I woke up today at 6 am. It's "Presidents Day" in the U.S., a national holiday in honor of two Big Deal U.S. presidents, Washington and Lincoln. (All you need to know about them to be a Good American is Washington was "Father of the Nation" and Lincoln "freed the slaves." And don't ask any questions.)
I turned on the radio at 6:02 am (Eastern Standard Time) and what came out of the speaker was Joe Biden, saying this:
"America stands with you, the world stands with you. Kyiv has captured a part of my heart, I must say."
Then the nice NPR lady propagandist started speaking and I turned it off. (NPR, National Public Radio, is a U.S. government-created radio network.)
Biden was speaking in Kyiv, we're told it was a "surprise visit."
The part about "the world stands with you" is a bald-faced lie. Biden knows that Africa, Latin America, and most of Asia, including China and India, most definitely are NOT supporting Ukraine, as the U.S. demands they do. Most of "the world" wants no part of the U.S. jihad against Russia.
The U.S. demands that every nation on earth adopt ITS foreign policy. It is right now threatening China not to supply "lethal weapons" to Russia. Every propaganda outlet in the U.S. uses that exact phrase, "lethal weapons." Not once has any of them described the U.S. and NATO weapons funneled to Ukraine, billions of dollars worth, as "lethal." Maybe they just tickle the enemy.
The power establishment's media has been bathing all our brains in non-stop Hate Russia Love Ukraine propaganda since October 2021, months before the Russian invasion of Ukraine- an invasion the U.S. apparently intended to provoke. So I've had more than enough of the propagandists' and politicians' guff.
Don't get me wrong. I don't think Russia's invasion was justified. But it was definitely provoked.
We're supposed to think this is a uniquely horrific war. But countries have invaded other countries probably thousands of times over the past thousands of years. And we're supposed to have amnesia about the numerous times the U.S. has invaded other countries, and the uncountable atrocities and war crimes it has committed.
All this propaganda is meant to stoke popular outrage and hatred for Russia.
Deconstructing the mendacious propaganda about the situation in Ukraine is beyond the scope of this essay. I will just repeat that the invasion of Ukraine is not justified. Moreover, a famous statement attributed to Tallyrand is appropriate here: It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder. That is, Putin has well and truly put his country in a worse position than before. And as happens so often in Russian history, the Russian people suffer from the ineptitude of their rulers.
