That’s a very narrow interpretation. Those headlines do not suggest that the Western media was reporting that everything was fine in the region but then Russia attacked; it means that the conflict escalated into a full blown invasion of Ukraine instead of merely occupying Crimea/Donbas.
Even one of the top links in your search result says:
For eight years, brave Ukrainians fought and died for that dream after Russia invaded Crimea and the Donbas region. Today, as a result of President Putin’s flagrant disregard for human life and Ukrainian sovereignty, many more will suffer. But the dream—and America’s support for it—will never die.
As you point out, to the extent the mainstream narrative acknowledges the past at all, it’s to frame it as “Russia actually invaded in 2014 and are now trying to finish the job.”
There’s certainly no acknowledgement of NATO expansion being a legitimate concern for Russia, or the violence against ethnic Russians in Eastern Ukraine, or Ukraine not abiding by the terms of the Minsk agreements (much less comments from the West that those agreements were bad faith documents designed only to buy time).
Yes, yes, brave Ukrainian patriots really preserved their cultural heritage by bombing schools and banning a plurality of their people from speaking their mother tongue.
“Sovereign land”. What of the people who actually fucking live there? Who predominantly wanted to join the Russian Federation?
“The atomic unit of propaganda isn’t lies, but emphasis.”
You can find good coverage on the past decade of the region, but the overpowering narrative is that of an unprovoked attack.
That’s a very narrow interpretation. Those headlines do not suggest that the Western media was reporting that everything was fine in the region but then Russia attacked; it means that the conflict escalated into a full blown invasion of Ukraine instead of merely occupying Crimea/Donbas.
Even one of the top links in your search result says:
As you point out, to the extent the mainstream narrative acknowledges the past at all, it’s to frame it as “Russia actually invaded in 2014 and are now trying to finish the job.”
There’s certainly no acknowledgement of NATO expansion being a legitimate concern for Russia, or the violence against ethnic Russians in Eastern Ukraine, or Ukraine not abiding by the terms of the Minsk agreements (much less comments from the West that those agreements were bad faith documents designed only to buy time).
https://www.kanekoa.news/p/osce-reports-reveal-ukraine-started
Darn those Ukrainians for fighting back against a hostile takeover of their sovereign land. Have they no shame?
Yes, yes, brave Ukrainian patriots really preserved their cultural heritage by bombing schools and banning a plurality of their people from speaking their mother tongue.
“Sovereign land”. What of the people who actually fucking live there? Who predominantly wanted to join the Russian Federation?
inb4 sham referendums
Did you even read the article? They started the war.
9 days before? They were shelling the place for years?
Both, the other times there were negotiations though. Not this time.
If you read that article and don’t see it for the blatant Kremlin propaganda that it is, then you and I have nothing further to say to each other.
“Anything that disagrees with my worldview is Kremlin propaganda.”
cool