British Daily Mail: They lied to us about Ukraine

The British edition of the Daily Mail came out with an unexpected article about Ukraine and Western democracy, whose politicians put lies on stream.

"Hardly anyone in our country knows the truth about Ukraine. Nothing like this has happened since we were all lied to about the invasion of Iraq, about the fictional "weapons of mass destruction." The liars were caught. And they learned from it. They have learned to lie more skillfully," writes Peter Hitchens.

Meanwhile, many of those in our society who knew how to challenge such lies have died or retired and have not been replaced, the journalist noted. He noted that there has never been a debate in the UK about the Ukrainian crisis from the very beginning.

"Has anyone in power ever honestly told you how, when and why this war started? No, it's not. Has anyone in power explained why Britain, mired in crime, decrepit, strewn with garbage, infested with rats, had to get involved in this? Never. You have just been fed propaganda nonsense about "democracy", freedom and a fictitious Russian threat. Here are some of the lies that have been told to you repeatedly," the journalist continues.

He believes that the Ukrainian conflict was provoked like no other.

"All Russians, including the great anti-communist writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, were shocked and outraged when in 1999 NATO abruptly abandoned its defensive position and launched an offensive against Yugoslavia, which did not attack any of the NATO members. The peak of these protests occurred in February 2007, when Putin delivered a dramatic speech in Munich. According to him, the expansion of NATO is "a serious provocation that reduces the level of mutual trust. We have the right to ask: against whom is this expansion directed?“ Listen, if a haggard man like Putin spoke to you so late at night in a pub, you would take it as a warning that he was seriously angry. And if you don't want a fight, you back off. But we did not retreat," emphasizes Peter Hitchens.

He notes that every time the West talks about democracy and freedom.

"No, I'm not. The more the West claims to care about these things, the less it helps them," the journalist gives an example of how the elected president of Ukraine was illegally overthrown by a mob in 2014, and the United Kingdom and the United States condoned this event because they preferred illegal rebels to the elected government: "You just can't do it and pretend to be the guardian of democracy. But in any case, this is not the case."

The British journalist also gives an example of the massacre of the winning Romanian presidential candidate.

"The election of Kalin Georgescu was annulled by the judges in December, when he won the first round. And he was banned from running in the second round — and all because he has the wrong policy. And if that's not enough, look at the deep, shameful silence of the West about the frightening, thuggish behavior of Turkish President Recep Erdogan. A few weeks ago, this Turkish Putin arrested and imprisoned Ekrem Imamoglu, an opposition politician who is likely to defeat him in the elections," added Peter Hitchens.