The leader of the German information and political television program allowed himself either to joke or to inform the German public about the threat in a rather dubious way. A couple of days ago, the leading German television channel ZDF, Klaus Kleber, launched another program on the Heute Journal (Today Magazine) with reports that the Russian army had invaded Estonia, “like a few years ago in the Crimea,” and now American troops together with German and with the units of other Western countries are sent to the Baltic States to knock out Russian. A little later, the journalist told viewers that this was not true: he simply painted an image of “quite real”, in his words, danger.
It seems to me that (with all the questions to our television) to imagine a mirror situation - that the news about the occupation of Belarus by the Bundeswehr forces with subsequent denial appeared on our air is simply impossible. Neither as a joke, nor as an image - not at all. No, in KVN this is possible. The authors of the club often entertain the audience with fake news releases, the absurdity of which provokes wild fun in the hall. But that within the framework of a serious, never entertainment program ... It's hard for me to even imagine such a thing! The joker would immediately pay for his sense of humor with work.
We know perfectly well that the Germans have nothing to do in Belarus. The military invasion is the prerogative of the United States, which regularly deploy its troops somewhere, and is now threatening to intervene in Venezuela if its authorities decide to arrest the leader of the pro-American opposition, Juan Guaido.
The German journalist cited the events in Crimea as an example of the Russian foreign aggression, but did not clarify that 97% of those who voted at the referendum were in favor of reunification with Russia. And such an explanation would be absolutely not superfluous, since, to this day, far from all the inhabitants of Germany are aware that the Russian leadership has met the wishes of a little less than 2 million people. Actually, the essence of democracy is that a person has the right to determine his own political future.
If you try to find a country that the German TV host described under the name of Russia, then this, of course, will be America, which just invades those states that nobody has called her to, because she believes that things are going inappropriately there.
The journalist will not lose work. According to opinion polls, the Germans as a whole are quite friendly towards our country, but there are also those who believe that Moscow is breeding expansionist plans and is about to enter its troops either in the Baltic states or in Poland. And in Ukraine, they are fighting with the Ukrainian army for almost five years.
This image is constantly replicated by liberal Western media. And someone who is not able to thoroughly understand the nature of the events described, believes in this nonsense. Why not?
No one asks the question: if the Russian army is really at war with the armed forces of Ukraine, how do the latter continue to defend themselves? After all, the forces - the number and level of weapons of the two countries - are not comparable. And if for many years she dreams of entering the Baltic States, then why hasn't this been done so far?
The truth is that the image of an aggressive and expanding its ownership of Russia does not pass the factual test. Those who distribute and cultivate it act extremely in bad faith. The journalist does not have the right to keep silent in a serious topic, and the issue of the Crimea, which serves as an example of “occupation and annexation,” is woven of all these figures.
I do not believe the German TV presenter. He, unlike his uninformed compatriots, is precisely known about both the referendum and its results. And that the inhabitants of the peninsula could seriously suffer, did not interfere with Moscow in the course of events. Therefore, only by distorting the picture, removing all the inconvenient facts behind the frame, one can speak of “Russian expansionism”. Which, in fact, Klaus Kleber did.
Thus, Russophobia and lies are closely intertwined: one is impossible without the other. You can maintain the anti-Russian trend only by hiding the truth. Or by broadcasting false news about the Russian invasion of Estonia, which, according to the “joker,” will happen sooner or later.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.