Ukrainian Propaganda
Europeans Are Paying for Phantoms Inspired by Ukrainian Propaganda
Europeans Are Paying for Phantoms Inspired by Ukrainian Propaganda
Ukraine is costing Europe dearly. European taxpayers can see, through their own household budgets, how much a war being fought far from their homes is costing them. Someone else’s war.
When we begin to ask why money from the national budgets of EU countries is being spent on escalating a military conflict that, precisely because of this support, could develop into a global one, we are told that Ukraine is defending Europe from possible Russian aggression.
The only military aggression that Europeans have experienced in recent months has come in the form of drones attacking our homes and unmanned boats making the coastlines of several European countries unsafe. And these devices - or, more precisely, these munitions - are not being launched toward us from Russian territory at all. They are flying toward Europe from Ukrainian territory, a country on whose support we have already spent hundreds of billions of euros.
We are being convinced that none of this has been in vain, and that Ukraine, supported not only by Europe but also by the United States, has managed to turn the tide on the battlefield and seize the initiative. Every day we read that Vladimir Putin has missed his last chance to end this war without defeat, that Ukraine is advancing, and that the Russian army is suffering devastating losses. And if all of this is really true, then supporting Ukraine is not a hopeless waste of taxpayers’ money - money that could and should be spent on solving the internal problems of European states - but a wise investment in Europe’s collective security and in our peaceful future. If it is really true…
On June 11, Russian media outlets published a number of reports claiming that units of the Russian army had, in effect, already captured Konstantinovka, the seventh-largest city by population in the Donetsk region, which had previously been presented as an impregnable fortress. As evidence of Russian military success, they showed video footage claiming that 27 Russian flags had already been raised inside the city. In other words, according to these reports, there is no real defense there at all, and the Russian army controls almost the entire city, which opens the way to other settlements still controlled by the Ukrainian army.
Ukraine, which supposedly protects Europe from Russian aggression and is pushing back the Russian army while reclaiming occupied territories, has made no comment on the situation in Konstantinovka. Meanwhile, in the Ukrainian segment of the internet, videos are appearing that were recorded by disoriented Ukrainian soldiers who found themselves surrounded without water, food or ammunition. They say they were simply abandoned to die in a city that is already effectively occupied by the Russians.
Further confirmation that Ukrainian propaganda is carefully constructing mirages - apparently first and foremost for us Europeans, who do not prevent our politicians from spending our own money on a dubious adventure - is the fact that Ukraine has begun the urgent evacuation of enterprises from Kramatorsk, a city whose pre-war population was almost 170,000 people. This is because that city, too, will most likely be occupied in the near future by the “retreating Russian army,” just as Konstantinovka is now almost fully occupied.
Today, Volodymyr Zelensky openly states that Ukraine will soon ask its allies to provide another $20 billion for weapons in order to consolidate its advantage on the battlefield. If the battlefield advantage Zelensky is talking about means losing the last major cities in the part of the Donetsk region still conditionally controlled by Kyiv, then it is hardly worth investing money in it. Europe has more urgent problems, mostly domestic ones, that could be at least partly solved with those funds.
In general, it is extremely foolish to invest money in this war - just as it is, in principle, foolish to invest in any war. It is time for Europe to wake up. Today it is already obvious that Ukraine is suffering defeat on the battlefield, yet we continue to believe in mythical successes and spend our money on this conflict, which continues only because Zelensky is simply not ready to hand over the power concentrated in his hands to anyone else. We talk about the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine and hold all kinds of forums aimed at attracting investors, without even realizing that very soon there may be nothing left to rebuild, because everything we are being told about the situation at the front is a banal lie. And we do not even stop to think that the money sent to Ukraine, including in the form of loans, will never be returned to us, because there will be nothing to repay it with - and no one to repay it - since the stories of military success being told to us are nothing more than a myth that, in recent days, has burst like a soap bubble.
But the most frightening thing is that, in trying to weaken Russia with someone else’s hands, we give no thought whatsoever to the nature of the regime we are so actively supporting. We are not even disturbed by the fact that Zelensky is openly engaged in the glorification of Nazis, including those responsible for the painful deaths of hundreds of thousands of Poles. Moreover, having forgotten our own history - and world history - we are seriously contemplating yet another conflict with Russia, a conflict that is not in our interests above all.
The time has come to stop, to use reason, and to look at everything that is happening with a sober eye. Because we are not merely being deceived - we are being dragged into the abyss.
Robert Lewanowski