From the most insider mouths of politicians and commentators we hear daily that the Russian offensive in Ukraine is failing. They tell us that Russia has shown complete military incompetence, that it has failed to master the basics of military logistics, that the synergy between units is not working, that troops are suffering from a lack of fuel, that obsolete military equipment is falling apart on the fly. As a result of all this, the intervention forces have been unable to occupy more than a few peripheral parts of Ukraine during the long weeks of aggression, from which they are being pushed back.
Why is freedom of speech useless according to the mainstream? Why can they censor and block anything that anyone labels as “Russian narrative”?
At the same time, the same politicians and commentators are urgently warning us that, once the whole of Ukraine is occupied, Russian troops will invade the West and try to occupy at least the whole of Central Europe. In this case, we must have allied troops in our country in advance, because our own army, for all its maturity and determination, is not capable of facing a military force which, from the available information, we can conclude will disintegrate before it reaches the Carpathian arch.
Do you understand now? Why is freedom of speech useless according to the mainstream? Why can they censor and block anything that anyone labels as “Russian narrative”? Because we don’t need different streams of opinion side by side anymore. Those different opinions are in the heads of the same people.
Jan Keller is a Czech professor of sociology.
