The simplistic propaganda rhetoric of western elites was exemplified by such notable propagandists as George W. Bush, Anthony Blair and Donald J. Trump.
However, all western politicians talk in such terms on geopolitical issues. An agenda is set to demonize some and laud others, accuse those that are targets for regime change and praise those who are allies assisting in the targeting.
There is no grey area between the stark, pitch black framing of those individuals and nations the evil empire of the West consider targets and the purest white imaginable with which they frame themselves.
This semantic dualism gains western elites many supporters among those who are terminally hard of thinking or who are so completely invested in believing the narrative and agenda handed down from on high that no thought is ever required.
The sound byte slanders aimed at target individuals and nations are consumed unquestioningly for the most part. Some of the audience are totally uninterested in geopolitics and are subsequently ill-informed and eminently gullible, accepting of whatever they are told. The more intelligent, and better informed individuals who pay close attention have no difficulty in seeing through the propaganda voiced shotgun fashion by western politicians and their media whores. The net effect reinforces their mistrust of the West in general and serves only to increase their support for those being targeted.
For western politicians there is no upside to being nuanced on geopolitical issues. Their sole concern is placing their desired message directly into the public mind as powerfully and as permanently as possible. The Nazis knew this worked best for mass manipulation and the modern day Nazis of the West had no need to reinvent the wheel. They learned at the feet of the “Master Race”.
Thus, according to U.S. and UK politicians and their presstitute friends the Russian and Syrian military wake up each morning vitally interested in how many schools and hospitals they can bomb that day. What they wonder, will their toll of schoolchildren and patients be at the end of their shift so that they can fall asleep happy? It’s a well worn Nazi technique of generalized demonization, though far from being invented by them. During the Crusades, to generate recruits to the army of Richard the Lionheart as it marched through Europe, it was found effective to tell tales of Arabs in Jerusalem drinking the blood of newly slaughtered Christian babies. Emotional button pushing is extremely effective when people know no better.
Demonization, pushing the emotional buttons of those too busy to look deeper and too willing to believe what they are told by figures of authority (politicians and mass media entities such as the BBC and CNN) has been found to be extremely effective in manipulating the public mind time after time.
Hence China is increasingly portrayed as permeated by communist demons who laugh like B-movie villains as Uyghur women are raped and involuntarily sterilized before being dragged in chains to the nearest concentration camp where they will be made to perform forced labor. No mention is made of the hundreds who died as a result of terrorist atrocities perpetrated by Wahhabi-influenced Uyghurs in the years previously. This would serve only to muddy the picture intended for mass mind of the western public, the meme would be reduced in power, the narrative alloyed. And that would NEVER do.
Assad of Syria is another that western politicians and their compliant media require to be visualized as a drooling monster constantly plotting new ways to kill his people, rubbing his hands in glee at the thought of chemical weapon use, apparently most enthusiastically when his western enemies need an excuse to attack him.
Then of course there is Vladimir Putin, another red-eyes-blazing psycho who likes nothing more than a spot of murder, the more gruesome the better. An arch-fiend plotting like a modern day Svengali to oppress, suppress, invade, subjugate and destroy surrounding nations in an insane dream of world domination. Those who scarcely remember their last birthday celebration have such images burned into their minds through endless repetition. And always in the same one-sided, black only, no shade of grey demonizing fashion.
And what of all those regime change wars? What were the stories western populations were told?
Saddam Hussein and his vile weapons of mass destruction, ready for use at 45 minutes notice. His purchase of uranium-rich yellowcake smuggled in from Africa for his “almost complete” nuclear weapons program. His soldiers breaking into the ward of a Kuwaiti hospital, snatching fifty babies out of their incubators, and smashing their tiny helpless heads on the floor. So many litanies of lies.
Gaddafi and the imminent extermination of an army of helpless militants on their way to kiss their families in Benghazi? More believable lies.
And what of those who worked tirelessly to bring about these wars?
These are given the framing of men and women of unquestioned integrity, noble Christians upholding exemplary western liberal values requiring the shedding of oceans of blood for all the right causes. Selfless heroes, exempt from the laws of the United Nations governing war due to their exceptional superiority of view. Tireless warriors for what’s right and proper, valiant and noble defenders of their immunity in the face of mass slaughter. The lies they told? The hundreds of thousands who died? Mere details, quickly forgotten.
As Dubya once said, you are either with us or against us. It’s the White Hats against the Black Hats with no trace of any other color... by order of the management. It’s all as simple as pie. Made simple for the simple-minded to believe.
Good and Evil. Right and Wrong. Us and Them. Black and White.
And red. Deep and dark... blood red.
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