Media Converges On The Narrative That UFOs May Be Russian/Chinese Threat

"Whenever you see the imperial media converge to this extent upon a single narrative, that's the Official Narrative of the empire. We can expect to see more of this going forward."
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/media-conver…
So in case you missed it, it's been pretty thoroughly confirmed that the UFO report won't contain any revelations or any confirmation of ET origin, but it will absolutely 100% contain fearmongering that UFOs could mean the US is falling behind Russia and China in the arms race. Image
This narrative was then picked up by cable news, with MSNBC inviting former CIA director and defense secretary Leon Panetta on to explain to their audience that the US government should assume UFOs are Russian or Chinese in origin until that possibility has been exhausted. Image
"It sounds like you think we should exhaust that out, exhaust that hypothesis first before you start dealing with other hypotheses," Todd said.
"Yeah, absolutely," said Panetta, who for the record is every bit as disgusting as any other CIA director.
This UFOs-as-Chinese/Russian-threat narrative has quickly been picked up and thrust into mainstream orthodoxy by all the major branches of the mass media, from Fox News to Reuters to The Guardian to Today to the BBC to USA Today. Image
Media Converges On The Narrative That UFOs May Be Russian/Chinese Threat (Audio)

"The war machine only does killing and destruction; it's not going to suddenly develop an interest in truth and transparency."
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7 Jun
"I oppose cold war escalations, but if China's responsible for Covid we need to get the truth."

And who do you imagine will be "getting" this "truth"? In what possible scenario could such an inquiry lead to objective truth unmanipulated by the western cold warriors pushing this?
I'd really like specific answers to this question. How SPECIFICALLY do people imagine an inquiry into the lab leak theory taking place in a way that can lead to unmanipulated facts, or indeed anything other than more cold war escalations by US and its allied power structures?
I mean surely nobody is naive enough to believe that literal psychopaths like Cotton are interested in truth? Surely we all understand that the only people with real power who are pushing for a China investigation are trying to engineer aggressions, right?
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5 Jun
The entire mass media is converging on the narrative that UFOs are evidence that the US may have fallen dangerously far behind Russia and China in military technology.
MSNBC has former CIA Director Leon Panetta on to explain to its audience that we should assume UFOs are Russian or Chinese aircraft until proven otherwise.
The only new MSM segment I've seen today which didn't promote this narrative was a new interview with Lue Elizondo, who seems to be going out of his way to say that it's NOT Russia or China on Tucker Carlson (who has been shrilly yelling that it could be).
Read 5 tweets
4 Jun
This is my first time engaging UFO Twitter, and it's been interesting. A lot of well-intentioned people believe this latest UFO narrative may yield more than new cold war escalations, and I think that's mistaken. The US war machine isn't going to suddenly embrace transparency.
There's a common belief in the UFO community that this "disclosure" stuff is the result of popular demand combined with a few rogue white hats inside the national security state, which on paper closely resembles the QAnon narrative. It just doesn't work that way, folks.
In order for public pressure to work, it needs to have some kind of leverage. The public has no leverage or influence over the US war machine to get it to disclose its UFO information. It follows then that this isn't coming out due to popular demand, but for some other reason.
Read 8 tweets
4 Jun
MSM Wastes No Time Using Senate UFO Report To Promote Arms Race

"The New York Times has published an article on the contents of the hotly anticipated US government report on UFOs, as per usual based on statements of anonymous officials"
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/msm-wastes-n…
.@nytimes has published an article on the contents of the hotly anticipated US government report on UFOs, as per usual based on statements of anonymous officials, and as per usual promoting narratives that are convenient for imperialists and war profiteers
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Oh well if the US government has ruled out secret US government weaponry programs, hot damn that's good enough for me. Great journalism you guys.
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3 Jun
Eight Thoughts On The "UFO" Narrative

"You're not going to get any paradigm-shattering revelations from an exploration that's been spurred on by people like Harry Reid and Marco Rubio. Nobody's shattering a paradigm which they serve and profit from."
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/eight-though…
1. There's no getting around talking about this UFO stuff. The fact that it's a story is itself a major story. There's no point trying to look cool by ignoring it, especially given its potentially huge implications in propaganda narratives and the expansion of the US war machine.
Nothing with this much public interest that is also being pushed by the Washington political establishment, by military insiders and by the mass media in cooperation with the Pentagon is likely to go away anytime soon. The narrative needs to be engaged, and engaged critically.
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1 Jun
Disconcerting how all the main players in the new US military/UFO narrative are consistently (A) saying it could be ETs and (B) still saying that if it is ETs they may pose a threat. This makes no sense and smells like a very nasty op. Makes no sense for real ETs to be dangerous.
No it isn't. What could a civilization that much more advanced than our own possibly want from us? What could they stand to gain by hurting us? What could we have that they couldn't make for themselves?
To say nothing of the fact that a species which managed to advance that far beyond our level must surely have matured beyond the psychotic murder-and-steal value system humanity is currently at. Otherwise they'd have killed themselves off long ago.
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