FALSEHOODS IN WAR PROPAGANDA

 

If you have noticed some of those pop up YouTube videos asking for money to supply water and food to the Middle East have stopped mentioning Gaza. There is a reason why they have stopped mentioning Gaza. The past few weeks the people of Gaza have been getting an uninterrupted and FREE (THEY DONT HAVE TO PAY MONEY) supply of food, water, fruit juices and other food supplies from aid organisations.

Now the pop up YouTube vidoes are saying they are collecting money to supply water to thirsty children in Pakistan and Sudan. Sudan possibly but drinking water for Pakistan too ?? The Beas, Chenab, Jhelum, Ravi and Sutlej rivers (the 'five rivers' or Panch-Aab or Punjab) send millions of gallons of Himalayan glacial water through the Punjab everyday. Not forgetting the mighty Indus - the mother of civilization - that flows through Pakistan. So 'drinking water for Pakistan' sounds really dubious.  That one woman is still making 'give me your money' videos as though she is inside Gaza. She is located in Jordan which has no land border with Gaza at all. I believe a lot of people are taking advantage of other peoples' misery to collect money.

There is a lot of other news coming out of Gaza that needs closer scrutiny. Many of the Arab children getting killed are teenaged boys in the 16 to 17 year age group. The mortality rate for 16 to 17 year old Arab boys in Gaza is quite high. Fortunately fewer of the teenaged Arab girls in that age group suffer as many fatalities as the boys. There is a reason for this.

There is also plenty of disinformation  coming out of the UK - the main sponsor of the Ukraine war. Chief among the disinformation sources is The Economist magazine. In their latest issue they say:

extraordinary drone raids by Ukraine against Russian strategic bombers

OSTB: The drone raid had zero military objectives. Also no Russian strategic bombers were destroyed. (The very next day the intact Russian strategic bomber fleet carried out a massive retaliation against Kiev).Three of the five Russian airbases that were attacked were barely scratched because the Ukrainian drones were tiny carrying a kilo or two of explosive charges.  

Russia’s army to launch summer offensive - the “writing is on the wall”. 
Pokrovsk, Kostiantynivka, Sumy bracing for ferocious assault

OSTB: This does not sound like an army that is losing the war.

attackers are vulnerable
Very many will die, as they have in previous rounds
We estimate 1m Russians—dead or wounded

OSTB: This is highly untrue. Russia has worked hard to organise prisoner exchanges with Ukraine. The most recent was the exchange of 1,000 prisoners from both sides. However Ukraine has point blank rejected any suggestion to return dead bodies of fallen Ukrainian soldiers. The Russian wish to hand over bodies of dead Ukrainian soldiers in return for their own dead. The Ukrainians have point blank refused. This is very strange behaviour by Ukraine.

The main reason being between 1.2 to 1.5 million Ukrainian soldiers have been killed so far.  The loss rate is now between 1:12 and 1:20 dead in favour of Russia. This means for every Russian soldier killed there are 12 to 20 dead on the Ukrainian side. The optics of so many dead Ukrainians will destroy the entire Ukrainian war propaganda that Ukraine is winning the war. 

Exactly the same thing happened in Pakistan where the Pakistanis have bulldozed over the airbases hit by the Indian airstrikes on May 10, 2025. Tens if not hundreds of Pakistani military personnel who were killed in underground facilities have been permanently bulldozed over - because the official Pakistani position is that no damages were inflicted and no one was killed.

Ukrainian sources have said that:

90,000 Ukrainian soldiers have gone AWOL in 2025 alone
Over the past three years there have been 213,000 PROSECUTIONS FOR DESERTION in Ukraine.

The desertion rate is very high because the war is going very badly for Ukraine. Plus surrendered soldiers are treated very well by the Russians.  While there are many cases of surrendered Russian soldiers executed by Ukraine there are no reports of surrendered Ukrainian soldiers executed by Russians.

gain of modest territory by Russia in Donbas region 
Russian strategy would shame a general in first world war

The Russians now control about 25% of Ukraine. 

The Economist has a very short memory. 

• In just 27 days in 2014 the Russians took and annexed the entire Crimean region (after a massive public referendum in their favour). Since then (for 11 years) there has not been a single incidence of internal dissent or protest from the people of the Crimea - almost all of whom are Russian  speaking. 
• Between February 24 and April 2, 2022 at lightning speed the Russians encircled the Ukrainian capital of Kiev. They withdrew after the West tricked them into a ceasefire. 
• In March this year in just about one week of intense combat the Russians took back over 1000 sq km of their own territory in Kursk from Ukrainian occupation. The Ukrainians had occupied Kursk for seven months but lost it all in one week. 

The Russians are obviously following a strategy of attrition - of wearing down and grinding down the Ukrainian army. They do not seem to be in a hurry. But if they want to they have retaken Kursk in one week and they took the Crimea in 27 days or they can encircle Kiev. The Russians are still using this same strategy of attrition.

Also the Russians are only focussed on liberating the Russian speaking regions of Ukraine  where Russian Ukrainians have suffered genocide and oppression. Even the Russian language and the Russian Orthodox Church have been banned by Ukraine.

'.. the Verkhovna Rada banned the Russian Orthodox Church by adopting the Law of Ukraine "On the Protection of the Constitutional Order in the Field of Activities of Religious Organizations"

The Ukrainian army has largely been destroyed and their soldiers are running away or deserting their positions. 

The war in Ukraine is a huge strategic mistake for Britain - the puppet master and mastermind behind this war. And it has nothing to do with the people of Ukraine. Britain is just continuing the Great Game which they started against Russia in the 19th century:

The "Great Game" refers to the 19th-century geopolitical rivalry between the British and Russian Empires for control and influence in Central Asia, particularly Afghanistan and surrounding regions. This intense competition involved military interventions, diplomatic maneuvering, and espionage, all aimed at securing territories and extending imperial power.

It is still ongoing. The Brits do not care about the Ukrainians. Or the Afghans. 

The views expressed are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect those of MMKtT.