A clear example of how to manipulate your readers about the Russian invasion of Ukraine

There are some who wonder whether the Kremlin pays its propagandists around the world. I am convinced that this is not the case.

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I do not rule out the possibility that Russia pays the most influential propagandists, but it is impossible for its financial tentacles to reach the entire legion of useful fools that Putin has in the West, people who have allowed themselves to be fooled by Russian propaganda and who, in addition, contribute to spreading its lies. Today we have an example entitled "Avellana", by the same author who recently classified as "gremlins" those of us who reject the West's giving in to Russia.

This time the author devotes 641 words to writing an article about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, without mentioning the word "invasion" and without writing anything that could indicate that this war was started by Russia. In fact, the author states: "nothing guarantees a quick end to the unprovoked war in Ukraine; or that it will not be continued in some way by the EU". I confess that I have to laugh at this level of manipulation that consists of overlooking obvious facts in order to shamelessly rewrite what is happening: the author omits that this is an invasion and that the invader is Russia, but accuses the EU of continuing the war.

The author also talks about Biden's permission for Ukraine to use long-range missiles on Russian territory, claiming that it is "crossing another red line imposed by Moscow," but she does not point out all the red lines that Moscow has crossed before, lines established by International Law: the invasion itself, the massacres of tied-up civilians (Bucha, Izyum), the murders of Ukrainian prisoners of war, the kidnapping of thousands of Ukrainian children, the systematic attacks against the civilian population of Ukraine... In fact, Biden's permission is motivated by the recent Russian missile attacks against residential areas of Ukraine, attacks that the author does not talk about, because the aim is to make the West look like the bad guy, even if this means hiding certain facts from her readers.

Of course, the author does not say a word about the support of dictatorships such as North Korea, Iran and communist China for Russia, dictatorships that have been sending military equipment to the invaders (and in the case of Kim Jong-un even thousands of soldiers) to continue killing Ukrainian civilians. For the Putinists, what is outrageous is that the West supports the invaded, but not that the invaders receive support from terrorist regimes to continue fueling a criminal aggression against an independent country. About this, Russia's propagandists never say a single word, as if not talking about it meant that it does not exist.

The author ends by complaining that Biden's permission "represents a thumbs down to the will, expressed at the polls, of almost eighty million American citizens eager to turn the page on Ukraine." Another euphemism to hide the reality: "turn the page." Because saying "give in to Russia" sounds uglier. Of course, the will of millions of Ukrainians to continue existing as a country seems to matter little to the author, who speaks of Ukraine as if the US and Russia had the right to decide the destiny of a sovereign and independent country. How do we fit that into the patriotism vs. globalism dichotomy?

The article concludes with the following: "It seems that the world order that emerged in 1945 is nothing more than a generator of chaos." Thus, the author is unable to say that Russia is invading a neighbouring country, but she disqualifies the rules-based international order that emerged after the Second World War. Is this opinion due to the fact, perhaps, that Russia is disregarding this order? One might wonder whether the author prefers the previous disorder, in which great powers such as Germany, the USSR and Japan invaded entire countries (Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia) or parts of them (China, Finland, Thailand), massacring their populations.

In short, it is sad to see how Russia's lies are penetrating into a part of the right-wing, making it assume the defense of a tyrant like Vladimir Putin, who is committing all kinds of atrocities against the Ukrainian people, simply because this has to be hammered into the discourse of a certain "anti-globalism" , according to which you are either with Putin (supposed to be a reference for the patriots of the world) or you are with an evil and perverse West, caricatured as if it were the origin of all evils. It's the same garbage argument that the communists already used to justify the German-Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, presenting the British and French as guilty of the outbreak of the Second World War, simply because Hitler was then an ally of their admired Stalin. It's a shame that there are right-wing people buying into this garbage discourse.