The genocidal acts of Israel against the civilian population of Gaza has received worldwide condemnation, though with major reservations in the nations which constitute the collective west as led by the USA and Britain. This abhorrence of powerful military powers acting in ways that cause the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians quite naturally rises in each sensitive human heart.
These acts of callous brutality by Israel have been widely reported, even in western major newspapers and television news channels. The extent of the missile barrage against Gaza has made it impossible for these outlets to ignore them. This has not always been the case in such circumstances however.
A very similar scenario played itself out between 2014 and the years after, including to the present day, without anything approaching the coverage afforded to the carnage going on in Gaza. This scenario was maintained in almost radio silence (though with narratives broadcast that presented a completely false picture of events).
In the case above there was no outrage expressed, primarily due to the almost total lack of coverage of those events along with the false narrative that was constructed around them.
In the spring of 2014 the Donbass region of Ukraine where Russian-speakers formed the overwhelming majority was isolated from the rest of Ukraine by a siege. Military roadblocks were set up by the Ukrainian army to control access in and out of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions of the Donbass. in addition, mortars, and later artillery, were set up able to fire indiscriminate rounds into these areas. The mortar shells and missiles fired at random into these conurbations tended to hit the taller structures, high-rise apartment blocks built during the era of the Soviet Union, hospitals and schools. Those that did not hit these exploded in town centres and village homes.
2014 and 2015 were the worst years of this deluge of Ukrainian attacks. Thousands died, civilian men, women and children of all ages, the elderly, babies, every age group. Yet did you read of this at the time? Do you have any recollection of articles which stated who was responsible? What you will have read and heard was that this was due to “the Russians”, yet the Russians were not those who had laid siege to Donetsk and Lugansk and not those who were on a daily basis firing mortar shells and missiles into them.
The tally of civilian deaths WERE reported briefly on western television channels and in western newspapers… but never any indication of who perpetrated them. The implication, due to constant reference to them was that it was “the Russians”. This however was then and is now a barefaced lie. The unacceptable truth to western political and media elites was (and still is) that it was (and still is) the Ukrainians who target civilians, not the Russians.
Expert opinion will tell you that the very basis of the Russian campaign, as limited as it was and is, tells you that the intent was to engage in a limited operation, not a war. If Russia had wished to wage war against Ukraine it would have mirrored wars of the past, especially those waged by the USA in the Middle East, wars of ‘Shock and Awe’. But Russia never for a moment wished to do this. Russia has attempted to avoid at every turn the death of Ukrainian civilians who the Russian people know are brother and sister Slavs.
The above is in stark contrast to the behaviour of the ultra-violent and sadistic nature of a minority in western Ukraine who look to Hitler’s Nazis and their Ukrainian “heroes” who assisted them against the Russians. This vile minority of Ukrainians wished to see the entire Russian-speaking majority in the Donbass region either killed or driven out.
A case in point which demonstrates the desire of this minority of Ukrainians to kill Russians, civilian or military alike, occurred this very day with a missile strike on a Russian town by the name of Belgorod which lies just across the Ukrainian border in Russia. This strike hit the main square where a Christmas tree stands and where everyday Russians were enjoying a day with their families in anticipation of the New Year of 2024. Two children were killed. A number of people were seriously injured.
This is not by any means the only occasion when these Ukrainians have directly targeted civilians. The level of racist hatred felt against all Russian-speakers motivates these people to target them on a constant basis. Each day since spring 2014 when they first arrived in the Donbass has seen attacks by mortar shell, butterfly mines (which look like green mini planes lying in grass or on pavements but which explode destroying limbs) and missiles have killed and injured civilians and hit civilian targets. These attacks are ongoing and though Russian forces have made significant headway in removing the source of these attacks there is still some way to go.
You will have heard none of this from western media or from politicians. These facts do not fit the narrative of “the evil enemy” and the “faultless allies”. You are being told lies on a daily basis, knowing lies, carefully constructed misinformation and cynically sown false narratives designed to keep you supporting the slaughter.
So remember, next time you react in absolute disgust and justified anger against the genocidal acts of Israel, those very similar acts of horror conducted over a far longer period against the Russian-speaking people of the Donbass, and which continue to this day keeping them in a perpetual, West-mandated media vacuum of unreported injury, trauma, death and destruction.
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