One of the narratives which has been built up in recent months is that a battle is currently taking place in the East between the West and Russia. In other words, there is a country that is standing united against Russia, and this country is also defending democracy and European values, or at least that is how the official state media portray it.
What is important here is the fiction of absolute unity among Ukrainians on this issue, according to which the population of the entire country is reported to be united in fighting Russia. What the politically correct court reporters of Western countries, who always like to pretend to be objective journalists, deliberately ignore is the fact there is not such unanimity in eastern Ukraine on these issues!
What would not fit into the Western narratives at all is, for example, that there are many people in the east of Ukraine who sympathize more with Russia than with the rest of their own country, where by far not every citizen follows the state-imposed hatred of Russia! Since this fact does not fit into the media one-sided pseudo-reality that Western powers want to create in the minds of naïve and gullible citizens, such "facts" are of course always kept under wraps as much as possible, even if they still make their way to public sooner or later thanks to social media.
Nobody talks about it, there is always a pretense of unity, but now two of these new autonomous regions are demanding a vote on whether they should join Russia or not. Don't get me wrong, I'm well aware there are quite a few differences of opinion on this conflict in particular, even in the critical part of the populations, which I think is perfectly fine, because this is called "pluralism of opinion", which is simply part of it, at least in a real democracy!
Of course, even as a critic of the Ukrainian putschist government that violently ousted the democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovych in 2014, I do not indulge in the naivety that one hundred percent democratic voting will now take place in the areas in question. I don't think anyone needs to indulge in this illusion either, since there is a war zone there and various interest groups will of course do everything they can to push through their goals (e.g. protecting the Russian-born population from the national-socialist-minded Kiev regime).
However, the fact that such elections could take place at all shows that there is at least a considerable number of people in these regions who want to have such a vote, which is also completely understandable from a historical point of view. In the east of Ukraine, there is a very large population of Russian origin living there, which has been harassed by right-wing extremist groups financially supported by the Ukrainian government, to say the least, which has led to calls for such votes.
That these events are now being trivialized by the Western media, along the lines of "it's all just a Russian campaign", was unfortunately to be expected, but I think it's simply important to understand what's really going on there. This attempt to connect shows quite clearly that not everything in this region is as black and white as our one-sided, subjective, thoroughly biased press always wants to tell us!
Since the population in these areas is also divided, which fortunately could not be so easily swept under the carpet by the media despite all attempts, I am curious to see what will come out of these votes. In my opinion, it is important to use such occasions to educate the Western population about the fact that there is "not" absolute unity down there about a common "image of Russia as an enemy," no matter how much the Western presstitutes try to convince citizens of exactly that.
The clarification of such realities, which can only be delayed, but not prevented, will certainly change people's understanding of this conflict, on the one hand with regard to the historical understanding of the background of the whole thing, but on the other hand also the view of the contemporary historical situation, i.e. of the present and what is really happening there precisely because of actors and interest groups from outside the region who are heavily involved in it.
If more and more citizens of western countries, who have been fooled by their system media for too long, understand for the first time this is not about an absolute war between West and East, but that the whole situation is far more complex, then the problem is not yet solved, but at least a step has been taken in the right direction!
Only when Western state media and politicians lose the support for their escalating war rhetoric, arms deliveries and other outside interference by increasingly enlightened citizens, can there be any real hope for peace, which is in our all interest (keyword: escalation, nuclear weapons, World War III).
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