Our politicians and media are
not going to allow us to see Russia, and any incidents the country can be
linked to, in any other way than black and white, in which we are the good
party and they are the black, evil and guilty ones. So we’ll have to do that ourselves.
More than enough has been said about why NATO should have been dismantled
when the reason for its existence, the Soviet Union, was dissolved, but nobody
listened and NATO has kept expanding eastward and demanding more money, more
members, more weapons.
NATO demands an enemy, and their chosen enemy is Russia. This has nothing
to do with anything Russia has done or is doing at the moment. We can only hope
that people are willing to accept that simple fact. And not passively go along
with the flow of badmouthing and smear that decides what our picture of the
country is.
Russia
‘invaded’ Crimea? Russia ‘downed’ MH17? Russia sent two hapless and inept
blokes to kill the Skripals? Russia launched an unprovoked attack on three
Ukrainian vessels in the Sea of Azov? Russia colluded with the Trump campaign
against Hillary Clinton? And collaborated with Julian Assange to make that
happen?
What all these
allegations have in common is that there is no evidence any of them are true.
Oh, and that nobody’s really trying to prove them anymore. Because you’ve
already accepted them as gospel.
90% or so of Crimeans voted
to be part of Russia, after the west had tried their hand at regime change in
Kiev, with John McCain and Victoria Nuland opening the gates for various
neo-nazi groups to enter government.
The MH17 investigation is led
by the Netherlands, the main victim. As I told Jim Kunstler in our recent
podcast, you try and find a detective story where the main victim leads the
investigation. Aided by Ukraine, one of the suspects, but not Russia, the
designated suspect from the get-go. We’re over 4.5 years later and there is no
proof -not that that keeps anyone from assigning blame.
The Skripals were allegedly
attacked with the most deadly nerve gas ever, and allegedly survived. They
simply haven’t been heard from anymore. There are images of two alleged Russian
spies who went out of their way to be filmed and photographed in Salisbury, but
their ineptitude doesn’t rhyme with Russian secret service in any way, shape or
form. The west tries to make it sound like Comedy Capers, and that just gives
the west away.
As
for the ‘attacks’ the other day, the Guardian of all outlets explains: “Since the completion of the bridge over the Kerch strait, Moscow
has demanded that Ukrainian ships not only give notice of their intention to
transit the strait but request permission, a change that Kiev has rejected.
According to western diplomats, the dispatch of the three ships was intended to
assert freedom of navigation..”
Sure, you can claim that
Russia has no right to ask Ukraine to ask for permission to the Sea of Azov,
but then Kiev should have protested that demand, not send three armed vessels
to ignore the demand and sail through anyway. That is called provocation.
And Ukraine provoking Russia
is a bad idea. Unless you’re NATO, and you want Ukraine as a member. And unless
you’re the chocolate billionaire who took over the government and now has an
approval rating in the single digits with elections coming up in March. Question:
how much chocolate do Ukrainians eat?
For Ukraine to enter NATO would
be the most flagrant violation against the deal the west made with Gorbachev
just prior to the dissolution of the Soviet union to date. And there have been
plenty such violations in the past almost 30 years; little wonder that Moscow
draws a line.
It’s just that nobody in the west
is aware there is such a line. The media have helped politicians, NATO and arms
manufacturers in painting a picture of Russia as the evil bogeymen in the east,
and there is no counterweight to that picture anywhere in what people read and
watch. It doesn’t matter whether the ‘news’ is accurate, because journalists
don’t do their jobs to go out and check the facts.
As for the Muller’s unending
investigation into Russian collusion with the Trump campaign, we know for a
fact that there’s no evidence of any such thing, since Mueller would have been
forced to go public with it because it’s such a serious issue; you can’t let
treason lie for months or years. And sure, Mueller today fingered Manafort for
lying, but that has nothing to do with collusion.
As
for Mueller’s Julian Assange allegations, he should be ashamed of himself for
accusing someone he knows is barred from defending himself. Mueller can say
anything he likes about Assange, and does, and it has no value, Julian has been
silenced to an extent that shames us all, but Mueller first.
The problem with Robert Mueller when he uses such tactics is
that he loses his credibility, or rather, what he had left after solemnly
testifying that Iraq possessed WMD when he was FBI head. The man is incessantly
portrayed as America’s straightest arrow, but that just makes you lament the
state the country is in. The odds that Trump is the straightest arrow are much
higher, and even the Donald himself wouldn’t buy into that one.
As we’re worried about fake news and Facebook and election meddling and
what have you, we need to be clear on what that really is. Which is, the worst
and most fake news you see every single day comes from those sources that you
trust most. This is not just deliberate, it’s highly profitable too. As long as
you are gullible enough to keep buying into it. So far, you are.
Whenever you read anything at
all about Trump, Russia/Putin and Assange in the major news outlets, chances
that it is not objective or properly due diligence researched are far higher
than that it is. You have to start out with the idea that what you’re about to
read or watch is not true, for the simple reason that the vast majority of it
is not; it only exists to serve an agenda and a narrative.
And because reporting what is
not accurate makes ‘news sources’ much more money than reporting the truth. In
the meantime, though, NATO, US/UK/EU intelligence and the military-industrial
complex may be happy, but you should not be. Because you’ve landed somewhere in
the middle between Orwell, Huxley and the Matrix. And that’s not going to end
up doing you any good. Let alone your kids.
Shake it off, guys. You’re sinking. Information dissemination has
become like walking into quicksand. Walking into a pre-processed narrative that
deprives you of your ability to think. Not something we should wish upon
anyone. But take this from me: you’re already in it, and you need to get out.
It’s no longer about trying not to get in, those days are long gone. You’re
already there.
Reprinted
with permission from The Automatic Earth.
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