The recent lack of reporting of the Ukraine strike on a school is worrying but what is more troubling is just how far western media will go to distort the facts of the war
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The recent lack of reporting on the Ukrainian strike on a school is worrying, but what is more troubling is just how far Western media will go to distort the facts of the war.
When President Zelensky ordered the attack on a school dormitory which killed at least 14 children who were sleeping at the time, he showed the world that he had reached a new level of desperation in his bid to escalate the war with Russia. This heinous war crime of targeting children showed clearly that he is reaching new levels of depravity to keep the West interested in the war and to keep himself and the war alive in the Western press – but not through the strike itself, rather through the retaliation that follows. The hit on the school was not reported by most Western media outlets, which have been fortuitously practising a partisan strategy in how they cover the war, purposely selecting and omitting reports so as to distort reality and bring a new, unprecedented level of ‘reporting’ that goes much further than merely sloppy partisan journalism in the newsroom – to actually playing a supportive role in the war itself.
At least 21 people have been killed in what President Putin calls a deliberate Ukrainian “terrorist attack” on a school dormitory in Russia’s Luhansk People’s Republic. The attack on the main academic building and dormitory of the Starobelsk Professional College was carried out in three waves, according to RT, with 16 drones launched at the same target by the “neo-Nazi regime in Kiev,” according to Putin.
But what was behind the strike?
Recently Zelensky suggested that Ukraine should have full EU membership, following comments from the German leader. He is also anxious about the morale of his own soldiers and his political popularity in general after what many Russian outlets are reporting as the fall of the key Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk. His thinking of hitting civilians – children – for maximum impact is understandable given his poor performance as a leader, but also as a military strategy, as the role of Western media is critical to his thinking.
When you understand the level of obscene support he receives from Western media outlets, who feel it is their duty to omit reports such as the school dormitory strike because such news might affect his support from Western taxpayers – but then also understand how the same media outlets are distorting the war by reporting on Russia’s strikes (and how they are framed) – then it’s clear that Zelensky’s overall strategy is media-based. He is confident he can always win the media war, even though the real one is lost.
It should come as little surprise that neither the BBC nor CNN is interested in sending any correspondents to the region to pick through the rubble and look for evidence of the accusation from Zelensky that the school was being used as a military base of some sort. They are not interested in the story at all, as it puts the Ukrainian leader in a very poor light as a war crimes tyrant who should serve his remaining days in The Hague.
What they do is quite shocking by contrast.
The BBC chose to cover the story on its website and present it in such a way that it might not even be a strike by Ukraine. “Putin vows retaliation after accusing Ukraine of hitting student dormitory” is a clever headline which draws the reader away from the blood and gore of 14 children being slaughtered while shifting the focus onto Putin. It also ingeniously hints that it might not even be Ukraine that launched the attack, as the BBC emphasises that Putin “accuses” Ukraine for the strike. Amazing.
The role now of the BBC in Ukraine is so much more than merely being a partisan partner. What we are witnessing now is the channel taking its level of support for Zelensky to a new, repugnant, disgusting level of assisting him to carry out war crimes, directing the reader away from facts, in preference for a narrative that helps him murder children and, supposedly, avoid war crime charges at any future time. The BBC is suggesting that the strike didn’t even come from Ukraine and might have been arranged by Putin himself, but cannot take this ludicrous assertion further by suggesting why Putin would need to do such an appalling thing.
We have reached a level now where Western news agencies are actually working as military partners with Ukraine, and it cannot be overlooked that when Zelensky plans such attacks, he does so with great confidence that Western media will frame and package the report they finally make with a bias that redirects blame and responsibility. One could argue that the journalists and editors who do this are actually complicit themselves in war crimes, as those individuals know that their actions are actually promoting and encouraging these kinds of atrocious acts in the first place.
But when we talk about false flag attacks – which is what the BBC article is suggesting – then surely it will be in Ukraine’s interest, much more than Russia’s, to indulge itself. What was much more reported over the weekend was the retaliatory strike by Russia on a key weapons factory in Kiev. Putin’s close circle of advisors, we are led to believe, have always been frustrated over his restraint in such targeted strikes – hitting Ukraine hard where maximum impact will be seen, such as weapons plants and energy infrastructure – and so they will no doubt be encouraged by the response to the school dorm strike.
Yet we should be wary of a false flag strike in the works. If Russia is to increase the number of strikes against such infrastructure, there is always the risk of a missile being defective and not following its path, instead hitting civilians. It happens in war all the time. When this happens, Ukraine’s ‘partners’ in the Western media will go big on this story, distorting the picture altogether. But what is particularly worrying, given Zelensky’s desperation, is that the temptation for him to blow up a café, a restaurant, or a school while Russian rockets are falling will reach fever pitch. How could he stop himself from going ahead with a false flag attack when he has the BBC and CNN goading him on?
