Det er på en manér lig den dækning af de 'Syriske rebeller' for et årti siden, et romantiseret billede af 'Ukrainske frihedskæmpere' som kæmper bravt imod en militær overlegen russisk fjende, er blevet dækket vidt omkring i alle de corporate nyhedskilder, sammen med glorificering af den Ukrainske præsident Voloymyr Zelensky i hans kald for implementeringen af en No Fly Zone - et skridt som uden tvivl ville sætte gang i en atomkrig.
Denne Hollywood-style PR makeover af det ukrainske militær af den corporate media - inklusiv den notoriske neo-nazi Azov battalion - deler også lighedstræk med de førnævnte 'Syriske rebeller' idet det fremhæver den stærke CIA involvering i baggrunden.
Det er derfor ikke mærkeligt at træningen af ukrainsk militærpersonel af CIA til engagering i guerilla krigsførelse imod Rusland fornyligt skitseret i en vestlig corporate media rapport, tyder på at en plan er tilstede for at trække Moskva ind i en militær morads i Ukraine lignende den i irakkrigen - Ukraine værende det næststørste land i Europa.
Kommentar: Delvis oversat til dansk af Sott.net fra: Ukraine vs Yemen - A contrast in media coverage
Such a tactic has historical usage against the Kremlin, when in 1979, then-US President Jimmy Carter would launch Operation Cyclone, a CIA programme which would see the arming, funding and training of Wahhabi insurgents known as the Mujahideen, who would go onto wage war on the USSR-aligned government of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan - with Kabul, previously Western-friendly, having come under Soviet influence following the 1978 Saur Revolution.
This romanticised image of 'Ukrainian freedom fighters' by the corporate media however, lies in stark contrast to their coverage of Ansar Allah, more commonly known as the Houthis, currently waging an armed resistance campaign against Western-allied Saudi Arabia's seven-year long war and blockade on neighbouring Yemen - leading to mass-starvation in what is already the most impoverished country on the Arabian Peninsula.
Indeed, this was evidenced as such on Friday, when the Yemeni armed forces launched airstrikes against a key oil refinery in the Saudi city of Jeddah, to a noticeable absence of articles by the Western media celebrating the actions of the Yemeni resistance against the Western-backed might of Riyadh, unlike their coverage of Ukraine and Russia.
To understand this contrasting approach to both Yemen and Ukraine by the corporate media, one must look further into the wider geopolitical and historical context in the West's relationship with both countries.
In 1979, the same year as the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, the Islamic Revolution in Iran saw the anti-Western and anti-Zionist Ayatollah Khomeini come to power in Iran following the overthrow of the US and UK-aligned Shah Pahlavi. The Shah had himself come to power following 1953's Operation Ajax, an MI6 and CIA-orchestrated regime change operation launched in response to then-Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh's decision to nationalise Iran's vast oil reserves.
In order to counter the influence of Khomeini's newly-established anti-Imperialist state and to maintain hegemony in the Middle East, the United States adopted the strategy of using Saudi Arabia - separated from the Islamic Republic by the Persian Gulf - as a political and military bulwark against Iran.
This is where the media coverage of the Yemen conflict comes into play, with Tehran long being accused of backing the Houthis, whose seizure of the capital Sana'a in March 2015 led to Riyadh launching its current air campaign - involving US and British-supplied bombs - in a bid to restore its favoured Presidential candidate, Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, to power.
Therefore, with the aims of Ansar Allah consequently being opposed to the aims of the US-NATO hegemony, this explains why no heroic descriptions such as 'Yemeni resistance' or 'freedom fighters' are ascribed to the Houthis by the Western media, in stark contrast to their coverage of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - supported by the West since the 2014 Euromaidan colour revolution and their subsequent war on the breakaway Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, a situation that has escalated to the point where nuclear war has now become a distinct possibility.
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