Are we getting caught in an information trap when it comes to Ukraine?
A.K.A. a bubble.
This wouldn’t be unusual — it’s what happened in the run-up to the post-9/11 Iraq war, when American and British media were arguably far too unquestioning of Western officials’ claims that Saddam Hussein was awfully close to having a nuclear bomb or had a huge stockpile of weapons of mass destruction.
I wasn’t fooled twenty years ago, either.
Unfortunately, it seems we’re now in danger of repeating this very same mistake, as we all too quickly dub those who question current Western strategy as defeatists or accuse them of advancing Russian propaganda.
We’ve been called Russian bots relentlessly for the last 2.5 years.
Problem is, we’re not hearing these counter-arguments enough in mainstream Western publications, or at the high-level conferences that bring Western and Ukrainian officials together — like last weekend’s annual Yalta European Strategy (YES) Conference held in Kyiv.
And yet it’s the socialists who are told they’re living in a bubble.
The funniest part of the article is this bit though
There are certainly credible and cogent arguments to the contrary, such as those stating that a weakened Russia simply won’t have the wherewithal to attack NATO anytime soon, whether it wins or loses, and that Putin’s forces are clearly no match for sophisticated, well-equipped Western armies.
It kind of makes the whole article self-referential. After two years of war it’s become crystal clear that NATO weapons and tactics have utterly failed against the Russian army. Yet, the article is still boldly proclaiming that Putin’s forces are clearly no match for sophisticated, well-equipped Western armies. The cognitive dissonance on display here is really amazing.
