In any theater of war, little is really what it seems. With political and media elites brandishing verbal fig leaves to hide all the uncomfortable realities, what chance is there that we will ever learn the truth about Ukraine?
Pseudo-military personalities, ahistorical armchair centaurs who have never fought, are paraded daily on the safe television media to offer their own personal sample of hypocrisy and stupidity, mixed with (ancient Greek) infamy. These countless TV show military cauldrons prove time and time again that empty canisters do indeed make the most noise.
Do you think NATO armchair generals would have learned a lesson or two about how people view them after Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria. No, they didn’t learn any lessons. Each time they simply set the stage for their next performance. In recent decades they bombed one country after another, without any reaction from their wider public and without deviating from the task they assigned themselves to hit the next target in the series, always for “freedom” and “democracy”. always for our own good.
The world public, all of us, watching the deadly game of our leaders and their puppets in the Western media about what is happening in Ukraine are more and more confused. We are told that the apparent loser actually wins, regardless of what we may hear with any critical faculties. Ukraine is winning with state-of-the-art western weapons, Russia is frustrated by dissension in its military ranks, morale of Russian soldiers is collapsing, huge numbers of Russian troops are being lost in suicide attacks. And their leader racks his brain for some way out of a worsening mess. Poor Putin, what was going to happen to you.
But that’s what they promised the Western public and that’s what they have to deliver. Defeat the West? When. But if that audience doesn’t get what they were promised, there will be trouble. We’ve been hearing for years about this hit play, the central role of a character and the undoubtedly glorious ending, and we’ve been waiting for the happy ending we’ve been promised. This is how the “good guys” are naturally meant to win and the “bad guys” to lose. The God of the West is up there watching and will surely make those evil Russians turn back with their tails on their legs, leaving the Ukrainian theater of war. Could there be another scenario? Can the audience watch a play that will make them unhappy?
But as the play continues to play out there is a murmur of discontent with the Ukrainian saints winning in every scene. Some disturbing offstage noises spoil the show. There are whispers that happen here and there that are not part of the script. Word is getting around that actually the Ukrainians are losing, that the West is losing. Why, the audience begins to ask, aren’t we hearing about Ukraine taking back villages and towns? All we hear is generalized blunder, opinions, claims and rumours. Where are all the props showing the images of massive Russian casualties we were promised? Were there or were there no attacks in which the Russians suffered huge losses?
We taxpayers paid dollars and euros for all the weapons and missiles sent to Ukraine, amounting to hundreds of billions. Let’s see the amazing results of our investment in this story that the NATO system boasts about. We want to see what they promised us. Where is the collapse of the ruble in the ruins of the stage, a collapse that we read about in the play’s advertisement, which is the collapse of the entire Russian economy and the Putin regime that we have come to see in the theater as a major climax? And how come we all suffer instead of them? What’s going on?
Okay, don’t worry. The project is rising with a new director, Mark Rutte to his name, who guarantees our total satisfaction and happy ending. Unless the play goes down, it is said that there will be a new owner of the theater, Donald Trump by name, who according to rumors does not like reruns of doubtful success.
