Is This Russian Propaganda?? Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2022-03-06 at 02:25:06 )

Is This Russian Propaganda?? Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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We are risking a very fast, very radioactive World War 3 to defend the "democracy" of a nation whose government bans opposition parties, imprisons political opponents, shuts down opposition media, and takes all its orders from Washington,D.C. due to a United States-backed coup in 2014.

"Defending Ukrainian democracy" makes as much sense as "Defending Mongolian seaports".

The powers responsible for destroying Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and Yemen are the same powers we are trusting to carefully navigate extremely delicate nuclear brinkmanship escalations without ending the world.

"Relax, nobody is gonna start a nuclear war" is a belief that is premised upon the assumption that the empire which laid waste those nations, while destroying our environment and making everyone crazy and miserable, is competent enough to walk that precarious and unpredictable tightrope.

I keep getting comments like "You are saying we just can not strike Russia AT ALL, just because they have nukes??"

Yes. F-cking duh.

What are you an idiot?

What the f-ck is wrong with people?

Did everyone forget what nuclear weapons are?

Did schools stop teaching this or something??

It is getting so very creepy how aggressively anything besides the United States-NATO narrative gets stomped down and how okay everyone is with it. You do not have to agree with the other side to see it as plainly destructive for it to be forcefully shut down all across the media spectrum.-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) March 4, 2022

You can not fix a problem you do not understand. And right now with Ukraine the entire western political-media class is pouring a tremendous amount of energy into keeping people from understanding the problem.

If they were telling us the truth about Russia they would not be censoring Russian media.

Kinda odd how defending freedom and democracy requires such copious amounts of censorship.

Do not worry, I am sure all those socialist and antiwar Americans that were platformed by RT America can just get jobs criticizing the murderousness and corruption of their government in the free press of the western mainstream media.

I wonder if we should be concerned that the entire western world is propagandizing and censoring like it is on war footing?

Socialists and anti-imperialists should never accept platforms on Russian media to get heard. They should wait until a respectable western mainstream outlet agrees to platform them, and keep waiting, and waiting, and just keep on waiting until we all die in a nuclear holocaust.

People tend to overestimate the power of the United States war machine and underestimate the power of the United States propaganda machine.

I wonder who put the idea in Mr. Zelenskys head that western powers might use military force to defend Ukraine in this war they talked him into fighting?? Must be stressful learning your imperial buddies never saw you as anything other than a sacrificial pawn on the grand chessboard.-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) March 4, 2022

Remember when United States officials kept saying "We are not trying to start a war, we are trying to prevent one" while refusing to make reasonable low-cost concessions that would have prevented a war, then, when war started, launched operations which serve the long-term goals of United States hegemony?

Russia gets control of Kyiv with this war, while the United States gets international consensus for unprecedented economic warfare and support for NATO, plus giving Moscow another Afghanistan. NATO powers could have prevented this war but chose to egg it on instead. Looks like a classic sacrifice a pawn to get the queen move.

Choose one:

A) It is a coincidence that we were bombarded by hysterical anti-Russia narratives for five years before this started.

B) Bogus Russia scandals were cooked up by United States intelligence to start manufacturing consent for a confrontation with Russia to preserve United States unipolar hegemony.

It would bring a lot of clarity for a lot of people if we replaced the term "no-fly zone" with "Directly Attack the Russian Military Zone".

"Whataboutism" is a common misspelling of "Damning evidence that western powers are lying about their motives and values."

Yes, Smart Internet Person, I love Vladimir Putin. Can not possibly be that I am criticizing the known wrongdoings of the mightiest power structure in the world, it is that I fell in love with some random government official on the other side of the planet and want to s-ck his c-ck.

It is not like the United States or its allies have ever done anything wrong, so they could not possibly have done anything to give rise to our current situation, therefore it must be that I am just kookoo for Putin Puffs. We are very good thinkers, you and I. Let us go watch cartoons.

Of course I am aware that Vladimir Putin is no girl scout. That is why I have been warning for years that the wests refusal to pursue detente could lead us to nuclear war. There would be nothing to worry about if the guy was a cuddly wuddly snugglepoo.

Having a shit fit about someone criticizing the most powerful empire of all time for actions which led to a f-cking war is a great way to let everyone know you have an infantile worldview and a piss weak argument.

If you say you hate this war but get upset when people talk about the known ways the United States-centralized empire helped cause it, then your interest is not in peace, nor in freedom, nor in truth, but in loyalty to that empire.-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) March 4, 2022

Learn more and think harder about the role NATO powers have played in starting this war.

Learn more and think harder about what sanctions are and what they do to people.

Learn more and think harder about what nuclear war is and what might cause it.

Whenever I talk about the frightening escalation in censorship and propaganda we are seeing in the west I get people telling me that Russia is censoring and propagandizing even worse. Like "We are a bit better than Russia!" is a sane response to this assault on truth and freedom.

If you feel the need to restrict and manipulate peoples speech, even if what they are saying is true, then your actions are not based on truth. They are based on something else, like geostrategic conquest.

Everything the empire says it opposes Russia for is a lie.

Everything the empire criticizes Russia for are things the empire itself does.

Everything we are told is on the line in this showdown - freedom, democracy, truth, justice - are things the empire has been actively stomping out.

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