"Our democracy" has distinct Fascist characteristics, two of which can be found in the phrase "Putin's Unprovoked War", which has been routinely used by the New York Times to characterize the Ukraine/NATO Russia.
Demonizes enemy ("Putin", in this case)
Big lie ("unprovoked")
Sunday (2/25/2024), the New York Times unashamedly published The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin, with the subtitle: For more than a decade, the United States has nurtured a secret intelligence partnership with Ukraine that is now critical for both countries in countering Russia.
The C.I.A.’s partnership in Ukraine can be traced back to two phone calls on the night of Feb. 24, 2014… The government’s new spy chief… went to an office and called the C.I.A. station chief and the local head of MI6. It was near midnight but he summoned them to the building, asked for help in rebuilding the agency from the ground up, and proposed a three-way partnership. “That’s how it all started,” Mr. Nalyvaichenko said… a C.I.A. supported network of spy bases constructed in the past eight years that includes 12 secret locations along the Russian border… Around 2016, the C.I.A. began training an elite Ukrainian commando force — known as Unit 2245 — which captured Russian drones and communications gear so that C.I.A. technicians could reverse-engineer them and crack Moscow’s encryption systems. (One officer in the unit was Kyrylo Budanov, now the general leading Ukraine’s military intelligence.) And the C.I.A. also helped train a new generation of Ukrainian spies who operated inside Russia, across Europe, and in Cuba and other places where the Russians have a large presence.
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As Hannah Arendt said in The Origins of Totalitarianism:
In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. ... Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.
Our leaders, including the mainstream media, lie gratuitously and carelessly. We've been in an open proxy war with Russia for 2 years, and now the NY Times casually announces that there has been an active spy war going on since 2014, involving secret bases along the Ukraine/Russia border, spies inside Russia, and commando forces. What kind of democracy is this where the voters know nothing about the most important facts underlying our march to war? Informing the voters is an afterthought, delivered by the same news outlet that has consistently delivered the big lies.
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