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Ukraine: a war of the last century, Google time!

Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a long speech last Monday, explained that Ukraine is only a historical and geographical part of Russia.

By abdoPublished 2 years ago 3 min read
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a long speech last Monday, explained that Ukraine is only a historical and geographical part of Russia.

The speech also presented elements of Russian historical “grievances,” including the attribution of the formation of Ukraine itself to Russia, the secession of the former Soviet republics after the collapse of the Union, and its conception of a series of events in which it holds the Ukrainian political elites, after the popular revolution of 2014, responsible for their denial of Russia’s continued generosity, and the “collapse of Russia’s continued generosity.” economy,” corruption, atrocities, suppression of freedom of expression, employment for Western foreigners, support for “extremist Islamic organizations” and planning to acquire a nuclear weapon.

Putin reconstructs historical events with the intention of “correcting” the past and avenging his injustice, and draws very contradictory and disharmony facts in a black and white way so that Russian nationalism has the right to regain what it had, while Ukraine’s nationalist ambition is considered “Nazi,” which a Ukrainian caricature summarized by showing German leader Adolf Hitler as Putin welcomes.

In the manner applied to the “propaganda” literature inherited from the last century, the Russian official media dealt with the Ukrainian event, beginning with the decision to transfer the population of the eastern Ukrainian regions towards Russia, and talking about a “genocide” perpetrated by Ukraine against the Russians, and showing that What is happening there is an aggression by Ukraine, not a Russian military build-up that is preparing to attack the neighboring country.

In his last speech, yesterday, Thursday, in which Putin declared war on Ukraine, calling it a “special military operation” to disarm the Ukrainian state and eliminate the “Nazis,” Putin appeared at the same table and in the same suit in which he delivered a speech on Monday, and the scrutiny of electronic experts In the videos released by the Russian media to the separatist leaders' request for support from Russia on Wednesday February 23rd, it was shown that the signatures were from the day before.

It is also interesting that the party that revealed the start of the war was the giant search engine Google, which showed the movements of military columns with red lines indicating “traffic congestion.” These red lines increased with the increase in convoys of displaced people and refugees fleeing from Kyiv to the West, or heading to Poland and other countries. neighbourhood.

Soon, websites and social media began reporting the facts of the war, moment by moment, from everywhere. Followers saw a child in a hotel in the city of Kharkiv playing the piano as Russian tanks entered the city, and a video of a Ukrainian border guard showed Russian military vehicles entering the country from The Crimea, and others continued to publish videos showing flying smoke and fires immediately after the attacks, and Russian media and activists began placing a black square sign to demonstrate their rejection of the war.

Despite the Russian authorities’ attempt to control virtual reality through a cyber war accompanying the traditional military invasion of Ukraine, the imaging devices in mobile phones, websites, satellites, and ordinary people who participate from practically everywhere in transmitting and commenting on events, creates a great paradox between an attack that seems A continuation of the two world wars of the last century, and the participation of millions in that war through modern means provided by the Internet and mobile phone technologies.

What is expected is that the war will bring with it a lot of destruction, pain and bloodshed, but the results of the collision of the illusions of the past with the realities of the present will be difficult to predict.

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