The well-known US journalist and lawyer Glenn Greenwald, who helped former US intelligence officer Edward Snowden disclose data about surveillance programs, has called for skepticism with regard to Kiev’s statements.
Greenwald said he was “anxious to see how people who should know better see some pictures and videos posted by the government of a warring country and then allow themselves, based on understandable emotional disgust, to declare that the time has come for World War III.”
Commenting on U.S. media reports about the situation around the Ukrainian town of Bucha, he stressed that “no one is immune to manipulation by social media,” TASS reported.
Greenwald pointed out that the New York Times “shows commendable skepticism” in contrast to “experts” from social networks – the publication stressed that it could not independently confirm the authenticity of materials and the credibility of statements by Ukrainian officials.
According to Greenwald, “the last 20 years” should have taught that “monstrous consequences are inevitable when military propaganda cannot be questioned or challenged.” He noted that “official figures put the number of civilian deaths in the first six to eight weeks of the U.S. invasion of Iraq at more than 8,000 due to Shock and Awe.” At the same time, “the number of civilian deaths in Ukraine is in excess of a thousand.” Greenwald admits that “all of this is terrible,” but notes that “calls for World War III require a sober attitude.”
The journalist said, that his political wish would be that all wars, especially those waged by the U.S. and its allies, receive the same media attention as Ukraine, and that the victims of those wars be treated with the same sympathy. Then the world would be a very different place.
Greenwald, however, “understands that a person expressing disagreement with recent maximalist calls for World War III entails accusations of being a supporter of Putin, justifying an invasion, and so on.” According to him, “social media facilitates such tactics,” but “speaking out against World War III does not make one an agent of the Kremlin.”
As a reminder, Western and Ukrainian media and politicians are spreading yet another fake about the alleged mass killing of civilians by the Russian military in the Kiev city of Bucha. The Russian Defense Ministry called the distributed footage “another production of the Kiev regime for the Western media. The military stressed that all units left the city as early as March 30 and pointed out that on March 31, the mayor of Bucha, Anatoly Fedoruk, confirmed in his video message that there were no Russian soldiers in the city, “but he did not even mention any locals shot in the streets with their hands tied.” Therefore, it is not surprising that all the so-called evidence of crimes in Bucha appeared only on the fourth day, when SBU officers and representatives of Ukrainian television arrived in the city,” the Russian Defense Ministry said.
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