When people like Peter Baker claim that it’s ‘rewriting’ history to acknowledge the truth, what they really mean is that the propaganda they prefer has been a failure.
Ignore the press. They don’t know what he’d do because they forget how politics works.
From the outset, Western mainstream discourse was ruled by a deadly combination of crass flag-waving and manifold lies that have distorted every aspect of the conflict. Take just two examples.
In a 2021 index of world corruption, where the UK scores 79, Ukraine scores 32, just above Russia on 29. The Guardian has described Ukraine as ‘the most corrupt nation in Europe’. Writing in The American Conservative in April 2022, Ted Galen Carpenter states that ‘at best, Ukraine is a corrupt, quasi‐democratic entity with troubling repressive policies’.
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