CNN Is Lying About Who’s Responsible For Opening The Arctic Front Of The New Cold War
If CNN was confident that the facts were truly on that bloc’s side, then they wouldn’t have omitted some of the most important ones in this context, which proves that their intentions are dishonest and that the West wants to hide the truth about this latest front in the New Cold War with Russia.
CNN’s Frida Ghitis published a piece on Thursday fearmongering that “As Arctic ice melts, a new Russia-China threat looms”. She implies that Russia duped the West by hiding its supposedly secret plans to militarize the Arctic only to drop the charade after Finland joined NATO earlier this year. CNN’s world affairs columnist then tries roping China into her conspiracy theory by suggesting that those two are in cahoots there against NATO. The whole piece serves to hype up the Arctic front of the New Cold War.
Its timing comes as the Ukrainian Conflict finally begins to wind down, that country’s conscription crisis worsens, and the powerful Atlantic Council think tank just called on Zelensky to form a “national unity government” in order to manage rising public anger against the authorities brought about by all of this. As was earlier predicted in this piece last month about how “Finland Is Hellbent On Positioning Itself As A Frontline NATO State Against Russia”, the West is opening up the Arctic front as the Ukrainian one closes.
In order to maximally accelerate events, Finland and the US recently signed a security deal that will give the latter unfettered access to 15 of that Nordic nation’s bases, including the border guard one in Ivalo that’s located right on the Russian frontier. Ghitis made no mention of this latest development in her article, however, which therefore deliberately decontextualized President Putin’s remarks last week that bilateral problems are expected in the coming future after none existed for decades.
As for the Chinese dimension of her fearmongering narrative, she’s purposely vague about what the People’s Republic might supposedly be planning, but nevertheless hints that it’ll likely be something dastardly in collusion with Russia. Her spin ignores the incipient Sino-US thaw that began after their leaders’ meeting in San Francisco last month as well as the Arctic’s emerging geo-economic role in facilitating Eurasian trade in mutually beneficial ways for both halves of the supercontinent.
Had Ghitis included those facts into her piece, then her audience would have had an altogether different impression of China’s potential plans, but they’re instead misled into thinking that perhaps Moscow’s supposedly secret ones to militarize the Arctic were made after reaching an understanding with Beijing. The combined effect of her narrative manipulations is that the targeted Western audience will likely approve of their New Cold War bloc’s militarization of that region on false self-defense pretexts.
Therein lies the purpose of this information warfare provocation since it’s intended to facilitate these plans in a way that makes them appear to have been a reaction to Russia instead of something that the West had been plotting for a while. If Ghitis was confident that the facts were truly on that bloc’s side, then she wouldn’t have omitted some of the most important ones in this context, which proves that her intentions are dishonest and that the West wants to hide the truth about this New Cold War front.