Ukraine Is a #FakeNews Gaslighting Operation

'Allies want Putin to face justice for war atrocities' says the headline in The Daily Telegraph.

It goes on: '[Prime Minister Boris] Johnson condemns murder of hundreds by Russian troops and promises help to bring charges in The Hague.'

It quotes him as saying: 'No denial or disinformation from the Kremlin can hide what we all know to be the truth - Putin is desperate, his invasion is failing, and Ukraine's resolve has never been stronger.'

Hmm. I remember some years ago being invited on to a panel alongside luminaries including [Wikipedia founder] Jimmy Wales and [Thick of It creator] Armando Ianucci to discuss the then-fashionable concepts of #FakeNews and the Post Truth world.

What puzzled me then was why it was considered such a hot topic worthy of debate. The concepts of #FakeNews and #PostTruth did not seem to be like honest attempts to describe a real phenomenon. Rather, they seemed almost to have been plucked from the ether. Or rather, it was if mysterious forces from on high (though I knew not where, exactly, at the time) had decreed that these concepts were the New Thing and must be repeated relentlessly until everyone understood that they were important and genuine and of pressing concern.

Nothing anyone said in that debate persuaded me that this was a discussion worth having. Sure, it was trivially true that there were sites in places like Macedonia which specialised in churning out fake news stories for clickbait. But the #FakeNews concept in general simply could not cope with the significance being forcibly ascribed to it by the media (which was suddenly hot for stories about #FakeNews , and social media (ditto). The #FakeNews trope seemed to me the very definition of #FakeNews

What I didn't understand then but do much better now is that #FakeNews was a top down concept, invented by the Predator Class, for a number of nefarious purposes: to discredit the-then burgeoning pro-Trump movement, to discredit alternative news sources which weren't on board with the mainstream narrative, to redefine truth not as a verifiable moral absolute but rather as a nebulous concept dependent on the source of the information. [So, if, say, the BBC says it then it's true; but if a blogger says it then it's probably not...]

The Predator Class, which of course controls the mainstream media, is continually seeding these fake concepts, which most Normies believe to be organic but which are in fact are construction of the elites.

This Reddit page - New York Times Word Usage Frequency (1970-2018) - illustrates this perfectly.

Phrases like 'mansplaining', 'patriarchy', 'transgender', 'transphobia' 'intersectionality' and 'safe space' simply didn't exist until the 21st century. Even 'climate change' only began to ramp up in the Nineties. Other terms, like 'equality' were huge at the beginning of the period, then fell into abeyance, then began rocketing again. 'Duties', 'church' and 'General Motors' have all been in decline since 1970: go figure...

Sure you could argue, as I would have done myself once, that the media merely reflects trends and reports on them but does not create them. But I think you only have to look critically and intelligently at the MSM's narrative on, say, climate change, or 'Covid' or, most recently, the Ukraine to appreciate that our supposedly free press is actually as shameless a brainwashing tool as were, say, Pravda or Völkischer Beobachter or Communist China's People's Daily.

Let's parse that Telegraph front page. [I could just as easily have quoted the New York Times or the Times or the Guardian or the Mail or the Washington Post or the BBC or CNN for they are all the bloody same].

First Putin's alleged 'atrocities'. I've no doubt that the Russians have committed 'war crimes'. But I'm in even less doubt that Zelenskyy's Ukrainians have committed disproportionately more both for reasons of deliberate policy (somewhere online you'll find the video of a Ukrainian leader praising ISIS's terror tactics as an effective tool of war) and because we know that Putin's strategy is to not to provide the Western media with open goals so he is trying to keep atrocities to a minimum. For Ukraine's allies to accuse Putin of war crimes constitutes the most outrageous hypocrisy.

The Hague? Kangaroo court, controlled by the globalist elite - aka the Predator Class.

'No denial or disinformation from the Kremlin...' Wait, what? The denial and disinformation put out by the Western MSM makes the Kremlin look like rank amateurs.

'Putin is desperate, his invasion is failing, and Ukraine's resolve has never been stronger.' How do I know that every word of this is untrue? First, because it comes from the lips of an habitual liar under the control of the Ukraine-allied World Economic Forum. Second, because it was reported straight in the lying Western media.

Let me stress, I'm not suggesting that Putin is a good guy or has our best interests at heart. Just that he's not nearly as bad as the monsters currently ranged against him: Ukraine's neo-Nazis; the Predator Class; the disgusting, mendacious media which holds truth, fairness and its readership in such utter contempt.