Massive Ukrainian drone strike shuts Moscow airports: WION interview
Being in the press pool of any given broadcaster is not something you can take for granted. For a time in the spring, I was a regular on India's premier English language global broadcaster WION. At one point a 10 minute interview with them attracted half a million views. That is what can occur when the broadcaster has nearly 10 million subscribers.
But not long afterward I disappeared from the WION radar for inexplicable reasons. Now it appears my flavor of commentary has returned in good grace and today was my second time on air with them in less than a week. So we go with the flow, holding only one thing dear: to try one's best to make sense out of the cacophony of news and disinformation that is hitting us from all sides.
The subject of our talk was originally going to be the news that Belarus president Lukashenko is planning to nominate Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize if he manages to put an end to the Ukraine-Russia war. That surely is a better reason for awarding the Nobel to an American president than Barack Obama's receiving it at the start of his presidency for ...not being George Bush Jr.
However, Ukrainian's latest massive drone strike on Moscow which caused authorities to temporarily suspend operations at the two main airports of the capital, Domodedovo and Sheremet'evo upstaged Mr Lukashenko and we went with that. This gave me an opportunity to present to an audience mainly in the Global South my argument that how the war ends will not be decided by those who backed the losing side but rather by those who are the winning side.
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That being said, I nonetheless take some pleasure in reading Donald Trump's flat statement today that neither Mike Pompeo nor Nikki Haley will be offered positions in his administration. This announcement appears to confirm the observations of Larry Johnson among others that Pompeo and a few other back-stabbers from Trump's first term were themselves behind the rumors that they were in talks for jobs, rumors that were happily picked up and disseminated by the Neocon-disposed mainstream media. For those who are skeptical about the term, yes, there is such a thing as 'disinformation.'
©Gilbert Doctorow, 2024