Hard to spin this as "admitting" anything, considering this is a widely known fact.
Nah, the western mainstream narrative was that Russia just invaded Ukraine completely unprovoked in February last year.
Lol, wat? Western mainstream sources have been covering the conflict since 2014.
- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-timeline-idUSBREA270PO20140308
- https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ukraine-crisis/russias-putin-took-european-states-surprise-ukraine-report-n309406
- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-26248275
- https://news.sky.com/story/us-russian-military-firing-into-ukraine-10395472
None of these sources are talking about NATO involvement in Ukraine since 2014, nor acknowledge the role NATO played in creating the conditions for the conflict.
P.S. Here you go:
- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29198497
- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29204505
- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29026623
- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29073330
I agree with you, and I appreciate the links, but I will say that this isn't common knowledge. The prevailing narrative is something along the lines of Russia invading Ukraine in 2022 for conquest and the US + allies intervening to save democracy. Tons of people will dismiss you if you point out western involvement prior to 2022 (not on lemmygrad tho).
This seems like a bit of a strawman, tbh. It's true that the average person in the street in the U.S. may think that the war started last year, but certainly doesn't square with what the mainstream media have been generally reporting over the last ten years.
We're going to have to do a media analysis to retort, but the evidence is clear - if you talk about 2014 then all social media platforms immediately respond en masse with "that's Putinist propaganda". If the MSM had truly been pushing this larger historical context, we wouldn't be in this situation.
If the " evidence is clear", can you show me an example? You're not the first person to say this, but no one yet has actually provided a citation or source to demonstrate what you're talking about.
I have been following the conflict fairly closely across many different sources, and it certainly hasn't seemed controversial to say that the conflict began in 2014 instead of 2022.
You honestly never heard the expression "unprovoked invasion" in the mainstream media?
"The atomic unit of propaganda isn't lies, but emphasis."
You can find good coverage on the past decade of the region, but the overpowering narrative is that of an unprovoked attack.
That's a very narrow interpretation. Those headlines do not suggest that the Western media was reporting that everything was fine in the region but then Russia attacked; it means that the conflict escalated into a full blown invasion of Ukraine instead of merely occupying Crimea/Donbas.
Even one of the top links in your search result says:
For eight years, brave Ukrainians fought and died for that dream after Russia invaded Crimea and the Donbas region. Today, as a result of President Putin’s flagrant disregard for human life and Ukrainian sovereignty, many more will suffer. But the dream—and America’s support for it—will never die.
Darn those Ukrainians for fighting back against a hostile takeover of their sovereign land. Have they no shame?
Did you even read the article? They started the war.
https://www.kanekoa.news/p/osce-reports-reveal-ukraine-started
