{"id":307593,"date":"2025-04-29T06:20:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T06:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=307593"},"modified":"2025-05-01T06:29:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T06:29:40","slug":"legendary-british-journalist-youve-been-fed-steady-diet-of-propaganda-rubbish-about-ukraine-and-the-invented-russian-menace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=307593","title":{"rendered":"LEGENDARY BRITISH JOURNALIST: You’ve been ‘fed steady diet of propaganda rubbish’ about Ukraine and ‘the invented Russian menace’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not since the Iraq War and those notoriously elusive ‘weapons of mass destruction’ have the people of America and Europe been told bigger lies by their warmongering political leaders.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leo Hohmann \u2013 Leo\u2019s Newsletter April 28, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Peter Hitchens, in an Op-Ed published by the Daily Mail<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, says he learned long ago that governments specialize in lying and in getting others, especially the mainstream corporate media, to lie for them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is what they do,\u201d he writes. And yet, seldom has he seen such a massive cloud of lies as we face now with regard to the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

He writes:<\/p>\n

\u201cThere has been nothing like it since we were all lied to about the Iraq invasion, with bilge about fictional \u2018Weapons of Mass Destruction\u2019. The liars were caught. And they learned from it. They learned to lie more skillfully.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Peter Hitchens. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

I\u2019ve been writing about many of the same things, trying to dispel the same lies about Ukraine, but for someone as noteworthy as Hitchens to step forward and join the fray of truth-tellers, that\u2019s significant. Hitchens, a legendary British author and journalist<\/a>, has been covering the West\u2019s foreign policy toward Russia for 47 years. He\u2019s a major critic of Putin and Putin\u2019s style of governance, so nobody can call him a \u201cRussian asset,\u201d as the establishment globalists are fond of labeling anyone who challenges their narratives.<\/p>\n

Hitchens writes:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have never had a debate about the Ukraine crisis which started from the beginning. <\/strong>Did anyone in power ever tell you truthfully how, when or why this war began? No. Did anyone in power explain why Britain, crime blighted, decrepit, rubbish-strewn, rat-infested, broke Britain, had to get involved in it? Never.\u201d<\/p>\n

Instead, Hitchens says we have just been fed a steady diet of \u201cpropaganda rubbish about \u2018democracy\u2019, freedom and an invented Russian menace.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here are just a few of the biggest lies you have been told over and over and over again:<\/p>\n

Lie number 1. The war, they say, was not provoked. Hitchens said \u201cseldom in history has a war been more provoked.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Russians, nice ones like the liberal, democratic politician Yegor Gaidar, and nasty ones like the bloody despot Vladimir Putin, begged the West to stop expanding its military alliance, NATO, eastwards towards Russia.<\/p>\n

Hitchens reminds us that ALL Russians<\/em>, including the great anti-Communist author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, had been shocked and angered when NATO in 1999 (under the leadership of Bill Clinton) abruptly gave up its defensive posture and launched attacks on Yugoslavia, which had not attacked a NATO member.<\/p>\n

Lie number 2. These protests reached their peak in February 2007, when Putin made a dramatic speech in Munich. <\/strong>He said NATO expansion was \u201ca serious provocation that reduces the level of mutual trust. We have the right to ask: against whom is this expansion intended?\u201d<\/p>\n

Hitchens writes: \u201cLook, if someone as gaunt as Putin spoke to you like that in a pub late in the evening, you\u2019d take it as a warning that he was seriously riled. And unless you wanted a fight, you\u2019d back off. But we didn\u2019t back off.\u201d<\/p>\n

NATO, exposed as no longer just a defensive alliance, kept right on expanding eastward, right up to Russia\u2019s doorstep. In 1999, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic joined NATO. In 2004, seven more former Soviet Bloc nations joined including the three Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, followed by the Balkan states of Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia.<\/p>\n

Hitchens notes that it was US President George W. Bush who deliberately raised the temperature the following year. In April 2008, Bush said Ukraine should be placed on the path towards joining NATO. Even the Guardian<\/em>, which Hitchens describes as \u201cthe Liberal Warmonger\u2019s Gazette,\u201d conceded that this was \u201clikely to infuriate the Kremlin.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lie number 3. We are repeatedly told that Russia attacked Georgia later in 2008. But Hitchens notes that anyone can find, on the web, a 2009 Reuters story headlined \u201cGeorgia started war with Russia: EU-backed report.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article summarizes an inquiry by the respected Swiss diplomat Heidi Tagliavini. She had been asked by Brussels to look into that war\u2019s causes. She found that Georgia started the war, not Russia. Predictably, Western media outlets ignored her findings.<\/p>\n

Hitchens says he still meets supposedly informed people who have never heard of Ms. Tagliavini or her report.<\/p>\n

Lie number 4. The claim that this war is about democracy and freedom<\/em>. \u201cIt isn\u2019t,\u201d Hitchens says. \u201cThe more the West claims to care for these things, the less it does to help them.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some examples:<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s elected president was lawlessly overthrown by a mob in 2014. Britain and the USA condoned this shameful event because they preferred the illegal rebels to the elected government. You just can\u2019t do that and pretend to be the guardian of democracy. But then, we aren\u2019t anyway.<\/p>\n

You will search in vain for protests against the treatment of Romania\u2019s presidential candidate, in a country that is in the EU and Nato.<\/p>\n

CALIN Georgescu\u2019s election was canceled by judges in December when he looked like he was winning the first round. He was then banned from running in the second round \u2013 all because he has the wrong kind of politics. If that\u2019s not enough, look at the West\u2019s deep, shaming silence over the frightening, thuggish behavior of Turkey\u2019s President Recep Erdogan. Turkey is a NATO member state and key Western ally.<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago, Erdogan, whom Hitches describes as \u201cthe Turkish Putin,\u201d arrested and jailed Ekrem Imamoglu, an opposition politician who looked likely to beat him at the polls.<\/p>\n

Hitchens writes:<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Imamoglu joined the many journalists and democrats who already rot in Turkish prisons. Erdogan has crushed free media, free speech and the freedom to protest. But his country is still allowed to stay in NATO, and Western states have made less noise than an angry vole guarding its nest. They\u2019re scared of Erdogan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hitchens doesn\u2019t even go into the ultimate hypocrisy, which is the fact that the government in Ukraine is every bit as authoritarian as the one in Moscow. Zelensky\u2019s government has shut down opposition parties, censored and silenced all critical media, bullied and intimidated the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. When his term was up, Zelensky canceled elections and has yet to reschedule them because he knows he would lose.<\/p>\n

Read Hitchens\u2019 entire article here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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