Cinnamon wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 9:22 am
Campaigning politicians have always inflated their own importance and the benefits of the policies they espouse -- and exaggerated the perils of electing the other guy. It used to be the case that these self-aggrandizing stump speeches were tempered by a (mostly) diligent press that went out of its way to poke holes in those exaggerations and deflate egos with some sharply pointed facts. And Americans have historically trusted their elected leaders to tell the truth in matters of grave national importance.
No more. We are swimming in a cesspool of lies so fetid that it’s almost impossible to know what’s true anymore. This is a consequence of two political parties whose most visible and powerful members lie with impunity, and a national press that abandoned the pursuit of truth years ago in favor of pushing left-wing political propaganda.
Let’s take the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Is this nothing more than naked aggression by a larger country (Russia) run by an ex-KGB agent (President Vladimir Putin) who’s made no bones about wanting some (if not all) of the old Soviet territories back?
That’s the position being pushed by the Biden administration.
Putin, on the other hand, claims not only that parts (if not all) of Ukraine belong to Russia; he has intimated that the United States has been funding the development of possible biowarfare agents at laboratories in Ukraine, and that these pathogens could be used as weapons against Russia.
https://townhall.com/columnists/lauraho ... p=28673704
“In war, truth is the first casualty.”
When all of the TV networks, from CNN to FOX News, all the talking heads, from Joe Scarborough to Sean Hannity, all the Hollywood and entertainment figureheads and all the Christian Zionist evangelical leaders are regurgitating the same narrative—and condemning to Hell anyone who dares to challenge that narrative—I KNOW I am hearing propaganda.
The government of Ukraine is thoroughly corrupt. It is a Deep State vassal of money laundering, child trafficking, international criminal banking, etc. Zelensky is a Zionist toady for George Soros and the Western Deep State.
Several people who either live in Ukraine or have relatives living in Ukraine have testified as to how the Ukrainian military—especially the notorious Azov Battalion—is destroying their own cities and murdering their own citizens.
And it’s certainly not hard to figure out the motive. There are two obvious ones: 1) The Ukrainian military is taking revenge on Ukrainian civilians who are loyal or sympathetic to Russia, and 2) Ukrainian forces are creating death and destruction so as to affix blame on Russia and thereby goad the United States and NATO into war with Russia.
"You do not have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great."