Kiev Jumped The Shark After Its Foreign Minister Implied That Biden Is A Russian Propagandist

By Andrew Korybko

The lesson to be learned is that conspiracy-driven propaganda must remain within certain reasonable limits. Kuleba’s cardinal mistake wasn’t in falsely claiming that Russia was responsible, but in accusing those who think otherwise of being “Russian propagandists”. Kiev wrongly calculated that Washington wouldn’t publicly debunk that conspiracy theory, let alone by having none other than its most anti-Russian leader in history do so personally, hence why Kuleba threw caution to the wind with his tweet.

Joe Biden is the US’ most anti-Russian leader in history after he approved the plot to provoke that newly restored world power into launching its special operation in Ukraine, which subsequently prompted his declining unipolar hegemon to wage a dangerous proxy war against it that risks sparking World War III. Nobody could credibly claim that he’s under Moscow’s influence, let alone functioning as a so-called “Russian propagandist”, yet that’s precisely what the Ukrainian Foreign Minister strongly implied.

Dmitry Kuleba tweeted the following after Ukraine accidentally bombed Poland upon one of its air defence missiles malfunctioning mid-air and crashing into that neighboring country: “Russia now promotes a conspiracy theory that it was allegedly a missile of Ukrainian air defense that fell on the Polish theory. Which is not true. No one should buy Russian propaganda or amplify its messages. This lesson should have been long learnt since the downing of #MH17.”

As it turned out, Biden later told the media that “It is unlikely in the lines of the trajectory that it was fired from Russia”, which aligns with the assertion put forth by three unnamed US officials who were cited in Associated Press’ report on his remark. Furthermore, an unnamed NATO official also told CNN that one of the anti-Russian alliance’s aircraft was able to track the missile before it hit Poland. If they truly thought that it came from Russia, then they would have already militarily reacted per Article 5.

The very fact that this hasn’t happened and that the US’ most anti-Russian leader in history is downplaying claims that Moscow was responsible add credence to the conclusion that it was Ukraine that accidentally bombed Poland. Considering this, it’s clear that Kuleba not only lied to the world by gaslighting that this conclusion was supposedly just a “conspiracy theory”, but also defamed Biden by declaring that all those who subscribe to this are “buying” and “amplifying” “Russian propaganda”.

Kiev therefore jumped the sharp and completely discredited itself since nobody in the West, especially those decisionmakers who’ve redistribute tens of billions of dollars their citizens’ hard-earned wealth to subsidize that crumbling former Soviet Republic, will ever trust its officials again after this fiasco. Kuleba could have just acknowledged this embarrassing truth but then spun it to beg for more modern air defence systems from the US-led West’s Golden Billion but instead decided to spew his nonsense.

The only reason why Kuleba did this is because his side’s been panicking over the past week after Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, the US’ most influential military decisionmaker, suggested that Kiev seriously countenance a political resolution to the Ukrainian Conflict. His pragmatic proposal came against the backdrop of the Golden Billion’s military-industrial complex burning through their stockpiles and thus being unable to sustain the scope, scale, and pace of related aid to Kiev.

It also didn’t boost Ukrainian confidence that the American and Russian spy chiefs met in Ankara on Monday to discuss that country’s conflict, which adds credence to speculation that these two New Cold War foes are exploring the parameters of a possible compromise for freezing their proxy war. Kiev’s present leadership likely wouldn’t be able to remain in power if they complied with their patron’s demands to go along with that scenario, hence why they’re desperately seeking to escalate the conflict.

To that end, Kuleba was tasked by Zelensky and his clique with gaslighting the world by falsely claiming that the exact same interpretation that Biden himself embraced several hours later is a “conspiracy theory” concocted by “Russian propaganda”. The US’ most anti-Russian leader would certainly have been briefed about that tweet, which thus leads to the conclusion that Biden ruthlessly sought to discredit that literal Ukrainian conspiracy theory in order to avoid inadvertently escalating the conflict.

After all, he and his team are well aware of the consequences connected to extending false credence to that debunked interpretation of events, namely that they’d practically force NATO to militarily respond against Russia in order to “save face” and thus likely spark World War III. For whatever one’s criticisms of Biden and the US more broadly may be, they don’t want to catalyse the apocalypse despite their dangerous sabre-rattling against Russia, to which end they didn’t think twice about discrediting Kuleba.

The lesson to be learned is that conspiracy-driven propaganda must remain within certain reasonable limits. Kuleba’s cardinal mistake wasn’t in falsely claiming that Russia was responsible, but in accusing those who think otherwise of being “Russian propagandists”. Kiev wrongly calculated that Washington wouldn’t publicly debunk that conspiracy theory, let alone by having none other than its most anti-Russian leader in history do so personally, hence why Kuleba threw caution to the wind with his tweet.

His mistake had massive consequences with respect to irreversibly destroying the Golden Billion’s trust in Ukrainian officials. There’s no doubt that Biden would have been immensely offended by the innuendo that he and other US officials are “Russian propagandist” when they’re actually the most anti-Russian figures in their country’s history. It also goes without saying that they now realize how literally insane their proxies are after they lied about what happened in a desperate bid to spark World War III.

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Voice of East.

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