The contemptible and hysterical propaganda against all persons, matter and things Russian, and Vladimir Putin in particular, has historical precedents. It worked in the past against other nations and their leaders and it bears out Abraham Lincoln’s observation that you can fool all of the people some of the time.
Vladimir Putin is in good company. Lincoln was a hate-figure for THE TIMES of London, who called him APE LINCOLN. What the THUNDERER’S Irish pip-squeak fellow-traveller called Lincoln I don’t know, but in February 1933 it warned against voting for Eamon de Valera and in March 1933 welcomed Adolf Hitler’s accession to power,
I have read of the hatred of Germans deliberately stirred up by the British Government in 1914 which resulted in Germans living in and contributing to Ireland’s welfare and culture being branded as her enemy.
The war against Germany had been contemplated since that country’s unification in 1871 and its planning was started in 1904 with the ENTENTE CORDIALE and the establishment of the secretive Committee of Imperial Defence by the Conservative Prime Minister Arthur Balfour. The Liberal Imperialist MP Herbert Asquith was a member but most MPS were kept in the dark about the Committee’s existence and busy labours.
In the first paragraph of his War Memoirs, David Lloyd George recalled his surprise as a young MP on it being explained to him by the former Liberal Imperialist Prime Minister Lord Roseberry that the Entente Cordiale meant war with Germany. The Liberal Imperialists were anti-Boer, whereas Lloyd George at the time was not a Jingo.
In 1914 Irishmen with courage didn’t back trucks into Germans’ dwellings, but took to killing Germans, gulled by the liar John Redmond.
Roger Casement described Redmond as a liar, and his word is good enough for me. My Uncle Jack Burke was wounded at Jutland, when a German shell hit the Cruiser HMS PRINCESS ROYAL. Jack was 6 weeks shy of his 17th Birthday. His brother Ned, who on July 26 1914, as a member of Fianna Eireann, helped unload rifles from THE ASGARD in Howth, joined the Dublin Fusiliers, He fought for most of the war until the Great German Counter-Offensive in the Spring of 1918, Then, he said,he threw way his rifle and ran as fast as he could, together with those of his comrades in that sector who could manage it. He was badly gassed and in and out of hospital till his death 45 years later.
I see no reason to accept the anti-Russian narrative and the demonisation of President Putin. It is Deja-Vu, There are propaganda precedents from both 1914 and 1991 – at least, DEJA VU:- ALL OVER AGAIN AND AGAIN!
In 1991 the daughter of a Kuwaiti Ambassador accused the Iraquis of murdering babies in a Kuwait hospital. She was lying through her teeth.
So was the American woman Ambassador who had assured Saddam Hussein that the United States had no favourites among quarreling Arabs. The Americans and their allies had materially assisted Iraq’s 8 year war with Iran (1982-90) and the CIA had helped Saddam to power. He had an understandable grievance with Kuwait and an equally understandable belief that the Americans were giving him a green light to seek its resolution as he saw fit.
VICTORIA NULAND the US UNDER_SECRETARY OF STATE is described as a Diplomat by Wikipedia. She does believe in Teddy Roosevelt’s doctrine of speaking quietly and carrying a big stick. She is ON RECORD (a tape recording) saying “FUCK THE EU” and saying whom she favoured for the Presidency of UKRAINE before the guy was installed by an illegal and violent PUTSCH.
The story of the Russians bombing of a Maternity Hospital echoes the lie told about the Iraquis in Kuwait.
Bombing maternitiy wards would be more in the spirit of the American President and Vice-President and their party’s Abortion Crusade or that of the Irish Teachta Dala who called a colleague a “FUCKING EEJIT” for giving birth to a child.
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