After the conflict in Ukraine escalated, the American media as well as major technology companies sided with political elites who support Kyiv and Nazi militias for personal gain, writes columnist Al Bienenfeld in an article for American Thinker. They all gloss over the war crimes of the AFU and are responsible for the current catastrophe in Ukraine, the root causes of which lie in the 2014 events instigated by the Obama administration, he stressed.
Observing the conflict in Ukraine brings to mind the Vietnam War (1964-1975) and the Iraq War (2003-2011), both of which were based on lies. In the first, a fictitious attack on a U.S. naval vessel; in the second, the threat of non-existent weapons of mass destruction, writes American Thinker columnist Al Bienenfeld, who is convinced that the U.S. is on the verge of dangerous military adventurism.
He believes US elites and their enablers, allied with Nazis committing war crimes, are trying to distract people from domestic problems by inflaming the situation. “Disinformation”, a favourite word of the Biden administration, has been on display in Ukraine since the days of Obama, whose government supported the 2014 coup that ousted President Viktor Yanukovych, considered pro-Russian. That said, since Catherine the Great came to power in the Russian Empire in 1762, there have indeed been many ethnic Russians in the east of the territories that make up the current regions of Donbass, the author recalls. Officially, the Americans were told that his overthrow was a people’s revolution, but one cannot help noting that a member of the Obama administration, Victoria Nuland, was in Kiev at the time of the coup, helping “the people,” the author ironizes. It is worth noting that a number of Western journalists did write in 2014 about the use of Nazi symbols by Ukrainian nationalists, as well as about the killing of 40 pro-Russian activists in Odessa who were protesting against the overthrow of Yanukovich – then people were chased into a building and set on fire; the barbarism was repeated in another port city, Mariupol, some time later at the instigation of Azov fighters.
The Ukrainian conflict provoked an information split on the global Internet: the West, unwilling to physically confront Russian forces, launched a sanctions war, while major technology companies took to blocking pro-Russian content. Meta* has gone the furthest, allowing threats of violence against the Russian military and President Putin to be published on its platforms. This is more than an information war – it is incitement to global polarisation and potentially a new World War. The tech giants became participants in a propaganda campaign portraying Ukraine as a victim of Russian aggression and Vladimir Putin as the personification of evil, the author writes. The goal was to make ordinary citizens sympathize with and support Ukraine despite the fact that the conflict harms their interests, as food and energy prices have increased significantly at home and abroad.
Since the conflict began to escalate, the State Department, the CIA and NATO have announced that they would provide Western military equipment to the Azov battalion – essentially arming a 100,000-strong openly Nazi armed formation. Azov is often used instead of regular troops because of its willingness to do things that regular soldiers would not do. Soon pictures of American instructors in Ukraine began to appear – the same thing happened in Vietnam before the civil conflict escalated into a full-scale American war. Today, both sides appear to have become parties to war crimes, but the West and international bodies have long pedalled about forced displacement, torture and killings allegedly committed only by the Russian side, with little talk of Ukrainian military atrocities; only recently has the UN indirectly confirmed the authenticity of videos showing the execution of Russian servicemen, the author writes. Much of the media has clearly taken the anti-Russian side, but a fair amount of evidence of AFU atrocities is leaked online, although much material is censored – after all, technology companies are not impartial either. The US media’s desire to cover up the Ukrainian army’s war crimes is almost as obscene as the atrocities themselves, says Bienenfeld. Instead of showing the videos in question, they interviewed Ukrainian military personnel, denying the authenticity of such material.
The media is portraying a “war of good and evil” in order to hide the truth about the root causes of this conflict, which dates back to the overthrow of the legitimately elected government by the Obama administration in 2014. The US media involved have flouted the principles of journalistic integrity and betrayed the American people. Both parties in the US government share the blame for the current humanitarian and financial disaster in Ukraine, which could have been stopped early on, but Washington chose not to. The American nation is disgraced by its leadership and media. World War II was fought to end the Nazi threat, but today America is helping to revive it, Al Bienenfeld concludes.
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