{"id":273358,"date":"2023-09-16T05:08:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T05:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=273358"},"modified":"2023-09-18T06:58:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T06:58:38","slug":"putin-kim-summit-western-hysteria-cant-conceal-historic-failing-of-western-imperialism-and-criminality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=273358","title":{"rendered":"Putin-Kim Summit: Western Hysteria Can\u2019t Conceal Historic Failing Of Western Imperialism and Criminality"},"content":{"rendered":"

Strategic Culture \u2013 Sept 15, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Western news media have become a parody of misreporting, misinformation and outright imperialist propaganda. Nobody of sound mind can take their claims seriously anymore. This week such media \u201cexcelled\u201d in their deceptions and distortions with hysterical coverage of the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.<\/p>\n

It is, however, instructive to analyze what motivates the Western hysteria and false narratives.<\/p>\n

The tone of Western reporting and commentary was akin to reading reviews of a new James Bond movie. In their telling, the summit was portrayed as a tete-a-tete between the world\u2019s most dastardly villains. The Washington Post perhaps took the laurels for hyperbole, describing<\/a> the summit as having \u201cnefarious glamor\u201d and went on to mention Kim arriving in a bulletproof train (as if that is somehow weird) and how the two leaders met at a \u201cremote space port\u201d (cue the James Bond music) and dined on \u201cduck salad and crab dumplings\u201d (oh, how very evil!). All that was missing, it seemed, was a shark tank.<\/p>\n

The contrived menacing tone projected by the gamut of Western media speculated on Russia cutting a deal with North Korea to supply artillery munitions for the 18-month-old conflict in Ukraine. There were also heavy inferences that Russia would help bolster its East Asian neighbor\u2019s nuclear arsenal thereby allegedly posing a greater threat to the United States.<\/p>\n

It was widely claimed that the summit demonstrated that Russia was isolated internationally over the Ukraine war and that President Putin was \u201cdesperate\u201d by reaching out to \u201cpariah state\u201d North Korea.<\/p>\n

As we noted above, Western media have long ago forfeited any credibility. Their narratives have become embarrassingly discredited. Anything that American or European news media pronounce on should be taken with a risible pinch of salt, if not with utter contempt.<\/p>\n

One topical example suffices. This week saw an appalling human disaster in Libya from storm floods. Up to 20,000 people are feared dead from torrential flooding. Not one Western media outlet even remotely made the connection that this horror was made wholly possible because the North African country was destroyed and turned into a failed state by the criminal military attack on the nation in 2011 by the U.S.-led NATO alliance.<\/p>\n

Given this total denial by Western media of the underlying cause of Libya\u2019s ruination, one can reasonably dismiss their credibility and moral presumption to discuss any other world events. Their function is to mislead, not inform.<\/p>\n

The summit this week between the Russian and North Korean leaders was indeed a significant marker. Their meeting occurred while the 8th Eastern Economic Forum was proceeding in Russia\u2019s Far East city of Vladivostok. The forum brought together political and business leaders from scores of nations with a focus on investment and partnership in the Asia-Pacific. President Putin delivered a keynote address to delegates before hosting Kim Jung Un at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Arum region, about 1,500 kilometers from Vladivostok.<\/p>\n

The meeting between the Russian and North Korean leaders was a cordial event involving lengthy discussions (up to six hours, according to some reports) and a lavish state dinner attended by senior dignitaries. The details of the one-on-one talks were not elaborated on in public but the general topic areas included partnership in developing space technology and military matters.<\/p>\n

Russia and the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea have a long and honorable history, as both leaders warmly acknowledged. Putin noted how Soviet soldiers fought alongside Korean revolutionaries to defeat Japanese imperialism to help establish the DPRK in 1948. The partition of the Korean Peninsula into North and South was largely instrumented by the United States as a Cold War measure to contain the Soviet Union and China.<\/p>\n

There is nothing sinister about the Far East Asian neighbors reaching out to each other to further develop fraternal relations for the benefit of both nations. The spirit by which Putin and Kim embraced is fully consistent with the historic emergence of a new multipolar world order.<\/p>\n

In this new global reality, the notion of hegemonic dominance by the United States and its Western partners is rapidly becoming redundant and indeed repugnant. The arrogant and brutal imposition of unilateral sanctions by Western powers are increasingly seen for what they are \u2013 criminal vestiges of a by-gone era of Western neocolonialist self-ordained privileges.<\/p>\n

The truly sinister aspect about the Putin-Kim summit is the glaring absence of any Western media acknowledgement that the DPRK has for decades been subjected to Western economic warfare as well as unrelenting military aggression by the United States from annual \u201cwar games\u201d that rehearse \u201cdecapitation strikes\u201d and an invasion of North Korea. The U.S. continues to refuse to make a formal peace settlement with the DPRK even after 70 years from the end of the Korean War in 1953. During that war, the U.S. inflicted genocidal mass aerial bombing killing up to three million civilians.<\/p>\n

Instead of admitting historical truth and realities about the nefarious nature of American-led Western imperialism, the pathetic Western media would rather focus on \u201cnefarious duck salad\u201d supposedly eaten by Putin and Kim.<\/p>\n

While the Western media go into hysterics about North Korea allegedly supplying weapons to Russia for the conflict in Ukraine, the same media are vacant in any questioning about the supply of $100 billion in weaponry by Washington and its NATO accomplices to prop up a Nazi regime in Kiev. That\u2019s because they promote the absurd propaganda lie that the Western powers are \u201cdefending democracy\u201d in Ukraine, in spite of the well-documented facts about the Kiev regime\u2019s rampant corruption, repression, forced conscriptions and Nazi associations.<\/p>\n

On the particular scare-and-smear story by Western media that Russia is desperately seeking arms supply from North Korea, it seemed to go un-noticed that the New York Times completely undermined this speculation with a separate report<\/a> this week claiming that Russia is more than self-sufficient in artillery and arms production.<\/p>\n

Anyway, even if the DPRK and Russia enter into a military supply deal, so what?<\/p>\n

Russia has every legal right to confront the years-long aggression that NATO has embarked on in Ukraine. The United States is this week considering supplying long-range (300 km) ATACMS missiles to the Nazi regime and, according to<\/a> its criminally insane Secretary of State Antony Blinken, has given the go-ahead for attacks on Russian territory.<\/p>\n

This is the shocking and deplorable reality of Western-induced escalation of war between nuclear superpowers. And yet, according to the Western media, the sinister thing the Western public should be concerned about is a neighborly summit between Putin and Kim.<\/p>\n

As Russia\u2019s President Putin noted<\/a> in his plenary address and in public dialogue during the Eastern Economic Forum, the Western arrogant powers have destroyed their own privileged financial system from decades of abusing the rest of the world and using their neocolonialist prerogatives to parasite off others. The West is desperately trying to conceal the reality of the historic global shift towards a multipolar world and away from self-ordained Western hegemony. Part of this denial and cover-up entails the West resorting to the old and weary game of trying to create bogeymen stories to corral the Western public behind otherwise bankrupt leaders.<\/p>\n

The bogeymen narratives don\u2019t work anymore. That\u2019s because Western media are seen to be bankrupt in credibility, having been exposed over and over again as liars and con artists as seen from their apologetics for endless criminal wars \u2013 Libya is a stark case in point this week. Another reason for narrative impotency is due to the visible moral bankruptcy of Western political leaders. How can anyone take these elite charlatans seriously? Biden, Sunak, Scholz, Rutte, Macron, Trudeau, Von Der Leyen, Borrell, to name a few.<\/p>\n

Another reason why Western bogeymen tales don\u2019t cut it is because the harsh economic and social reality hitting most citizens in Western states is actually much scarier than any fictitious claims about foreign villains. The latter begins to seem even more absurd and disdainfully divorced from reality.<\/p>\n

What should be \u2013 and no doubt is already \u2013 deeply troubling to Western elites and their media is that the public is realizing that their real and only enemy is within, in the form of elite rulers and their elite-serving economic system. That was always the case historically, but in former times, that reality could be diverted from with bogeymen stories about foreign enemies, \u201cCommies and Reds\u201d, and so on. Now, however, no amount of Western media spinning and fantasizing can conceal the dawning and dreadful reality of Western inherent corruption and failure, and the long overdue need for justice and accountability for the multiple capital crimes of Western imperialism.<\/p>\n

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Instead of acknowledging the real nature of U.S.-led Western imperialism and Russia and North Korea’s response, the Western media would rather focus on \u201cnefarious duck salad\u201d supposedly eaten by Putin and Kim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":273360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273358"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273362,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273358\/revisions\/273362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/273360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}