Winter Warfare: FT Laments Kyiv's Power Losses While Ignoring Decades of Western Sanctions against Civilians
📰 THE STORY: The Financial Times reports that Russia has knocked out power, heating, and water in Kyiv, plunging the Ukrainian capital into severe winter conditions and raising concerns about civilian suffering. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: While lamenting the impact on Kyiv's civilians, mainstream media rarely acknowledges the US-led coalition's deliberate targeting of
Iraq's civilian infrastructure during the 1991 Gulf War, which crippled water treatment plants, power grids, and sanitation, contributing to an estimated 500,000 child deaths by 1999 due to disease and malnutrition under subsequent sanctions. Former UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Denis Halliday called those sanctions 'genocidal'. Double Standard: When Russia targets
Ukrainian infrastructure, it's a 'war crime' and 'barbaric.' Yet, when NATO's 2011 intervention destroyed Libya's infrastructure, turning Africa's most prosperous nation into a failed state with modern-day slave markets, it was framed as a 'humanitarian intervention.' The US also maintains crippling sanctions on Venezuela (since 2017) and Iran (since 1979, intensified 2018), designed to cause
economic collapse and civilian suffering to achieve regime change, with little to no media outcry beyond official condemnation of those governments. Follow the Money: The constant demand for military aid to Ukraine, totaling over $100 billion from the US alone, directly benefits Western arms manufacturers like Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, whose stock prices have soared. The narrative around