Doesn’t it feel like it only took a matter of hours to switch up from Covid 24/7 to Ukraine Crisis 24/7?
09 March 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News
Does that sound too insensitive? Of course it does.
But, really, doesn’t it seem like it only took a matter of hours for the near-peer nations to switch up from Covid 24/7 to Ukraine Crisis 24/7?
At one point, not that long ago, we were being spoon-fed countless editorials, heart-breaking ‘do it for your friends’ vax think-pieces and sentimental ‘oh, if only I had known about Covid’ stories.
But that is so yesterday. We have moved on, apparently.
Now we are being spoon-fed endless editorials about Satan, earnest ‘stand up for your Ukrainian friends’ campaigns and articles warning us that our daily lives are about to go to shit in order to ensure that Ukraine can drive Putin to Hell on a handcart.
But already I am starting to feel… squeamish about Ukraine 24/7.
It is sort of akin to finding out your partner/lover/friend has cheated on you and, once caught, they swear to high heaven it will never, ever happen again.
And if you are lucky, it does not happen again, but if you are really, really lucky you will tell them to pack their bags and hit the road and don’t come back no more, no more.
But right at the very moment we were ready to tell our greedy, manipulative politicians to hit the road, Jack, we looked up from our masked stupor and realized they had corralled us into another all-encompassing do-what-we say story designed to render us as impotent as we were the first time around.
And it goes without saying, there is no question that this war is real and horrible and that people are suffering and we should be doing everything we can to stop the madness.
But we are not doing everything we can do to stop the madness. We are hitting ‘likes’ on Twitterville in support of people who have stopped drinking soda pop.
And we cannot look away from the pictures and video of weeping mothers and that gung-ho President and the other robotic, flatlined President.
But we are not trying to stop this or any other war.
Part of the problem, I think, is that most of us don’t know anything about real war. This war is nothing like the ones the US gave us (and still does) in Iraq, Syria, Yemen or… You get my drift.
We didn’t see the suffering of the innocents in those other wars because the people who were causing their suffering wanted us to believe that they were neat and tidy wars, replete with state-of-the-art drones and limited ‘collateral damage’ and seamless, precision bombings.
So we are privy to at least some of the gory truth this time because it is the bad guys who are doing the killing and maiming, not the ‘good guys.’ The good guys who would never do anything like what Putin is doing.
At the moment, there is really only one thing we know for certain: Our political lovers/partners/friends are most-likely still cheating on us but it is going to take some time to catch them with their pants down.
But we are running out of time I’m afraid. The ‘you are with us or against us’ writing is already starting to show up on the Twitterville wall of shame.
After that, it will only be a matter of time before these rabid citizens start name-shaming and boycotting anyone who questions the new multi-billion dollar ‘defense’ bills or gets caught wondering aloud whether anyone in Ukraine can really be trusted with that ever increasing military arsenal if Putin is defeated.
James Porteous | Clipper Media News
