The cognitive dissonance in our anti-Russia propaganda

It's truly a challenge trying to suss out what's real and what's not in the fog of war.

Lot's of experts telling us Putin's war is a complete failure. Not only that, he's succeeded in uniting NATO as never before!

Then comes the daily impassioned plea from the heroic Zelensky himself, the guy who's fighting Putin in Ukraine so we don't have to fight him on the Plains of Abraham, begging his NATO masters to "close the sky." 

Zelensky keeps having to up the rhetorical ante, since the hot air support he's gotten so far isn't what he had in mind. Today he issued his gravest warnings thus far. 

If NATO doesn't act fast, it's gonna be too late. Once he's taken Ukraine, Poland is next, etc...

Wait a minute.

If he's hopelessly bogged down before he even takes Kyiv, how is he ever gonna be a threat to Poland and beyond?

You know you jumped the shark when Ovie is getting death threats because of Putin's war

The Washington Capitals now provide a security detail for Alex Ovechkin, one of the greatest NHL stars of all time. 

Vladimir Putin is the president of Russia. Ten days ago he ordered his military into another sovereign nation, considered an act of war. Putin should be held accountable.

What does that have to do with hockey players, opera singers, symphony conductors, F-1 drivers, or disabled kids at the para-Olympics?

Does anybody imagine Putin consults Ovie on matters of Russia's foreign policy?

Our hypocrisy stinks.

When have we ever held baseball players from Cuba or Venezuela to account for Castro or Maduro? Or elite Chinese classical musicians for the human rights abuses of the Chinese government?

In 2015, Saudi Arabia launched a war on Yemen, with the full connivance of the nations now condemning “Russian aggression.” It is a war that continues to this day, with estimated civilian casualties north of 300,000.

In 2018, Saudi government operatives murdered and dismembered the journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi embassy in Istanbul. UK/USA support for the illegal war on Yemen didn’t skip a beat.

Three years later the Saudi’s were allowed to buy a football club in England’s Premier League.

Most disturbing, this unhinged anti-Russia hate is actively promoted by our media overlords.

Cathal Kelly uses his bully pulpit at the Globe & Mail to demand Russian NHLer’s “pick a side.”

Facebook lets the fascist Azov Battalion out of their hate-group ban.

Why? 

Certainly not to lower the temperature.

Putin should be held accountable.

Beyond that, we in the collective “West,” who long ago squandered any claim we may once have had on the moral high ground, should be ashamed of the hate campaign we are waging on Russians.