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Feb 19 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Anyone who talks about the Ukraine crisis like it's just Putin being evil while ignoring the actions of the US and NATO which got us here is a disinformation agent.
This is really and truly as deep as most western analysis of this situation goes:
It should really be common sense by now that when the entire western political/media class starts screaming that a government is acting like an evil supervillain you're probably being propagandized. But most people are swallowing it hook, line and sinker.
fair.org/home/what-you-…
You just don't find this information anywhere in mainstream news and punditry. So you don't find it anywhere in mainstream discourse either. It's just "PUTIN EVIL HITLER RAHHHH!"
mate.substack.com/p/the-ukraine-…
More:
consortiumnews.com/2022/02/16/ukr…
More:
truthout.org/articles/lies-…

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Feb 21
The Media's Odd Double Standard On Evidence Required For Claims Of An Impending Attack

When claims begin emerging of an imminent attack by a US ally, the media suddenly remember their journalistic training to note that these claims are "without evidence".
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I've highlighted a key repeating phrase we've been seeing in a few quotes to help you spot the difference between the way the western media cover unevidenced claims about a future attack by Moscow and unevidenced claims about a future attack by Kyiv: Image
See if you can spot the difference between the above examples and the way CBS News reports an anonymous government official's claim that Putin has ordered the invasion of Ukraine to proceed: Image
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Feb 21
Replies have highlighted the fact that this recording is in fact the calling song of the Indies short-tailed cricket, which was established as the origin of the "Havana Syndrome" noise in *2019*. Listen for yourself; it's an exact match: orthsoc.org/sina/492a.htm
This is not some fringe esoteric information. It was reported in The New York Times. Anyone doing a basic Google search on this story while preparing this 60 Minutes special would have encountered it.
nytimes.com/2019/01/04/sci…
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Feb 20
NYT suddenly remembers to put this disclaimer on unproven claims about an imminent large-scale attack. Image
This is happening throughout all MSM; claims made about an attack by Ukraine are made "without evidence", but when evidence-free claims are made about an attack by Russia it's just "government sources say" and "based on intelligence".
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Feb 19
It's not that the US elects incompetent leaders who make bad decisions that kill millions of people with warfare, it's that the global US empire is held together with military violence and the threat thereof. It's an intrinsically evil institution and you should always oppose it.
It's not that the US government has *done evil*, it's that the US government *is itself evil*. The very way it has set itself up to operate in the world necessarily means it must exert endless violence and oppression to keep populations functioning in its interests. That's evil.
The Mafia hasn't happened to make bad decisions throughout its history that resulted in the unfortunate demise of certain individuals, it's an institution explicitly set up to reap profits by exerting and threatening violent force. The US empire is exactly the same. Same evil.
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Feb 18
The onus is not on anyone else to prove that US claims about Russian operations are false, the onus is on the US to prove that they are true. The burden of proof doesn't magically disappear just because some pundits and politicians said something in an assertive tone.
Example:
Example:
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Feb 18
I don't support dictators. I do however always hope the US fails to accomplish its objectives against every government that it targets, because the US is far and away the single most tyrannical regime on this planet.
I don't support tyranny, I oppose it. It just happens that the major force of tyranny in this world isn't where the TV tells you it is.
No other regime has spent the 21st century slaughtering people by the millions in wars of aggression. No other regime is circling the planet with hundreds of military bases. No other regime works to destroy any nation which disobeys it using starvation sanctions, war and terror.
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