Here’s a brief article reprinted at journalist John Helmer’s web site ‘Dances with Bears’. Helmer is the longest serving independent journalist in Moscow if I’m remembering right. Once served the Carter administration. Anywho, it does a quick job of describing the military and naval bases that have been built up by the US and NATO in Ukraine making it, more or less, a defactoid NATO military base with a Russian invasion posture. It also mentions Zelensky’s shooting off at the mouth about having atomics staged in Ukraine at the security meeting in Munich on Feb 19. I’m persuaded that it was that announcement plus our refusal to offer any security guarantees nor negotiate with Russia in the run up to Munich that was the catalyst to invasion.

OPERATION BARBAROSSA IN SLOW MOTIO...PREPARING IN THE UKRAINE UNTIL LAST WEEK

I don’t get terrestrial or cable corporate news. Does anyone know if they’re covering these extremely important issues? The build up of military bases, refusal to grant security guarantees or the broken promises we’ve made to Russia since the end of the USSR?
Or is it more Emanuel Goldstein style hate fest, like the run up to our invasions of Iraq, Syria, Libya, Panama, Nicaragua etc etc etc?

If corporate media is ignoring these important issues and doing pop psychology of Putin or wild speculations of his motives, unconnected to real world disagreements and activities, that’s propaganda.

If you willingly repeat and amplify those phony messages, your doing propaganda, wittingly or not. Russiagating is a major example.

Last edited by chunkstyle; 03/02/22 01:56 PM.