Something
is wrong. And I’m not talking about the screenshots going around
purporting to show cardboard weapons in the hands of Ukraine civilians
or the death of someone a few years ago dying again in the Ukraine; I’m
talking about major in-your-face news outlets working overtime on WAR.
I’m writing this Sunday night (2/27), so who knows what new gobs of insanity will be spit up by tomorrow morning, when we post.
These are notes. The news is coming too fast and furious---each proclamation more preposterous than the last.
Bottom line: I’m not buying what they’re selling. I’m not buying what I’m seeing. I’m not buying what I’m not seeing.
Drumbeats
of war. You must support America. And that means you must declare Putin
is far more evil than Hitler. So say all. So say Democrats and
Republicans foaming at the mouth. Keep our planes in the air. Ready the
nukes. It just so happens our great Commander-in-Chief is coming on
Tuesday night, to deliver his wartime State of the Union to the
Congress.
The timing is perfect.
Spray
the hall with meth. Members on both sides of the aisle will be standing
every twenty seconds to roar with approval as decrepit old
Joe---himself pumped full of every drug the docs can think of to keep
him on his feet and his mouth working in coordination with the
teleprompter---old Joe hurls angry Commander-in-Chief slogans of USA
power…and the news heads will be ready to give him HIGH MARKS in the
aftermath and try to shove his poll numbers, for the moment, through the
roof…and turn around the mid-term elections…
“The
old man had it in him. Wow. He rocked the house. This was quite a
night, Bob. This was Presidential. Both sides of the aisle were
screaming at the tops of their lungs. And now we have reports of biker
gangs and possibly truckers who want to go to the Ukraine and help the
people fight Putin…”
COVID? Vaccines? Vaccine
deaths and injuries? New CDC lies exposed? Mandates? Freedom
convoys? Inflation? Never heard of them. THIS IS WAR. Clear the
decks. Battle stations, everyone. The Russians are coming.
Speaking of which, where are they in the Ukraine? 150,000 troops have invaded the country?
18,000 auto weapons have been distributed to Ukrainian citizens in Kiev/Kyiv?
So
tell me this. Have you seen any video footage of actual armed clashes
between Ukrainian civilians/soldiers and Russians? Actual back and forth
prolonged shooting? (Not aftermath stuff.) I haven’t.
With
the Ukraine press on high alert, and with a zillion cell phones active
in the country, I should have seen MANY gun battles, live, by now. If
there are any.
Have you heard the word DRONES?
I
haven’t. I’d think the Russians have some drones. But no. Seems like
all the reported air battles are happening between planes with pilots in
cockpits. Do it the old fashioned way.
Did
you see the extraordinary footage of a line of Russian tanks and
armored vehicles all blown up and twisted on a quiet road in broad
daylight?
Who
destroyed them, and how? And in or around those vehicles, did you see
any DEAD RUSSIAN BODIES? I didn’t. I would think there were quite a
few. Where did they go? Who took them away, and why? Were these Russian
vehicles operated by remote control from Moscow?
One
retired US general claimed on FOX/CNN: these Russian vehicles were sent
into the Ukraine with absolutely no thought of what their drivers would
do when they quickly ran out of fuel after a few hours---since there
are no supply lines. And that was the Putin battle plan. “Drive as far
as you can, fire your weapons at tall buildings, empty your fuel
capacity, and then just sit there.” REALLY? THAT’S WHAT’S BEEN
HAPPENING? SOMEBODY FORGOT ABOUT SUPPLY LINES? We’re supposed to buy
that scenario?
Of
course, as in every recent war, US TV reporters, “on the ground” in the
Ukraine, are doing stand ups in stone quiet areas where nothing at all
is happening, and these “reporters” are relaying press updates
originating from New York and Washington. That’s standard. “We’re
sending you to Kiev/Kyiv on the midnight flight, Fred. Don’t forget your
helmet. We’ll feed you AP dispatches through your earpiece and you just
repeat them…”
Meanwhile,
NATO is on high alert, international payment processors have shut down
certain Russian banks and accounts, some government (I missed the
country name) is sending jet fighters to the Ukraine. Really? Who’s
going to pilot those planes? Ukrainians? “Where’s the brake and the
ignition? What are these buttons for?”
Possibly
the supplying country will also provide its own pilots? That could get
messy very fast. “French pilots shot down a Russian plane this
morning. President Macron denied it was an act of war.”
Some
Congressman said we should do WHAT? Send people to the Ukraine to
enforce a NO-FLY-ZONE over the country? Was he drunk out of his
mind? Exactly how do you enforce that? My guess would be:
WEAPONS. PLANES.
“Goddammit,
it’s about time we stood up and fought those Ruskies. Enough
posturing. Break out the old films showing schoolkids how to get down
under their desks when the nuclear bombs fall on their heads.”
Of
course, it would have been too easy, a few months ago, to tell Putin
the Ukraine will never be a NATO member. But diplomacy never
works. Disband the whole State Department.
We need a good war. Cleans the pipes. Reinvigorates the blood. Improves sperm count.
“Phil,
I want at least one Kiev/Kyiv refugee or displaced person or whatever
you call them when they hide underground---I want at least one of these
WOMEN per hour on our national broadcast telling her story, like in Wag
the Dog, BECAUSE WE DON’T HAVE ANY GODDAMN FOOTAGE OF THE ACTUAL WAR
GOING ON AND WHY IS THAT? CAN SOMEBODY AROUND HERE TELL ME? I WANT TO
SEE STREET BATTLES THAT LAST FOR MINUTES AND PEOPLE FALLING DOWN.”
“Jack, we don’t have footage of the war because we’re sending our reporters to places where nothing is going on.”
“Is that so? Well, wherever the war IS going on, there are people with cell phones. Where is their video?”
“I have no idea.”
Dear
reader, there IS a war. Some kind of war. But the shape of it and who’s
doing what to who, and how it’s being shaped for public consumption…and
whether the shaping IS the war…and exactly what the word WAR means in
this case…these are questions whose present answers I’m not buying. I’m
not buying what I’m seeing. I’m not buying what I’m not seeing.
If you or I were the head of FOX/CNN, we’d do this:
“Mike,
get your ass in here. You’re our top analyst on this. See this map of
the Ukraine spread out on the table? I want you to circle every little
area where battles on the ground are happening. And then sign your name
under each area. Because THOSE PLACES are where we’re going to send our
people. They’re called WAR CORRESPONDENTS. That’s what they’ll do when
they get there. Correspond about the war. I want to know what’s actually
happening. And we’ll show it to our audience. I don’t want to see any
more footage of what already happened. It makes us look stupid and
inattentive, and quite possibly, liars. Are we a bunch of liars? Why do I
have to ask that question?”
You know, REPORT THE NEWS. Rather than BEAT THE DRUM.
~~~
(The link to this article posted on my blog is here.)
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