Obama’s Speech on Ukraine: Propaganda and Lies | Global Research

Obama’s Speech on Ukraine: Propaganda and Lies | Global Research

The speech delivered by President Barack Obama in Brussels
Wednesday was a call to arms for a US-NATO confrontation against Russia.
With a series of lies and evasions, Obama presented a world turned
upside down in which the US and European imperialists, who backed the
coup in Ukraine spearheaded by fascistic forces, are the defenders of
democracy and peace.

There was little in the speech that could convince working people,
either in Europe or the United States, that a policy of open-ended
conflict with Russia was in their interests. That was not the purpose of
the speech, which consisted of one propaganda lie after another,
uttered with the assurance that there would be no serious criticism, let
alone opposition, within the ruling elites of the US and Europe or from
their media mouthpieces.

Obama sought to elaborate the basis for a major turn in US foreign
policy—what one of his foreign policy advisers called a “strategic
pivot” towards confronting Russia, deliberately employing the same term
that the White House has used to describe its systematic anti-China
policy in the Far East.