The West wants to lecture Russia on the benefits of peace, yet that is precisely what Moscow was attempting to accomplish for several years.
For numerous decades, every American public institution– from the spook-infested studios of Hollywood to the dinosaur legacy media– provided an exhausted and repugnant image of the Russian individuals to its audiences. Now, with Moscow required to contend with a neo-Nazi aspect smack on its border, the spin-off of that sinister propaganda project is targeting Russians in the kind of pure bigotry.
If the Western world’s contempt for Russia could somehow be converted into reusable fuel, the Western world would have adequate oil and gas reserves to last the next 1,000 years and probably a lot longer. However alas, the world of science and technology has not yet found a way of tapping into human irrationality for any strictly useful purposes, therefore we’re just left with crude screens of xenophobia in some of the most unexpected places.
This week, for example, the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra fired famous Russian conductor, Valery Gergiev for not knocking Moscow’s special operation in Ukraine. Gergiev, 68, a vocal fan of Vladimir Putin, had actually previously expressed his approval of Crimea entering into the Russian Federation. And while Germany’s cultural elite are complimentary to employ and fire whoever they like, and for whatever political views they deem inappropriate, it would be excellent to see some consistency on such matters. When U.S.-led NATO forces let loose hell on Iraq in 2003 and in Libya in 2011, for instance, were any American or European composers sacked due to the fact that of their views and birthplace? In truth, cheering on Western forces during their long run of illicit warmongering, in hardscrabble places like Iraq, Syria and Libya, would have done nothing to hurt an individual’s career and more than most likely advance it.
On the other end of the cultural spectrum, in the realm of sport, Russian and Belarusian professional athletes were prohibited from competing in the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games due to the military conflict in Ukraine. Again, where is the precedent for this noxious form of discrimination, where competitors are straight-out banned entirely for the ‘criminal activity’ of being born in a specific country? And let’s not forget, as much as the mainstream media would like us to, that Russia was not the only country that found itself took part in a military operation at this period in time.
On February 24, the really exact same day that Russia started its unique operation in Ukraine, Israel carried out yet another air campaign near the Syrian capital Damascus. The unprovoked attack left 3 Syrian soldiers dead, according to Syria’s state media. How many people understand that it was the 4th noted time this month that Israel has launched strikes within Syria? If the International Olympic Committee knew it, why did that disturbing information not stop Israeli athletes from contending?
Previous Russian Olympic champ Alina Kabaeva said the sanctions unfairly targeting Russian athletes represent the “most disgraceful page in the history of world sports.”
“The leadership of many worldwide sports organizations has actually long been engaged in entirely unsportsmanlike affairs under different pretexts,” continued Kabaeva, who went on to end up being a State Duma Deputy following her retirement from sport. “Now it is no longer concealed.”
And lastly there has been a rejection on the part of reporters to hear the viewpoint of Russian citizens.
On March 3, the Australian talk program Q&A took concerns from the audience as part of its incredibly biased conversation on the events in Ukraine. During the program, a viewer in the audience, one Sasha Gillies-Lekakis, presented himself as part of the Russian community in Australia before saying, “I’ve been quite outraged by the narrative created by our media portraying the Ukraine as the ‘good guy’ and Russia as the ‘bad guy’.” He went on to explain, correctly, that since 2014, “the Ukrainian Federal government together with Nazi-groups like the Azov Battalion have actually besieged the Russian populations in the Donbas, eliminating an estimated 13,000 individuals according to the United Nations. My question is where was your outpouring of sorrow and concern for those countless mostly Russians?”
It seems to be an affordable question that is worthy of a reasonable response, but Q&A host Stan Grant was having none of it: “Sasha, people here have actually been discussing household who are suffering and individuals are passing away, and I comprehend you wanted to ask your question exists some reasoning for this. But you supported what’s happening [in Ukraine] hearing that individuals are dying and can I simply say I’m not comfortable with you being here. Could you please leave?”
Which basically sums up the Western media’s meaningless technique to the dispute if you happen to be Russian or pro-Russian– “Might you please leave”– that is, if you were fortunate to have actually been invited in the first place. This month, RT and Sputnik were blanked across the EU, while Strategic Culture Foundation has suffered heavy censorship because at least 2020 for ‘the criminal offense’ of being a Russia-based analytical platform that presents an alternative voice to the West’s obsessively regulated narrative. Such attacks on complimentary speech, which bring apparent racist overtones, have been coming so thick and heavy that an entire Telegram channel, called ‘Russophobia Watch,’ has actually been developed just to track them.
It is no secret that the media has actually been priming the public mind for a long period of time about the “aggressive Russians” with many exposed stories, like Russiagate, where in some way a handful of Russian social media posts, as the fairy tale goes, handled to sway the 2016 presidential election for Donald Trump. When once again, it seems that the real perpetrators of such political shenanigans– liberal-driven Silicon Valley behemoths, like Google, who actually does have the boundless power to sway elections– were merely forecasting and securing their own misbehaviours behind their favorite fall guy, Russia.
Speaking of aggression, let us not forget, because the mainstream media definitely has, that for several years humankind has been cooped audience as U.S.-led NATO launched a number of unprovoked wars in places like Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya.
Where was the virtue-signaling pearl clutching then from the sanctimonious liberal capitals, especially when none of those brazen military escapades were from another location justified? Meanwhile, Russia has actually been alerting on NATO expansion really publicly– at least considering that Vladimir Putin’s now-famous presentation at the 2007 Munich Conference on Security Policy– to absolutely no obtain. Yet now the West, in all of its leaking hypocrisy and double requirements, wishes to lecture Russia on the merits of peace, yet that is precisely what Moscow was trying to attain for several years.