Myths in classical explanation are stories of deities and supernatural beings that were passed on by a given community and contained an explanation of the meaning of the planet and people in their collective and individual experiences. In addition to this significance, since the 19th century there has been a notion of story in the common sense. It established itself as a word of imaginary history, misconception, or superstition.
In today's informational battle, myths, as fabricated, false stories play the most crucial function in communication between the centres of power and society. They are designed to form a circumstantial kind of population awareness desired by decision centres and push social energy towards the direction outlined by management centres. This request not necessarily be the directions desired by society and crucial to it. A circumstantial steering function is more important. For example, the cult of the January uprising is harmful from the ground up, but it is useful for the authorities in the current political conflict and confrontation with Russia, as it allows anti-Russian population attitudes.
Since the outbreak of the armed conflict on Donbasa the most exploited of all current narratives is the story of the necessity of all assistance to Ukraine. It refers, of course, to the strongest knightly stereotype in Poland. This conceptual cripple has grown out of Christian religion for centuries to the highest level in the hierarchy of values—the thought of helping a weak and persecuted man. For more than 30 years, the canon has been ruthlessly exploited and caricatured by all kinds of “Oats” and another alleged “gatherers”.
However, unlike these completely harmless stories of a charitable nature, which can be actual or false, and this is not crucial for the existence and improvement of the population, the story of unconditional assistance to Ukraine is not only false, but besides dangerous to both Ukraine and Poland.
Let's take a closer look.
1.False Beginnings
The story of Russia's insidious armed robbery on Ukraine was broadcast by Western media on 24.02.2022. That's not precisely true. Russia's conflict with Ukraine has continued continuously since 2014 and began with the overthrow with the aid of the Western service of peculiar legal president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych in the alleged Euro-Majdan in Kiev. It was a classical edition of the alleged colorful revolutions carried out by Anglo-Saxon states around the planet for decades.
Legal president Yanukovych left the earlier oligarchs lured by US money at a crucial moment. The powerless and isolated had to escape Kiev. The East of Ukraine did not support the illegal coup in Kiev. After being sent to the east of Ukraine by the recently created junta with Turczynov at the head, troops for pacification – Donbas put armed resistance. Russian - speaking residents of east territories asked Russia for help. The Autonomous Republic of Crimea with its own parliament was very rapidly in favour of disconnecting from the Ukrainian state and joining Russia. In Kharkov, Odessa, Donetsk, residents besides demanded joining the Russian Federation. However, Kiev's fast contravention, which mainly uses nationalist and cheering environments, has stopped the process of emancipation of the east lands of Ukraine. The long - word war, which took various turns, has warmed up. However, it did not begin 24.02.2022. It was only then that she was escalated, 1 of many.
2. Weak Russia and NATO umbrella
The NATO-built and equipped Ukrainian army unfortunately failed to enter the fresh phase of the Donbas conflict as planned, but was amazed by the Russian attack on 24.02.2022. Media – the most crucial U.S. weapon of the very fast Ukrainian defeat of February 2022 pierced into an advanced story about heroic defence of the homeland, comparing very frequently nationalist Ukrainian battalions to knights of Leonidas under Thermopiles.
At the same time, in order to convince Russia's frightened movement of Europe to aid Ukraine and to bring it into conflict through various "resonant tubes" the fantasy of Russia's weakness was announced, that there were no weapons and missiles anymore, that its economy would shortly collapse. We all know the statements of Generals Polko and Skrzypczak, as well as fairy tales forested by home historians and “experts”, or geostrategists specified as Wolski or Zychowicz.
Their function was very crucial to build a false narrative. By falsifying to the public the essences of events occurring on Donbasa were instilled in Poles that Ukraine's support has a deeper meaning. That if we help, weak Russia will shortly fall. At the same time, in order to completely weaken the self-preservation instinct, fantasies about NATO's strength and the omnipotence of the American Army, which will defend us all, were spread.
This false message caused the majority of Polish society to make incorrect decisions. alternatively of staying distant from the war, strengthening their own resources and implementing demilitarisation initiatives, specified as Viktor Orban – the stupid Poles were pushed to the way of escalation of the conflict with the atomic power. Slowly, only now, after 1 year from the start of escalation, the Polish masses realize that Russia is not weak, but has practically unlimited material, financial and human resources, and its army is now the strongest weapon formation in Europe, with atomic weapons and state-of-the-art method solutions. To challenge her is crazy even for NATO.
3. Myths in the service of stealing resources
Oversights from the US controlled the information message brutally forced Polish elites to usage most of the native financial and military resources in inches contrary to Polish state rations and common sense. due to the fact that as the conflict on Donbas has already been demonstrated, in no way applies to vital Polish interests. The best Polish weapons were given to Ukraine, millions of tons of fuel at no cost, accounts of most Polish charities were robbed, hospitals were forced to treat the full Ukrainian nation for free. The scale of the alleged aid has long exceeded PLN 100 billion. Let us say openly these measures are irretrievably lost by Poland; in no way will they bring the mythical Ukrainian triumph closer to us, nor will they even win us the favour of Ukrainian society in the future.
Next to the wave of pushy pro Ukrainian intensifying regular mainstream media scare Poles with fear of Russian wax entering Poland. Responding to these artificially generated fears, the Polish government began to violently buy all the weapons that anyone and wherever they offered. It's mostly unnecessary. due to the fact that why do Poles request costly and slow F35s? What's the point of buying tanks and cannon-haubic from Korea erstwhile we can produce them in Poland? It cannot be escaped from the impression that all of this assault and artificially built threat was aimed solely at draining state finances by US arms cartels. And the financial scale of these purchases ranges from 150- to 200 billion PLN. erstwhile are we going to pay off the debt we're taking out?
The story of war danger besides serves the plundering of the population through artificially created increases. We accept fuel for 8 zlotys per liter, even though oil prices on stock exchanges have been the lowest in 3 years. We are not rebelling at a five-fold increase in electricity or gas prices, What happened to us? possibly we're already so wealthy that it doesn't substance to us.
4. Myths of Danger – Acceptance of censorship
The day-to-day false story of Russian threat besides serves to decision the border of civilian liberties and freedom of expression far down. In the atmosphere of the amok of war, Poles agree to far-reaching restrictions, bank account checks, disconnection from the network, border blockade and even gross censorship in the media. Universal espionage, reporting are able to destruct even the top authorities and strongest people. Many Poles active usage self-censorship publically to avoid “injury” the top fighters for freedom and democracy. The created force of pushy “proukrainism” leads to harassment and dismissal of people who have different views.
5 Cannibalisation of civilian self-help mechanisms
The abuse of ways developed over the years to aid people in request by conscripts to "help Ukraine" in practice has scaled up years of trust between donors and recipients. There are scandalous collections of deadly weapons and another accessories for killing. The talented aid is very frequently stolen by the mafia already on the Ukrainian side, which sparks understandable anger and disappointment. Lansing by the main media the request for assistance for Ukraine causes that there is no area for real people in request from Poland – disabled people, cancer patients, children. Their silent voice dies in a propaganda tumult.
6. The story of Western aid de facto harms Ukraine
Let's item this again. The communicative of effective military aid to Ukraine is false and more harmful than it helps Ukrainians. They are faced with a false image of any Western omnipotence that is able to overcome everything, and takes distant from them what is most crucial - a real view of its current position and an effort to invent adequate solutions by Ukrainian society itself. Mothers of another ninth or tenth package of sanctions on Russia, or a tranche of aid – Ukrainians send to the front successive years of their husbands and sons believing that a fewer twelve tanks or billions of dollars will change their position. All the declared aid is only a spectacle and is intended solely to convince the Ukrainians to proceed to wage war. erstwhile will it come to them that we request to solve this “cirque” and cut this escalation spiral? The promises of the West are false. Russia has besides much resources and is simply a better-organised country to lose this skirmish. In fact, NATO will not hazard defending Ukraine even 1 American or British.
The countries of Europe, in whose interest it is to preserve peace on the continent, have become 1 of the parties to this clash alternatively of helping resolve the conflict. In spite of their own economical interests – under the United States – the political elite of Europe drags the full continent into unwanted social wars. The most crucial thing is that the United States has not yet sent a single soldier to the Ukrainian war, and the benefits of it are many times – already now – outweighed by the effort. Just as it was in 1916 or 1941.
But now the Americans owe it only to a devastating informational advantage and full control of the electronic media market. There is no request to mobilize thousands of soldiers like in 1917 or 1942. It is adequate to control information properly, to send false narratives and to make myths, which, as we see from Ukraine's example, are given the ability to trigger the desired resonance by decision-makers and to push full nations into planned madness.
Peter Panasiuk
