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Western Media Forced to Admit ‘The World’ Isn’t Simply the US and Europe
Washington is trying to cope with global dissent and the developing world attempting to secure basic essentials
When it comes to the war in Ukraine, the ‘Western’ media loves — or used to love — throwing around the expressions ‘the entire globe is united against Russia’ or ‘Putin succeeded in uniting the globe.’ That roughly fifteen percent of the planetary population loves to pretend it speaks for every citizen, but it soon became evident that there were plenty of pesky dissenters.
So the headlines kind of switched to the even more ridiculous ‘the free world or the democracies are united against…’
You know, the free world led by America with almost 25% of the world’s prison population, where whistleblowers are regularly jailed, and where online bank accounts are frozen for going against mainstream narratives while average voters have virtually no say in policy decisions — sick free democracy, bro.
But after the initial ‘uniting for a common cause,’ even some European countries and other allies in South America and South Asia aren’t on board with the sanctions regime and proxy war.
