How Western elites exploit Ukraine

The war in Ukraine poses a palpable threat to Western democracies, but this has little to do with Russia posing an inherent strategic threat to the United States or its European allies. No — more so than the Russian state, the threat to the West comes from within, a consequence of our congealing perceptions towards the conflict.

Bombs are not raining down on our cities; instead, what we are experiencing is the psychological weaponisation of war — and its exploitation as a tool of indoctrination and statecraft in the hands of the establishment.

only the first and second paragraph

Sound reason is in short supply these days. It's too bad that most simple minded people are not going to understand this. Too long and too many big words for most people.

[link to unherd.com (secure)]