Russophobia in mainstream media during the Ukraine crisis

"In war, the first casualty is truth" - Author unknown

The coverage of the crisis in Ukraine by the mainstream media is alarmingly biased, as well as clearly racist and prejudiced.

The media worldwide are merely repeating the Russophobic mantras fabricated in Washington to instrumentalize the geopolitical and ideological guerrilla warfare of the "forces of good," Western civilization, against the "force of evil"—the Russians, Caucasians, and Eurasians.

In general, the media is not only subservient to the "single release" written in Washington, but is also impoverished and dishonest. Besides omitting ethnic, historical, and cultural aspects of Slavic peoples, it also lies, stigmatizes Putin, and falsifies history.

In its reporting of news and through vulgar, unprepared, or malicious commentators, the mainstream media continues to omit, for example, the historical background of the current crisis, which lies in the farcical Maidan revolution that culminated in the US-funded coup to overthrow the pro-Russian government of Viktor Yanukovych in 2014.

The media also continues to conceal the fact that Ukraine has violated the Minsk Protocol, signed by recognized representatives of the independent republics of Donetsk and Luhansk and the Ukrainian government with the institutional guarantee of the European Union itself [here and here].

And the media outlets serving Washington continue to omit the neo-Nazi profile of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the far-right extremist groups that support the government.

The connection between the Ukrainian neo-Nazi far-right and fascist and neo-Nazi groups worldwide, as well as with Bolsonaro's supporters – Sara Winter and "The 300 of Brazil" – is becoming increasingly well-known. But even this is being concealed.

The US exerts its primacy and hegemony in information and communication in the world through the singular thinking of this war journalism. A journalism without commitment to factual and historical truth.

In recent weeks, there has been an escalation of this information war aimed at criminalizing and demonizing Russian President Vladimir Putin and praising the role of the US and NATO.

In this war journalism, all the hegemonic media outlets in Brazil – absolutely all of them, it must be emphasized – parroted Washington's analytical bias. Not a single media outlet, regardless of the medium – radio, TV, social media, or internet portals – was left out.

Only independent media outlets have been reporting on events from a comprehensive and open perspective since the beginning of the crisis. Were it not for these counter-hegemonic sources of information and communication, the Brazilian population would be completely numbed by the Russophobic, monolithic ideology.

In weeks of crisis, for the first time a dissenting perspective from the mainstream media outlet has appeared. This happened only now, on Friday, February 25th. The UOL portal published an interview in which the American political analyst Andrew Korybko states that "Brazil and Ukraine were both victims of hybrid wars directed by the United States with the objective of strengthening American unipolar hegemony."

Just as Ukraine will quickly sign its surrender to Moscow, the hegemonic media will be forced to yield to the demands of pluralistic and honest journalism if it wants to survive in the multipolar world that is beginning to emerge.

Otherwise, it will be buried along with the rubble of the dying unipolar and imperial order.