Vox — a Democratic Party propaganda organ — look at its code speak

15 December 2020

Codeword "Putin"

I smiled when I saw Jen Kirby's Vox headline this morning — "Even Putin has now acknowledged that Biden won the election".

"Evil" Vladimir Putin, we are invited to infer, has had to knuckle under to The Great Democracy's reality.

"Take that, you Trump-Puppet-controlling bastard," Jen Kirby implies.

Her uninsightful, anti-Russian hostility continues through the article . . .

. . . despite the fact that Kirby herself points out that President Putin might have had some good reasons for waiting to make any acknowledgment about presidential succession — until the US election outcome had been officially certified by the United States' Electoral College:

Putin was one of a dwindling number of world leaders who’d delayed congratulating Biden, either because Trump’s aspersions on the election furthered their own anti-democratic agendas or because these leaders had built personal relationships with Trump and were uneasy about upsetting him if he somehow did prevail (or both).

Yes, a wise leader . . .

. . . (in Putin's shoes) might well have had good reasons for exhibiting caution.

What would happen, if he congratulated Joe Biden, and a few days later it turned out that Donald Trump's vote theft claims were true and the US outcome had to be reversed in Trump's favor?

Would one really want to work with a second-term American president, whom one had undiplomatically just slapped in the face by recognizing an as yet unofficial result against him?

Less potentially disastrously, President-elect Biden, for his part, might rationally accept that the Russians had only been waiting for official certification of the American result.

No offense to Biden, and therefore little diplomatic risk to Russia, in taking this more cautious course.

Contrast — for its potentially presented diplomatic catastrophe — the Trump-disrespecting alternative that author Kirby seems to support.

Kirby goes on to reveal her infatuation with using Establishment propaganda's code words

For instance:

Reports indicate that Russian-linked hackers breached multiple US federal agencies, including the Pentagon and the State and Homeland Security departments, and private companies in a cyberattack.

Add to that Russia’s other misdeeds, from the likely poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny to the Kremlin’s continued exploits in Ukraine to its roles in the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan and in Syria.

Uh huh

You mean:

Russia's guilt by "linked" association — for the equivalent of an act of war that the Russian Federation would never be so stupid as to traceably initiate against the United States — and for which no evidence whatsoever has been released — those "reports" having been generated by the very same agencies, who concocted the wall-to-wall false Russiagate Conspiracy against a sitting American president?

And the absurdly no-motive, no-benefit-to-Russia — unbelievably ineffectual but "deadly" nerve agent— Navalny poisoning?

Or Russia's perfectly sensible self-preservation efforts against the long-duration, US-sponsored, neo-Nazi-supported — corruption-inspired — pseudo-revolt in Ukraine?

Or the Russian Federation's equally rational attempts to keep the Armenia and Azerbaijan dispute from unraveling into still more political instability across a region virtually at its borders?

As well as Russia's strategically (so far) successful prevention of another Iraq and Libya-sized, American-sponsored hole — with its gargantuan accompanying human catastrophe — in the Middle East?

In sum, Ms. Kirby and Vox . . .

. . . you mean all that geopolitically mature, arguably responsibility-minded, peace and stability-keeping "Vlad the Impaler" stuff?

The moral? — I read Vox solely to see what "American Goebbels" is saying about current events

A truth-seeking publishing platform, Vox is not. Warmongering Oligarchy's propaganda is its trade.

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Vox — a Democratic Party propaganda organ — look at its code speak