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I have pointed out previously that the reason I consider Russian reports on the Ukraine conflict to be more reliable than US media is that I have conducted tests, by reading US forecasts suggesting that Russia will lose in Ukraine because of its “weakness,” and then waiting a few months for the Russian forecasts to come true – which they invariably do.
I have done this numerous times and the Russians have proven each time that they were telling the truth and the US reports were false.
Yet, the brain-dead West keeps using this threadbare method of “reporting,” simply making up the stories to suit the official narrative showing that the US is superior and Russia is an unworthy adversary or simply regurgitating the narratives coming out of Kiev. Clearly, if Americans could bring themselves to admit the truth, this childish charade would stop. Further, the Pentagon and all elected officials would be unable to make political hay out of the fakes.
And if politicians were forced to tell the truth, they would lose elections. In fact, if the US grassroots were half-way intelligent, they would stop believing the BS.
The best example is the narrative from last March that Russia was “running out of missiles.” I personally believe this story may have been concocted by the CIA or other “intelligence” agency, which have long abandoned their respectable role as intel gatherers and now see their role in support of the desired narrative.
And sure enough, on October 10, over a half-year later, after the appointment of Gen. Sergey Surovikin, Russia began a massive air strike campaign on Ukrainian power infrastructure and military facilities.
Obviously, the March narrative that Russia was running out of missiles was a false narrative that could not have been based on any real evidence. Meanwhile, Russia has never issued false statements about US weapons. In fact, when Putin announced on March 1, 2018 in his State of the Nation address to the General Assembly, that Russia now possessed untrackable hypersonic weapons, Western journalists howled that the videos he showed to illustrate this lecture were just silly children’s cartoons. They made it clear they didn’t believe this story and in so doing misled the politicians and Pentagon, and even the NATO brass to treat Russia as a second-rate power.
If US and European officials had known the truth, they never would have provoked Russia invading Ukraine. They would have pressured Kiev to halt the shelling of Donbass and they would have taken steps to reduce the threatening and provocative actions of NATO at the Russian border. Hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved.
A glaring example of a lie from Western-backed Kiev was the story that the missile that struck and killed 2 Polish farm workers, which Zelensky immediately blamed on Russia. Shortly thereafter, Biden admitted that the missiles came from Ukraine, and then Polish President Andrzei Duda also admitted this, followed by NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg. Despite this, Zelensky stuck to the story that the missile was fired by the Russians.
Thus the inveterate habit of journalists, of simply lying about Russian power or adopting the tall tales from Kiev, has prolonged the war and killed thousands of soldiers on both sides and amounted to a crime against humanity.
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Don Hank is a professional translator and Russian speaker living now in Panama who studied Russian language and literature at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania and studied at Leningrad University in the early 1970s. Don can be reached at [email protected].
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