adminGibson Nyikadzino
Correspondent
An extremely simplified and bad narrative about events in Ukraine coming out in Western media shows that a lot of what is true is not being reported.
All collapsed buildings that are being shown in the commercial and inaccurate Western media in the form of the capricious CNN and BBC news sites we are told, have been destroyed by Russian forces.
But in the Donbass region, it is the government-backed Ukrainians that are attacking other Ukrainians.
It is something people are not supposed to think happens!
Patrick Lancaster, a journalist covering the conflict in the Ukraine’s east has given hints on how deadly this Western narrative has become.
For Ukraine, it is only the Western side that has to be known and heard.
The military industrial complex and the pharmaceutical industrial complex never fail to exploit and capitalise on human misery.
Big US companies are already making profits out of this war in the name of bringing democracy to Ukraine.
It is often said that for defence companies to make money, the war must go on in the name of democracy. The aim is not a successful, rather an endless war, said Julian Assange.
With US and EU bullying happening all over, the world should envision entering an era of serious reassessment of the real value of many of the world’s resources that are being threatened by senseless wars by the West.
Many resources are already predicted to be deficient, including the most basic ones like food, energy, fertilisers and even clean water.
Instead of a negotiated way out of the challenges, the inability of the Western alliances to negotiate and restore global normalcy, especially with the disruption of supply chains, cost of living increases and rising global inflation out of Ukraine for peace’s sake is more obvious.
Americans consider themselves not one of the states of the planet that needs to negotiate with others, but a watching authority responsible for maintaining the current order in the world.
There unfolds a naive belief that the European Union (EU) will build a prosperous democracy for the Ukrainians at its own expense to spite the Russians.
This is an idea that will wander in the heads of many Europeans and non-Europeans who believe in Western hegemony and also linger in the Ukrainian political context for a long time.
The Kyiv regime of Volodymyr Zelensky no longer believes that people will die for it the way they would die for the European perspective. As it turns out, the point of them being sacrificed is neither for independence nor the defence of the country, but in the hope of banal European money. It is no coincidence that Zelensky began to urgently raise the issue of accelerated Ukraine’s membership in the EU. The attempt to join the EU is a miracle that will not happen even after having signed the association agreement.
The US postures as an “anti-war” champion, yet it recently approved a US$40 billion package to Ukraine.
That is to inflame the situation. This is where the term “clash of civilisations” aptly fits.
Broadly, these clashes currently being witnessed through acts of provocation by the West and its NATO alliance towards Russia and even against China.
In 1953, Dwight Eisenhower said: “Every gun that is made, every ship launched and every rocket fired signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”
The special military operation by Russia in Ukraine is a result of the West’s bid to subdue Russian civilisation and history.
From the Great Patriotic War in which Russia defeated Nazi Germany, the victory parades in Western Europe have sought to project the WWII victories over Germany as of the western alliance, while it was a victory of Russia’s bravery.
Historical facts continue to be manipulated to favour the Western narrative. This is a clash of civilisations, which concludes that a people’s cultural and religious identities have become the primary source of conflict in the post–Cold War world.
This identity is seen in Ukraine, expanding to Finland and Sweden in their latest bid to join NATO.
This is in pursuit of identities and values that are anti-Russian and where Russo-phobia becomes the order of the day.
Western media breeding racism
Aanjali Roan, director of public relations for Doctors Without Borders, recently drew attention to how Western media and politicians interpret what is happening now in Ukraine and what happened in Afghanistan, Africa or the Middle East in different ways.
She quoted former Ukrainian prosecutor David Sakvarelidze in an interview with the BBC: “For me, this is a very emotional moment, because I see blue-eyed and fair-haired European people being killed.”
Wrote Roan: “For survivors of the crises in Syria, Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, and elsewhere, this is a clear and distinct insult. If you are not a white European, your suffering is nothing special, and you do not deserve worldwide sympathy.”
The West has introduced a racist narrative through their media that Ukrainians are genetically better than Arabs, Africans and more Haitians because they are closer to Europe, even geographically.
This ‘soft power’ by the West is taking increasingly dangerous racist characters and biases where people oriented towards the West are conditioned that they have almost better genetics than the rest.
It is a race card being played by the West in the Ukrainian case in which European ambassadors the world over will not care for people who do not fit in their description to which they encourage Afrophobia and Russophobia.
Russia is not losing
Along with their her European allies, America seeks to bestow upon itself the right to judge, to punish, to determine what is right and what is wrong.
The Pax Americana matrix, into which the US is trying to drive the whole world, is not just undemocratic, but authoritarian in nature.
With Ukraine as a new case study, it is Russia, and not the US, which is fighting for democracy and for fair relations between peoples.
Konstantin Kosachev, the Deputy Chairperson of the Federal Council of the Russian Federation, says what is happening in Ukraine looks in the eyes of a non-Western person not as some kind of imperial claims of Russia, but, on the contrary, as a kind of rebellion against the global empire of the West.
“Russia has no right to lose, since the challenge thrown to it is of a civilisational nature. This was clear long before the events of 2022, when our national pillars became the objects of external attacks – the past (resolutions and theories that equated the USSR with Nazi Germany, accusations of genocides and the like), sports, culture, international peace, religions , traditional values,” says Kosachev.
Poor understanding of China
Recently, US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman told the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives that the sanctions imposed on Russia should give China a “good understanding” of what it could face if it provided economic support for Moscow.
The US says Beijing should “learn the right lessons” from a coordinated Western response to the war in Ukraine.
From these remarks, the West has achieved one thing, “a complete undermining of confidence in itself as a partner, as an honest player in the global economy and a supporter of universal values.”
In Asia, China and India are the biggest markets of any products and the behaviour of the US of exerting pressure on sovereign states to stop dealing with Russia will in the end push for regionalisation of relations instead of total globalisation.
Institutions such as the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or the World Bank (WB) will, predictably, gradually lose their leading role in these processes.
Added Kosachev: “Prospects for cooperation between Russia and China are quite rosy, regardless of the development of the situation around Ukraine. Our interaction has its own dynamics, and it just so happens that any actions of the West today only strengthen these ties.”
Political and economic power are already shifting towards the East. If Russia loses in its confrontation with the West in Ukraine, the world will be more dangerous.
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