Can we please stop saying the Ukraine war was “unprovoked”?
With the startling admissions from Merkel, Hollande and Poroshenko, the evidence now is overwhelming that the West has been planning and provoking the war in Ukraine for many years.
When President Vladimir Putin launched his ”Special Military Operation” in February 2022, the Western media all announced in unison that the invasion was “unprovoked”. The White House immediately issued a statement calling the SMO an “unprovoked and unjustified attack”, and that “Russia alone is responsible for the death and destruction this attack will bring”.
It quickly became apparent that a memo had gone out, instructing all Western media, pundits and politicians that they must ALWAYS insert the word “unprovoked“ when discussing the conflict.
As the media analysis organisation FAIR noted at the time:
It’s a word that has been echoed repeatedly across the media ecosystem. “Putin’s forces entered Ukraine’s second-largest city on the fourth day of the unprovoked invasion,” Axios (2/27/22) reported; “Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine entered its second week Friday,” said CNBC (3/4/22). Vox (3/1/22) wrote of “Putin’s decision to launch an unprovoked and unnecessary…
