ISSUE #100: "We need a nuclear war to protect humanity."
Everyone is anti-war until war propaganda really starts.
I know the title sounds absurd, but that’s me trying to explain the current public perception in one line.
I was just 2 years old when the Iraq invasion happened, so I can never tell you what my view would have been during that point in history. One thing that always wondered me was how people could ever support the Iraq invasion which was based on pure lies. How could the public believe that Iraq has WMDs without any single shred of evidence? How did we consent to torturing and killing innocent civilians who didn’t pose any threat to us?
The war in Ukraine is answering all my questions.
Everyone is anti-war until war propaganda really starts.
Nobody wanted Iraq to be destroyed, until the propaganda to destroy Iraq started.
Nobody wanted the Jews to be killed, until the propaganda to kill Jews started.
Nobody wanted a journalist to be put in jail for telling the truth, until the propaganda to put a journalist in jail for telling the truth started.
And nobody wants WWIII to happen until the propaganda for WWIII starts.
What’s in Article 5 of the NATO Charter that the warhawks are suddenly talking about?
To put it briefly, any attack on any NATO country would be considered an attack on all the NATO countries and it gives NATO the authority to act militarily if needed.
Russia is being accused of shelling the Zaporizhzhia NPP nuclear plant, which is the largest in Europe, and the warmongers worry that a radiation leak from the plant may enter the neighboring NATO countries which will be understood as a direct attack on NATO - the alliance.
The funny part about the story is that Russia itself is in control of the nuclear plant that the Western media says Russia is attacking. Why would a country attack a facility that it controls? It defies all logical sense as it does when we learn that people agreed to murder a million Iraqis over a shitty diagram and a dettergent powder, as people jokingly call it, that Colin Powell showed at the UN as a proof of Iraq having WMDs.
But it makes perfect sense when you figure out that their real intentions are to create enough outrage to allow NATO to invoke article 5 and turn the tide of war in Ukraine’s favor, or I should say, in the US empire’s favor.
Take a look at the comments posted below the Yahoo post:
These are the same people who say they are “anti-war” and want peace, but when the time comes to push for peace, they turn out to be the warmongers of the highest magnitude. These are the people who are the enemies of humanity, enemies of other species, enemies of the planet, and friends of the fucking military-industrial complex.
I’m sure that most of the people who are currently warmongering for the US empire agree that their government lied during the Iraq invasion, but they believe that the same government is 100% telling the truth now. They know that past wars were sold for profit and domination not freedom and democracy, but they believe that the next war will be for freedom and democracy not profit and domination.
Just imagine you being the head of the Russian military and you are in control of that nuclear plant. Would you blow it up knowing that you are already in control of it or would you cut all the electricity Ukraine derives from it and port it to Crimea/Donbass region? It’s a simple question that has a simple answer, but everyone cheering for the invoking of Article 5 shows how easy it is to manipulate the public. That how easily people can be propagandized into supporting something that may lead to an all-out nuclear war, which probably will be the last military conflict on this planet as there would be no humans left to fight another war.
Being anti-war in theory doesn’t matter and never will as long as you are not anti-war in practice. Calling yourself “anti-war” and “pro-peace” while also advocating for a nuclear holocaust is like calling yourself a fitness freak while advocating for McDonald’s.
I must tell you that being “anti-war” in an environment where everyone believes the war is necessary is not as pleasant or ego-satisfying as it may sound. It means constantly being screamed at by the pro-war zombies around you. It means constantly being called a conspiracy theorist, a Putin puppet, even a Nazi, when in reality you are just advocating for peace, humanity and the planet. It may even mean risking your life if you rise to prominence holding these beliefs.
“Anti-war” guys mistakenly believe that future wars will be same as the wars of the past, but they are not. The “War on Communism” was not sold in the same way as the “War on Terror” was sold, and the war for maintaining the unipolar world will not be sold the same way as either the “War on Communism” or the “War on Terror” was sold. You have to be critical of everything the media tells you, but you have to be mutiple-times critical of the media trying to manufacture consent for war.
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