The Narrative That This War Was "Unprovoked" Prevents Peace by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2022-10-03 at 21:59:25 )

The Narrative That This War Was "Unprovoked" Prevents Peace by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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Vladimir Putin has approved the annexation of four territories in eastern Ukraine, whose addition to the Russian Federation now await authorization from Russias other branches of government.

The Zelensky government responded to the move by applying to join NATO, only to be immediately shut down by United States and NATO officials. Can not have sacrificial pawns trying to rise above their station on the grand chessboard, after all.

But the empires proxy war against Russia continues, and the Ukrainian government has announced its intentions to drive out Russia from all of the Ukrainian territories it has claimed as its own.

"For our plans, {Russias annexation} does not matter," Zelensky advisor Mykhailo Podolyak told Politico, adding that Ukraine will "protect our land using all our forces" and "should liberate all its territories."

-Ukraine Vows To "Liberate" Territory Annexed by Moscow
-A top aide to President Zelensky said Russian forces will be "exterminated"-by Kyle Anzalone-Antiwar.com (Antiwarcom) October 1, 2022

The plan to reclaim territories annexed by Russia will according to Mr. Zelensky also include Crimea, which was annexed in 2014.

All this talk about preparing a massive western-backed counter-offensive to recapture annexed territories from Russia - whose ranks are being reinforced with an additional 300,000 reservists - comes as President Putin suggests that nuclear weapons may be used to protect what Moscow considers parts of Russia. Russia, like the United States, is one of the nuclear-armed nations without a No First Use policy.

So we appear to be on a collision course toward a massive escalation between two nuclear-armed powers. The more things escalate the more likely it is that a nuclear weapon may be used, either deliberately or as a result of miscommunication or malfunction as nearly happened many times during the last cold war. Once one nuke is used the odds go up astronomically that a great many more will immediately follow, with variables on this outcome including the location where it detonates and how cool all the relevant heads happen to be at that particular historic moment.

It is therefore no exaggeration to say that the human species has a vested interest in de-escalation and detente right away. Avoiding nuclear war is the single most important agenda in the entire world, without exception. It is the single most important agenda that has ever existed in all of history.

But whenever you advocate for this supremely important agenda in any kind of public forum, you get a bunch of brainwashed empire automatons bleating about "appeasement" and accusing you of supporting a monstrous madman. And they do this because that is what they were trained to do.

As Noam Chomsky has been pointing out repeatedly, the political-media class have been continually indoctrinating the public with the completely false narrative that Russias invasion of Ukraine was "unprovoked".

Every time the war comes up the imperial spinmeisters utter that slogan, in much the same way Michael Jackson had a quota for how often MTV hosts were obligated to refer to him as "The King of Pop Michael Jackson" when his name was mentioned.

But what does it mean if the war is "unprovoked"???

It means President Putin did not invade Ukraine because of anything the western empire was doing, so it could not have been prevented by the western empire behaving less aggressively on Russias borders.

It means President Putin necessarily invaded because he is some kind of evil lunatic who loves to commit war crimes, or a megalomaniacal tyrant who wants to conquer the world because he hates freedom and democracy.

Which means he will keep attacking and invading other countries unless he can be stopped. Which means the only answer to the Putin problem is more war.

This is why empire apologists get angry at those who advocate the only sane and rational position toward nuclear brinkmanship by calling for de-escalation and detente. It is because they have been aggressively indoctrinated into the belief that war is the only answer.

The moronic narrative that the invasion of Ukraine was "unprovoked" poses a massive obstacle to peace, because if President Putin is just attacking and invading countries solely because he is crazy and evil it means detente is impossible and he will not stop until he is decisively crushed. If it is accepted that the United States empire has played no role in provoking President Putins actions, that means there is nothing the empire could do to make continued Russian aggression less likely apart from regime change, or at least severely crippling and punishing Russia militarily.

It Is Not Okay For Grown Adults To Say The Ukraine Invasion Was "Unprovoked"

-"So as you can see, the notion that this war is "unprovoked" is a fart-brained fairy tale for idiots and children"-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) September 7, 2022

As long as the fact that this war was provoked remains unacknowledged by the side that provoked it, the sane path of de-escalation and detente will look like reckless appeasement of an irrational madman, and aggressive escalations of nuclear brinkmanship will look like sanity.

The absurd position that President Putin is an irrational actor with some kind of weird sexual fetish for war crimes is a one-way ticket to endlessly escalating war and eventual nuclear annihilation, because it leaves you with no options but continually intensifying military confrontation.

The claim that peace is impossible and President Putin must be crushed imperils the whole world. Even to deliver total victory in Ukraine (pushing Russia back to pre-2014 borders) could easily end up costing millions of lives and trillions of dollars and exponentially increase the risk of nuclear war, with no guarantee of success at all.

But even if you did push Putin all the way out of Ukraine, what then??

He will still be a crazy madman who wants to invade countries because he is evil and hates freedom. The internal logic of your narrative says the attacks on Russia must continue until you get regime change. There is no stopping point on your line of thinking until there is a direct hot confrontation between nuclear superpowers.

Be an adult and engage your critical thinking. Does a madman who goes around invading countries solely because he is evil and hates freedom sound like a real-life human being to you??

Or does it sound made up??

Like something you would see in a Hollywood movie?

Like something that was concocted by people responsible for controlling the dominant narratives of our society and funneled into your mind using media?

Marvel supervillains have more depth and complexity than the one-dimensional characters the imperial spin machine concocts to represent its official enemies.

Thanos was a more believable character with more understandable and nuanced motivations than the propaganda machines fictional representation of President Putin.

That representation has been overlaid on top of the actual government official who you might not necessarily agree with, but can definitely understand and engage in diplomacy and negotiation.

People who believe the empires narratives about its official enemies have fewer critical thinking skills than your average Marvel movie viewer.

Think. Be a grown up and think.

Someone is benefitting from the aggressively promulgated narrative that peace is impossible and war is the only solution. And that someone is not you!!!

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