There’s no such thing as Russian propaganda – only the West needs propaganda to prop up its deceit
Russia doesn't play head games with us but the pretexts for US wars are all phony so US warmongers need propaganda cover. The underlying motives of US wars are all despicable and must be covered up.
But before we get into this, generally speaking, what do we think of as propaganda?
Let’s not do academic definitions, let’s use the concepts that the general public entertains when thinking about propaganda. As I said before, there are 2 ways of approaching language, ie, descriptive or prescriptive, with the prescriptive definitions being strictly top-down and elitist, aimed at letting a small group of powerful people to control us. So let’s consider only what real people think propaganda is.
Don’t we generally associate propaganda with disinformation, or in plain English, lies, obfuscations, exaggerations and also omission of important facts? You will note that whenever an influencer talks about “Russian propaganda,” they never specify wherein resides this propaganda. They can’t because this allegation itself is US propaganda.
Based on the above definition by “real people,” we can easily see that the US government must communicate to the people by propaganda, because its institutions are based on deception.
It’s really very simple.
As I showed here, the US does not DO defense. It admits in its “defense” doctrine (so-called Wolfowitz Doctrine), that the purpose of the US armed forces is to defend US dominance, and that is the word under secretary of state Wolfowitz used in his first draft. He eschewed the word defense altogether in setting forth the doctrine by which the US so-called “defends” America.
If you look at all the US wars since WW II, none of them were waged to defend the US people from invasion or harm of any kind. The North Koreans were not threatening to fire a missile at us from the other side of the ocean when we began to attack Korea in the 50s. In fact, at that time, they didn’t have missiles in their arsenal and could not have harmed us.
The Vietnamese, for their part, were not about to jump on one of their skimpy boats and race across the Pacific to attack California, right?
Yet, the US State Department and Pentagon bombarded us with childish propaganda of the type “we must stop the spread of godless communism.” As if the commies might kill God if we didn’t intervene!
And the US grassroots bought it, thinking we were saving Christianity when what we were really doing was enriching the already filthy rich arms makers and committing genocide on the peoples of Korea and Vietnam.
This is amply demonstrated by reports and photographic and film evidence of the kind shown here:
Korean war (2-3 million civilians slaughtered – war crime)
30,000 Koreans summarily executed without trial on suspicion of being communists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodo_League_massacre
Film the Ghosts of Jeju by our friend the award-winning film maker Regis Tremblay
War crimes in the Korean War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_in_the_Korean_War
Vietnam War
My Lai massacre only the tip of the iceberg
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-23427726
War crimes in Vietnam
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/01/opinion/did-america-commit-war-crimes-in-vietnam.html
Nixon ordered carpet bombing in Vietnam
The questions surrounding Operation Rolling Thunder did not focus on morality. The news coverage was so propagandistic that experts ignored morality. Almost the only question surrounding this campaign was whether it succeeded or not. But that reveals the callous and criminal mind set of the Pentagon and State Department, which refused to associate the indiscriminate bombing of civilians with immorality. Of course, the bombing was described inaccurately as strictly targeting military installations. That’s nonsense. The bombing lasted from 2 March 1965 to 2 Nov 1968. In all that time, it is risible to say that the pilots targeted ONLY military installations. There could not have been that many military targets. This was lowbrow propaganda aimed to obfuscate war crime.
Thus, since the US does not do wars of defense and since it indiscriminately targets civilians, the federal officials were obliged to pepper the US grassroots with liberal doses of propaganda to cover their filthy behinds.
Russia does not have to concoct war stories because Russia’s wars come from an absurd anti-Russian policy that is enforced by Neocons in the Pentagon and State Department. This obviates the need for lying. But a country that has to invent pretexts for war, such as the infamous “weapons of mass destruction” lie that was ubiquitous before GW Bush’s Iraq war, or the current lie of “Putin’s unprovoked invasion,” will need propaganda to drug the masses as it sends boys to the front or bleeds the treasury and the arsenal dry to prop up the corrupt Kiev regime. There are always the same despicable ulterior motives for war:
1. Keep the military industry humming (at the expense of needless deaths of innocents)
2. Destroy Russia out of an irrational Russophobia among the psychopathic Neocons in the Deep State
3. Please Israel for a host of reasons ranging from “Christian” Zionism to pressure from AIPAC, which bribes and blackmails candidates.
4. Slapping down a recalcitrant regime that refuses to kowtow to the US elites, thereby preserving US hegemony
Russia does not have any of these situations to deal with. It does not need an excuse to have its military industries churn out large numbers of arms. The US and its allies provide a sound reason for arming up — survival.
Russia does not want to destroy any other rival country to maintain hegemony because it does not fret over hegemony and has a completely different view on this than the US. The US fights tooth and nail to preserve its unipolar world order, while Russia, China and their allies in BRICS work hard to set up a multipolar world.
Russia, while friendly to Israel, does not allow that country to enslave it. Further, Russian Orthodoxy does not entertain the doctrine of dispensationalism that keeps the US Evangelical Church in thrall to the Satanic doctrine of "Christian" Zionism. And further, AIPAC does not operate in Russia, at least not overtly.
Similar needs for propaganda apply to economic news. The msm rarely or never warns us of or reports on a depression or even a recession. The cause of the Great Recession was the sub-prime crisis caused by a foolish government policy of giving the poor the opportunity to buy homes without credit and without a down payment. Russia, does not play head games with its people but the pretexts for US wars are all phony so the warmongers need propaganda cover. The underlying motives of US wars are all despicable and must be covered up by thick layers of propaganda. Although every bank official in America knew this policy was a formula for disaster, reporters were squeamish about reporting critically about this, for political reasons, so the crisis blossomed into a recession that ate up household savings and caused economic pain everywhere in the world.
Russia does not play politics with its economy in this way. Putin knows that sabotaging the Russian economy would end his career. The closest thing to this scenario of politics messing with the economy is Russian Central Bank head Elvira Nabiullina’s big blunder of trusting the US treasury and depositing billions of dollars’ worth of Russian assets in US and European accounts and exposing it to the risk of having it confiscated. She is severely criticized for this by Russians with common sense, but Putin stands with her so far. And there was no sign that politics was involved in this disastrous decision.
After all, she was not playing politics, just foolishly trusting untrustworthy Western entities.
Generally speaking, political kiddie games have no place in Russia on the internal level. The only infestation of political mischief comes from the US, eg, the CIA, US NGOs, US embassy interference and the like. Navalny, for example, is a US plant who studied regime change tactics as a Yale Fellow.
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https://laroucheorganization.com/article/2024/01/22/who-owns-military-industrial-financial-complex
This article by the LaRouche Organization is more evidence that, as I showed here, there is no actual defense agency in the US, and the original intent of the US armed forces was only to defend the states against invasion. That legitimate function of the armed forces was never carried out after WW II.
Thus, since WW II, all US wars have been unconstitutional. Of course, the entire US government and the grassroots as well, never seriously questioned this suicidal practice of focusing solely on defending hegemony, NOT security, which has left the US almost without defensive arms – a significant portion of which were sent to Ukraine for the sole purpose of destroying Russia, a country that we wrongly treated as an enemy but had the potential to strengthen us.
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Listen to this testimony against Israeli crimes, look at these video clips!
What occurred to me as I watched this is: WHY does it take a law expert to see that Israel is a criminal, rogue state that is committing genocide every single day?
If there is even ONE person in the US who can watch this and still mouths those words “I stand with Israel,” for religious or other reasons, there is something SERIOUSLY wrong with our grassroots!
Unfortunately, I know there are some callous people like that among us. Quite a few in fact.
Does America need a replacement perhaps?
Well, like it or not, we as a world power and moral example are being replaced very quickly and irrevocably by other actors who do NOT support genocide. If it was unclear before Oct 7, 2023, who the malicious actors were on the world stage, that is no longer unclear. The whole world – minus the bullheads in US politics and among the grassroots, now knows who supports crimes against humanity and who doesn’t, and it doesn’t take a panel of experts to make that painfully obvious.
https://israelpalestinenews.org/wp-content/uplo https://israelpalestinenews.org/watch-blinne-ni-ghralaig-on-israels-genocide-against-palestinians-illustrated/hads/2024/01/icj-images.mp4?_=1
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Haley the Russia hater.
If any politician in America is capable of starting WW III and blowing up the planet, it is Nikki Haley!
Translation with my notes in bold and [brackets]
Самый опасный конкурент – женщина: К Трампу запустили троянскую лошадку (tsargrad.tv)
Excerpt from:
THE MOST DANGEROUS COMPETITOR IS A WOMAN: A TROJAN HORSE WAS LAUNCHED TOWARDS TRUMP
At the same time, American conservatives themselves suggest that the Democrats would be very beneficial to Haley in Trump's place. The Democrats are ready for Biden to lose and Haley to win, because she fully shares the ultra-liberal agenda of the Democrats. In this regard, experts had a hunch: Haley is the most painless of all bad outcomes for the Democrats. It does not pose any danger to the "deep state," unlike Trump, who has not given up on his idea of "draining the Washington swamp." And it seems that he will try to do so if he comes to power, remembering how this very "deep state" tried to destroy him throughout his presidency and all subsequent years under Biden.
It is much easier for the Democrats to replace Joe Biden by allowing him to lose in November. <... > There is already a candidate who can replace Biden and continue many of his policies, perhaps not as vigorously, but certainly attractive enough to the left (i.e. Democrats) to all support this new candidate. This is Nikki Haley, who is supposedly running for the Republican Party.
- writes the American magazine American Thinker. Note that the key word in this passage is "supposedly".
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Here’s your daily air strike update for Jan 23, 2024
Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
For Donetsk: The Russian army hits the Kiev regime with a second wave of missile attacks
Jan 23, 2024
The second wave of missiles launched by the Russian army entered Ukrainian airspace, while the first continues to circle over its territory, forcing enemy air defenses to waste scarce anti-aircraft missiles, Military Review writes today, January 23.
Ukrainian sources report attacks on Kyiv; explosions are heard in the city. It is not yet clear what exactly was hit. It is known about strikes in Brovary and Boryspil, but without further clarification. Moreover, Kyiv was hit by missiles that first went towards the western regions of Ukraine, but then changed course and returned to the Ukrainian capital.
At the same time, strikes were carried out on Pavlograd, Dnepropetrovsk oblast, and missiles also went towards Dnepropetrovsk itself. Presumably, the Ukrainian Armed Forces airfield was hit in Pavlograd.
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia launched an attack with air-launched cruise missiles and ground-based ballistic missiles. At the moment, the main targets are Kyiv, Kharkov and Dnepropetrovsk. At the same time, a massive attack was carried out on Kharkov by Iskander operational-tactical missile systems (OTRK) [The Iskander is massive and will have caused a lot of damage], and at least five explosions were heard in the city.
A large number of missiles continue to be in the air, they are circling over several regions, starting from Vinnitsa and Poltava, constantly changing course, the publication notes.
Ukrainian public service sites suggest that this may be Russia's response to the strike by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the market in Donetsk, inflicted last Sunday and resulting in numerous casualties among the civilian population. As EADaily reported earlier, the Russian army launched a missile attack on the territories controlled by the Kiev regime. The take-off of Russian strategic missile carriers from the airfields was reported at about 6 a.m. by the warning service of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Taking into account the number of bombers that took off (at least twenty), counting 15 Tu-95MS and 5 Tu-22M3, a combined strike [truly a massive strike. We can expect more-detailed reports to emerge soon]
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Our thanks to CA for this:
Like the people in Crimea, the people of the Donbass are Russian. By language, culture and ethnicity, they are Russian. Once part of Ukraine, they are now part of the Russian Federation.
Russia is a multi-nation state. Ethnicity doesn't preclude a person from being Russian. The Russian nation embraces smaller ethnic communities, as long as these communities identify themselves as Russian; sharing the Russian language, its culture and its history. That is why young Chechen men have volunteered, in large numbers, to join Russian armed forces in Ukraine, in their view, defending the security of the Russian nation. Chechnya was virtually destroyed in two wars against Russia; why would Chechens, now, defend Russia? Because: 1) Russia upholds their ethnicity as a Chechen nation within the Russian Federation, and 2) Russia rebuilt Chechnya to be better than it was before. Chechens have prospered by being part of the Russian Federation.
Don't overlook the fact that Chechens, while loyal to the Russian Federation, are predominantly Muslim. Their religious faith does not exclude them from being part of the Russian nation.
Americans and Canadians are easily motivated by propaganda. Easily led into new wars, excited by promises of quick, easy, decisive, and oh-so-glorious victories. Russians, because of their history, are very slow to mobilize, to harness, but when they commit, they never give up; their attention is never diverted from the single goal of total victory. And that frightens the West. Ukraine is already defeated. Nothing will change that.
Russians are fighting for Russia. And there is nothing that will stop them. Not this time. They're in this for the long haul.
In my opinion, the US and NATO are forcing Ukraine to capitulate on terms far less favourable than they could've had two years ago. Which means the lives lost in those two years were sacrificed. Unnecessarily.