It is funny how, all of a sudden, the American people are so very concerned about the plight of Ukrainians.  Have Americans become anti war and more caring about people on the other side of the world?

Unfortunately, the answer is no.  I think most Americans really are generally good people.  While they are ethnocentric and naturally care more about their own lives and those around them (as it should be), most don’t wish harm on innocent people in foreign lands.

The reason for the sudden shift in Americans caring greatly for those suffering the plight of war is because the establishment is gaslighting them.

As with COVID and so many other things, the establishment media doesn’t typically outright lie.  They are usually factually correct, yet not truthful.  They will only tell you half the story.  Sometimes they won’t tell you any part of the story.

For example, how often have you heard it mentioned from the establishment media that the U.S. government helped to fund and plan the overthrow of the democratically-elected government in Ukraine in 2014?

How often have you heard it directly said that the Ukrainian government has been killing ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine for the last 8 years?

Have you heard the media talk about the president of Ukraine and how he has thrown his political enemies in jail in Ukraine?

I am anti war no matter what.  The only way war can be justified is if you can specifically target the aggressors without civilian casualties.  So from this standpoint, it is wrong what Putin is doing to Ukraine, even if he is trying to minimize civilian casualties.

However, it is understandable, given that he is a politician, that he would resort to war.  He has been warning NATO, and the U.S. in particular, to stop expanding NATO towards Russia and that the Russian people feel threatened with missiles near the border.  Putin has tried to talk and negotiate, almost to a fault.  Instead of a mature response, U.S. politicians just try to humiliate him.

So Putin finally had enough.  From a statist standpoint, it is completely understandable why he is doing what he is doing.

It isn’t “what aboutism” to point out the incredible hypocrisy of so many Americans and much of the world in shedding fake tears for the Ukrainian people.  If you also sympathized with the people of Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, and Yemen, then I will take you seriously.  Otherwise, you are just acting as a hypocrite, even if misinformed.

I think most Americans would sympathize with the people of Yemen if they knew what was going on.  If they knew that the U.S. government was helping Saudi Arabia to starve people in an already-poor country and they saw images on the news of kids dying of malnutrition, then I think Americans would be willing to pay tribute to Yemen just as they have done with Ukraine.

But the media isn’t truthful.  They don’t tell you this story because it isn’t Putin who is the bad guy.  The bad guy (or guys) is in Washington DC.  It’s the same reason that you don’t get the same obsessive coverage over civilian casualties and suffering in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and other places that the U.S. government has invaded and/ or bombed.

I don’t remember the United States being sanctioned over starting a war.  I don’t remember American athletes not being able to participate in events.  I don’t remember hearing the media giving non-stop coverage to mass civilian casualties, which wouldn’t have required made-up stories and photographs.

Again, I don’t think most Americans are bad people.  But they are being ignorant by believing what the media is telling them.  It is especially strange to see some of the conservative/ right wing who didn’t believe the COVID narrative but then are willing to believe everything they are told about Putin and Ukraine.

With the shift from COVID to Ukraine, it is sickening to watch Fox News.  It is still just as bad to watch CNN or any of the other “news” networks.

All of the people who opposed Trump because he wasn’t enough of a war hawk are now showing up in your face to tell you how bad Putin is and how we need to help Ukraine.  It is particularly curious to watch some people who criticized the hoax that Trump colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election.  But now they are believing every single thing the same media tells them about Ukraine.

The media has shifted dramatically from COVID propaganda to anti Russia propaganda.  The war hawks are happy right now to have Trump out of office and to be looking to get back in the spotlight.  This includes the war hawks from both parties, but especially the Republicans.  Now we get to listen to the horrible people like Sean Hannity, Nikki Haley, Lindsey Graham, and Brian Kilmeade.

Someone like Kilmeade is tough because he was really great on COVID and opposing vaccine mandates.  But now he gets to foam at the mouth over the prospects of more war.

The one encouraging thing is that I have seen more conservatives and libertarian-leaning Republicans who are at least skeptical of going to war.  There are still many bad Republicans who are eager to go to war, but not nearly as many as 20 years ago.  Ron Paul, Donald Trump, and Tucker Carlson all contributed to the slightly less hawkish Republican Party.  Unfortunately, most of the Republicans in DC are still bad.