O/T:- Ukraine [Incorporating 'Congrats to Russia' thread]

[maddogslater]

Fair minded or brainwashed by Western media, article from 8 years ago by one of the few journalists with morality warning of what came to pass
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...ia-john-pilger

[jackal2]

Fair minded or brainwashed by Western media, article from 8 years ago by one of the few journalists with morality warning of what came to pass
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...ia-john-pilger

I think it's perfectly possible to condemn Putin's attack on the Ukraine but at the same time acknowledge that the West did play a major part in provoking it. Disproportionate aggression ultimately comes from a place of fear, and in Russia's case it was the (broadly justified) impression that they were becoming ever more surrounded by NATO. Many elements of the Western media try to portray the battle as a very simple 'good guys' versus 'bad guys' scenario, but it certainly isn't that simple.

[andy6025]

Fair minded or brainwashed by Western media, article from 8 years ago by one of the few journalists with morality warning of what came to pass
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...ia-john-pilger

Good article, Maddogslater. I’m not sure if you’ve seen it but John Pilger recently tweeted this out about the western media’s coverage of the war:

“Watching the BBC's loaded reports from Moscow, reading the rest of the cartoon journalism on Ukraine, it ought now to be clear to the dimmest that, whatever your views, there is no real news on the war, no trusted mainstream source, none, merely a censorship by omission. Beware.”

https://mobile.twitter.com/johnpilge...68451058991104

I think the media’s reporting of the Nordstream pipelines sabotage is good example of this. Everybody knows whodunnit, but... welcome to 1984.