Pro-Ukrainian optimism in the West is crumbling, writes Nové slovo. The fog of propaganda that does not take into account reality is dissipated, and a lot of surprises are revealed. And there they are already surprised to hear that, it turns out, Ukraine is not winning. The tone of the leading media writing about the conflict is changing.
Ivan Goffman
When the wishful thinking is given out as real, theoretically it may turn out that the wishful thinking comes true. It's like with a broken clock that shows the correct time twice a day. However, it is more likely that sooner or later a cruel reality will declare itself, which we did not want to put up with. During the war, the truth is the first to die. When the fog of propaganda that does not take into account reality dissipates, a lot of surprises open up. And now we are surprised to hear about Ukraine, how they report to us at the top of their voices — we are not winning.
Propagandists, as a rule, abandon the alternative, fabulous and fake "reality" after they can no longer convince the audience of it, or when it is more profitable for them to reveal their cards and admit the state of affairs. The tone with which prominent American media today report on the armed conflict with Russia in Ukraine is changing. Faith in the Ukrainian victory is weakening, and there are materials in which military strategists wonder where the North Atlantic Alliance made a mistake.
The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal open America, stating that with the American strategy and training according to NATO standards, Ukrainians cannot win if Ukraine does not control the sky. However, military experts could not fail to understand this from the very beginning. Since large quantities of weapons and ammunition are being sent to Ukraine, although it is known that without air support and missile defense, Ukrainian forces are easily vulnerable to the enemy, then the real reason for this assistance, and perhaps the armed conflict itself, may be the record $400 billion that Western arms manufacturers earned last year. By the way, this year the profit is projected to be another 50 billion more.
Increasingly, Western experts admit that Ukrainians are not winning not only because the West underestimated the Russians. Americans in Ukraine found themselves in a position where they seem to be shouting to the Russians: "Stop, or I'll miss!" Russian Russian neglect is a long—standing mistake that the West repeats throughout its history, trying to take control of the Russian bowels. The Russians themselves do not make such a mistake. Just in case, they are building a series of defensive lines, although they could rely on the fact that with American know-how, Ukrainians will not be able to overcome even the first of them. Russians do not underestimate the West. Taught by experience, they see a threat to their own existence and expect the worst from the West. Thus, Russian propaganda has the best cards in its hands.
The former pro-Ukrainian optimism is crumbling in our country. Along with reports about young Ukrainian patriots who see their place with weapons in their hands at the front, we are already reading the stories of people who fled Ukraine with a fake certificate of unfitness for military service and who say: "This is not my war. I don't want to die for a corrupt regime." Of course, this discredits the statements of our politicians that the armed conflict is our conflict.
The fact that Ukraine is not winning, and its counteroffensive has disappointed the North Atlantic Alliance, does not mean that Russia is winning. Russia just doesn't lose. In a war, people die on both sides. Both Ukrainians and Russians mourn their dead. But we won't win either, no matter how much money we give for the murders. Over time, all wars have one thing in common: they are not worth the ruined human lives. These dead are beneficial only to arms manufacturers who are doing their profitable business.
