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Written by Gavin O’Reilly
In the now month-long mainstream media coverage of the Russian military intervention in Ukraine, much attention has been paid to the actions of the ‘Ukrainian Resistance’.
In a manner not dissimilar to its coverage of the ‘Syrian rebels’ a decade ago, a romanticised image of ‘Ukrainian freedom fighters’ fighting bravely against a militarily superior Russian foe has been widespread amongst corporate outlets, alongside their fawning over Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in his calls for the implementation of a No Fly Zone – a move that would undoubtedly trigger nuclear war.
This Hollywood-style PR makeover of the Ukrainian military by the corporate media, including the notorious neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, also shares a strong similarity with the aforementioned ‘Syrian rebels’ in that it highlights the strong presence of CIA involvement in the background.
Indeed, the training of Ukrainian military personnel by the CIA to engage in guerrilla warfare against Russia was recently outlined in a Western corporate media report, indicating that a plan was in place to draw Moscow into an Iraq-war style military quagmire in Ukraine – the second largest country in Europe.
Such a tactic has historical usage against the Kremlin, when in 1979, then-US President Jimmy Carter would launch Operation Cyclone, a CIA programme which would see the arming, funding and training of Wahhabi insurgents known as the Mujahideen, who would go onto wage war on the USSR-aligned government of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan – with Kabul, previously Western-friendly, having come under Soviet influence following the 1978 Saur Revolution.
This romanticised image of ‘Ukrainian freedom fighters’ by the corporate media however, lies in stark contrast to their coverage of Ansar Allah, more commonly known as the Houthis, currently waging an armed resistance campaign against Western-allied Saudi Arabia’s seven year long war and blockade on neighbouring Yemen – leading to mass-starvation in what is already the most impoverished country on the Arabian Peninsula.
Indeed, this was evidenced as such on Friday, when the Yemeni armed forces launched air strikes against a key oil refinery in the Saudi city of Jeddah, to a noticeable absence of articles by the Western media celebrating the actions of the Yemeni resistance against the Western-backed might of Riyadh, unlike their coverage of Ukraine and Russia.
To understand this contrasting approach to both Yemen and Ukraine by the corporate media, one must look further into the wider geopolitical and historical context in the West’s relationship with both countries.
In 1979, the same year as the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, the Islamic Revolution in Iran saw the anti-Western and anti-Zionist Ayatollah Khomeini come to power in Iran following the overthrow of the US and UK-aligned Shah Pahlavi – who had himself come to power following 1953’s Operation Ajax, an MI6 and CIA-orchestrated regime change operation launched in response to then-Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh’s decision to nationalise Iran’s vast oil reserves.
In order to counter the influence of Khomeini’s newly-established anti-Imperialist state and to maintain hegemony in the Middle East, the United States adopted the strategy of using Saudi Arabia – separated from the Islamic Republic by the Persian Gulf – as a political and military bulwark against Iran.
This is where the media coverage of the Yemen conflict comes into play, with Tehran long being accused of backing the Houthis, whose seizure of the capital Sana’a in March 2015 led to Riyadh launching its current air campaign – involving US and British-supplied bombs – in a bid to restore its favoured Presidential candidate, Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, to power.
Therefore, with the aims of Ansar Allah consequently being opposed to the aims of the US-NATO hegemony, this explains why no heroic descriptions such as ‘Yemeni resistance’ or ‘freedom fighters’ are ascribed to the Houthis by the Western media, in stark contrast to their coverage of the Armed Forces of Ukraine – supported by the West since the 2014 Euromaidan colour revolution and their subsequent war on the breakaway Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, a situation that has escalated to the point where nuclear war has now become a distinct possibility.
It looks like Russia didn’t expect much resistence from Ukraine, same as Saudis in Yemen.
Who resists invasion gets screwed!
~Vlad
The racist hoholasshole cowards sure did! Now the Nazi bastards are grovelling at Russia’s mighty feet. No one will save the child abusing cowards. SLAVA ROSSIYA!
Your mama has gonorrhea and you have tumor.
It just means that the Anglo-Zionist media are liars and hypocrites, at least the Houthis are men of honor and don’t abuse women and children and fight like men unlike the racist bandera Nazis SLAVA ROSSIYA!
Everyone who resists invasion gets screwed! Can’t argue against the deals of my master in China with SA! Hue hue!
Don’t know much about Chinaman, but Russian sure whacked the Ukie Nazis mate.
Yes, yes! Schoigu promised victory parade in Kiev in two days!
Ain’t no resistance in Ukraine, jut Hollywood style exaggerations
Where my new battle map with all the advances in Ukraine?
I’m already missing since yesterday!
The FACT is that the Anglo-Zionist media is racist and very selective in brainwashing their sheeple. The Nazi Ukraine is a NATO puppet project, while the Ansarallah are fighting the US and western supported Saudi cowardly pimps. The Anglos are evil hypocrites, why do you think Indians and the world hates them?
They have been in training for years and have invested billions on military. Trained by Mossad and CIA and canadian, british and american army.
And brainwashing for ultranationalism. Same group that made the Ukranian coup in Maidan.
Correction: it was Obama era USA that green lighted the KSA’s war on Yemen, so it was CIA analysts who it got so wrong about resistance capacity of Houth’s, Yemeni Republican Guard, and Iran’s ability to penetrate the combined KSA and USA naval blockade of Yemeni ports.
How is possible the so called Russian army refuse to take back killed soliders???
I have no words to describe the state of Russian army.
The tanks in the storage are in awful condition engine missing, electric components missing almost 95% of Russian tanks are scrap metal beyond repair
They had 800 working 570 destroyed/captured by Ukrainians and left few.
1690 armored carriers destroyed
302 artillery systems destroyed
125 fighter jets
130 helicopters
56 defence systems
96 rocket systems
1150 automotive technologies
76 drones
7 ships including 1 of the only 2 carriers available to rusian army.
Plus huge amount of captured bombs and weapons from Russian army.
Unbelievable I am in shock to se how bad Russian army is..
They are worse than during ww2.
Corruption at every level..
17400 dead soliders and counting in only a month
Those dead solider wich are brought back from the front They are burned in mobile crematorium even mobile crematorium are not enough so they using steel melting ovens from steel factory to burn the bodies of Russian solider wich give their life for filthy Putin for a lie, a pure lie to cover the death in Russian ranks.
8 dead Generals in a month?? Plus hundreds of Commanders and over 20 hig ranking officers This didn’t happen ever in history of world army..
510-530 Russian soldiers are killed daily. This indicates the high intensity of hostilities & motivation of military.
Ukraine is defending their territory so the moral and power to fight is 100 times stronger than of a Russian soldier.
Food expired in 2015 ?? what the fuc.k Russia??
What a failure of a army
Give it up, no one buys Ukrainian Nazi propaganda.
You don’t believe have a look over the YouTube of twitter, if you still can and you Don’t live in the New North Korea “”Russia””
Thousands of video of captured soliders killed and evidence of Russian millitary failure.
Even China left Russia.
I like the media law suggestions from good ol’ Kim in NK! Hue hue!
He too shoots missiles at everyone and everything!
Mate you trolls need a different game, even Murdoch’s rag, the Australian headline:
Don’t be fooled, Putin is winning!
according to twitter, russians have not killed a single ukraine soldier, only women and children.
Liar! The “ukraine” sucks.
yeah yeah, now to the real news….Mariupol is gone. Banderites HQ has been stormed. They are running like the cockroaches they are, setting up mines as fast as they can. These things will kill a lot of civilians. Hey but who gives a fuck, the people are just untermensh..eh!?!
Oh, Mariupol has been taken again? Wasn’t that already few days ago? Schoigu told me! Hue hue!
Mate ABC downunder reported the same, the Ukie Nazis got whacked bit time. Russia not needs to set up its own government and help the human shields that were abused by Kiev cokeheads.
desperate nazi receive 1 taco from cia for silly propaganda
1. The offensive of the Russian troops disrupted the plans of the AFU offensive on the DPR and LPR using artillery, missile systems and aviation.
2. On January 22, Russian intelligence intercepted the order of General Balan on the need to complete preparations for offensive actions before February 28, so that the AFU could go on the offensive in March.
3. The operation is progressing according to plan. The main tasks of the first stage of the operation have already been completed.
4. The main priority remains the preservation of civilian lives. Hence the tactics of precision strikes on the military infrastructure and the armed forces of the enemy.
5. The blocking of large cities ensures the shackling of the AFU forces and does not allow the Ukrainian command to transfer reinforcements to the Donbass. The main operation at the moment is in the Donbas. 276 settlements have already been liberated in the DPR and LPR. 93% of the territory of the LPR and 54% of the territory of the DPR have been liberated. The group currently defending in Mariupol has more than 7,000 people.
6. Air supremacy was won by the Russian Aerospace Forces in the first two days of the operation. The organized air defense system, the Ukrainian Air Force and the Ukrainian Navy have virtually ceased to exist.
7. Up to 70% of all military stocks of Ukraine were destroyed as a result of systematic attacks on warehouses. 30 key facilities of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine were destroyed. 68% of enterprises where military equipment was repaired have already been destroyed. At the same time, since the beginning of the Special Military Operation, the Ukrainian army has already destroyed 127 bridges.
8. All the organized reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have already been put into operation, there are no new ones. Hence the bet on the mobilization of the untrained contingent. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, 6595 foreign mercenaries are fighting in Ukraine.
9. Total losses of the AFU during the month of operation. About 14,000 killed and about 16,000 wounded (the total losses of the AFU group in the Donbas account for 26% of the personnel). Of the 2,416 combat-ready tanks and Armored Fighting Vehicles on February 24, 1,587 were destroyed in a month. 112 out of 152 military aircraft were destroyed, 75 out of 149 helicopters, 35 out of 36 Bayraktar TB2 drones were destroyed. Out of 180 S-300 and Buk M1 – 148, out of 300 radars for various purposes – 117.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation will promptly respond to any attempts to close the airspace of Ukraine for the Russian Aerospace Forces.
10. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, at least 10 Ukrainian sea mines are now drifting uncontrollably in the Black Sea, posing a threat to navigation.
11. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation handed over captured weapons to the DPR and LPR. Among other things, 113 tanks and 138 ATGM “Javelin” were transferred.
More than 23,000 applications have been received from citizens of 37 states wishing to fight for the DPR and LPR. There are also a lot of such applications from Russian citizens.
12. Official losses since the beginning of ITS. Killed – 1351. Wounded – 3825.
I’m winnying big! Where is my victory parade?
Russians are solid warriors and don’t need victory parades. Indian TV just showed total Russian control over Mariupol and now that will be incorporated in the Donetsk People’s Republic. Even the Ukrainian “intelligence chief” ( a misnomer) stated that Russia will simply divide Ukraine like Korea. Russians are very smart and won the day. JAI RUS!
BTW, you deluded trolls are now a complete laughing stock.
Oh, Modi showed my independent media propaganda in India? Good boy!
You won a big dildo. It’s in your mama asshole.
tell that to the brainwashed sheeple in the depraved west
how do you know the operation is going to plan? Are you part of russia high command? No one knows that.
FACTS on the ground speak volumes, the Russians hold 40% of rump Ukraine and all of the black sea and Azov sea coast. Ukraine has lost everything.
Where is my battle map from yesterday, showing me all my advances?!?
the western world should offer food and medicine and asylum to the donbass who have suffered nazi agression for 8 years,why arent they worried about those civilians,the disgusting sickening hypocrisy of the west its depravity and lies are beyond description
food and medicine is the only thing they should be offering.
The big difference is that during the failed blitzkrieg in Kiev by the Putin faggots you could see the burnt Russian corpses all over the places like brainwashed fucking morons being lead into a slaughterhouse by Mikhail Mizintev the white haired general faggot. Now they want to pretend like it was all part of the plan.
Yes it is very interesting how the Saudis, who were responsible for the attacks of 09/11/01, are now portrayed by the western establishment as allies against these “terrorists” Houthis.
americannotnazzistan losers—ukropistan permanently partitioned…moron hillbillies obtuse
DPRK resists gringo fascism with nukes—expanded Donbass and Crimea—Russia, more nukes…bye bye nazis….your tears cannot change reality….see lgbt therapist find new drug counselor or call suicide hotline. south front is not psycho therapy referral service
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Its ok war never goes to plan. As long as all the racist ukrops are dead and Russia take east and south Ukraine then its all good
My nipples get hard when i think of Putin
Your mama is my dog. I fuck that bitch 3 times per day but at least you have something to eat. From her cunt.
This is a source of great pain for me. In Ukraine, the MSM shows videos of attacks on Ukraine. How many times have you seen an actual video (not a still photograph), of the devastation of Yemen? My count, zero.
But MSM even finds room to show the result of Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia and cry over the implications of that with fire plumes in the background.
To us, the Saudis are the victims of the rare and well targeted attacks by the Houthis.
The suffering in Yemen is invisible.
Better die then being a slave of a nuclear power.
Go home imperialist isn’t Russia big enough ?