We have known since Aeschylus that the first casualty of war is truth. The proxy war of the two great powers in Ukraine is not only taking place on the ground, but also in the communication space, and the latter is not fighting for winning the security/influence zone, but for souls. However, the ultimate goal is the same, only while the soldier fights with a gun, the press fights for the redistribution of the world with words. Or against him.
The language/communication war is really reaching its peak these days, and there should be people on their feet who can filter the news from the narratives and get as close as possible to reality from their connections. Russia blocked Facebook, Putin called the West an empire of lies. The West, including our country within the European Union, has made the Russian state tax, Russia Today, among other things, inaccessible to its population, saying that it is only Russian propaganda. So we are forced to rely on Ukrainian and Western propaganda for news. Because they are true. At least this is what the "independent" and "objective" media say, who, in their total delusion of role, like to refer to themselves as the sole possessors of the absolute truth. If you doubt my statement, check the questions section of any Government Info. I note that they also try to emphasize their perceived status with their name choices, and to win over the reader even before he has clicked on any of their articles. Who wouldn't believe in a portal called Qubit or Litmus - the little brothers of 444?
But sometimes a grain of sand gets into the machine, and the gentle reader becomes unsure. Why? Let's go through the collection of Áron Sándor Lovász!
The defenders of Snake Island died a heroic death. (Index)
Yeah, they're NOT dead. (Portfolio)
An aircraft bearing the Hungarian flag is transporting weapons to Ukraine. (HVG)
Yes, it was NOT a Hungarian plane! (BalFakeNews)
Spirit of Kyiv. A Ukrainian fighter jet mows down the Russians over Kiev. (Portfolio)
Oh, NO, just a digital scene copied from a video game. It's all a lie. (News station)
The Russian tank ran over a Ukrainian car. (Blink)
Yes, NO, sorry, it was a Ukrainian tank.
The Holocaust memorial in Kyiv was severely damaged (Zelensky himself announced). (444)
Oh NO, wait, it's intact. (Weeks)
From Romania, you can only come to Hungary with a biometric passport.
This news was NOT even true when 444 brought it down. (BalFakeNews)
The Ukrainian nuclear power plant is on fire. (Index)
So, er, the fire broke out in the annex next to the nuclear power plant.
One of the leading Chechen warlords was killed. (Portfolio)
Yeah, he's NOT dead. The Chechen warlord, believed to be dead, logged in on social media. (Mandarin)
The situation is that no propaganda should be blindly trusted, and one can be exposed to fatal misdirection even if one obtains information from several sources.
This is especially true in a war situation, when it is in the interests of all participants to lie. However, what is certain is that they do not allow us to obtain information from several sources.
You just don't think, and we will prepare the narrative we consider desirable for you!
So everyone has to listen to and feel their own propaganda, even if they cringe at the simplistic explanations that Putin is a fundamentally evil, deranged dictator who oppresses his people and murders innocent Ukrainians. And the heroic West, as the champion of truth and democracy, cannot leave all of this unsaid.
But there's an even more interesting tidbit here that may confuse even diehard followers of Western/Ukrainian propaganda. Because what happens when a former Prime Minister of UKRAINE, Mykola Azarov, speaks up and says this and that about the non-existent military labs, which - since they do not exist - the USA could not support them either? Well, the fact checkers also found that there are no secret labs funded by Americans in Ukraine!
The translation of Mikola Azarov's post is machine translated, so it is far from perfect, but the text is nevertheless coherent and understandable:
"In 2005, after the so-called "Orange Revolution", Ukraine turned into a banana republic, a puppet state led by the United States. The Americans appointed their president - Viktor Yushchenko, who has been preparing for the post of leader of Ukraine for 5 years, and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
On August 29, 2005, an agreement was signed between the Ministry of Health of Ukraine and the US Department of Defense. According to this agreement, its authorities will establish biological laboratories on the territory of Ukraine, which will conduct research on their programs. The agreement was secret, the permission of the Ukrainian Minister's Cabinet Office for the establishment of laboratories was also classified.
We were there until 2010 and had no idea that such laboratories existed. Those who knew about it were linked to the confidentiality subscription. Of course, the public and the media knew nothing.
In 2010, the government changed. A new president was elected, a new government was appointed.
In the middle of summer, I received an informative letter from the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, in which the minister said that such biological laboratories operate in the country, they are financed by the US Department of Defense, but we will partly take them with us. the stairs. The minister asked what to do: should money continue to be distributed to these laboratories or not.
I was surprised after reading this letter. I have already processed the letters to which the conclusion of the legal department was applied, that in accordance with the constitution of Ukraine, finding military units of other states on the territory of the country is impossible without special decisions of the Supreme Council.
After reading this paper, I realized that some decisions had to be made. But on what basis? Therefore, we sent a request to the Ministry of Health with a request to find out what kind of research is being done there and why these laboratories are needed. The bureaucratic meeting has begun. These laboratories were guarded, no one from the Ministry of Health was allowed there, nothing was said to them. We have been negotiating with the American embassy on this issue for several months.
Then I was forced to write a letter to the American government saying that if they don't allow us to inspect these laboratories and show them all the materials, we will be forced to question the ceasefire. the agreements of young people. This whole correspondence took quite a long time.
We were finally able to visit these laboratories, specialists from the Ministry of Health and our scientific institutions visited and submitted a report to the government. The gist of the report was that these labs work for the best and against the worst. But no one wanted to explain exactly what they were looking for there. These commissions showed nothing except corridors and air purification systems, ventilation and other secondary items. The essence of the studies there was never explained.
The Laboratories argued that the agreement prohibited them from disclosing the results of the research to anyone except representatives of the US Department of Defense. I even remember the phrase: “These results are all the property of the US Department of Defense and are not subject to declaration in their country of residence. "This worked even better, and at the end of the summer of 2013, we sent a categorical letter to the American side that the agreement has been terminated since 2014, and that by January 1, 2014, they must collect all their assets and spend mine anywhere but on the territory of Ukraine .
The motivation is very simple: during two years of correspondence, we received absolutely no information about the activities of these laboratories. And then there is a famous coup d'état, the puppet government comes, which no longer asks such questions. In my time, these labs were 5 or 6 years old, now they are around 30.”
Therefore, the answer to the question whether the average person in the free world can decide what kind of news to consume today is clearly negative. But fortunately, here in Central and Eastern Europe, we have mastered the ability to read between the lines very well. And now it's working to our advantage. Those who see more clearly are less surprised.
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