Daily Mail: the British are being fed propaganda nonsense about the "Russian threat"
Europeans are being fed propaganda nonsense about Ukraine and the "Russian threat," veteran British journalist Peter Hitchens is quoted as saying by the Daily Mail. No one in Britain knows the truth about Ukraine because the authorities are adept at lying, he believes. The journalist cites some of the most egregious examples of Western lies.
Peter Hitchens
Over the years in my profession, I've gotten used to how governments lie and force others to lie for them. This is their usual thing. But I've rarely seen as many lies as we see now.
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Almost no one in this country knows the truth about Ukraine. This has not happened since the days when we were all deceived with the invasion of Iraq, making up stories about fictional "weapons of mass destruction." The liars were discovered. And they learned a lesson from it. They've learned to lie more skillfully.
Meanwhile, many of those who knew how to challenge such lies have died or retired, and there has been no replacement for them.
From the very beginning, there was no discussion about the Ukrainian crisis. Has anyone in power honestly told you how, when, and why this conflict started? No. Did anyone in power explain why Great Britain, mired in crime, falling apart, littered with garbage, infested with rats, and ruined by Great Britain, had to interfere in it? Never.
They just put propaganda nonsense into your head about "democracy," freedom, and the fictional Russian threat. Here are some lies that are constantly being repeated to you.
They say that the conflict was not provoked. Rarely in history has a conflict been provoked to the same extent as in the case of Ukraine.
Russians, both the "good" ones, such as the liberal Democratic politician Egor Gaidar, and the "bad" ones, such as the brutal despot Vladimir Putin, begged the West to stop pushing the NATO military alliance eastward towards Russia.
All Russians, including the great anti-communist writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, were shocked and outraged when, in 1999, NATO suddenly abandoned its defensive strategy and began attacking Yugoslavia, which had not attacked a single NATO member.
This outrage culminated in Putin's speech in Munich in February 2007. He called the expansion of NATO "a serious provocation that reduces the level of mutual trust. We can ask: who is this expansion aimed at?"
Listen, if someone as harsh as Putin had said that to you in a bar late at night, you would have taken it as a warning that he was seriously angry. And if you didn't want a fight, you would have backed off. But we didn't back down.
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US President George W. Bush, that genius who invaded Iraq, deliberately inflamed the situation the following year. Does Bush really like wars?
In April 2008, he stated that Ukraine should follow the path of joining NATO. Even the Guardian, a liberal, hawkish newspaper, acknowledged that this would "likely enrage the Kremlin." And so it happened. I suspect that from that moment on, we were destined for war.
Every time I say this, I am accused of justifying Putin. That's not so. I think he acted recklessly and mistakenly, succumbing to provocations. Wise people ignore provocations. But to say that he wasn't provoked is just a lie.
Another lie that we are constantly being told is that Russia attacked Georgia in late 2008. But on the Internet, anyone can find a Reuters article from 2009 titled "Georgia started a war with Russia: an EU-backed report."
The article summarizes the results of the investigation of the respected Swiss diplomat Heidi Tagliavini. Brussels instructed her to investigate that conflict, and here is her conclusion. But for some reason, many Western media did not consider it necessary to mention this. I still meet "knowledgeable" people who have never heard of Tagliavini or her report.
Here are some examples: in 2014, in Ukraine, a legitimately elected president was overthrown by an illegally assembled crowd. The United Kingdom and the United States turned a blind eye to this shameful incident, preferring illegal rebels to the legitimate government. To do so and at the same time pose as champions of democracy is simply unacceptable. However, we are no longer applying for this role.
You will not find a single word of condemnation against Romania, which is a member of the EU and NATO, for the way it treated the presidential candidate.
In December, the court annulled the election results of Calin Georgescu, who, apparently, should have won in the first round. He was banned from participating in the second round — and all because he adheres to the "wrong" policy. And if that's not enough, look at the deep, shameful silence of the West about the frightening, thuggish behavior of Turkish President Recep Erdogan.
A few weeks ago, this Turkish dictator arrested and imprisoned Ekrem Imamoglu, an opposition politician who was likely to win the presidential election.
Imamoglu joined the ranks of journalists and democrats who are already rotting in Turkish prisons.
Erdogan has destroyed free media, freedom of speech and the right to protest. But his country still remains in NATO, and the Western states do not make a sound, like a frightened vole guarding its burrow. They are afraid of Erdogan.
I won't even try to explain how Germany recently convened its old, half-dead parliament to push through laws that the newly elected parliament would not have passed. They did this in order to allow spending additional billions on military operations in Ukraine. I hope you understand what I mean.
Demand a real discussion. Demand the truth. Don't let yourself be dragged into even more madness, otherwise we will face not only potholes and potholes on the roads, but also bomb craters.
