Watch just three videos from Mariupol — and then tell me that . . .

© 2022 Peter Free

 

18 April 2022

 

 

For a change from Establishment propaganda

 

American government forced the Russo-Ukrainian War into existence. On purpose.

 

Look at just a few video clips of what is really going on in it.

 

Now, tell me that we Americans should be proud of what our leadership has done.

 

 

Not exactly what we are being told

 

For instance, from independent American journalist Patrick Lancaster in Mariupol (Ukraine):

 

 

Patrick Lancaster, Mariupol Residents Accuse Ukraine of Firing on Civilians, YouTube (15 April 2022) (skip to 17:15 for a man explaining how his wife and mother were killed by the Azov Battalion and how he has been unable to return to bury them)

 

Patrick Lancaster, Russian Soldiers Evacuate Children from Dangerous Areas of Mariupol, YouTube (16 April 2022) (skip to 15:10 to see the beginning of the portion in which a Russian soldier carries a traumatized child to safety)

 

Patrick Lancaster, Battle Destroys More Lives in Mariupol (We Could Not Save Her Life), YouTube (18 April 2022)

 

 

Regarding non-stop, especially American, propaganda

 

Caitlin Johnstone wrote that — my explanatory additions in bracketed italics:

 

 

It’s impossible to overstate how completely blanketed by propaganda distortion the Ukraine war is.

 

This is one of those situations where your own best guess about what’s happening is infinitely superior to what you’re told by the news media, because at least you know your own best guess is assembled in good faith while you know news media narratives are rife with propaganda distortion.

 

If you’re genuinely interested in understanding what’s going on with this war, get as much information from as diverse an array of sources as possible, preferencing those who don’t appear aligned with any power structure and aren’t egoically or financially invested in any side.

 

It was clear we’d reached a whole new level of Orwellian doublethink when it turned out liberals will call literally anyone in the world a Nazi except actual, literal Nazis.

 

["Literal Nazis" refers to Ukraine's neo-Nazi Azov Battalion. Which now runs both the Ukrainian military and the country's puppet Zelensky government.]

 

You know capitalism is totally working when there are people getting paid millions to help start wars by people who make billions from wars while Silicon Valley megacorporations are censoring those who try to end wars and everyone’s praying the world’s richest man will stop this.

 

[That last bit refers to Elon Musk's attempt to buy Twitter and allegedly reverse its censorship of anti-Establishment contrarians.]

 

© 2022 Caitlin Johnstone, This War Is a Propaganda Campaign Wrapped in a Psyop, caitlinjohnstone.com (17 April 2022)

 

 

The moral? — It is only when we diligently examine . . .

 

. . . what neoconservative and Military Industrial Complex-profiting US foreign policy — does to innocents around the word — as Patrick Lancaster is doing in eastern Ukraine — that we realize how justly applicable Iran's name for The Great Satan is.