{"id":2150,"date":"2022-03-25T12:47:31","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T12:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/03\/25\/asking-questions-about-ukraine-makes-you-pro-putin-why-do-they-lie\/"},"modified":"2022-03-25T12:47:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T12:47:31","slug":"asking-questions-about-ukraine-makes-you-pro-putin-why-do-they-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/03\/25\/asking-questions-about-ukraine-makes-you-pro-putin-why-do-they-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Asking Questions about Ukraine Makes You Pro-Putin? Why Do They Lie?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you say out loud that you think there is something strange about a campaign involving Democrats and Republicans, the media, Big Tech, corporate giants, and US intelligence services to promote one side in a foreign war that doesn\u2019t obviously touch on the daily concerns of most Americans, you\u2019re pro-Putin<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

That accusation has haunted the American public sphere going on six years. For this is where the long campaign started, with Russiagate, the most destructive information operation ever waged against the nation. And unlike, say, the notorious Protocols of the Elders of Zion, its authors aren\u2019t adversarial spy services, but fellow Americans, our own ruling class. Now the same journalists, foreign-policy experts, and retired US officials who lied in 2016 about Trump\u2019s ties to Russia are front and center shaping public opinion about the war waged by Putin\u2014the world leader our overclass put in the middle of an elite conspiracy theory designed to guarantee Hillary Clinton the presidency.<\/span><\/p>\n

It would be useful to have insight into Putin\u2019s thinking, especially now with a massive land war in the middle of Europe giving rise to a powerful anti-American bloc led by Russia and China. But don\u2019t count on America\u2019s national-security establishment to provide that insight. For they squandered their credibility with Russiagate. From former officials like ex-Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul and retired spy chiefs like James Clapper and John Brennan to Biden deputies like National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and the Pentagon\u2019s top strategist, Colin Kahl, and the entire Democratic Party and its media apparatus, the lies of America\u2019s political class left the republic vulnerable to destructive forces.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why did they lie?<\/strong> Policymakers, spy chiefs, and military officials rightly deceive foreign powers to protect and advance the US national interest. But these men and women lied to the American people about the president they elected. Then they lied about everything. Public US institutions and private industries have spent the last six years mustering their formidable powers to break the US working and middle classes. Why? Because lying is part of the logic of war, and America\u2019s oligarchy is at war with the American people.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Here: If you say out loud that you think there is something strange about a campaign involving Democrats and Republicans, the media, Big Tech, corporate giants, and US intelligence services to promote one side in a foreign war that doesn\u2019t obviously touch on the daily concerns of most Americans, you\u2019re pro-Putin. That accusation has haunted the … Continue reading “Asking Questions about Ukraine Makes You Pro-Putin? Why Do They Lie?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,117,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-political-dissimulation","category-war-and-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}