It may not be surprising to see that the Western mainstream
media (with the likes of CNN, and BBC), is nothing but the vessel for
Washington’s adventurism anywhere it sees fit. What is interesting though is
the persistent and stubborn disinformation emanating from the Western press,
especially vis-à-vis the Russia-Ukraine issue.
In the past week, during the American Independence Day
celebration, CNN
has lambasted Russia’s actions, like the bomber planes sent by President
Vladimir Putin near California and Alaska. The article
stated that “the aircraft’s presence was clearly a warning for the US.”
It is not hard to overstate that the new
Cold War has been triggered by the West, and not the East. Fundamentally,
the illegal Ukraine crisis was hijacked by Washington and its cronies in
Europe, which in turn triggered a knee jerk reaction from Russia. Being in
Russia’s vicinity, and taking into account its deep historical ties with Kiev,
the United States might have reacted the same if Moscow took the same opportunity
of pitting Mexico against the United States.
Indeed, the Western media’s convenient framing of the cause
and effects of recent world events are at an all-time high. Simply, pouring
over their words is a trip down the hypocrisy hole, one that is hard to escape,
especially for people who spend their days enslaving themselves to mainstream
news.
The CNN article also went to accuse Russia of patrolling too
close to Washington’s allies, from aircraft ‘incursions’ in international
airspace and Moscow’s deployment of submarines near NATO countries. The
author clearly and conveniently turned a blind eye on Washington’s regular,
provocative, and relentless military exercises conducted on former Soviet soil.
How will Washington react if Russia did the same to former US colonies?
It may be a bit cliché by now, but the root of all this
Ukraine mess has its roots after the collapse of the USSR, when NATO, despite
its assurances, expanded and devoured over the weak former Soviet republics and
former Warsaw Pact members. The Soviet Union’s last president, Mikhail
Gorbachev, dismantled the Warsaw Pact almost exclusively because of the West’s
promise of no-expansion to the East.
The United States has spent much of its time spreading its
propaganda that “the Russians are coming” and which presents an unprecedented
threat to American security, while forgetting it has a military budget
bigger than the next 10 militaries combined, and has the most
military bases deployed abroad, not to mention the most
at-war country in the world since World War II.
