Treating Putin Like a Lunatic When He Makes Sense
 

Treating Putin Like a Lunatic when He makes Sense | Veterans News Now

Official Washington treats whatever comes out of Russian President Putin?s mouth as the ravings of a lunatic, even when what he says is obviously true or otherwise makes sense, as the New York Times has demonstrated again.
Rationality and realism seem to have lost any place in the workings of the mainstream U.S. news media.

When reading the New York Times on many foreign policy issues, it doesn?t take a savant to figure out what the newspaper?s bias is. Anything, for instance, relating to Russian President Vladimir Putin drips of contempt and hostility.

Rather than offer the Times? readers an objective or even slightly fair-minded account of Putin?s remarks, we are fed a steady diet of highly prejudicial language, such as we find in Saturday?s article about Putin?s comments at a conference in which he noted U.S. contributions to chaos in countries, such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Ukraine.

That Putin is correct appears almost irrelevant to the Times, which simply writes that Putin ?unleashed perhaps his strongest diatribe against the United States yet? with his goal ?to sell Moscow?s view that American meddling has sparked most of the world?s recent crises.?

Rather than address the merits of Putin?s critique, the Times? article by Neil MacFarquhar uncritically cites the ?group think? of Official Washington: ?Russia is often accused of provoking the crisis in Ukraine by annexing Crimea, and of prolonging the agony in Syria by helping to crush a popular uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, Moscow?s last major Arab ally. Some analysts have suggested that Mr. Putin seeks to restore the lost power and influence of the Soviet Union, or even the Russian Empire, in a bid to prolong his own rule.?

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