They Are Recycling The Viagra Rape Atrocity Propaganda They Used On Libya by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2022-10-16 at 03:27:10 )

They Are Recycling The Viagra Rape Atrocity Propaganda They Used On Libya by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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The west is advancing the claim that President Putin is distributing Viagra to his soldiers so that they can more effectively rape Ukrainians, which was a ridiculous propaganda narrative the first time the west used it to manufacture consent for regime change in Libya.

In a Thursday interview with the French government-owned news agency AFP, a Mauritian-British official from the United Nations named Pramila Patten claimed that Russia has a "military strategy" of mass rape in Ukraine and that Russian soldiers are being "equipped" with the erectile dysfunction medication Viagra in order to facilitate that military strategy.

"When you hear women testify about Russian soldiers equipped with Viagra, it is clearly a military strategy," Ms Patten said.

Because AFP is one of the major propaganda multipliers whose material is republished by news media outlets around the world, Ms Pattens completely unevidenced claim of weaponized Viagra has been uncritically reported as a real news story by outlets like CNN, The New York Post, Forbes, The Independent, The Hill, and Yahoo News. This claim will now be folded into many rank-and-file mainstream news consumers understanding of what is happening in Ukraine, despite its brazenly propagandistic nature.

Russia is giving soldiers Viagra to rape Ukrainians: UN official-New York Post (nypost) October 15, 2022

The only other time the west has been hammered with a story about marauding Viagra-armed rape brigades like this was in 2011, when the western empire was circulating atrocity propaganda to manufacture consent for regime change interventionism in Libya. In March of that year an email later published by WikiLeaks was sent to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by her private advisor Sidney Blumenthal, informing her of an unconfirmed "rumor" that Libyas longtime leader Muammar Gaddafi "has adopted a rape policy and has even distributed Viagra to troops." Blumenthal notes that this claim originated from "the rebel side" of the conflict, which we now know included Al Qaeda, whom Gaddafi had been fighting.

The following month that "rumor" was repeated before the United Nations national security council by Susan Rice, another Barack Obama administration official, this time presented not as a rumor but as a reality. Although anonymous United States military intelligence officials informed the press the very next day that they had no evidence of Ms Rices claim, by June an International Criminal Court investigation was underway with western news media continuing to uncritically report claims of weaponized Viagra in Libya.

Meanwhile, another United Nations human rights investigator named Cherif Bassiouni said he had found those allegations to have arisen from "massive hysteria" and that both sides of the conflict had been making them about the other. Amnesty International failed to turn up any evidence of mass rapes and weaponized Viagra in Libya, and a 2016 report by the British Parliament found that the false "humanitarian intervention" by NATO forces which resulted in Mr. Gaddafis death had in fact been based on lies.

This information came far too little, far too late. The case was made for intervention and Libya was plunged into chaos and humanitarian catastrophe by the western empire and its jihadist proxies on the ground, putting a final nail in the coffin of the claim that NATO is a "defensive alliance".

The map of countries that participated in the 2011 destruction of Libya looks remarkably similar to the map of countries currently imposing sanctions on Russia. This is not a coincidence.-Carlos (agent_of_change) March 30, 2022

Of course we cannot conclusively prove that President Putin is not giving his soldiers sex drugs to help them rape Ukrainians more efficiently. We cannot conclusively prove that Ukrainian spies are not sneaking across the border and injecting Russian babies with HIV either, but we do not treat bizarre, nonsensical and completely unevidenced claims as true just because they cannot be definitively proven false. Especially when those exact claims have been used to advance depraved power agendas in the past in instances that remain completely unevidenced.

Earlier this year the western media were uncritically publishing claims made by a single official in the Ukrainian government that Russian soldiers were running around raping Ukrainian babies and children, despite the fact that those claims had no evidence and were accompanied by demands for more western military assistance. Weeks later, that very same official was fired by the Ukrainian parliament for, among other things, circulating unevidenced claims about rapes by Russian soldiers.

How it started How it is going-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) June 1, 2022

As we have discussed previously, the United States and its proxies have an extensive history of using atrocity propaganda, for example in the infamous "taking babies from incubators" narrative that was circulated in the 1990 false Nayirah testimony which helped manufacture consent for the Gulf War. Atrocity propaganda has been in use for a very long time due to how effective it can be at getting populations mobilized against targeted enemies, from the Middle Ages when Jews were accused of kidnapping Christian children to kill them and drink their blood, to 17th century claims that the Irish were killing English children and throwing them into the sea, to World War I claims that Germans were mutilating and eating Belgian babies.

Western mass media are proving time and time again that there is no accusation against Russia that they will not promote as factual news reporting, no matter how evidence-free and ridiculous. The fact that they are going to the well and recycling old atrocity propaganda illustrates this even more lucidly.

If we were being told the truth about this war, we would not be hammered with blatant atrocity propaganda by so-called "news" outlets. We would not be subjected to ever escalating censorship of voices who criticize the western empires role in this war. We would not be swarmed by pro-NATO online trolling operations founded by actual neo-Nazis.

How are people not yet tired of having their intelligence insulted??

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