Simplicius notes that the media has descended from propping up the Official Narrative to full-bore, nonstop lying about every single front of WWIII:
It’s actually incredible when you step back a moment and consider how the West lives increasingly in a total fantasy construct. On every global issue or flashpoint, Western media no longer exercises even the barest scruples, instead blanketly reporting the most fantastical tales with zero corroboration. In Iran we’re expected to believe Israel “decimated” the entire Iranian air defense network, countless major labs and buildings, despite zero proof apart from a single grainy satellite photo that shows a slight discoloration somewhere—far less proof than we got from Iran’s much more massive strike on Israeli bases during True Promise 2.0.
In Georgia, Western press reports with shameless authority that the election was ‘stolen’ despite no credible evidence. The entire Western order has at this point in its lurid, terminal panic given up on not only truth, but any and all foundational values that have made Western civilization what it was. Threats, lies, and propaganda are flung with no accountability or attempt at justification; it seems we’ve entered the rapid parabolic singularity point of the ‘post-truth’ era in the West. Just like how the Federal Reserve must now exponentiate its printing cycles just to stave off collapse, Western intelligentsia and its corrupt crony political class must now likewise balloon their brazen lies to infinity just to keep from drowning in them as if the buoyancy of volume will keep them up.
Granted, the above is just a general observation on the state of things—particularly in the pre-election news-cycle the sheer unrepentant nature of the gaslighting now witnessed daily is unprecedented.
Clown World is getting increasingly desperate. Why 10,000 or 30,000 North Korean “special forces” would ever justify giving nuclear-capable missiles to Ukraine makes zero sense when one considers how many NATO “mercenaries” have been fighting in Ukraine for the last two years. It’s beyond obvious who is running Clown World PR when its military alliance is both a) surprised and b) offended at the unfairness when its enemy makes effective use of its own allies.
A few weeks ago, I said we’d know if the IDF was winning its war against Hezbollah or not by the media coverage. I was there in 1982, I remember how every advance was televised, just as every big airstrike in Lebanon is on the front page of the news sites now. The complete absence of information tends to indicate that while the air war against an organization with neither an air force nor air defenses is proceeding without interruption, the ground war has completely failed. The media gaslighting is such that it this point, it would be less of a surprise if it is eventually announced that Hezbollah’s ground forces are entering northern Israel than for the IDF to reach the Litani River.
And the reports about the airstrike on Iran is that the initial wave of fighter-bombers who were supposed to take out the radar installations turned back before they even reached the Iranian border because they were radar-locked despite their stealth technology. This may or may not be true, and certainly there are no images of Israeli F-35s being shot down, but for one reason or another, the bombing for which the neocons have been shrieking for the last 23 years turned out to be more similar to President Clinton lobbing a few cruise missiles at some tents in the desert than the fire-bombing of Dresden.
Things are definitely heating up, so hopefully the media’s wall of silence about what’s actually taking place will start to collapse as quickly, and as comprehensively, as the Ukrainian defenses now are.