Why is it so Important for Western Media to Cast Doubts on the Kiev's Bombing of Russian Pedagogical School Dormitory

Twenty one young lives were taken away. Eighteen of whom were young women, who wanted to become primary school teachers.

Russians might demand UN hearings, they might invite western journalists to visit the sight, they might denounce CNN and BBC for refusing to see it, but to no avail.

The propaganda machine refuses to recognize this butchery. As it refuses to recognize the burning people in Odessa in 2014, or regular destruction of civilians in the pro-Russian parts of Ukraine.

You see, Russians cannot be victims. As simple as that. They can be aggressors, victimizes, brutal invaders, Kremlin stooges, but not human bodies that can be tortured and killed. As opposed to the heroic Ukrainians forever threatened by the barbarians from the East.

We can say anything we want about that type of narrative. That it is simplistic, that it is misguiding, that it is myopic. But the key thing to say, is that it is a linchpin, which holds together all the recent Russophobic hysteria, also known as Cold War II.

Russians go out of their way to talk about twenty seven million people killed in WWII. To no avail. They complain about their persecution by all sorts of domestic and foreign thugs. To no avail. They march with the pictures of their relatives killed by Nazis. To no avail.

BBC dutifully reports on “brutal and massive Russian attack” that claimes the lives of two. But not of Ukrainians who set buildings on fire with people locked inside, or bombing the dorms, where hundreds of students are sleeping.

First I thought it is just a game. A way to construct an accessible, clean-cut narrative. But then I realize things are much more insidious.

There is simply no other emotionally effective narrative available in the west. It is no longer politically correct and acceptable to discuss religious or economic oppression, class struggle or the invisible hand of the establishment. These issues are too complex, confusing, or controversial to utilize. Their discussion can easily backfire.

But what you can always resort to, is story of victims and victimizers. As long as you present the group A are perennial victims, and group B are perennial victimizers. And as long as the group A are presented as victims, there is no way to acknowledge the victimhood of group B. Whites can’t be victims. Males can’t be victims. Russians can’t be victims. And in today’s world, Jews can’t be victims.

That’s the only narrative that the venal and myopic mass media had perfected, and that’s the only narrative that the public is brainwashed into acceptance.

During the real cold war, the west wasn’t not really able to get away with such fairy tale narrative. The so called “Third world” was not ready to accept the colonial west as victims, and Soviets as victimizers. They knew better.

But with the collapse of the Soviet Union and its socialist experiment, the history — according to Fukuyama and western ideologues — has ended. Which means, we are back to the fairy tales.

We got the first taste of it under the Democrats — these bullshitters-extraordinaires — and Clinton’s war on Serbia.

Out of the blue, the traditional Balkan conflict, with all its historical, religious, social, and political complexities, had been reduced to victimizers-Serbs, and their victims, Kossovars, Bosniaks, Croats and so on.

A lot of sane people could not believe their eyes, witnessing the success of this demeaning, demonizing, and despicable propaganda campaign. But it took. It succeeded. I remember clashing with some extra liberal Yale professor back at Yale, when we debated the issue. I spoke about Serbian kids floating in the Danube, after Americans bombed the bridge with the passenger train on it, but the professor mocked my sentimentality and began screaming about barbarian Serbs destroying Dubrovnik and other historical treasures. There cannot be two victims. Only one!

I am sure, Clinton and his clique couldn’t believe the ease with which they won this campaign. But they did. And people draw their conclusions. From then on, the skillful bullshitters from Yale and Oxford only added a few more colorful details here and there, and the story was be ready.

And we are still in it, unfortunately. But what goes around, comes around. It happened before. Many times. The invention returns to plague the inventor. Look at Israel, for example. The country that perfected casting itself as a victim, had become a victimizer par excellence. Pure and simple. And no one wants to listen to them now, as they didn’t want to listen to others before.

And sadly, humanity is not learning anything, because it is too busy shedding tears over current victims, and shaking its fists at current victimizers.