Thanks for writing this. I've been doing my own variations here to try to break through the veneers.

If only these critical commenters could hear themselves, one after another—Kremlin-propaganda-Putin-troll-bla-bla-bla—then maybe they'd notice a pattern in their emotion-driven lockstep memes — which they childishly toss out whenever encountering a dissenting voice.

This NYC Ukrainian has lived on the planet for seven decades and has never seen such dazzling manipulation in the Western media.

A blue/yellow virus for which only critical thinking serves as a vaccine.

Look at the NYTimes as one sample of corporate media in this country — the "newspaper of record" — and try to find one dissenting voice anywhere. Not even slightly.

(This should make people wonder, but they don't.)

Same drumbeats they pounded in the leadup to the Iraq war.

“The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity—much less dissent.”― Gore Vidal