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Thank you Caitlin! This exposure of Denisova is a perfect illustration of the avalanche of propaganda, funded by billions of $$–much of it taxpayer money, that insidiously serves to coverup the now hidden and conveniently forgotten evidence that Zelensky provoked Russia to intervene by ramping up the bombing of the Russian-speaking Donbas on February 16th. And so interventionist liberals label all their critics who refuse to buy the fabricated pretexts for war Putin apologists, including an increasing number of western military figures with impeccable credentials such as former Swiss colonel and ex-member of the Swiss strategic intelligence Jacques Baud, former US Colonel Dick Black, former US Colonel Douglas Macgregor, former Marine Corp Intelligence officer Scott Ritter, and former British Army major and Australian Army lawyer David Mcbride.

Interestingly, this phase of the propaganda war, fueled by a cadre of frontline fabricationists like Denisova, has created an unlikely alliance between detente conservatives and progressive defenders of the new non-aligned world order emerging from the Global South. That unlikely allies come together argues for dissenters' and war critics' allegiances to fact over ideology.

Propagandists on all sides, including the Russian side, succeed when their victims are unaware of how they have been duped and when their victims become so overwhelmed by conflicting information they have no other means to discern the truth than by appeals to emotions and ideology rather than basic verified facts. Victims of Denisova become so emotionally fused with their propagandists they are totally lost to critical thinking that entails questioning all assumptions, distinguishing fact from speculations, and recognizing the inherent subjectivity of knowledge.

No imperial side in this war is without its share of barbarous inhumanity. To justify and support one empire ganging up on another is not only misguided it is complicit in the harm being done by Zelensky and ultranationalists at the behest of Blinken against any Ukrainian opposition and against the Ukrainians in the Donbas who initially voted to become an autonomous region within Ukraine and not an independent republic.

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