Ukraine’s office o for Countering Disinformation said they had published a list of Americans spreading Russian disinformation. Telling anyone that disagrees with the Ukraine war a “Russian puppet,” the American public deserves better from the Ukrainian government while they take U.S. cash to fight Russia.. Saying that U.S. citizens or elected officials that disagree with the Ukraine War are part of the Russian propaganda machine is utterly preposterous. What does Ukraine call it when the 36-year-old head of Ukraine’s GUR Defense Intelligence Office Kyrylo Budanov says that Russian President Vladimir Putin suffers from a terminal illness or that Kremlin officials covertly plot a coup against the Russia leader? So when it comes to Ukrainian disinformation or war propaganda, it’s perfectly OK to spread the most outrageous lies about the war, including the Russians are losing the war.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) were both fingered by Ukreine’s Center for Countering Disinformation for speaking their minds about the Ukraine War. Paul and Gabbard are outspoken critics of Ukraine’s 45-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky who never tells the truth to anyone about the Ukraine War. All that’s reported from Ukrainian news outlets is how Russia has taken a beating by Ukrainian military. Yet any look at any map shows that Zelensky has lost since Feb. 24 over 25% of Ukraine’s sovereign territory, including the entire Black Sea coast and all Ukraine’s strategic ports. If you listen to Zelensky or his 40-year-old Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba Ukraine has handed Russian President Vladimir Putin a crushing defeat. So, when it comes to Ukraine’s propaganda and disinformation it rivals the best of them, advancing Kiev’s narrative.
Going after Paul and Gabbard, two of the most sensible, independent members of Congress, shows that Ukraine has no scruples when it comes to anything but the most tightly controlled disinformation and propaganda. Ukraine often slams Fox New Tucker Carlson for spreading Russian propaganda. But is it propaganda for Carlson to point out that Ukraine is not really a democracy but an authoritarian regime? Zelensky sells the war a battle of democracy against Russian dictatorship. But if Zelensky can’t tolerate dissenting opinions by U.S. elected officials then where’s his tolerance for free speech? It doesn’t exist because Zelensky’s agenda is about taking as much U.S. tax dollars as he can get to run his Kiev government and prosecute Biden’s proxy war against the Russian Federation. But what nerve of Kiev to go after U.S. elected officials for spreading Russian propaganda.
Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation wants to attribute wild conspiracy theories to Paul and Gabbard, having to do with secret bio-labs in Ukraine. But Paul and Gabbard have raised objections to the amount of U.S. tax dollars going to Ukraine for the purpose, as stated by Biden and his Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, to vanquish the Russian military. Budanov, running Zelensky’s GRU Security Service, knows that not all U.S. elected officials are happy about Biden’s proxy war against Russia. Zelensky has also gone after Prof. John Measrsheimer for suggesting in a 2015 paper that holding up the NATO membership carrot to Ukraine, changed Ukraine. Months before the war started Feb. 24, Putin asked Biden for new security arrangements, telling him that arming Ukraine to the teeth was not OK with the Kremlin. Biden told Putin that his ideas were all “non-starters.”
When Zelensky ordered his 28-year-old economic chief adviser Oleg Ustenko to collect data on JPMorgan, Citibank and other U.S. bank CEOs, Ukraine had gone over the top. Ustenko says he assembling dossiers for the International Criminal Court [ICC] at the Hague to prosecute CEOs for continuing to do business with Russia. Beyond anything else, it’s pure intimidation to threaten U.S. CEOs with charges in the ICC. As GRU’s Budanov figured out, Ukraine can write its own narrative no matter how twisted and farfetched, as long as it advances Kiev’s agenda. Kiev seeks with U.S. cash-and-arms nothing short that toppling the Russian Federation. Meanwhile, with all of Zelensky’s vast plans, he’s lost over 25% of Ukraine’s sovereign territory in five months of war wit the Russian Federation. Never does Zelensky or Kuleba mention anything about Kiev’s losses in the war.
At some point U.S. elected officials will be forced to take an honest inventory of the Ukraine War. Any objective assessment has Ukraine losing over 25% of its sovereign territory, including the entire Black Sea coast to the Russian Federation. Whenever Ukraine loses territory, Budanov makes sure that it’s never mentioned, only mentioning Russia’s war loses in the conflict. If you look at any Ukrainian publication, it only shows Russian losses, not the real losses on the battlefield. Military historian Ebward Luttwak, also considered a Russian puppet by Zelensky, urges Ukraine to go to the peace table before it loses any more sovereign territory, but, more importantly, punishes ordinary Ukrainian citizens. “Ukraine is not a democracy in any recognizable sense,” said Tucker Calrson, blasting Zelensky for imposing censorship on anyone in the U.S. that disagrees with Kiev.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
