It’s always the same. The largest war in Europe since WW2 is still not a war because it’s inconvenient to say the truth. It’s also really cute how Russia, the aggressor, is completely erased from this “Ukraine crisis.”
These are the same tricks we see in the coverage of domestic issues.
That is an interesting fact. Why do you think they avoid calling it a war?Do orgs other than Reuters downgrade it?
Amanda
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Yes. First the would-be masters come for our words. It’s partly the gnostic magic of our age: scientism. The strong Sapir-Worf whatsit of word-spells. Partly just traditional totalitarianism: What the serfs cannot say, they cannot discuss amongst themselves and foment rebellion. Notice the lack of any anti-war protesters on street corners in the Ukraine/Russia War. The strategy is not foolishness if the goal is to rule (for a while) in Hell.
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Forget street corners. We don’t assault cancer wards and beat up Russians in the streets. Because we are evolved and civilized.
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Antifa and the assorted rent-a-sociopaths who tried to murder the Kenosha Kid missed your memo.
Those who play the word games believe they can release or contain them based on which magic phrases are uttered.*
Also, evolved? Did you have any particular sub-humans in mind? Not a wise public road to travel down whatever Hamas (or similar) is doing to fit the playbill.
*My money is on the neo-liberal prison projects and, well, the aforementioned NGO rent payments.
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Though you might not have been in America for any of the past wars. Every previous one, no matter who was involved, or the support for it, ginned up street corner groups with signs and chants.
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Yes. Both Korea and Vietnam started out as police actions, and did not generate serious protests until it started being called a war in the mass media. Sarajevo and Bosnia got similar treatment, but fizzled in terms of US participation. For the people enduring the wars, they were always wars of course.
The people attempting to cast the word-spells in the mass media have a “wet pavements cause rain” mindset. I used to find it risable, however the recent covid atrocities proved that, if only in the short term, the “spells” work.
You would no better than I how effective they are in shaping and limiting dissent and complicity, albeit on a smaller scale. The tools if mass communication and self-betrayal to the apparat (as witness our communication here) were less powerful.
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Yet there are mass protests in the US over Gaza, even though it’s not a war and the US is not participating.
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Yes. There are more reasons / excuses to protest than wars. So an alternate explanation could apply.
However, the court eunuchs and psywar teams for the assorted US oligarchs are all calling it a war, (aka “Israel’s war on Gaza”) even as they’re not (as you pointed out) acknowledging the obvious: Russia’s War on Ukraine.
Attempted word-spells are one of the reasons they do it, and from their perspective the spells work.
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If Japan deserves its own section head then so does Argentina.
An infamous economist once infamously said there are four economic zones in the world: the developed world, the developing world, Japan, and Argentina.
Japan for how it continues to defy collapse with no real resources, Argentina for how it smothers collapse with kisses despite bountiful resources, of course.
Still … this would have been a good year to actually make it to Davos, just to see Milei shove a metaphorical meringue pie in all of the other attendees faces.
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