How Do We Know It’s Not Us?

How Do We Know It’s Not Us?

They tell us Putin’s lying,

Has his people in a trance.

Telling them a story,

That they didn’t have a chance.

That the war is existential

From a massive NATO threat

Trying to obliterate

The entire soviet.

We say he’s lying and throwing his people under a bus

But how do we know it’s not us?

He says the Ukrainians

Are a bunch of fascist thugs

As bad a Hitler’s Nazis

And we’re a bunch of mugs.

They are bullying the Russians

An evil bunch of racists

Carrying out their evil deeds

While donning angel’s faces

He wanted to overthrow them with the minimum of fuss

But how do we know it’s not us?

He’s speaking propaganda.

Putting out fake news.

Controlling the population.

Manipulating views.

We think they’re a bunch of sheep

Fooled by his lies.

We wouldn’t get taken

We are much too wise.

We are told to believe that it’s all a heap of pus

But how do we know it’s not us?

How do we know it’s not us?

Opher – 11.3.2023

What to believe? What not to believe. Fed a news-thread full of spin and lies. How can we tell the truth from the lies?

Putin is really ill, dying, riddled with cancer, shaking with Parkinson’s; on drugs, doctors on hand.

The Soviet Union is collapsing he will soon be deposed.

The Soviet economy is in a disastrous dive.

Russia is losing five men for every Ukrainian soldier.

NATO has no intention of threatening Russia.

The poor Ukrainians are blameless.

The nuclear threat is just a bluff.

Putin was threatening to invade Japan.

The other Baltic States would all have been next.

Meanwhile, the war drags on and Russia is bled to death.

The Russian people are being conned and lied to.

Poetry – I think it’s you and me

I think it’s you and me

Who decides there’s a war?

I think it’s you and me –

Reacting to the facts we’re fed

By the powers that be.

Who fights in that war?

I think it’s you and me

Dying on the battlefield

For Queen and country.

Who loses a war?

I think it’s you and me.

Some gain wealth and power

But we live in austerity.

Opher – 29.7.2020

It’s the same mob who creates the wars and profit from them.

It’s the same mob who fight in the wars, get crippled and killed and end up paying for them.

It has always been thus.

We are conned and exploited. Inflamed by the media and manipulated.

Carl Sagan – On us being bamboozled

Yes we are being bamboozled. The wealthy have been taking the whole world for a ride and bamboozling us.

Trump bamboozled for his own end.

Johnson, Gove and Farage bamboozled us to get Brexit.

The whole populist agenda is one big bamboozle. A bunch of overprivileged millionaires who bamboozled the public into thinking they were on our side.

We’ve been bamboozled so long we don’t know up from down.