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Caitlin Johnstone
Title: It's Not Okay For Grown Adults To Say The Ukraine Invasion Was "Unprovoked"
Published: 2022-09-07
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0omINQTIQ1Y
Title: It's Not Okay For Grown Adults To Say The Ukraine Invasion Was "Unprovoked"
Published: 2022-09-07
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0omINQTIQ1Y
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it's not okay for grown adults to say the Ukraine invasion was unprovoked on a recent interview with the useful idiots podcast Noam Chomsky repeated his argument that the only reason we hear the word unprovoked every time anyone mentions Russia's invasion of Ukraine in the mainstream news media as because it absolutely was provoked and they know it right now if you're a respectable writer and you want2/30
to write in the main journals you talk about the Russian invasion of Ukraine you have to call it the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine Chomsky said it's a very interesting phrase that was never used before you look back you look at Iraq which was totally unprovoked nobody ever called it the unprovoked invasion of Iraq in fact I don't know if the term was ever used if3/30
it was it was very marginal now you look it up on Google and hundreds of thousands of hits every article that comes out has to talk about the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine why because they know perfectly well it was provoked jumps he said that doesn't justify it but it was massively provoked top US diplomats have been talking about this for thirty years even the head of4/30
the CIA Chomsky is of course correct here at the imperial media and they're brainwashed automatons have spent half the year mindlessly bleeding the word unprovoked in relation to this war but one question none of them ever have a straight answer for is this if the invasion of Ukraine was unprovoked how come so many western experts spent years warning that the actions of western governments would provoke5/30
an invasion of Ukraine because as Chomsky notes that is indeed the case a few days after the invasion began this past February a guy named are not Burr trend put together an extremely viral Twitter thread that just goes on and on and on about the various diplomats analysts and academics in the west who have over the years been warning that a dangerous confrontation with Russia was6/30
coming because of NATO advancements toward its borders interventionism in Ukraine and various other aggressions it contains examples like John Mearsheimer explicitly warning in twenty fifteen that the west is leading Ukraine down the primrose path and the end result is that Ukraine is going to get wrecked and Pat Buchanan warning all the way back in nineteen ninety nine that by moving NATO want to Russia's front porch7/30
we have scheduled a twenty first century confrontation and prior apologists love claiming that the invasion of Ukraine had nothing to do with NATO expansionism their claims generally based on brazen mis representations of what Latimer Putin has said about Russia's reasons for the war but that's silly the US war machine was continuing to taunt the possibility of NATO membership for Ukraine right up until the invasion threat8/30
it refused to take off the table since placing it there in two thousand and eight despite knowing full well that this threat was an incendiary provocation to Moscow this is to say nothing of the US empire actively fermenting a violent uprising in twenty fourteen which ousted cave sitting government and fractured the nation between its more Moscow loyal populations to the east and the more U. S.9/30
in the U. friendly parts of the country this led to the annexation of Crimea overwhelmingly supported by the people who live there and eight years of brutal warfare against Russia backed separatists in the Donbass you craning attacks on those separatists are known to have increased exponentially in the days leading up to the invasion and it has been argued that this is what provoked Putin's final decision10/30
to commit to invading which was a last minute decision according to US intelligence the U. S. power lines could very easily have prevented this war with a few low cost concessions like enshrining Ukrainian neutrality rolling back its war machinery from Russia's borders and sincerely pursuing detente with Moscow instead of shredding treaties and ramping up Cold War escalations hell it could likely have prevented this war just11/30
by protecting presidents a Lynskey from the anti Moscow far right nationalists who were openly threatening to Lynch him if he began honoring the Minsk agreements in pursuing peace with Russia as he was originally elected to do instead it knowingly chose the opposite course continuing to float the possibility of formal NATO membership for Ukraine while pouring weapons into the nation and making it more and more of12/30
a de facto NATO member with closer and closer intimacy with the US war machine and then either ordering encouraging or tolerating Ukraine's aggressive assault on Donbass separatists why did the empire opt for provocation over peace congressman Adam Schiff gave a pretty good answer to that question in January of twenty twenty as the road to war was being paved what so that we can fight rush over13/30
there and we don't have to fight Russia here end quote if you relinquish the infantile idea that the U. S. empire is helping its good friend Ukraine because it loves the Ukrainian people and wants them to have freedom and democracy it's not hard to see that the U. S. sparked a convenient proxy war because it was in its geostrategic interests to do so and because it14/30
wouldn't be their lives and property getting laid to waste Brian balletic put out a good video a few days ago about a Pentagon funded twenty nineteen rand corporation paper titled extending Russia competing from advantageous ground which is exactly what it sounds like the U. S. army commission paper details how the empire can use proxy warfare economic warfare another Cold War tactics to push its longtime geopolitical15/30
foe to the brink without costing American lives or sparking a nuclear conflict it mentions Ukraine hundreds of times and it explicitly discusses the same economic warfare tactics we're seeing today like sanctions and attacking Russia's energy interests in Europe the latter of which balletic points out is also being used to bolster U. S. dominance over its vassals in the E. U. the paper even explicitly advocates continuing16/30
to threaten NATO membership with Ukraine to draw out an aggressive response from Moscow saying quote while NATO is a requirement for unanimity makes it unlikely that Ukraine to gain membership in the foreseeable future Washington's pushing this possibility could boost Ukrainian resolve while leading Russia to redouble its efforts to forestall such a development and quote president Biden has made calls for regime change in Moscow that can't17/30
even really be called thinly disguised and defense secretary Lloyd Austin has openly said that the plan is to use this war to weaken Russia which other U. S. officials have told the press is indeed the policy comments from the Biden administration continually make it clear that the U. S. alliances buckling down to keep this war going for years to come which would fit nicely with Washington's18/30
known track record of deliberately drawing Russia into military quagmires against U. S. proxies in both Afghanistan and Syria so make no mistake behind all the phony hand wringing and flag waving the U. S. centralized empire is getting exactly what it wants from this conflict it gets to over extend Russia militarily and financially promote its narratives around the world rehabilitate the image of U. S. interventionism expand19/30
internet censorship expand militarily bolster control over its European client states and all it costs is a little pretend empire money that gets funneled into the military industrial complex anyway which is why when it looked like peace was at risk of breaking out in the early days of the conflict the empire center in Boris Johnson to tells Lansky that even if he is ready for the war20/30
to end his partners to the west were not so as you can see the notion that this war is unprovoked as a fart brain fairy tale for idiots and children there's no excuse for a grown adult with internet access and functioning brain matter to ever say such a thing if China had backed a coup in Mexico and now had a loyal vassal in Mexico City who21/30
is leading Beijing distribute weapons along the US border while continually shelling English speaking separatists in Baja California who are seeking U. S. annexation there's no question that Washington would consider this a provocation and would respond accordingly you can tell me that's not true but we both know you're lying but some ski said the press are spouting this unprovoked nonsense anyway Russia is widely believed to have22/30
been taken aback by the west assertive in unified response to its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine read this CNBC article published just minutes prior to this writing the diplomatic visit underlines the importance of the Russian relationship for China even in the face of international blowback against Moscow after its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine earlier this year reads a new report from CNN hot hot off the presses it23/30
was an unprovoked attack on a sovereign country a source is quoted as saying in another CNN article published a few hours ago it is as Chomsky observed really freaky how hard they've been hitting us with this line every time the invasion of Ukraine as mentioned it seems like every time it comes up they're obligated to say it like how Michael Jackson had a quota for how24/30
often M. TV hosts were obligated to refer to him as the king of pop Michael Jackson whatever his name was mentioned and the mass media you're not allowed to talk about the known U. S. NATO Ukraine actions which experts have been warning for many years would lead us to where we're at you're only allowed to say Putin attacked Ukraine completely unprovoked in a vacuum solely because25/30
he is evil and hates freedom and you have to do it well saying the word unprovoked at every opportunity %HESITATION empire apologists get upset when you talk about the fact that this war was provoked because a large amount of empire apologia in twenty twenty two is built around pretending that provocation just isn't a thing my some trick of Orwellian doublethink this concept we've all lived our26/30
entire lives knowing about an understanding is now suddenly a freakish and ridiculous invention of the Kremlin we're all guilty of doing the things we knowingly chose to do if I choose to provoke someone into doing something bad then they're guilty of choosing to do the bad thing but I am also guilty of provoking them I'm not saying anything new here this is the plot behind any27/30
movie or show with a sneak your manipulative villain and it's been a part of our storytelling since ancient times nobody has ever walked out of Shakespeare's Othello thinking that maybe algo was just an innocent bystander who was trying to help out his friends most of us learn that provocation is real as children with siblings kicking the other under the table or whatever to provoke a loud28/30
outburst and we've understood it ever since but in twenty twenty to everyone's pretending that this extremely basic kindergarten level concept is some kind of bizarre alien gibberish it's intensely stupid and it needs to stop empire apologists will also argue that saying Russia was provoked into invading by the U. S. empire is like saying a rape victim provoked her rapist by wearing a tight skirt or a29/30
battered wife provoked her abuser by disobeying him and as a survivor of multiple rapes and an abusive relationship I must say I find it extremely offensive when people compare blaming the most powerful empire that has ever existed for its well documented aggressions to blaming victims of rape and domestic violence the poor widow globe spanning empire is not comparable to a rape victim and if you find30/30
yourself thinking that it is it's time to rethink your entire worldview it's not okay to be a grown adult in September of twenty twenty two and still say the invasion of Ukraine was unprovoked you've got a brain between your ears and an entire internet of information at your fingertips use them
