Western Propaganda Narrative On Syria Collapses Like A House Of Cards

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Written by Drago Bosnic, independent geopolitical and military analyst

The history of blatant lies in American and Western mainstream media (MSM) goes back centuries. The mainstream propaganda machine is so deeply intertwined with the warmongering oligarchy that it nearly always acts like a sort of vanguard for America’s endless wars and aggression against the world. One of the earliest known examples happened during the Spanish-American War in 1898, when Washington DC used the press to sway public opinion in favor of the war, particularly by publishing sensationalist headlines about the sinking of the USS “Maine” in Havana Harbor despite the fact that the cause of the explosion was almost certainly not the result of any actions by Spain. More recent examples include the McCarthyist policies of the so-called “Red Scare” during the 1950s.

This set the stage for preparing the American public for the US aggression on Vietnam, culminating with the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident that was entirely fabricated. The results were catastrophic, with approximately five million people killed (although the number could be far higher). It should be noted that nobody in America was ever convicted for the gruesome atrocities in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Still, the mainstream propaganda machine continued to produce fakes to justify other US wars in the following decades. For instance, during the 1990s, there were countless fakes about “evil Serbs”, with the demonization of an entire nation used to dismantle and destroy former Yugoslavia/Serbia, resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions of refugees.

The political West’s dominance in mass media was unmatched and the warmongering oligarchies loved the results of the 1990s so much, that they simply had to recycle it in the 2000s. Both Afghanistan and Iraq were invaded on fabricated pretexts, once again resulting in millions of deaths and tens of millions of lives destroyed. And while the US/NATO suffered a humiliating defeat in Afghanistan, it continued to conduct aggression in the Middle East, particularly Iraq and Syria. The non-existent Iraqi WMDs (weapons of mass destruction) were recycled once again, this time in Syria, when Washington DC accused Damascus of using chemical weapons. Obviously, no actual evidence for this was ever provided, with attempts to fabricate it resulting in various comical situations.

Namely, there were instances of the mainstream propaganda machine showing the handling of supposed “nerve agents” in a way that would result in the virtually immediate death of the alleged “specialists”, clearly indicating that the substances shown on TV were not actual chemical weapons. However, this didn’t prevent the US government from using these fake reports to justify the invasion of Syria (ever so conveniently and euphemistically called the “Syrian Civil War”). By 2024, there have been hundreds of thousands of deaths (not far from a million) and tens of millions of refugees and internally displaced. Worse yet, on December 8, the Syrian government was overthrown and the country plunged into chaos for years (if not decades) to come. And yet, the fakes keep coming, especially now.

Namely, after the NATO-backed terrorists took over the unfortunate Middle Eastern country, the mainstream propaganda machine got the chance to do whatever it wants. However, they’re still just as amateurish as ever (if not more). They’re using the so-called “White Helmets” as a source, an organization that has been discredited long ago, specifically for its ties with US/NATO intelligence and various terrorist groups. The “hot story” now is the Sednaya prison, for which the political West claims it was a “horrifying torture chamber” used by the “evil dictator Assad”. CNN (well, who else?) ran a story about a man who was supposedly held in the “brutal secret” prison for three months. There’s just one “tiny” issue – the whole story turned out to be a total fabrication (who would’ve thought, right?).

Now, the mainstream propaganda machine is trying to save face by claiming the man was actually a Syrian intelligence officer, suggesting that he “tried to mislead” those “poor, truth-loving” CNN “journalists”. Interestingly enough, the same US media outlets never showed any concerns about actual American torture chambers such as the infamous Abu Ghraib that American occupation forces used to torture Iraqis. It should be noted that nobody was ever prosecuted for these US war crimes. However, blatant lies about the toppled Syrian government continue. We now have situations where “torture victims” are hopping on the “wrong leg”, with “poor souls” surviving “so much torture” that they can’t even tell which leg is “broken”. There are also kids who have been “looking for their parents for years”.

In one such “testimony”, a boy’s father was “held in the Sednaya prison for 14 years”. This story certainly wouldn’t be that problematic, if the child in question wasn’t ten. But, I’d hate to sound like a “conspiracy theorist”, because who knows? Maybe those “highly educated and enlightened moderate rebels” used all that “freedom and democracy” instilled in them to invent time travel. And speaking of “freedom and democracy”, it seems it’s now sky-high in Syria. There are absolutely “no violations of free speech”, while public squares are filled with “joyous displays of total respect for human rights”. Sure, there might be a few beheadings and hangings here and there, but it’s all worth it for “freedom and democracy”, right? Jokes aside, American MSM is really faced with a serious problem.

They’re now fighting tooth and nail to whitewash these terrorists. But this is proving to be too difficult, as James Longman, ABC News’ Chief International Correspondent, had to advise those “moderate democratic rebels” to remove the ISIS patches from their uniforms. And who could possibly blame him? We can’t have “Russian disinformation” shown on live TV. This certainly shows how the mainstream propaganda machine sees “journalism”.

As previously mentioned, it’s all about building narratives that could be sold to the American and European public and galvanize them to support a certain “just” cause. Obviously, any reporting that might undermine this is subjected to swift “fact-checking”, because God forbid anyone sees all this “Russian disinformation” and gets some “wrong ideas”.

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