RT Wonders if Europe Needs a Bogeyman, Overlooking Its Own
RT's recent commentary, 'Why Western Europe needs Russia as its permanent bogeyman,' offers a delightful study in projection. The article suggests Europe's elites conjure a Russian threat to distract from domestic economic woes—a classic move. One might wonder what narratives RT itself exists to serve, funded as it is directly by the Russian government. This article, for instance, surfaces at a
time when, according to the UN, over 10,000 Ukrainian civilians have been killed since February 2022 due to Russia's full-scale invasion, with millions displaced. The 'bogeyman', it seems, isn't always a figment of Western imagination. The irony here is palpable: a state-funded media outlet, whose government has been sanctioned globally for aggressive actions, argues that other nations
'manufacture' threats. This isn't critical analysis; it's a transparent attempt to reframe aggression as a public relations problem for the aggressed. How many 'distractions' does it take before a 'bogeyman' is just... an observable reality?