THE PR WAR OF WESTERN MEDIA ELITES IS IRRELEVANT TO THE BATTLEFIELD

There is a huge amount of deception and PR posturing going on regarding the situation in Ukraine but is there really much point to it, does it lead anywhere significant? I’m partly talking here about the YouTube videos that are giving a wholly false impression of how things are going in Ukraine. But also the national mainstream press and media across the western world are in the business these days of creating completely fanciful scenarios in which the Ukrainian regime is winning huge victories. The plain truth of the matter is that Russia is sooner or later going to achieve ALL its goals… and then some.

What we are seeing is ‘war mode’ psychology in action. In ‘war mode’ you can create any lie and exaggerate any circumstance if you feel it will strengthen home morale or even perhaps sap that of your enemy. In ‘war mode’ also you never, ever attribute any success to that enemy. If there has been any forward progress by the enemy, no matter how great, you must always minimise it saying that nothing very much was achieved. What is the result of all this deception perpetrated upon the still rather trusting western population?

People who have swallowed the entire western elite narrative about Ukraine will have their emotions manipulated every which way due to still retaining faith in their politicians and mass media. The BBC, constantly plugging away at the narrative about evil Russian bombing theatres, schools, hospitals and apartment blocks filled with civilians will pluck their heart strings and engender as much anger as any human brain can stand without exploding. The demonization involved is common to all wars. But the average Joe and Jill will most likely not realise that their normal sceptical views are being remorseless beaten into submission.

If you are irked by the amount of blatantly false news and narratives being distributed, especially on YouTube, then my advice ultimately is not to worry in the slightest about it. Yes, it does cause anger to arise at what are quite obviously either the result of extreme prejudice or blatant propaganda manufactured in western intelligence agencies. It does succeed most of the time in keeping the masses onside. But does it have any effect upon the actual battlefield? It does not.

This, taken as a whole, could easily be described as The Fake News War.

Just as Hitler and his closest associates were treated to a wartime version of manufactured false realities, so today we have the plethora of newspaper articles and television news programming we see today, TV news output and video on Ukraine are intended to give the erroneous picture of successive Ukrainian victories and Russian defeats, minimising Ukrainian losses to the max and exaggerating those of Russia.

Does any of this affect what goes on, on the battlefield itself or the tactics deployed by either side? Not in the least. Regarding the Russian high command all such verbiage will not appear anywhere on their radar. Those fighting on the ground have too many more important activities and concerns than searching out the latest article by The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New York Times or broadcast by the BBC, CNN or MSNBC.

Theatrics, PR campaigns, events designed for western public consumption and all the mass manipulation of western politicians and their cronies within mass media are completely irrelevant on the battlefield. The military high commands on both sides have their plan with their meticulously refined stages, they have a series of events within their campaign designed to achieve strategic targets. All else, all the spluttering venom, all the faux speculation, manipulative designs of western elites and the self-absorbed, self-seeking, self-important obsessions of the west-centric world can be of no possible interest or have any possible effect upon them.

Russia has got this and the Russian political and military elites prepared long and hard to make sure of it and all the fake news possible that all the various information-mongers of the West spew out across the largely, miraculously still extremely naive populations of the western world won’t make one iota of difference to the final result.