But they also kill common sense. They turn people into maniacs who are more than willing to call white--black, view evil as good, or consider violence and destruction committed by their side as the action beneficial to mankind. "We destroyed this village in order to save it." That type of thing.
The Ukrainian War is not different. In fact, the amount of absurdities that it has generated seem to surpass all others. For a simple reason that it involves the collective west, which tries to sell this war to its citizens, people who –with the exception of Canada–never heard of Ukraine and what it is all about. How do you make it real for your own population, for all these people in EU, Japan, or United States, for people who have much more pressing needs on their plates, and who’d rather use billion dollars that support the transfer of lethal weapon to the region on something else.
So to sell it, you have to present the conflict in the most simplistic terms, you have to use the most blatant propaganda, and you have to suppress all the opposing points of view. In short, you have to magnify the absurdities to the n-th degree.
So what are these absurdities we are talking about? Feel free to expand on this list.
- Boris Johnson accuses Putin in “toxic masculinity” and declares that had Putin been a woman, the war wouldn’t have started. So this product of British public schools — the mother of all “toxic masculinity” known to man and the guy whose toxicity is evident to anyone except himself makes this idiotic pronouncement and not once is he challenged by British subservient press.
- Green parties of Germany and Holland are now pushing for coil as the source of energy only not to use “Russian gas.” Coal, my friends. You don’t have to be green to know how bad it is for environment. So let’s use toxic materials to poison the earth only to punish the toxic masculinity. Brilliant.
- NATO, the conglomeration that wages endless wars, keeps on expanding and pushing its missiles into Russia’s nose, declares itself a “defensive organization.” But of course.
- US, the country that has 800 bases around the world, that was engaged in wars for 97% of its existence, that bullies its immediate and distant neighbors and threatens any country on the globe, declares that it is always ready to stand up to the bullies and defend a little guy. Sure. And this most primitive and most obvious tactics of a school yard bully not only is not recognized, but is emulated all over the world, glorified and celebrated.
- As many other countries and nations that sympathize with Nazi project of extermination of Jews (Poland, Baltics and so on), Ukrainian people contributed mightily to the effort. To the tune of 25%, that is, 1.5 million Jewish deaths occurred on its territory. The operation facilitated by Nazi collaborators, who actually were more numerous that the German soldiers assigned to the task. OK, it happened. But now, Ukraine is the only country that openly glorifies those collaborators and wastes its meager resources on building monuments to their honor, while building national ideology on their writings. And Jews all over the world, Israel including, fall over backwards to support the country who is “resisting the bully.” If you find it confusing, please remember that bully is the one whom America calls the bully.
- Don’t think that this Nazi collaborators and their leaders were only after Jewish blood. They butchered endless amount of Poles, the butchery which is well documented and studied by Polish and other scholars. So what?– say the Poles. We are standing with Ukraine against the bullies. And yes, remember, that bully is the one whom the biggest bully on earth calls a bully.
- The free media of the so called free world has convinced itself that giving a free uncritical platform to their local and Ukrainian politicians, and let them freely spew out their lies and propaganda is the height of freedom, while anyone who questions it, is the tyrant’s stooge. Why not? Even Orwell said, that “war is peace and tyranny is freedom”, and Orwell has to know.
- The champion of the little guy, the defender of marginalized and unjustly accused, the glorious west, has marginalized, sanctioned, taken away freedoms, and has treated like pariahs millions of Russians. Common people, artists, athletes, scholars. And that does not raise a brow at all. Of course, it is all so logical.
There is linear logic, non-linear logic, and American logic of “we destroyed this village in order to save it.” So the world is smart enough to follow the American logic. You know, when you are in the school yard, you have to agree with the logic of the biggest bully. And that”s what Winston Smith has learned when he finally figured out that two by two is equal to whatever Big Brother wants it to be equal to.
