Noam Chomsky wrote a famous book entitled "Manufacturing Consent". The mainstream media has always manufactured consent for wars and pushed fake stories, whether it was the USS Maine in 1898, the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964, Iraqis ripping babies from incubators in 1990, weapons of mass destruction in 2002 or al Assad gassing his own people in 2013 (debunked by Pulitzer Pize winning journalist Seymour Hersch). This email is an attempt to debunk some of the lies that are all over the mainstream these days. Not only the media, but politicians are outright lying and intentionally forgetting key pieces of information that are very provable.
To start with, the idea that Putin attacked Ukraine suddenly and without reason is utter nonsense. The USSR fell in 1991 and when East and West Germany were united, Russia was promised that NATO (seen as an anti-Russia alliance and an existential threat by Russia, whether you agree with that or not) would not expand one inch east of Germany. That promise was broken 14 times, each time accompanied by experts on foreign policy and Russia warning that this was a provocation toward Russia and would eventually back Russia into a corner. Even Joe Biden said it, back in 1997, regarding Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. So when NATO signed a strategic partnership with Ukraine in November 2021 and began holding "military exercises" off Russia's coast, anyone that was paying attention knew that they were trying to provoke a war.
Putin did not want to go to war. In fact, he tried to avoid it.He was clear about what Russia's security concerns were and tried to negotiate multiple times, including even after the war started. He was told that asking Ukraine to not join NATO or to remain neutral were out of the question, not on the table, and Russia's concerns went totally ignored. Now these are the things that are being offered to end the war. It seems Zelensky could have avoided the loss of thousands of lives by agreeing in the first place. NATO involvement would mean World War 3 and Ukraine cannot hope to defeat Russia on its own. The US would never tolerate this, and didn't in 1962.
Putin again offered to make peace. This article is from March 7. After the war began, added to the terms that Ukraine must recognize the breakaway regions as independent. It was Zelensky, who ran on making peace with Russia, who declined.
From the article: " Reliable sources have confirmed that Putin offered to stop the war instantly if Kyiv give up its army, change its constitution to become a permanently neutral country in accordance with the Budapest Agreement, and acknowledge Crimea as part of Russia along with Luhansk and Donetsk are to be free separate republics. Zelensky has refused. Luhansk and Donetsk have been fighting for their freedom ever since the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution. This is what was to be settled in the Minsk Agreement which has been dragging out for 8 years."
Politicians and the media seem to have forgotten that the Obama Regime conducted a coup in Ukraine, beginning with Joe Biden, John Kerry, John McCain and Victoria Nuland rallying support for joining NATO, knowing full well that that was a provocation. This led to a popular uprising against Victor Yanukovich and the US seized the opportunity to install an anti-Russia "moderate Nazi" as president. Oliver Stone did a great documentary about this. I highly recommend it. I know I've linked you to this movie before, but it is necessary to comment on the 2014 coup before moving forward.
Another great source to learn about the history of this war is this article from Multipolarista, which was recently founded by brilliant journalist Benjamin Norton, although this article is in fact written by a Ukrainian anti-war activist.
Something the mainstream politicians and media are trying to erase is the presence of Nazis in Ukraine, which the United States has been arming and training since 2014. Congress has passed laws banning the arming of Azov Battalion, which they admitted to arming and admitted were Nazis, only to quietly repeal the law the following year. Yes, there are Nazs in many countries, but Ukraine is the only country where the Nazis were armed and trained by the most powerful military on Earth and the only country that has made a Nazi militia part of its official military.
Joe Biden was the man in charge of US policy toward Ukraine and he helped to install as president a "moderate Nazi" named Petro Poroshenko. As a result of this coup Crimea and the Donbass region of Ukraine declared their independence because these regions are majority ethnic Russian and did not want to turn away from Russia to join NATO. Crimea has a Russian military base, so they fared better than in the Donbas region, where Ukraine attacked its own people. The Minsk II agreement was supposed to end the bombing and allow the Donbas some autonomy and the ability to hold a vote, but it was not respected and the Donbas has been under fire for the last eight years. Here is "moderate Nazi" Petro Poroshenko talking about his own people who tried to break away.
When some Ukrainians resisted breaking away from Russia, Nazi violence broke out in several regions. In Odessa Nazis chased somewhere between 40 and 100 anti-Nazi protesters into a building and burned them alive. Those trying to escape the flames by jumping from windows were shot or beaten to death. Warning: this video is going to be upsetting.
Here is a video of Ukrainian neo Nazis bragging about how much political power they have in Ukraine. So much so that Brazilian Nazis have popularized a phrase "Ukrainize Brazil".
"But isn't Zelensky Jewish? There can't be Nazis." is a frequent argument. Zelensky is not the one who appointed Nazis, in fact, he's probably afraid of them. Zelensky's main financial backer is a Jewish oligarch named Igor Kolomoisty, who has been funding anti-Russia policies and to accomplish this has been funding Nazis since 2014. As a Jew myself, I find it inexplicable that Jews would back Nazis for any reason. I can only hypothesize that these men don't really identify as Jewish that much.
In this blog article from The Times Of Israel, author Jesse Edberg writes "In Ukraine, a country rife with antisemitism historically and today, Zelenskyy needed all the help he could get to get elected. He got this help largely from Ukrainian neo-Nazis and their allies, like political kingmaker Arsten Avakov, willing to compromise to present a united front against Russia. Even today, Zelenskyy continues to pay homage to his coalition, donning the Nazi Iron Cross in interviews and speeches and praise of Ukrainian Nazi and Holocaust collaborator Stepan Bandera."
We are told that Vladimir Putin is targeting civilians and destroying everything in his path. The fact say differently.While the mainstream media uses dramatic language about civilian deaths, which always occur in war and are always a tragedy, the reality is that the civilian death toll has been much less than, for example, the US invasion of Iraq, which indicates that Russia is actually being very careful and deliberate.
From the article above, which ran in Newsweek: "As destructive as the Ukraine war is, Russia is causing less damage and killing fewer civilians than it could, U.S. intelligence experts say."
Colonel Douglas MacGregor, former senior advisor to the Secretary of Defense, went on FOX and told the truth. The FOX host just couldn't understand it.
We are being told that the entire international community is united against Russia. Indeed, many countries have voted to condemn Russia, due to what has been called unprecedented pressure. The countries in yellow are the countries that have placed sanctions on Russia for the invasion of Ukraine. That is what mainstream politicians and media refer to as "the international community". South America, Africa and Asia just don't seem to count.
The United States, which is the only country to drop a nuclear bomb on a civilian population, which killed 20% of North Koreans during the Korean War, which used Agent Orange on its own soldiers in Vietnam, which backed Salvadoran (and other countries') death squads, which ran a torture program in Iraq and used white phosphorus in Falljuah, which brought slavery back to Libya and is supporting genocide in Yemen and apartheid in Israel and cages children on its borders and has crippling sanctions on Afghanistan after bombing it into rubble for the last 20 years, wants you to know that Russia is committing war crimes in Ukraine. All wars are terrible and all refugees deserve help. Please listen to Irish MEP Clare Daly speaking about refugees.
The massive economic war that the United States is conducting against Russia through the most sanctions in history, combining with Australian and European sanctions, is going to create massive inflation and drive our economy into the ground.
Not only will all these sanctions have a direct backlash (and they already are starting to), driving prices up on many, many items, cutting Russia off from the Swift system prevents Russian banks that owe US banks billions, from making payments.
These collective coercive punishments, which the UN considers a war crime, are intended to drive Russia's economy into the ground, targeting innocent Russian civilians, making everyone poorer, in the hope of making it so hard to survive that they overthrow Putin.
Sanctions are an attack. That's what I, and many others, have been saying for years. These attacks don't work. Economies eventually adapt. They haven't worked on Syria, they haven't worked on Afghanistan, they haven't worked on Yemen, they haven't worked on Venezuela and they sure as hell haven't worked on Cuba, which our government has been trying to overthrow for 70 years.
Putin, say what you want about him and his policies, is not a stupid man. He recognizes the attack and has responded by refusing to sell natural gas to Europe unless they buy it in rubles. Europe is dependent on Russian gas, so will be forced to comply. This will drive UP the ruble and undermine the US dollar's power as a reserve currency for international transactions. If Putin decides not to accept euros for rubles, the EU will then be forced to buy Chinese Yuan in order to purchase rubles in order to buy gas for heating.
Yes, spring is upon us, but it will be impossible to build a new gas infrastructure before next winter. And to complicate this further, as I've shared before, Saudi Arabia is considering accepting Chinese yuan for its oil. All of this is accelerating the fall of the US empire and the crash of the dollar. Hard times are ahead, and Joe Biden's got the pedal to the metal in what looks to many experts to be economic suicide.
Yes, this video comes from RT but is a brilliant economic discussion between 3 Americans.
In Mariupol, we are being told that Russia has flattened the entire city, but according to multiple videos of locals, in their own words, Ukrainian Nazis the Azov Battalion caused most of the damage, and have kept the locals hostage, refusing to let them leave so they could be used as human shields, and shooting at people fleeing. I'll finish out this lengthy email with several videos of refugees from Mariupol reporting their own experiences. Warning: this is very hard stuff to listen to.
