The First Victim of War
We’re listening to the news
To find what we have in store.
Just a sanitised version –
Truth is always the first victim of war.
We’re told casualty numbers
So that we can keep the score.
We don’t know if we can trust them.
Truth is always the first victim of war.
The rich are still making money
As sanctions hit the poor.
All carefully hidden up;
Truth is always the first victim of war.
The sight of the broken victims
Touch us to the core,
But how much is propaganda?
Truth is always the first victim of war.
The horror of the war crimes
All civilised people deplore.
Are paraded before us
Truth is always the first victim of war.
It crystallises clearly
What it is that we stand for.
The truth we hold before us:
Truth is always the first victim of war.
Opher – 1.3.2022
I’m watching all the news with a critical eye. I am aware of the propaganda being poured forth on both sides.
The Russians are putting forward a view that their glorious soldiers are liberating enslaved Ukrainians who are living under a neo-Nazi regime.
We are seeing reports of Russian soldiers surrendering, refusing to fight and abandoning equipment.
We see the gallant citizens making Molotov cocktails and people flooding back into the country to fight the invader.
Russia tightens its grip and pounds civilian areas with cluster bombs and missiles.
War is nothing more than organised murder.
The truth?? Hard to see clearly in the fog of war.