Big truths: bigger lies

People go to convenience stores to buy junk food because it’s easy and cheap and full of sugar.

 How about information?

 For most people the mainstream media are informational convenience stores.  There is no fuss or bother–and it doesn’t matter if the information is junk – especially if that information is about what’s happening in other countries, which might as well be other planets. 

A good example just happened recently.

A missile hit the marketplace in the Ukrainian occupied town of Konstantinovka killing at least 18 people and wounding others.

The Western media, including the New York Times and Washington Post and CNN and others such as the BBC and CBC, all immediately blamed Russia.

“Russia done it”!

 “Putin done it!”

But the evidence – which was almost immediately available – indicates that the missile came from the Northwest, which is occupied by what really should be called Nazi Ukraine – the launching point for a lot of missile strikes on civilian centers to the south. Forensic evidence indicates tungsten fragments and shrapnel from a US supplied HARM missile.  As I said, the media package junk information.  Read the labels carefully to see how your mind is being poisoned.

Of course, each mainstream media article will quote “experts” – the guys with Harvard University tattooed on their asses --who have little rawhide bags of bones to spread out in the dirt and inform their opinions. They speak to the gods directly in the new Olympus known as Washington DC.

Expert opinion is a tradition — as in “three out of four doctors recommend Lucky Strikes”.

“All experts serve the state and the media and only in that way do they achieve their status. Every expert follows his master, for all former possibilities for independence have been gradually reduced to nil by present society’s mode of organisation. The most useful expert, of course, is the one who can lie.”

Guy Debord    Comments on the Society of the Spectacle

But what do such things matter to the average person? Konstantinovka? Who can even pronounce the name? Who cares? 

Well , you should care. This is a slow moving, hybrid world war – and it is affecting all of us gradually in many ways, largely economically, but also socially, and healthwise, as our civilization – so-called – declines.  Your kids will be lucky to survive to the age of 40.

In other words, if you believe the lies, you are part of the problem, maybe the main part.

Civilization collapsing

That said, when a civilization is collapsing, and people start to notice things aren't quite right which means the biggest threat to social order is from within.  All of a sudden people start to feel their comfort zone getting narrower and less comfortable.

What do couch potatoes do when the couch collapses? I guess it depends on what’s on TV.  No TV?  Out of beer? Do you have a spring up your ass? Suddenly there is anger. Inchoate anger. Where’s the guillotine?

Today, the way the media is telling us stories shows our civilization is getting desperate.

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.

This quotation is usually attributed to Goebbels – although there is no proof of that. It doesn’t matter who said it – it still expresses a pertinent reality, at least for the increasingly less United States of America.

The mainstream media seek to create an alternative world since ours is like that broken couch. Ukraine exists in another dimension on another earth.  “Our experts” have bags of bones to prove it.  As in the time of the Middle Ages, you want to believe and, if you don’t want to, you must.

You can dissent if you like – but you will be marginalized if not ridiculed, or maybe just ignored. If you are lucky.

 If you manage to get any degree of attention as Julian Assange did or Donald Trump or the leaders of the January 6 capital “insurrection” festivities, which were less of a riot than spring break in Florida, you can be sent to prison for very very long time.  They would burn you at the stake – if they could. Thank you*Starlink that you live in the United States of America. If you live in another country, you will probably just be assassinated or droned to death.  

It follows you must assume that whatever you read in the mainstream media about the war in Ukraine or about Russia or China is misdirection, misinformation, or disinformation – is simply put, a lie.  

It also follows that you should be careful what you say and to whom.

In a criminal society, the truth is a crime.

Weapons of mass deception

Konstantinovka is just the most recent example part of a pattern of mass deception.

For example, since the counteroffensive in Ukraine began, we have been told that the Ukrainians are making progress-- most recently a “breakthrough” – which it is not. 

The Nazis, also known as Western Ukrainians, are just losing men - thousands of them.  The American economy does not run on oil or gas – it runs on blood.

 Ukrainian forces are attacking Russian defenses in a wedge of land close to the heavily fortified city of Tokmak.  But before they can reach this city, they must take Robotnye.  Unfortunately, the village is on low ground and the Russians have retreated to high ground nearby to fire down on those below.  The Ukrainians are still bogged down.  The redlines in the map indicate main defense lines which the Ukrainians have yet to attack.

As you can see, the defenses in Robotyne are not really the first line of defenses. They are also not as sophisticated as the primary defense lines.   Those actually lie across open fields seeded with mines in the direction of Tokmak, situated on the hills to better slaughter attackers.

To attack Tokmak, the Ukrainians must not only take Robotnye but also the village of Verbovoye.  They have tried but unsuccessfully so they are stuck on this ledge or wedge for the time being.  In fact, the relatively weak defenses in this area are a trap, bait, to persuade Ukrainians to commit large numbers of men and weaponry where they can be easily destroyed.  This is Svechin’s concept of “tactical defense” In action…

Note that the Ukrainians occupy the lower elevations; the Russians, the higher elevations, taking advantage of topography. So for the Ukrainians, it is truly an uphill battle.

How many men can Ukrainians lose?  How many tanks? How many Challengers? A second Challenger tank is now claim destroyed in the area. How many armored vehicles? And guns?

Yet Zelensky is still trying – unsuccessfully – to retake Bakhmut At the same time, losing more men—entire brigades.

It is an egregious fuck up – so the mainstream media will have you believe that victory is just within reach.  Not that anyone in the West really cares.  As I said, the US economy runs on blood.

But truth leaks. or you might say bleeds.

The media now have to acknowledge Ukrainian losses, which requires them to lie by artfully twisting statistics, so it seems Ukrainians are winning despite their casualties. 

The most quoted figure for Ukrainian conflict is 500,000 men lost on both sides. 

This is supposed to be mostly Russians when in fact the Ukrainians are losing 10 men for every single Russian soldier– thanks to Russia’s overwhelming superiority in airpower, drone power, and especially artillery. 

That “500,000” of course refers to “casualties’ – not just KIA– but MIA and wounded also.

Some of the Western media such as Business Insider insist that Ukrainian medical services are excellent compared to Russian medical services – but this is just propaganda. If you look carefully, you will find other articles-- even in the Western media-- which say the opposite.

In fact, a Ukrainian soldier wounded in action has a 50% chance of dying in the first hour – so injured often means not immediately dead.

By contrast, Russian soldiers have a 90% chance of surviving a battlefield injury. They get battlefield medicine in 10 minutes and reach hospitals in an hour. All indications are that they have a simply superb record in this area.  The stories you read about Russian inadequacy in tending to its wounded on the battlefield are just repurposed accounts from the Ukraine.

At some point Ukrainians will have lost so many men that the current line of contact will just move north for lack of manpower to defend the Ukrainian side. Russia will control all of the Donbas and probably Kharkov, with minimal expenditure of human and other resources.

The Ukrainians will be unable to defend Kiev or the southern part of Western Ukraine and will have to retreat to the Polish border. They will most likely surrender.

There will be no negotiations. Just Russian missile batteries facing the Polish border in Ukraine and Russian bases in strategic locations.

Will the Russians face guerrilla warfare in Western Ukraine?  No doubt some.  But the war weary Ukrainians will also find their Russian cousins generous and humane and helpful in putting their lives back in order.  They are after all family.

There is also the flipside of total defeat and total surrender. When you have nothing– a little kindness goes a long way.

 If NATO doesn’t like Russian troops and missiles on their border that they will have to withdraw their missile batteries from the Baltics, Poland and elsewhere.  If they don’t like Russian bases they will have to get the Americans to leave.

In effect, demilitarizing Ukraine means creating an economically unsuccessful buffer state which serves to demilitarize NATO – or at least reduce it to a shadow of its former self.

Here in Japan, I was talking to an old Japanese guy who had been in Okinawa about Ukraine. He shook his head and said, “it’s just like Okinawa”.  Back in the day he was given a grenade and told to die for the Emperor. He was 15. He didn’t do it but others did.

How different is Ukraine?

Like the Pacific war, the war in Ukraine will have been lost long before it ends officially and the dying stops. Right now, everyone is being given a grenade.

When the Americans took over Japan, they purged the political class and gave the Japanese a new constitution, at the same time setting up defense agreements and bases that guaranteed Japanese obedience in all things.

Of course, Japan is a totally different culture with a different history and traditions from that of the US and Europe.  One way or another, Japan will always be Japan. It will never be America.

By contrast, Russia and Ukraine are fraternal cultures, sharing language and history.  Together they are stronger in all respects.  The world is changing and for Ukraine to survive in any form it must embrace that change, now centered on Russia, China, and BRICS .

 Japan’s relationship with the US has had some advantages but if you look at everything altogether— more disadvantages.  They too will be forced to see the writing on the wall.

 Japan is doomed unless it can get from underneath America’s thumb.  At some point it will have to try.

There might be more hope for Ukraine.

 

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