March 11, 2022
Friends and Colleagues
Some measure of coherence might be lent the dissonant discourse about Ukraine by distinguishing among 5 aspects of the subject. They are: 1) background/context/ circumstances;
2) the lead-up to the war - heightened crisis November - February; 3) the Russian decision to go to war, its conduct, and attendant moral questions; 4) the reaction to the hostilities; 5) consequences and implications - economic and geostrategic. That is not
being done. Instead, any attempt to do so provokes condemnation for failing to make a ritual denunciation of Russia and all things Russian - including sopranos (above all the attractive ones guaranteed to stir the mob gathered to savor the
Auto-da-Fé).
As a result, collective emotion bordering on the hysteric distorts and colors consideration of all of them beyond recognition as serious reportage or analysis. It is a sad demonstration of the total lack of discipline in the MSM, among the politicos, and denizens
of the incestuous think-tank world. Irresponsible and unforgiveable.
Attached is an essay by Chris Hedges that separates the ethical issues from the political ones while placing both in perspective.
Below are two references (URLs) that look skeptically at the latest hot-button headline story: the alleged bombing of a maternity hospital. As it turns out, this "Russian atrocity"
is a fabrication. That should have been obvious to anyone capable at paying concentrated attention to the videos and the logically contradictory accounts. E.g. you can't drop 500-pound bombs or barrages of artillery shells on a huge hospital complex and produce
either zero or 3 deaths, depending on which version you hear. Just as you cannot produce carnage without leaving a drop of blood in sight or blow out several score windows in a vast building without doing structural damage. Our leaders surely know this since
even Western security services are capable of such elementary observation. Knaves &/or fools.
For the true believers in what governments, and the Facebook/Twitter censors tell them: I have available for inspection a portfolio of photographs that include fine-grained pictures
of Saddam's mobile biological weapon lab, Vietnamese patrol boats firing on U.S. naval vessels in the Tonkin Gulf, and graphic images of the 13 times that Syria/Russia destroyed "the last hospital in Aleppo/East Damascus."
There was a time when we as a people were secure enough in our self-identity that we thought it instructive to hear German broadcasts (and even Hitler's
harangues) on the radio. When nobody sought to block Tokyo Rose. But, today, viewing RT or accessing the Kremlin website or communicating about an official statement by the Russian government is suppressed as unpatriotic, if not downright subversive. This
is something to ponder. What or whom are we afraid of?
cheers
Michael Brenner
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Disarming Ukraine Day 15: A Curious Hospital Bombing And 'No-Fly Zone' Pressure. This allegedly happened on March 9 at about 17:30 local time (15:30 UTC) in Mariupol, Ukraine:. Russian forces bombed a maternity and children's hospital in southern Ukraine, authorities
there said Wednesday, an attack described by the country's President Volodymyr Zelensky as an "atrocity."
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Twitter Inc has removed tweets from the Russian Embassy in the United Kingdom about the bombing of a children's hospital in Mariupol for breaking its rules against denying violent events, the ...
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