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The American Foreign Policy Playbook: Dehumanize, Destroy, Repeat.
American foreign policy. The three most horrific words in the English language. What about “murder”, “starvation”, and “genocide”? American foreign policy is habitually the precursor of all three, so let’s start there.
The United States likes to use buzzwords and phrases like “spreading democracy”, “freedom-loving”, and “defenders of human rights” to claim that they are, indeed, these things, but if someone constantly uses self-aggrandizing terms that seem oddly misplaced — and regurgitated widely and uniformly throughout the Western political and media spectra — they most certainly are complete fabrications. It’s a modern-day twist on the classic English literature term, “thou doth protest too much”.
Similarly, so is constantly claiming that a war is “unprovoked”. Pro tip: Redundancy in language is negative. It is generally understood that a war that is condemned is unprovoked. So, is there any point in endlessly claiming that the war in Ukraine was “unprovoked”. Adding to the pro tip above, most of the Western public, just as the US orchestrated, already had an ingrained hatred of Russians, so using such terminology when referring to the Ukraine war only gives pause to some in the West and makes them, God forbid, use their own brains to question the West’s warmongering narrative and whether the war was…
