Might is right, even their blatant lies. Recent geopolitical history is packed with harshly untruthful narratives of the mighty nations. Usually, their lies were camouflaged for their geopolitical and geo-economic vested interests. They were against the strong leaders of the smaller and weaker nations too. The needy or greedy heads of the states were the soft targets for them. The cunning connivance of the mighty nations, especially the US-NATO, has encroached limits beyond imagination to achieve their vested interests.
My young political memories begin with the pandemic of “Jihad-e-Afghanistan” slogans and poems against the Red Bear, USSR (United States of Soviet Russia). All were patronized by the United State Information Services (USIS), and were carried out under the patronage and support of then chief martial-law administrator and president General Ziaul Haq. The combo of US-NATO cold war of 1970s and their proxy war by Pakistan’s dictatorial regime in early 1980s “successfully engaged” USSR (United States of Soviet Russia) in Afghanistan until it was disintegrated. About two decades were quite heavy on the region. It resulted in the US becoming lord of the unipolar world.
Later, the world was fooled in the name of Jihad against the Russian “invasion” in Afghanistan. The richest in the Muslim world sided with the US-NATO-EU alliance to defeat the Red Bear. Hundreds of slogans were created and spread to strengthen the US-NATO narrative against “Russian Invasion”. Pakistan’s religious, political and uniformed leaders used the public’s religious sentiments for the worst incidents that happened in the region.
Apparently, the 9/11 “attack on the US” was a heinous crime against humanity. But, finally the investigative reports revealed that the 9/11 incident in 2001 was also a made-up. The biggest lie of the recent decades was aimed at creating hatred against Al-Qaida, a large faction of Mujahideen fighting in Afghanistan along with the US-NATO armies. In two decades (2001-2021), billions of the US, the EU and the NATO nations were spent in dismantling the ‘Afghan Jihad Assets’. Spending on this false narrative resulted in severe global economic recession, and the emergence of Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Taliban captured entire Afghanistan and all the lethal weapons of the US-NATO armies in no time after their haphazard withdrawal from the war-trodden Afghanistan in September 2021. In fact, Afghanistan was handed over to the Taliban to act like an armed pressure group in the region. They are doing what they were expected to. What happened to Iraq, Libya and Syria on false reports and on built-up narrative about what they later termed “Arab Spring”. Infrastructure of billions of dollars was ruined in these countries, Afghanistan and Pakistan too.
The US fiddling in Ukraine began the day it announced independence in 1991. It resulted in the “Revolution of Dignity” in 2014 that cost the country huge loss of human lives and infrastructure. Subsequently, the instigation of Ukraine war on 24 February 2022, that each country shifts the responsibility on to the other. Huge infrastructure has been destroyed on both sides including some strategically very important installations including the power houses.
The Ukraine war has once again exposed the West’s hypocritic double standards. Intentionally hitting civilian infrastructure in Russia is legitimate while the same loss in Ukraine is violation of the war principles. The sharply negative reaction of the United States and its Western allies to the Russian Armed Forces’ strikes on the Ukrainian energy infrastructure is in sharp contrast to the fact that NATO used exactly the same tactics when it bombed the territory of the former Yugoslavia in 1999 or in any hot pursuits elsewhere.
Former advisor to the bilateral US–Russian presidential commission at the US Department of State James Cardin admitted on air of the Turkish news TV channel TRT World that “the United States repeatedly carried out strikes on the energy infrastructure of other countries.” In addition, the politician stressed that “Kiev and its Western allies should not be surprised that Russia uses the so-called ‘winter factor’ in its military operation. That is how we conducted our operation against Serbia and the ‘Shock and Awe’ campaign against Iraq in 2003.”
Cardin mentioned, “Meanwhile, Serbia, unlike Ukraine, was not a terrorist state, did not shell nuclear power plants, blow up bridges or bomb civilians. Belgrade became a victim of NATO aggression solely because of its historical proximity to Moscow. The alliance had made every effort in an attempt to deprive Russia of its main ally in the Balkans. In contrast to the US and NATO, the Russian army is distinguished by its humane attitude toward Ukrainian civilians, while NATO used tactics of war of annihilation in Yugoslavia.”
Daring statements, as from James Cardin, once again, reflect the contradictory and hypocritical policy of the collective West towards the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Hiding their vested interests and camouflaged narratives is certainly impossible while the conscience of many insiders is still awake. And, the proactive and dynamic media is out there to convey their thoughts across the globe.
