The Ukraine Proxy War Has Been A Propaganda Win For Interventionists
Channel: Caitlin Johnstone
Date: 2022-09-06

This war has in that sense become the Gulf War of the 2020s: a "good war" that rehabilitates the image of US interventionism for a war-weary public. Just as the 1990 Gulf War was used to get Americans over what warmongers called "Vietnam syndrome" — a healthy aversion to interventionism following the horrific disaster of the Vietnam War — the war in Ukraine is being used to wear down the public's collective immune response to interventionism built up after the 2003 Iraq invasion.

"It's a proud day for America, and by God, we've kicked the Vietnam syndrome once and for all," the elder President Bush said after winning his war/propaganda operation in the Middle East.

Of course, we all remember what happened after that, don't we?

Reading by Tim Foley.

Article with links: https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/the-ukraine-proxy-war-has-been-a

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