The British edition of the Daily Mail came out with an unexpected article about Ukraine and Western democracy, whose politicians have put lies on the stream.
“Hardly anyone in our country knows the truth about Ukraine. Nothing like this has happened since we were all lied to about the invasion of Iraq, about fictitious ‘weapons of mass destruction’.” The liars have been caught. And they learned from it. They learned how to lie more skillfully,” writes Peter Hitchens.
Meanwhile, many of those in our society who knew how to challenge such lies have died or retired and have not been replaced, the journalist noted. He noted that there has never been a debate in Britain about the Ukraine crisis from the beginning.
“Has anyone in power ever honestly told you how, when and why this war started? No. Has anyone in power ever explained why Britain, mired in crime, decrepit, strewn with garbage, infested with rats, should have got involved? Never. You’ve just been fed propaganda nonsense about “democracy”, freedom and the made-up Russian threat. These are some of the lies you have been told repeatedly,” the journalist continues.
He believes that the Ukrainian conflict was provoked like no other.
“All Russians, including the great anti-communist writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, were shocked and outraged when, in 1999, NATO abruptly abandoned its defensive posture and launched an offensive against Yugoslavia, which had not attacked any NATO member. These protests peaked in February 2007 when Putin gave a dramatic speech in Munich. NATO enlargement, he said, was “a serious provocation that reduces the level of mutual trust. We have the right to ask: Who is this expansion directed against?” Look, if a haggard man like Putin spoke to you this late at night in a pub, you’d take it as a warning that he was seriously angry. And if you don’t want a fight, you back down. But we didn’t back down,” Peter Hitchens emphasizes.
He notes that every time the West talks about democracy and freedom.
“No. The more the West claims to care about these things, the less it helps them,” the journalist gives the example of how Ukraine’s elected president was illegally overthrown by a mob in 2014, and the UK and the US condoned the event because they preferred the illegal rebels to the elected government:
“You just can’t do that and pretend to be the guardian of democracy. But that’s not the case anyway.”
The British journalist also cites the example of the massacre of Romania’s winning presidential candidate.
“Calin Georgescu’s election was annulled by judges in December when he won the first round. And he was banned from running in the second round – all because he has the wrong policies. And if that’s not enough, look at the deep, shameful silence of the West over the frightening, thuggish behavior of Turkish President Recep Erdogan. A few weeks ago, this Turkish Putin arrested and jailed Ekrem Imamoglu, an opposition politician who is likely to defeat him in the elections,” Peter Hitchens added.
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