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How rational are human beings & how susceptible are we to propaganda? - In Georgia we know the overwhelming majority of the democratically elected government support the NGO transparency law (83 in favour vs 23 against). - Yet, the media shows some pictures of protests and we are ready to redefine democracy as the rule of a loud Western-backed minority to support intimidations, sanctions and a coup. - The Georgian government expresses concerns about US efforts to topple the government to use their country as a second front against Russia. - Yet, the political-media elites sell it as a choice between "democracy" and a "Russian law", and we believe we are on the virtuous side in a struggle between good and evil. - The same was done to Ukraine in 2014. Our governments and our "NGOs" backed an unconstitutional coup against a democratically elected government and the coup was only supported by a minority of Ukrainians. - Yet, it was sold to us as "pro-Ukrainian" and a "democratic revolution" so we supported it without any critical debate. - But we are told propaganda only happens in the countries we are taught to hate.

US Senator Lindsey Graham argues Israel should use nuclear weapons against its adversaries... - These are the people who we outsourced our security to in Europe - The narrative of the benign liberal hegemony is a distant fantasy from the 1990s

In my previous post, there are several requests for evidence that only a small minority of Ukrainians wanted NATO membership between 1991 and 2014 (when the US/NATO sought to pull Ukraine into the military bloc): - Every since poll from Ukraine and abroad confirmed this. - NATO reported in 2011 that its expansionism was resisted by the Ukrainian government and its people: "The greatest challenge for Ukrainian-NATO relations lies in the perception of NATO among the Ukrainian people. NATO membership is not widely supported in the country, with some polls suggesting that popular support of it is less than 20%". nato-pa.int/document/2011-17… - Even after Russia seized Crimea (in response to the US-backed coup), the US own polls demonstrated that still only a minority of Ukrainians wanted NATO membership. usagm.gov/wp-content/media/2… - US Ambassador (now CIA Director) William Burn cautioned that NATO expansionism would trigger a Civil War exactly because it did not have support in the public (and that Russia would reluctantly invade). wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/0… - There is nothing controversial about the statement that NATO expansionism was pushed against the will of the Ukrainians, with our full awareness of the likely devastating consequences. - The only reason this is not common knowledge is because the media does not report on it, as there is full conformity to the war narrative that we are merely "helping" Ukraine. Even mentioning verifiable facts results in attacks and cancellation efforts from the compliant media as inconvenient facts are met with accusations of "legitimising" the Russian invasion - On the eve of the American invasion of Iraq, a majority of Americans believed that Saddam Hussein was involved in the 9-11 attacks. This would not have been possible without a dishonest and manipulative media. In our current Ukraine War, the war enthusiasts in media play an equally manipulative role in ensuring public support for the notion that "weapons are the path to peace" and diplomacy is not possible. American leaders and the NATO Secretary General keep openly making statements that this war is a great opportunity to weaken a strategic adversary without losing their own soldiers, and the media assists in laundering this as a virtuous "pro-Ukrainian" stance.