:
In no way would I suggest Putin’s actions are just, but I do warn that the media lies and lies and lies, and social media manipulates what you can see:
I have already shown my readers how this has happened in the past. We saw this with covid in places like India:
Now look at this image:
The media did the same thing with Italian hospitals and even once used images from a Kentucky gun range to depict Syrian horror.
The mendacity of global media extends beyond the images they choose to show us.
What they do not tell you about Ukraine is that foreign policy experts have been warning for decades that NATO extension to the East, after the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact had crumbled, would inevitably cause a Russian backlash; or that US support of western sympathisers in Ukraine would doom that nation:
Even Barack Obama, who callously destroyed Libya and Syria, acknowledged in 2016 that Ukraine is simply a country in which America has no real interest, and which is not worth dying for - mainly because America could not defend it with conventional forces and would thus have to risk humanity’s extinction in nuclear winter, in order to keep a country independent from a larger country which shares its religion and language:
Obama’s theory here is simple: Ukraine is a core Russian interest but not an American one, so Russia will always be able to maintain escalatory dominance there.
“The fact is that Ukraine, which is a non-NATO country, is going to be vulnerable to military domination by Russia no matter what we do,” he said.
I asked Obama whether his position on Ukraine was realistic or fatalistic.
“It’s realistic,” he said. “But this is an example of where we have to be very clear about what our core interests are and what we are willing to go to war for. And at the end of the day, there’s always going to be some ambiguity… There are ways to deter, but it requires you to be very clear ahead of time about what is worth going to war for and what is not.”
H/T Revolver News and Glenn Greenwald.
All of this reasoning about Ukraine realism does not even take into account that the Ukrainian regime is itself autocratic, corrupt, and more than willing to bloody their own hands.
Again, I am no defender of Putin - he is a hard and ruthless man - but it is simply factually true that this whole thing could easily have been avoided if the US had stopped arming Ukraine and guaranteed that the country would never join NATO and that no missiles would be placed there pointing at Moscow. America already has such missiles in Poland and Romania.
If Russia had missiles in Mexico or Canada, and refused to remove them you could guarantee American rage and aggression that would make Russian action look restrained.
The truth is Western imperial adventurism in Ukraine made this action by Putin to some extent inevitable, whatever one thinks of the immorality of his current actions.
And that recklessness will likely now lead to China flexing its muscle in the East as it sees just how decrepit American power is - as had already been made obvious by the futile attempt to establish democracy in Afghanistan.
Finally, and I will write about this next, so do subscribe below, Ukraine distracts us from the truth closer to home - that liberal democracies are still besieging their own people.
Good to see a more balanced perspective on all this.
I'm not particularly a Russian sympathiser (or a Putin supporter) but the level of demonisation of Russia/Putin that we are seeing has to raise some alarm bells, surely!
And he's got a point - Russia is defending her borders, little more than that, against the threatening posture of NATO (whose purpose from the start was purely to provide a military alliance against Russia).
I may be making a fool of myself but here is my take on the Russia - Ukraine conflict. We're faced by the covid "crisis" which was manufactured by mad Klaus Schwab and his disciples, many of whom were trained by him as young global leaders. They include Merkel, Macron, Putin, Trudeaux, Freeland, to name just a few. Also, for instance, Bill Gates. Schwab currently has the world in his sweaty palms. One of the aims of the plandemic is to bankrupt every country so that the Great Reset can be implemented. In my view the Russia - Ukraine conflict is planned to drain even more money from the state coffers of leading western countries. There is no reason for what is happening now.