LA Times: A classic example of Disinformation

If this is the sort of vapid claptrap that its more famous publications publish, then imagine what you can find in the tabloids and infer from this that given this level of systemic and systematic mis- and disinformation, it is virtually impossible for any US citizen to have a balanced idea of world events. The citizens of the USA are being misinformed, lied to and made clowns of by their own media.

And how someone like Max Boot can be a Senior fellow of a National Security studies institution, well if it was not so frightening it would be risible. Here is a man who calls for the West to unite against Russia and who claims that the Georgians should be supplied with anti-tank and AA-missiles.

As if there were not hundreds of American and Israeli advisors in Georgia who were routed along with their pupils, with their tails hanging between their legs. And while we’re at it, there is an investigation going on as to who perpetrated the war crimes. And a handful of missiles would have made a difference? If Russia were to use US military tactics, they would blast a hundred-metre crater around where the missiles were being fired from. Besides, Russia has enough precision missiles to neutralise and exterminate any military threat anywhere on Earth at any given moment, be this a matchbox, a tank or a concentration of troops, without even sending in one soldier.

The difference is that while the Russian press is full of cultural pieces, information about the economy and the need to proceed with friendly relations with its international partners, US and western papers are caught by a clique of control-freaks, desperate not to let the truth get out and the result is Max Boot and his Stand up to Russia.

More like a stand-up comedian.

Timothy BANCROFT-HINCHEY

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