This is answering an earlier post of Andromeda's, because I can't take the time to find it. It's the post comparing the distorted-to-untruthful government announcements and much of the news coverage regarding the US-initiated war in Vietnam. Andromeda says that US soldiers went there filled with patriotic convictions, convinced they were going to help free South Vietnam from the North Vietnamese oppressors. And only once they arrived in Vietnam did they discover what the US lies, and what they were covering up.

But that's only part of that history, leaving out an essential component that destroys any attempts to model the US/Russia'Ukraine dynamics and realities on that earlier tragedy. The essential difference? Andromeda's insistant description of the US's skullduggery and Russia as its poor victim is the very first time I have encountered this rather incredible rewriting. But in the era of the Vietnam War, I was ALWAYS aware of the reality that the government and most of the media.....those who accepted what the White House was saying....were not telling us. I was ALWAYS against that war. I always knew many others who were against it. I marched and protested, including the huge march on Washington (boy, did we have to get up early to get down there!).

But in this current situation, with such a flagrant dissonance......why hasn't this been picked up by those news sources dedicated to reality and truth?