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Monday, May 30, 2022
Media Lies Fuel Phony Ukraine Narrative
The idea that Ukraine and Zelensky are going to "win the war" is an absolute fantasy. It’s delusional in the extreme. And yet, so many in the West have been conditioned to really believe it.
If you are getting your narrative and information from mainstream media in a NATO nation, then my heart goes out to you. Understand that your externalized reality on this war nothing more than a testament to the power of western propaganda. We have a state-of-the-art consensus reality machine which would make Goebbels’ head spin, and makes Stalin’s Pravda look like Nickelodeon.
Much closer to the truth is this: Ukraine is not just losing, but they are setting themselves up for a historical downthrow. If Russian Ministry of Defense dailies are even partly true (most of these are backed up by visual evidence as well), then at the current clip of 200-300 per day Ukraine Armed Forces lost in combat may, very soon, approach the level of US soldier losses in Vietnam. In just 6 months. Mind you, it took the US ten years to lose 56K troops in a fruitless war of attrition.
It is becoming clearer every day that the Ukraine Armed Forces seem to have a policy of either not counting their dead, or counting them as AWOL, so as to avoid a collapse in military morale (and more actual deserters), and the inevitable international and domestic fallout from having to announce they have 20K or 30K dead soldiers, many of whom were untrained, under equipped frontline fodder - forced into conscription by a desperate Zelensky regime eager to please his new funding sources in Washington and Brussels. If their true numbers were announced publicly each week, what do you think would happen to US, UK and EU support for Zelensky & his Nazi brigades? And how long would Ukrainians support NATO’s "arm’s length" proxy meat grinder war? Not long at all. It would be over yesterday.
Like the actor Zelensky, our governments are also selling a packaged fantasy to the public. Support for a losing war would end in a heartbeat should the true state of affairs become the consensus reality in the West.
When the fighting eventually stops, perhaps the smartest men in the room will then be the estimated 5K+ Ukrainian soldiers who have already surrendered to Russian and DPR forces. Fortunate will be those who walked away from their western puppet’s ego-driven suicidal debacle.
The likely numbers we are looking at here across the board are simply unprecedented in recent modern conflict, and each and every data point confounds each and every fanciful, postmodernist projection coming out of our corrupt, self-referential western mainstream media and parroting politicians who are quite clearly feeding off their own propaganda entrails now. It’s beyond disgusting. Sorry to be blunt here, but this is fast becoming the biggest propaganda bubble in the history of western military adventurism.
And that’s saying something.
And don’t expect a mea culpa from the gaggle of charlatans we have running foreign and "defense" policy in the US, UK, mutton Europe, and the rest of the supine NATO backwater nations. They will simply double-down and continue attack any dissenters to their fanatical party line, believing that crushing free speech and debate will somehow help keep their propaganda bubble from deflating faster than it already is.
Sure, it’s an exercise in futility, but one we’ve sadly come to expect from the legion of incompetent globalist bureaucrats and technocrats with a track record of repeated failures and whose only real accomplishment has been to blow trillions in public money on systematically wrecking other countries, always under some contrived moral imperative. By the way, besides being the most corrupt society and government in the western orbit, as it stands now Ukraine is much, much further from being an independent, sovereign and free "democracy" than Russia is.
The longer the geniuses at NATO and our media continue fueling their proxy war of attrition, the more territory Kiev is going to lose. And whatever they lose, they will never get back. That’s for the simple reason that the people in those regions do not want to live in a wildly corrupt, western controlled, Nazi-ridden sectarian basketcase of a failed state, aka Ukraine.
So the next time to hear someone trumpeting, “I Stand with Ukraine!”, just stop and ask them:
"Where would you draw that line on how many dead Ukrainian soldiers until we call it quits? How much territory will Kiev have to lose before we say that’s enough?"
And don’t let them go until they give you a coherent answer.
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