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Caitlin Johnstone
Title: The Narrative That This War Was "Unprovoked" PreventsPeace
Published: 2022-10-01
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOX4qsQil-I
Title: The Narrative That This War Was "Unprovoked" PreventsPeace
Published: 2022-10-01
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOX4qsQil-I
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The Narrative that this war was unprovoked prevents peace Vladimir Putin has approved the annexation of four territories in eastern Ukraine whose addition to the Russian Federation now await authorization from Russia's other branches of government the zelenski government responded to the move by applying to join NATO only to be immediately shut down by U.S and NATO officials can have sacrificial pawns trying to rise above their station2/17
on the grand chessboard after all but the Empire's proxy war against Russia continues and the Ukrainian government has announced its intentions to drive out Russia from all the Ukrainian territories it has claimed as its own for our plans Russia's annexation doesn't matter zielinski advisor Michael podoliak told Politico adding that Ukraine will protect our land using all our forces and should liberate all its territories the plan3/17
to reclaim territories annexed by Russia will according to zielinski also include Crimea which was annexed in 2014. all this talk about preparing a massive western-backed counter-offensive to recapture Annex territories from Russia whose ranks are being reinforced with an additional 300 000 reservists comes as Putin suggests that nuclear weapons may be used to protect what Moscow considers parts of Russia Russia like the United States is one4/17
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 the5/17
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 historical moment it is therefore no exaggeration to say that the human species has a vested interest in de-escalation and de taunt right away avoiding nuclear war is the single most important agenda6/17
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's what they were trained to do as Noam7/17
Chomsky has been pointing out repeatedly the political media class has been continually indoctrinating the public with the completely false narrative that Russia's 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 whenever8/17
his name was mentioned but what does it mean if the war is unprovoked it means Putin didn't invade Ukraine because of anything the Western Empire was doing so it couldn't have been prevented by the Western Empire behaving less aggressively on Russia's borders it means Putin necessarily invaded because he is some kind of evil madman who loves to commit war crimes or a megalomaniacal tyrant who wants9/17
to conquer the world because he hates freedom and democracy which means he will keep attacking and invading other countries unless he has 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 detaunt it's because they've been aggressively indoctrinated into10/17
the belief that war is the only answer the moronic narrative that the invasion of Ukraine was unprovoked actually poses a massive obstacle to peace because if Putin is just attacking and invading countries solely because he is crazy and evil it means de taunt is impossible and he won't stop until he's decisively crushed if it's accepted that the US Empire has played no role in provoking Putin's11/17
actions that means there's nothing the Empire could do to make continued Russian aggression less likely apart from regime change or at least severely crippling and punishing Russia's military as long as the fact that this war was provoked Remains unacknowledged by the side that provoked it the same path of de-escalation and de taunt will look like Reckless appeasement of an irrational Madman and aggressive escalations of nuclear12/17
brinkmanship will look like sanity the Absurd position that 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 eventually nuclear Annihilation because it leaves you with no options but continually intensifying military confrontation the claim that peace is impossible and Putin must be crushed imperils the whole world even to deliver total victory in13/17
Ukraine pushing Russia back to its 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'll still be a crazy madman who wants to invade countries because he's evil and hates freedom the internal14/17
logic of your narrative says the attacks on Russia must continue until you get regime change there's no stopping point on your line of thinking until there's 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's evil and hate Freedom sound like a real life human being to you or does it15/17
sound made up like something you'd 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 Super Villains 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 than16/17
the propaganda machine's fictional representation of 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 Empire's narratives about its official enemies have less critical thinking skills than your average Marvel movie viewer think be a grown-up and think someone's benefiting from the aggressively promulgated