Another radicalized US veteran.
The West is notorious for lying and using ad-hominems to get its propaganda across to the unsuspecting public. People all over the modern world take headlines and information at face value without a second thought. In general, the majority of the public are trusting the media to present facts and not blatant lies. It should not be a surprise that the media is not trustworthy, but many people still fall victim to sensational headlines that have nothing to do with the content of articles. This is because headlines are made up by those with an agenda. The goal is to grasp one’s attention to read a feature, or to at least have the words of the title planted in someone’s memory. This is not always a problem, unless the headline has little or nothing to do with the content of the account. This is exactly what occurred in an article published by Stars and Stripes*.
Anyone reading the write-up can clearly see that there is no reference to “Putin tak[ing] a swipe at U.S. in Victory Day speech” even though this is the title of the article. Perhaps the person who wrote the article originally had a different title, but that is difficult to determine. However, as a colleague of mine has stated, “the damage is done” when unknowing bystanders read such titles without further investigating the reality. This is the type of dishonest information the Western media uses to discredit Putin and Russia as a whole.
Actually, Putin gave credit to all the participants in the war, including the U.S., which suffered the loss of just over 400,000 soldiers compared to Russia’s 25-29 million soldiers and civilians, because the war was fought on Russian soil.
Russia Insider
Putin's 'Swipe' at the US
Jared Sharp, an Orthodox Christian and combat veteran who served two tours in Iraq with the U.S. Army as an Infantry Machine Gunner and Team Leader/Truck Commander. Between tours he completed a History degree, and is currently working on a Master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction
*Stars and Stripes is an American newspaper that reports on matters affecting the members of the United States Armed Forces. It operates from inside the Department of Defense, but is editorially separate from it, and its First Amendment protection is safeguarded by the United States Congress, to whom an independent ombudsman, who serves the readers' interests, regularly reports. — Wikipedia
2 comments:
Hello, I really do not understand how criticizing Western Propaganda is "radicalized".
I am a veteran of the Vietnam Conflict. I was from a a very conservative background and bought into the BS about why the US was in Vietnam. I was radicalized in the military when I was given the assignment to brief the officers about a DOD paper sent a around to explain why the US was there. As I was reading the paper, I smelled a rat and realized that I needed to more research, which I did. It wasn't too difficult to figure out what the real story was after a bit of digging around, since smart people then had figured it out, in particular Bernard Fall writing about the French experience there which had led to an igdomineous defeat at the hands of Gen Giap, just like the US would later.
That led me to join the anti-war movement after I had completed my active duty reserve obligation, as John Kerry did back then along with many others, but he now seems to have forgotten or can't connect the dots funning from there to here.
Subsequently the BS got thicker and thicker until now the American people actually discover that they've been lied into war on false pretenses, and a new generation is waking up to what's going on behind the scenes, which Gen. Smedley Butler (1891-1940 had already described in War is a Racket, and which President Eisenhower warned against at the conclusion of his presidency.
Hopefully, a new wave of veterans will also see through this facade and say so.
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