{"id":3146,"date":"2021-02-05T17:48:15","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T17:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/?p=3146"},"modified":"2021-02-05T17:48:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T17:48:29","slug":"how-russophobia-makes-the-west-look-silly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/how-russophobia-makes-the-west-look-silly\/","title":{"rendered":"How Russophobia makes the West look Silly"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It goes from bad to worse …<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Published: 5 February 2021 ~ How Russophobia makes the West look Silly<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you noticed how anti-Russian hysteria whipped up by the UK media comes in waves? It is rather like a bad case of diarrhoea, very often brought on by something uncomfortable happening on the home front which swiftly requires some form of diversion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why is the West so Silly?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A couple of years ago, the UK media’s Russophobia ramp-up preoccupied itself with the terrors that Brits would face if they travelled to Russia for the World Cup, Dr Salisbury and the Mysterious Case of the Skripals, watch out there are hackers about, and the omnipotent cyber power that Russia is said to possess which enables it to steal into one\u2019s sub-conscious and influence the way one votes, from Brexit or not-to-Brexit to presidential elections. Incidentally, how does this work? Here I am committed to vote Remain in the Brexit referendum. I read something on social media, purported to have been written by someone from a foreign power, telling me to vote the opposite way. Bingo, I\u2019ll vote to Leave!! I mean, would you? Do you? Does it \u2026? Or, in the United States: I am going to vote for the  Democrats. I always vote for them. I don\u2019t know why, perhaps it\u2019s because my mum does. She\u2019s very PC and cannot have enough \u2018isms\u2019 in her life. But wait a moment, I have just read something that has told me to vote for Trump! Right, Trump it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve just had a word with our cat, Ginger, about this, and all he can say is \u2018give me some grub or let me scratch and bite you\u2019. And then he rolled over and purred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nevertheless, such was the panic engendered by this media-created long arm of the Russian state, even longer than the famous long arm of the British law, that my mother was convinced that when she woke up one morning and found that the wheelie bin had gone that it must be the Russians who\u2019d dun it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sputnik V romps home<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I can see that you are not comfortable with the diarrohea metaphor, so let\u2019s try another. How about a militaristic one, in which there are major battles and random cases of sniping?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, when the Russian vaccine Sputnik V was announced last year as the world\u2019s first coronavirus vaccine, it sparked nothing short of a full-scale war in the West\u2019s mainstream and science journal media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Examples of Headline News in the West<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Experts Raise Alarm As Putin Says Russia Has Approved World\u2019s First Covid-19 Vaccine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia approves Sputnik V Covid vaccine despite testing safety concerns<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have no idea if the Russian Covid vaccine is safe or effective<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia\u2019s Fast-Track Coronavirus Vaccine Draws Outrage over Safety<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia is spreading lies about Covid vaccines, says UK military chief<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UK ‘95% sure’ Russian hackers tried to steal coronavirus vaccine research (Who wrote this one? Was it \u2018Highly Likely\u2019 Theresa May?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It began politely enough, with the odd shot or two fired at the vaccine\u2019s validity based on scientific testing protocols, but soon escalated into the bellicose language that we have come to expect in the Coronavirus & Cyber Cold War era, with accusations of disinformation, misinformation, no information and, yep you\u2019ve got it, hacking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the first salvos gradually diminished, the sniping continued sporadically until, on 2 February 2021, The Lancet<\/em>, an esteemed British medical journal, published the results from a phase 3 trial of the Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine in an article headlined \u2018Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine candidate appears safe and effective\u2019. On the same day, the BBC ran this article, \u2018Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine has 92% efficacy in trial\u2019, in which, in recognition of the unjust way in which Russia had been treated, it was quoted that \u201cwe should be more careful about being overly critical about other countries’ vaccine designs.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A muted apology but an apology all the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was quite obvious, and therefore understandable, that with western mainstream media using the phrase \u2018vaccine race\u2019 freely from the outset to dramatise research efforts to develop a Covid vaccine, that considerable pique would follow when on entering the race, which was pretty much a closed affair, Russia left its western \u2018competitors\u2019 standing, pipping them at the post before they had time to pip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, the US and Brit government will never forgive Russia for coming first in their race, apart from the loss of prestige there is all that globalist vaccine money to think of, but they are doing their utmost to detract from it by focusing instead on selectively publishing photographs taken of street protests recently staged in Russian cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I asked my dear and well-informed friend, Lord Wollocks, what he thought about this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDeflection technique. A bit embarrassing for the West of late. Lots of civil disorder. Last thing that they want [in the UK or the States] are their people looking in the direction of the former USSR and saying, \u2018my word but things look a lot more civilised over there\u2019, especially if they make the not-so quantum leap from a land blighted by coronavirus mishandling and BLM riots to one which holds unswayable store on conservative norms and family values.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And off went Wollocks, to make a cup of tea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No one, not even Lord Wollocks, made any connection between the good visual copy of street protests elsewhere coinciding with Biden coming to power, but that was possibly because if all else fails there is always this little bit of land, Kaliningrad and its region, at which to level one\u2019s sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A rather Silly case of Russophobia<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Western media has a never abating obsession for what it calls the strategic military importance of Russia\u2019s westernmost outpost. In the past 10 years it has been in and out of the press more times than something attending a gender reassignment surgery which cannot quite make up its mind. On one hand, Kaliningrad has a \u2018taste for western Europe\u2019, on the other, it has a lot of clout for resisting western Europe, but should there be nothing more to snipe at Kaliningrad makes a convenient target.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest storm in a teacup, but a Pythonesque brew notwithstanding, was this report aired recently through RT: \u2018Western WWIII game plan revealed? Analysts say Poland could win Russia-NATO war by invading Kaliningrad & securing Moscow\u2019s nukes<\/a>\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wait a mo! If I was going to nip into someone else\u2019s backyard and switch off the dog so that my mates could rush in behind me and claim squatters\u2019 rights, why would I want to tell the owners of the yard what I was going to do? Whatever happened to secrets? More to the point, what do spies and military generals put on their CVs when they are seeking alternative employment?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I mentioned this news report to a Russian friend of mine as we were standing in the supermarket trying to decide which brand of vodka to buy. I said, \u201cAnalysts say Poland could win Russia-NATO war by invading Kaliningrad and securing Moscow\u2019s nukes.\u201d \u201cReally,\u201d he said, raising an eyebrow. He thought for a moment, scratched his head and then asked, solemnly, \u201cSo, which vodka is it to be?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83d\ude09BLM riots vs Capitol media reporting<\/a><\/strong>
\ud83d\ude09Backing Biden will not bring it back<\/strong><\/a>
\ud83d\ude09Katie Hopkins Life After Twitter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copyright \u00a9 2018-2021 Mick Hart. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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