Tag: attacks

The First Casualty when war comes is truth

We’re only four days into Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, and yet the propaganda cogs are whirring fast as lightning, churning out ‘news’, opinion and content grist for the media mill. In just the last 48 hours dozens of stories, images, narratives and videos have circulated as being taken from the fighting in Ukraine, a huge percentage of which are fake.

The first casualty of war is truth

Australian Courier-Mail is one of Australia’s worst ‘if it bleeds it leads’ tabloids. A notorious Murdoch Paper, it runs fake pictures of a gas explosion in 2018 on its front page to blatantly make fools of readers about the Russian target bombing.

Learning from History but Idiots never do

How true the advice of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821): ‘He who his first hits twice.’ Now the sweet irony: Russia has done precisely what Germany did in June 1941. Back then, to frustrate a Soviet attack on Germany and the Reich’s allies to the East, Germany pre-emptively struck the American-sponsored Soviet Union. The USSR had been given the go-ahead to overwhelm Europe by Roosevelt’s blank cheque (Lend-Lease Plan).