Masters of Absurd Propaganda: US Continues to Lie About Ukrainian Crisis
The US propaganda is not just false, but it is absurd, US publicist Eric Zuesse remarks, adding that it obviously insults the public's intelligence.
The entire case for Western sanctions against Russia is pure lie, American author and investigative historian Eric Zuesse emphasized, nailing the Obama administration for what he called its blatant propaganda and sheer hypocrisy.
US propaganda is "so ridiculous, no intelligent and informed person would give it any serious consideration whatsoever. It insults the public's intelligence," Zuesse stressed.
The author referred to the US State Department's "Ukraine Travel Warning" issued on July 16 and aimed at preventing American tourists from travelling to Eastern Ukraine and Crimea. Apparently aimed at frightening the US tourists out of their wits, the "warning" claimed that "individuals, including US citizens, have been threatened, detained or kidnapped for hours or days after being stopped" at checkpoints in Donetsk and Lugansk. It also warned Americans against visiting Crimea where "the Russian Federation maintains an extensive military presence."
The Obama administration obviously does not care that the reality on the ground differs tremendously from what it is saying. The US officials also remain silent about the fact that before Washington intervened in Kiev's domestic affairs, Ukraine was a unified and democratic country.
"Obama… replaced the existing Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovych, who, like all of his predecessors, was corrupt; and the US propaganda-machine publicized his corruption, while virtually ignoring the fact of corruption's normalcy in at least post-Soviet Ukraine (corruption that had been greatly encouraged by the US). The US didn't replace him because he was corrupt. The US replaced him because he supported a non-aligned Ukraine: neither a stooge to the US, nor to Russia," Zuesse emphasized.
However, a non-aligned Ukraine was not exactly what Washington needed.
Remarkably, the US political establishment and most notably Zbigniew Brzezinski "mapped out" the battle for Ukraine decades ago, US publicist and activist Chris Ernesto wrote in 2014.
Ernesto quoted Brzezinski's 1997 book, "The Grand Chessboard."
"Ukraine, a new and important space on the Eurasian chessboard, is a geopolitical pivot because its very existence as an independent country helps to transform Russia… However, if Moscow regains control over Ukraine, with its 52 million people and major resources as well as access to the Black Sea, Russia automatically again regains the wherewithal to become a powerful imperial state, spanning Europe and Asia," Brzezinski elaborated.
