UKRAINE AND THE DAMNED LIARS OF THE WESTERN WORLD

 

There are lies of both commission and omission. Telling only one side of any story is in itself a type of lying. When this is taken to extremes of course it moves from being lies plain and simple to being misinformation, disinformation and ultimately, propaganda. The political and media elites of the western world have been indulging in every form of deceptional abuse in this context regarding events in Ukraine since at least 2014. The result is a milieu within these top echelons of power and influence that has become totally corrupted. Not a word said on the subject of Ukraine and Russia by them can be trusted.

What has brought about this ruination of the West’s reputation across Eurasia, the Global South, much of Latin America if not the entire world? National news broadcasters such as the BBC and CNN have previously been held in relatively high regard. No more. The reputation of both broadcasters in terms of having trustworthy news content has fallen to catastrophic levels where both are viewed with jaundiced skepticism if not outright derision as the worst of the worst when it comes to media lies regarding Ukraine.

According to the BBC they are impartial in all cases and devote themselves constantly to the highest standard of journalism. Though CNN makes no such claim they purport by inference to be delivering accurate news to their viewers. How either can make their case in the context of their clear devotion to assisting the war effort of western states against Russia is about as difficult to fathom for most of us as Einstein’s theory of relativity. To twist ourselves into the kind of mental gymnastics that the editors and staff of those institutions do is simply too painful. Most of us still retain the view that facts must be viewed in something corresponding to a holistic assessment to be accredited as anything approaching what might be termed the overall reality of any situation.

That the BBC has no impartiality when it comes to Russia and Ukraine is surely patently obvious to even the most obtuse reader and viewer. Similarly, in the case of CNN the consistent daily bias over the past 18 months and more is clear for all to see. Whether you happen to agree with the stance of these two broadcasters is irrelevant to the case here. At the very least we can say with confidence that whatever we are being exposed to, it certainly does not come under the heading of ‘journalism’. The closest term that fits is something along the lines of ‘state stenographer’ or ‘official narrative communicator’. A wholly one-sided set of narratives conform to one overall agenda, do all possible to communicate Russia in negative terms and all possible to depict Ukraine in the most positive.

All points above being obvious without risk of any contradiction it is quite miraculous that western mass media has any credibility left at all. This is equally so for western politicians on the subject of Russia and Ukraine. They too are guilty of the same wholly one-sided bias where balance and therefore true insight is totally absent. How can any form of end to the conflict be found when all western nodes of power are controlled by people who refuse to admit anything other than their own fixed and nonsensical notion that all right is on one side and all wrong on the other? If this frozen attitude had been in place in all past conflicts they would all continue to this very day. The Vietnam war, the occupation of Afghanistan and many other areas of strife would endlessly continue to produce the misery, death and destruction they are infamously known for.

The effort to create a false image of success in war through the constant generation of a wholly one-sided picture of events was seen in Vietnam, was seen too in Afghanistan. The same stories of endless success as seen now stemming from the coverage of the Ukrainian conflict were seen then. Everyone involved had an interest in projecting success to their superiors and employers, all the way to the topmost levels where decisions on policy were made. This ‘can do’ ever-positive mentality where tiny successes are amplified to ridiculous proportions leads ultimately to total blindness to reality. Within the sphere of news broadcasting in the West this is then transferred to national populations. Blindness created by totally one-sided misinformation masquerading as news content generates a heightened level of consent for war that ensures ever more death and destruction in Ukraine. This is the continuing tragedy wrought by western political and media elites today as they sit comfortably far, far from battlefields where the horror they perpetuate by their lies, perpetual bias and war-mode propaganda, goes on unabated.

The western elites guilty of perpetuating the conflict in Ukraine will never face trial. The track record for these people concerning previous regime change wars of choice, is that they are promoted rather than made to account for their manifest deceptions and prostitution of their journalistic principles. The politicians too, are equally immune from any meaningful form of justice being applied to them. So why should any of their ilk ever be concerned to any degree that they will suffer any form of comeuppance or judgement for their distortion of reality to suit western self-interest, even when mass death and destruction ensues and is made to continue unabated? They have no reason whatever to worry. They are in lock-step with their superiors and equals in the establishment echelon of their societies. They share the lies. They share the responsibility. And they share the protection that ensures none of them will suffer any form of negative outcome at all for their lies.

These agents of state power in political and media spheres, with conscience and retribution-free impunity tell their self-serving lies, serving to actively continue a situation where 500 to 700 Ukrainians die each and every day that dawns. These are the guilty men and women of the western world, men and women who will never come to trial, but instead will freely continue to exert their baleful influence beyond the present Ukrainian tragedy to that of the war against China still to come.