by Jeff Childers
We’re on a mission from God. Yesterday, the BBC ran a story headlined “Putin warns South Korea against arming Ukraine.” The Beeb reported on Putin’s extended revival tour, after the Russian leader hopped straight from North Korean treaty-making to visit Vietnam, another historic Cold War ally. You could say President Putin, like the Blues Brothers, is on a mission to put the old Soviet-era band back together.
The Vietnam development is interesting in its own right, but this isn’t the Proxy War channel. I usually don’t update you on every single geopolitical chess move. The reason I included this story was because the BBC accurately reported Putin’s comments explaining what he was up to, the reason, the driving force if you will, his motivation — which I’ve been predicting ever since Joe Biden’s final five neurons first conceived of the horrible idea of letting Ukraine attack sovereign Russian territory using U.S.-supplied weapons.
In a certain light, the Russians might see the U.S. policy as us attacking Russian sovereign territory ourselves, hiding behind a beard, or patsy: the comedic non-president, Martial Law Manager Zelensky. Here’s what Putin said yesterday:
Even though I’m just a lawyer, not a military expert, even I could see it. Whereas fumbling, bumbling media has been unable to connect those simple kindergarten dots for weeks now. Like the Blues Brothers’ blind Ray, the media is happy and ignorant unless somebody tries to steal its guitar, when suddenly and unexpectedly it turns deadly accurate:
In its article, the BBC encouraged South Koreans to respond by sending more weapons to Ukraine. In other words, escalate!
This new corporate media is so wild. An entire generation of reporters should be making their careers and winning Pulitzer prizes writing about topics like nuclear escalation, how world wars form, who started it, and who’s keeping it going. Most of all, how we should de-escalate! Even if only to save the climate, which would get a lot hotter if the nukes start flying.
But instead, what we get are rivers of bellicose ink. It’s all warmongering, 24 x 7, all the time, penned by people who’ve never known or been affected by war, not personally.
Not a single corporate media article has interviewed an expert on diplomacy or peace.
Weird! Pre-pandemic, peace and love were the media’s favorite topical darlings. Now, they’re more like Carrie Fisher’s furious but eerily cheerful character, the machine-gun-wielding ex-girlfriend Jake left at the altar. It’s like this whole generation of pugnacious press wants war.
The media seems to be possessed by an angry spirit of revenge. Revenge against Russia. Revenge against China. Just Revenge! It’s like some kind of spiritual restrainer has been removed or something.
Everything stems from Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden’s stupid and obviously destructive energy policies as well as his telegraphed weakness and incompetence.