“THE FALSE SENSE GIVEN TO DEMOCRACY”

How and who devalued the meaning of the word democracy?

 

By Danny Smith

First of all, let's put aside the slogan that the Anglo-Saxon media (and that the Argentine ass lickers) have been discussing about the supposed struggle of “Western democracies against Eastern authoritarianism.” The facts are what make up the historical arguments and not the arguments that make them.

Today the war of stories has escalated to unthinkable levels and it was certainly not Russia or China who started it. For decades, the US propaganda machine par excellence (Hollywood) has manufactured, through the film and entertainment industry, the most varied and convenient scenarios of painted paper and cardboard to recreate the North American point of view of world reality.

From the second war in the middle of the last century, passing through the sudden enmity with the USSR in the fifties that gave birth to the cold war, the Zionist epic story of how Israel had returned to the “promised land”, the Korean war in 1950, the calamitous intervention in Vietnam a decade later to closer in time to the disastrous campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan painted as crusades for freedom and democracy, Anglo-American political and financial power had shaped the historical vision of each of these episodes with very well retouched discursive arrangements to sell them in the first instance to their own citizens.

Democracy was and continues to be the most used and hackneyed argument, but in each of these episodes in history the meaning of the term has been conspicuous by its absence. Adding to it the “just war” was another argument with which Washington and its partners masked the plundering of the resources of the countries under attack (PNAC) seeking at the same time to skip international legality. From a distance and due to the horrible humanitarian consequences verified in each of these situations (such as the 500,000 Iraqi children killed by the 1990/2003 embargo plus the 1,500,000 murdered after 2003) and that millions of people continue to suffer, it remains The fallacy of this discourse used by Republicans and Democrats alike is evident.

Beyond the lies and media adulterations that were deployed to cover up the realities of each of these campaigns, the use of this word as a cliché to justify and support the disastrous consequences of those actions simply has no basis. In the current circumstances regarding the role of NATO and the US in Ukraine this has not changed. The wounds in Iraq and Afghanistan are still raw. Likewise, and without the slightest morality, these actors (particularly Joe Biden and Co.) with that feigned concern for peace and human rights that they never respected, today have the luxury of pointing an accusing finger at Russia as an aggressor. who commits war crimes.

More incredible but at the same time more insubstantial and tragicomic is the role of the Argentine media who, emulating their admired models from the north, only resonate as a distorted cacophony of Atlanticist propaganda.

But we see the distorted use of the word democracy with the absurd and shameful censorship against the Russian media imposed by the Western political and financial power that pulls the strings of the tentacular Anglo-Saxon Media Corporation and its subsidiaries in Latin America and South America. This censorship responds to a fear in the elites that is inversely proportional to the freedom of the press that a democratic system grants and of which politicians fill their mouths. What are the leaders in Washington and Brussels afraid of? Clearly the truth.

In Ukraine that truth begins eight years ago and even earlier, in mid-2013 when the US embassy in Kyiv began to operate gradually and underhandedly against the Ukrainian government, supporting the coup in February 2014 that led to the placing of a pro-Western government that curiously opened the doors to contacts with NATO. From there began a deaf tragedy for the ears of the West (USA, Great Britain and EU) but very real and daily for the Russian-speaking minorities who found refuge and protection in the Donbass that since then had to live under constant siege.

While Russia sought negotiation and the initiative to generate treaties to defuse the situation, Washington and its European minions were more concerned with sabotaging these initiatives and maintaining the confrontation.

Far from appeasing the military actions, Washington and Brussels are committed to worsening them at the expense (contradictorily) of the human rights and democracy of the Ukrainians themselves. And if not, what kind of democracy is supporting a pro-Nazi regime that since 2014 launched a hunt against the Russian-speaking inhabitants and lately has censored the Russian culture and language of its schools? And perhaps the most paradigmatic question impossible for Americans to justify is: what is democratic about promoting political subversion and coups?

Human rights are a universal value and the administrations in Washington have very little recognized this scope. Beyond how serious the aggression is and which the United Nations (UN) Organic Charter deals with in Chapter VII, it is nothing compared to the violations that configured the invasions and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. Why the Iraqis and the Afghans they had no right not to be tortured, abused or simply killed? Certainly the racism that showed its disgusting face in these occupations is not consistent with democracy.

The relativism that reveals the understanding that Americans have in what the word democracy represents for political life is clearly incoherent with its spirit. Thus, if anything is called democracy that goes against what it represents, it is very clear that it will no longer be a democracy.