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Thierry Bruno's avatar

This disastrous cancer of government propaganda affects the entire West. Here, for example, are all the headlines about the war in Ukraine that I collected yesterday in the daily newspaper "Le Figaro", an organ of the big press, owned by the arms dealer Dassault.

I quote:

"UKRAINE SPECIAL EDITION War in Ukraine: all our articles to understand

▸ Russia: what will happen, from Moscow to Siberia, if Ukraine wins?

ANALYSIS - Rarely has the risk of disintegration been so strong since the early 1990s.

▸GRAND RECIT - Ukraine, the war that shook up the world order

▸DECRYPTAGE - War in Ukraine: one year later, the impossible counting of military losses for both sides

▸DÉCRYPTAGE - In Ukraine, the atrocious litany of war crimes committed by Russian forces

▸Can the Ukrainians win the war in 2023?

Yes

48,61%

No

51,39%

86482 voters

▸War in Ukraine: a Russian society silent but affected in its depths

DECRYPTAGE - Distancing oneself. To withdraw into oneself. To batten down the hatches. This is the big deal for many Russians at the time of the "special military operation".

▸One year of war in Ukraine, why Emmanuel Macron is wrong - The head of state wants a "defeat" of Russia without "crushing" it to negotiate with it. But do the West, engaged by proxy for a year in the war in Ukraine, have any other choice than a crushing defeat of Vladimir Putin, locked in his refusal of any concession?

▸Volodymyr Zelensky, this humorist who became in one year the hero of the free world.

End of quote.

And this kind of talk is repeated in all the print media, radio or TV. And the worst thing is that there are hardly any alternative media, even on the Internet, that present a different narrative or, at least, denounce this propaganda. For real information, I have to turn to sites like Caitlin Johnstone's, Scott Ritter's..., still accessible German sites or, with VPN, Russian sites or the excellent "Strategic Culture Foundation".

And yet, the French government does not even have imperial ambitions, it is only the pitiful lackey of the American empire. Which doesn't bother most of my compatriots much, alas!

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J Taff's avatar

Germany is unbearable too. I lived through the Cold War here, but I never experienced anything like the amount of propaganda before this conflict and now I can barely manage to find anything on TV or radio without being bombarded with the mighty zelensky and the glorious struggle to defend democracy in that hallowed nation, Ukraine. It's truly terrifying even exceeding pandemic levels of fear.

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Thierry Bruno's avatar

The European Union is the Titanic with the United States at the helm. And we are heading for the iceberg called Russia.

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Philanthropy Poketwanus's avatar

What a way to put it... I did not know.

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Thierry Bruno's avatar

I hope my English is not too bad because I work with a machine translation software.

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Philanthropy Poketwanus's avatar

Not too bad, you are doing fine. At least you are a human using a machine instead of a machine abusing a human.

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Thierry Bruno's avatar

Thank you. There's no way I'm going to let a machine bother me. The concept of artificial intelligence makes my skin crawl and I don't need a smartphone.

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