MIDLIFE [GRIFT]-19, Monday, October 02, 2023 – Fallacy, An Emotional War Appeal, But No War in Sight.
This is one curious “news” story.
Let us start with the photos. Look at them, there are four (4). Each photo depicts kept Ukrainians posing on kept Ukrainian streets, with only what appears to be a staged tank and a staged van, under the backdrop of a near-pristine city.
Another item that stood out is how focused the reporting is on American aid with respect to the Ukrainians interviewed, with only a single mention of support coming from anywhere other than the U.S., but even that single reference is inclusive of U.S. aid.
“I can say for sure that we really need support from other countries, because we can’t do it alone.”
All other references, and or inferences, are solely specific to U.S. aid, there are twenty-seven (27) in this single news … cough, cough … article. This is a ratio of 1:27. Also notable, is how the language of preserving “democracy” and monetary “aid” for Ukraine, are exclusively conflated. It sounds curiously familiar to U.S. Democrat Party appeals that any Republican position in the U.S., is a threat to democracy. Even references to diplomacy are specific to providing aid, but there is nothing, not a single reference, to diplomatically ending the conflict.
- “[…] lack of additional funding for Ukraine in the [U.S.] spending bill […].”
- “[…] lack of new funding for Ukraine, vowing Washington “will not walk away” […].”
- “[…] a bipartisan group of leaders in the US Senate also promised to vote on more aid for Ukraine […].”
- “[…] the internal political struggle cannot affect the [U.S.] assistance to Ukraine that much.”
- “[…] the fight over funding Ukraine is due to the political realities of the 2024 US presidential election […].”
- “[…] he believes the possibility that Washington would stop helping Ukraine is slim.”
- “’Yes, we have seen the news, but we think that there will be aid to Ukraine anyway’ […]."
- “[…] he believed it would be “impossible” for the US to withdraw aid entirely […].”
- “[…] dropping of new [U.S.] aid for Ukraine from the Congressional bill passed over the weekend […].”
- “[…] ‘[Ukrainians] are now working with both sides of [the U.S.] Congress to make sure that it does not repeat again, under any circumstances.’”
- “’We do not feel that US support has been shattered’ […].”
- “’I believe that we will be able to find the necessary solutions’ […].”
- “[…] expressed alarm over the exclusion of [U.S.] aid for his country in the Congressional spending bill.”
- “’We need to see whether the United States is responsible for democracy in the world’ […].”
- “If the United States is a bastion of democracy in the world, then the answer should be clear to everyone.”
- “If the United States believes that it should move away from this […].”
- “Referring to the debate among [U.S.] Republican presidential candidates on the extent of aid for Ukraine […].”
- “[…] but we would very much like it not to affect the development of democracy in the world.”
- “Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who traveled to the Capitol last month to ask for more relief […].”
- “[…] previously warned that a drop in US support could have severe consequences for the war effort.”
- “Of course we are alarmed [by the lack in additional funding] […].”
- “I just want the US to remember that there is a human cost to all of that, and that all those delays […].”
- “Aid is very important. If it suddenly happens that America will no longer help us […].”
- “But it would still be easier with [U.S.] aid.”
- “There may be a situation where the [U.S.] aid will stop […].”
- “[…] Americans are unhappy that their money is being sent to Ukraine […].”
- “If America stops helping us […].”
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Will name calling work? Well, Americans can rest assured that Ukrainians think that the concerns of the American people are simply a, “little more than noise,” and that, “It’s just silly politics,” for Americans to be concerned, and that the concerns of Americans are merely an, “incident,” in the money flow to Ukraine, that regarding the question of aid, “the answer should be clear to everyone.”
According to Ukrainians, Americans just don’t [give] it [enough], and certainly shouldn’t question it.
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Probably most notable are the words of a Ukrainian serviceman apparently picked off of the street, so low in rank that his position isn’t worth reporting, but his knowledge of American political history is impeccable. This gentleman sounds more like a political operative, a plant, than a military layman.
“For some in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, the drama that has engulfed [the U.S.] Congress for the past week is little more than noise as the war rages on.
“’These are internal American games. And Ukraine is a hostage to this discussion – this internal war,’ Ukrainian serviceman Volodymyr Kostiak told CNN on Sunday, a national holiday marking Defenders Day to honor the country’s veterans and war dead.
“’America’s strategic interests are so big that Ukraine is part of them,’ he added. ‘And I think that the internal political struggle cannot affect the assistance to Ukraine that much. There will be some errors, but they will be insignificant.’
“Kostiak said the fight over funding Ukraine is due to the political realities of the 2024 US presidential election, but he believes the possibility that Washington would stop helping Ukraine is slim.
“’The US budget has been suspended 20 times in history, and never once has it led to any serious consequences,’ the serviceman said. ‘So I don’t see this as a big problem for Ukraine.’”
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And what would a non-news article about money-laundering … cough, cough … I mean grift … cough, cough … I mean aid to Ukraine be without a reference to “Trump-Russian ‘collusion’”? It just would not be worthy of political propaganda.
Enter, the Appeal to Authority.
“Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a professor and senior associate dean for leadership studies at the Yale School of Management, said Russian President Vladimir Putin would be closely watching the 2024 US presidential election as his invasion of Ukraine falters.
“Putin is ‘hoping that by January 2025 that [former president Donald] Trump is back in there, and that will see a weakening of the resolve of the allies,’ Sonnenfeld said.
“But ‘there is no weakened resolve’ in Congress, he added. ‘It’s just silly politics here that carve things up into pieces,’ Sonnenfeld said.”
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Note to Self: If you are going to write a propaganda piece, at least try to make it look legitimate. This CNN reporting is a political construct, it is sleazy non-journalism. If printed, it’s not even worthy toilet paper for fear of being infected with political corruption.
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Summary, you’re not sane unless you send money to Ukraine, just don’t expect to actually see a war.
“’On the other hand, it seems to me that all sane people who see the atrocities that have been and are happening here now – how entire cities are being wiped out – understand that this can spread to other countries as well,’ [Yulia Mueller, a chief accountant in Ukraine] added.”
Said an accounted, also noted.
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Fallacy, an emotional war appeal, but no war in the sight.
- Matfucius
https://www.yahoo.com/news/t-alone-ukrainians-react-lack-024111179.html
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