{"id":63577,"date":"2022-09-23T17:03:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T22:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63577"},"modified":"2022-09-23T17:03:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T22:03:58","slug":"brainwashed-for-war-with-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63577","title":{"rendered":"Brainwashed for War With Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<header><\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/mcgovern\/2022\/09\/21\/brainwashed-for-war-with-russia\/\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Brainwashed for War With Russia<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_74588\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Thanks to Establishment media, the sorcerer apprentices advising President Joe Biden \u2013 I refer to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, national security adviser Jacob Sullivan, and China specialist Kurt Campbell \u2013 will have no trouble rallying Americans for the widest war in 77 years, starting in Ukraine, and maybe spreading to China. And, shockingly, under false pretenses.<\/p>\n<p>Most Americans are oblivious to the reality that Western media are owned and operated by the same corporations that make massive profits by helping to stoke small wars and then peddling the necessary weapons. Corporate leaders, and Ivy-mantled elites, educated to believe in U.S. &#8220;exceptionalism,&#8221; find the lucre and the luster too lucrative to be able to think straight. They deceive themselves into thinking that (a) the US cannot lose a war; (b) escalation can be calibrated and wider war can be limited to Europe; and (c) China can be expected to just sit on the sidelines. The attitude, consciously or unconsciously, &#8220;Not to worry. And, in any case, the lucre and luster are worth the risk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The media also know they can always trot out died-in-the-wool Russophobes to &#8220;explain,&#8221; for example, why the Russians are &#8220;almost genetically driven&#8221; to do evil (James Clapper, former National Intelligence Director and now hired savant on CNN); or Fiona Hill (former National Intelligence Officer for Russia), who<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/24\/opinion\/russia-ukraine-putin-biden.html\">\u00a0insists<\/a>\u00a0&#8220;Putin wants to evict the United States from Europe \u2026 As he might put it: &#8220;Goodbye, America. Don\u2019t let the door hit you on the way out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Absent a miraculous appearance of clearer heads with a less benighted attitude toward the core interests of Russia in Ukraine, and China in Taiwan, historians who survive to record the war now on our doorstep will describe it as the result of hubris and stupidity run amok&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brainwashed for War With Russia Thanks to Establishment media, the sorcerer apprentices advising President Joe Biden \u2013 I refer to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, national security adviser Jacob Sullivan, and China specialist Kurt Campbell \u2013 will have no trouble rallying Americans for the widest war in 77 years, starting in Ukraine, and maybe spreading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8737,18520,7000,694,821,827,862],"class_list":["post-63577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-brainwashing","tag-establishment-media","tag-ray-mcgovern","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63578,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63577\/revisions\/63578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}