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ied campaigns and victories and Axis and Allied losses at the movie theaters every week. The horrors and violence of war, while still awful, could be tuned out to some degree. People in America could still avoid the worst atrocities and violence by just not reading the newspaper. Although, nearly everybody had a personal stake in the war, like in all wars.</p><p id="bdf4">This is much more like Vietnam, the first fully televised war. Night after night, Americans in the prime time dinner hour were shocked and horrified by the images of carnage and violence in Vietnam, a country that nobody had heard of at the start of hostilities and one that nobody could ever forget by the end. As the images of body bags being unloaded at airports all over the country mounted, popular opinion forced an end to the Vietnam war.</p><p id="267b">The visceral imagery of the awful reality of modern mechanized warfare hit home like never before during the Vietnam war, and now it’s all happening again, only this time on a global scale. Another country thousands of miles away that most Americans had barely heard of before hostilities began is being invaded. People, civilians and miltary alike, are being brutalized, maimed, killed in vivid living color, and thanks to the wonders of modern technology it is being seen everywhere by everybody, all over the world.</p><p id="e4dc">The Russians, led by dictatorial President Vladimir Putin have willfully engaged and directed the full strength of their much larger army and array of weapons such as missiles, tanks, and artillery on a much smaller but more resolute Ukraine. The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky has spearheaded a valiant resistance effort against the overwhelming might of the Russian military by his personal example of staying in a bunker inside his capital. He is listed as Enemy #1 by the invaders. His family is Enemy #2.</p><p id="7ac1">Zelensky’s personal courage is inspirational to his fellow countrymen. We are all seeing the resilience, the courage and devotion

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to their homes and families, the willingness to fight and die if necessary to protect their country on the part of the brave Ukrainian people being exemplified on a daily basis. Young and old, Ukrainian men and women are all united in their resistance to this illegal, immoral invasion of their homeland.</p><p id="855a">We can only hope that as the body bags mount on both sides once again, the continual pressure of the daily televised media coverage will radically alter perceptions in enough people, on both sides, to force an end to this manufactured military madness. The fog of war has been permanently lifted.</p><p id="c048">We can no longer ignore the little man behind the curtain as he struts and boasts and rationalizes his actions. The Emperor has no clothes.</p><p id="a18d">You might like…</p><div id="07dc" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/a-walk-on-the-beach-4edb27b19a50"> <div> <div> <h2>A Walk on the Beach</h2> <div><h3>Beautiful synchronicity, a melding of natural forces</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*ndMsihdMztr-oPrh.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="f672" class="link-block"> <a href="https://medium.com/@johnwhye1967/membership"> <div> <div> <h2>Join Medium with my referral link - John Whye</h2> <div><h3>As a Medium member, a portion of your membership fee goes to writers you read, and you get full access to every story…</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*shjoz4Hxb6BOeApS)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

The Influence of Media on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Day after day, we are seeing ever more graphic images of the brutal, unprovoked Russian assault on Ukraine on our televisons, our smart phones, and stories on social media.

The daily televised scenes from the embattled and surrounded capital city of Kiev being bombarded day and night are especially savage and horrific. This daily media testament will make a huge difference in the outcome of this war, because we can see with our own eyes in real time the horrors of modern warfare on a mostly civilan population.

Women and children are not exempt in any way from this relentless bombardment. On the contrary they are often the main casualties as all Ukrainian males from 18–60 are being hastily mobilized by their government to form a more effective military resistance against Russian soldiers. This is not a conventional set piece war, with armies massed against each other like in the past. This is a bloody assault on major metropolitan centers.

It is like a slow motion portrayal of war inexorably unfolding on a daily basis as it affects everyday people, old, young, male and female. All are at the mercy of random shellings. Residential apartment buildings, open squares where people gather to shop for food or travel to their jobs, transportation hubs are all being pounded indiscriminately. The pervasive, incessant coverage is 24–7 on all the major media outlets. It is everywhere.

This is not like WWII where people watched carefully edited weekly grainy news reels of the Allied campaigns and victories and Axis and Allied losses at the movie theaters every week. The horrors and violence of war, while still awful, could be tuned out to some degree. People in America could still avoid the worst atrocities and violence by just not reading the newspaper. Although, nearly everybody had a personal stake in the war, like in all wars.

This is much more like Vietnam, the first fully televised war. Night after night, Americans in the prime time dinner hour were shocked and horrified by the images of carnage and violence in Vietnam, a country that nobody had heard of at the start of hostilities and one that nobody could ever forget by the end. As the images of body bags being unloaded at airports all over the country mounted, popular opinion forced an end to the Vietnam war.

The visceral imagery of the awful reality of modern mechanized warfare hit home like never before during the Vietnam war, and now it’s all happening again, only this time on a global scale. Another country thousands of miles away that most Americans had barely heard of before hostilities began is being invaded. People, civilians and miltary alike, are being brutalized, maimed, killed in vivid living color, and thanks to the wonders of modern technology it is being seen everywhere by everybody, all over the world.

The Russians, led by dictatorial President Vladimir Putin have willfully engaged and directed the full strength of their much larger army and array of weapons such as missiles, tanks, and artillery on a much smaller but more resolute Ukraine. The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky has spearheaded a valiant resistance effort against the overwhelming might of the Russian military by his personal example of staying in a bunker inside his capital. He is listed as Enemy #1 by the invaders. His family is Enemy #2.

Zelensky’s personal courage is inspirational to his fellow countrymen. We are all seeing the resilience, the courage and devotion to their homes and families, the willingness to fight and die if necessary to protect their country on the part of the brave Ukrainian people being exemplified on a daily basis. Young and old, Ukrainian men and women are all united in their resistance to this illegal, immoral invasion of their homeland.

We can only hope that as the body bags mount on both sides once again, the continual pressure of the daily televised media coverage will radically alter perceptions in enough people, on both sides, to force an end to this manufactured military madness. The fog of war has been permanently lifted.

We can no longer ignore the little man behind the curtain as he struts and boasts and rationalizes his actions. The Emperor has no clothes.