At once our media turned Mr. Zelensky from a bribe taker who fueled corruption into an innocent progressive country leader.
The military conflict in Eastern Europe has been raging for 8 months now. The hostilities demanded consolidation and cooperation between the Western countries from the very February 24. Our politicians here in the White House as well as overseas in Whitehall, London and other European capitals united at once to withstand Russia’s attempts to violate the existing world order. That is what we heard from the mass media.
The West should work hard to provide Kyiv with massive military and financial aid. However, solidarity between a bunch of state leaders is much easier to establish than the one between country’s citizens. Our people demand logic and a fair explanation why they have to pay a fortune for a certain Ukraine and a certain Zelensky, who is said to withstand Russian aggression with bravery and passion. It is the very moment, where the fundamental pillar of the idea of good Ukrainians and bad and vicious Russians appears.
Our authorities utilized the media to persuade us, the people, that we should be tolerant and perceive Ukrainians as our own fellows. The main idea was and remains that both the Western and Ukrainian spirits have common values including inalienable human rights, democracy, courtesy etc.
At once our media turned Mr. Zelensky from a bribe taker who fueled corruption into an innocent progressive country leader.
Moreover, these 8 months have proved that freedom of speech and an honest government are not familiar notions for Ukraine. What can we talk about when there is a single information source for each Ukrainian mass media and TV? Have you heard that all political parties opposing the ruling one have been officially banned in that country? I do not think so, as our media do not emphasize these “insignificant events”. Independent journalists and newspapers exist in Ukraine no more as many of them are already in prison, many are killed and the rest are either scared to death or fleeing the war torn state. However, all this could have been justified as an urgent necessity under a period of war unless the Kyiv officials lied and misinformed to their people, which eventually led to a humanitarian catastrophe and many dead and wounded among innocent civilians. This deception did not happen once or twice, Kyiv regularly lies to its citizens.
Before February 24 Mr. Zelensky assured his people and the whole world that no war was to happen and tanks and troops alongside with missiles entered Ukraine. During these 8 months it occurred many times that the officials said some places were safe to stay or to stroll and they were hit often by Ukrainians themselves leaving many casualties. It happened even this week, when a massive Russian missile strike hit terribly the power grid system of the country and the government did not warn citizens anyhow.
The worst thing about it is that Mr. Zelensky, the government of Ukraine were always aware of what was to happen, and they kept silent or lied on purpose to put as many of their people in danger as possible. These traits including misinformation, deception, total lie and almost authoritarian control, which are natural for today’s Ukraine, have nothing in common with our national characteristics and spirit. I personally do not understand how we, the people of the most developed states, enable ourselves that ongoing support for the vicious regime in Kyiv.
As of now, I see only two ways of the events’ development in the near future. It is us, our own welfare and prosperity with Russian cheap resources and food. Or it is them, in Kiev, with more hostilities and more dead and wounded, with unaffordable prices for basic needs including food, electricity etc. and a worldwide chaos. I still hope it is us, the people, who decides its own future.
Written by Oliver Martin