In The End, The Truth Is Revealed Even To The Propagandized Masses (But They’ll Forget Again)

The truth is, nobody in the West really believed Ukraine would win a war against Russia. And when I say nobody, I’m referring to the decision-makers and not the propagandized masses. The propagandized masses in the West, just like the propagandized masses in Ukraine, were told that Ukraine was going to kick ass and at last arrive as a superstar on the global stage, claiming its rightful place among the exceptional nations. It’s the old Horatio Alger story they’ve been telling poor people for hundreds of years now: work hard and you will succeed. The problem is, all that work people do usually benefits the bosses and seldom sufficiently pays back the workers for all they have sacrificed. The same goes for soldiers.

This is a cynical thought, no doubt, but I did not come to my cynicism lightly. I have observed this pattern play out many times already in my lifetime and I do not yet consider myself old. It is not me who is being cynical but others who are endlessly naïve about how the U.S. operates. Ask a Kurd how all the fighting they’ve done for U.S. interests has paid off for them. Ask the average Afghani if they are better off for all the interest the U.S. has shown their country for the last forty years. Sometimes, there are good reasons for cynicism. I imagine the indigenous Americans…