Russo-Ukrainian War - 2022 Edition Part 1

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PATRICK LAWRENCE: The US Bubble of Pretend

The lack of objective, principled coverage of the war in Ukraine is a degenerate state of affairs. The one thing worse is the extent to which it's perfectly fine with most Americans. By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News It is perfectly obvious by now, to anyone who cares to look,
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PATRICK LAWRENCE: The US Bubble of Pretend​


The lack of objective, principled coverage of the war in Ukraine is a degenerate state of affairs. The one thing worse is the extent to which it’s perfectly fine with most Americans.

It is perfectly obvious by now, to anyone who cares to look, that mainstream media in America and the other Western powers are not reporting the Ukraine crisis accurately.

Let me try that another way: The government-supervised New York Times and the rest of the corporate-owned media on both sides of the Atlantic lie routinely to their readers and viewers as to why Russia intervened in Ukraine, the progress of its military operation, the conduct of Ukrainian forces, and America’s role in purposely provoking and prolonging this crisis.

So far as I know, this is the first war in modern history with no objective, principled coverage in mainstream media of day-to-day events and their context. None. It is morn-to-night propaganda, disinformation and lies of omission — most of it fashioned by the Nazi-infested Zelensky regime in Kiev and repeated uncritically as fact.

There is one thing worse than this degenerate state of affairs. It is the extent to which the media’s malpractice is perfectly fine to most Americans. Tell us what to think and believe no matter if it is true, they say, and we will think and believe it. Show us some pictures, for images are all.

There are larger implications to consider here. Critical as it is that we understand this conflict, Ukraine is a mirror in which we see ourselves as we have become. For more Americans than I wish were so, reality forms only in images. These Americans are no longer occupants of their own lives. Risking a paradox, what they take to be reality is detached from reality.

This majority — and it is almost certainly a majority — has no thoughts or views except those first verified through the machinery of manufactured images and “facts.” Television screens, the pages of purportedly authoritative newspapers, the air waves of government-funded radio stations — NPR, the BBC — serve to certify realities that do not have to be real, truths that do not have to be true.
This leaves us in a sad and very parlous place.
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Bucha is a suburb of 35,000 souls a few miles north of Kiev and one of the cities Russian forces began to evacuate on March 29 as peace talks in Istanbul progressed. Two days later the mayor, Anatoly Fedoruk, celebrated the city’s liberation in a selfie-speech to his citizenry. He made no mention of anything untoward in Bucha’s streets, backyards, or public spaces.
Four days later, April 2, a special unit of the Ukrainian national police deployed to Bucha. And suddenly the place turns out to be a hellhole: bodies in the streets — 410, according to the Prosecutor General’s office in Kiev — evidence of atrocities galore, people bound and shot point blank. The whole nine, in short.
Instant Outrage
The outrage from Washington, London and Paris — “worldwide outrage,” this would be — was instant. No demand for an impartial inquiry, forensic inspections, or any such thing. No one asked why corpses left in the street for five days appeared to be fresh, or why the relatives of the dead left them there until Kiev’s commando unit arrived.
António Guterres, the U.N. secretary-general, was level-headed enough to state, “It is essential that an independent investigation leads to effective accountability.” This is the only sound position at this point. But we know from a long history how far SGs at the U.N. get with this sort of talk.
In my read this is yet another of the false flags the Kiev regime flies almost by the day now. Paying-attention people will not miss the striking similarity between these incidents and the numerous put-up jobs that featured in Washington’s covert operation in Syria and the campaign of those famous “moderate rebels” who desperately wanted to draw the U.S. into the conflict.
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Important article for you @buka001 as you're quick to fall for the false flags.
 
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Some of the other video titles from that same channel... :oops:

Russia is Fighting a War of Self-Preservation
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SHORT: Is Russia "Invading" Ukraine? Or Reacting to an Ongoing Occupation?
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SHORT: Russia Ends Another of Ukraine's War Crimes - Fresh Water Flows Again to Crimea
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Russia isn't Starting a War in Ukraine, It is Ending One
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Jesus, it's not even subtle, is this the type of BS you watch regularly?
 
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Cray said:
Some of the other video titles from that same channel... :oops:





Jesus, it's not even subtle, is this the type of BS you watch regularly?
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On Bucha, which is the topic of discussion, the Pentagon cannot verify the claims.

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Pentagon can't independently confirm atrocities in Ukraine's Bucha, official says

The U.S. military is not in a position to independently confirm Ukrainian accounts of atrocities by Russian forces against civilians in the town of Bucha, but has no reason to dispute the accounts either, a senior U.S. defense official said on Monday.
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Cray said:
Some of the other video titles from that same channel... :oops:





Jesus, it's not even subtle, is this the type of BS you watch regularly?
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But most of the video's you and the people that hangs onto all the drama an actor feeds them, post here about Ukrainians attacking Russian tanks, Show them hiding behind civilian buildings? So is what this guy is saying true or false?
 
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Did the US invade Syria?
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Yes, absolutely they did, how is there any doubt at all?!?

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If you argue like this, then I can say that Russia also invaded Syria.
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Guess again:
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Russia Begins Airstrikes In Syria After Assad's Request

The U.S. military says a Russian official informed the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad about the missions; Syria says it invited Russia's air force to help fight terrorism.
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when the president of Syria asks for your help and officially invites you to come help in his country with military force it is not an invasion in any way shape or form
 
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