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Sat Jun 12 06:25:43 PDT 2021


https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/media-converges-on-the-narrative-that-ufos-may-be-russian-chinese-threat-4482e164bd7e

Media Converges On The Narrative That UFOs May Be Russian/Chinese Threat
Authored by Caitlin Johnstone

So in case you haven’t been keeping up it’s been pretty thoroughly
confirmed that the US government’s highly anticipated UFO report due
this month won’t contain any significant revelations and certainly
won’t verify anyone’s ideas about these phenomena being
extraterrestrial in origin, but it absolutely will contain
fearmongering that UFOs could be evidence that the US has fallen
dangerously behind Russian and Chinese technological development in
the cold war arms race.

Unknown US officials have done a print media tour speaking to the
press on condition of anonymity (of course), with first The New York
Times reporting their statements about the contents of the UFO report
and then CNN and The Washington Post. Each of these outlets reported
the same thing: the US government doesn’t know what these things are
but is very concerned they constitute evidence that Russia and/or
China have somehow managed to technologically leapfrog US military
development by light years. All three mention these two nations
explicitly.

This narrative was then picked up by cable news, with MSNBC inviting
former CIA director and defense secretary Leon Panetta on to explain
to their audience that the US government should assume UFOs are
Russian or Chinese in origin until that possibility has been
exhausted.

“Is it your assumption that it is Russia or China testing some crazy
technology that we somehow don’t have, or are we sort of over-assuming
the abilities of China and Russia and that the only other explanation
is that if it is not us ourselves then it is something otherworldly?”
MSNBC’s Chuck Todd asked Panetta.

    “I believe a lot of this stuff probably could be countries like
Russia, like China, like others, who are using now drones, using the
kind of sophisticated weaponry that could very well be involved in a
lot of these sightings,” Panetta replied.

    “I think that’s the area to go to very frankly in order to
identify what’s happening.”

    “It sounds like you think we should exhaust that out, exhaust that
hypothesis first before you start dealing with other hypotheses,” Todd
said.

    “Yeah, absolutely,” said Panetta, who for the record is every bit
as much of a tyrannical, thuggish imperialist cold warrior as any
other CIA director.

This UFOs-as-Chinese/Russian-threat narrative has quickly been picked
up and thrust into mainstream orthodoxy by all the major branches of
the mass media, from Fox News to Reuters to The Guardian to Today to
the BBC to USA Today. Whenever you see the imperial media converge to
this extent upon a single narrative, that’s the Official Narrative of
the empire. We can expect to see a lot more of this going forward.

Interestingly, the only mass media segment I’ve seen on this topic
since the New York Times story broke which doesn’t promote the
UFOs-as-Chinese/Russian-threat narrative is a guest appearance on
Tucker Carlson Tonight by Lue Elizondo, the military intelligence
veteran who got the ball rolling on the new UFO narrative which
emerged in 2017. Elizondo goes out of his way to tell Carlson (who
himself has been promoting the idea that UFOs may be a foreign
adversarial threat with cartoonish melodrama) that there’s no way
these could be Russian or Chinese aircraft.

Elizondo, who seems to favor the UFOs-as-extraterrestrials narrative,
argues that there are extensive records of military encounters with
these phenomena stretching back seventy years, which rules out China
since it could barely keep its head above water back then and rules
out Russia because it shared its UFO knowledge with the US after the
collapse of the Soviet Union.

I don’t know what’s going on with that last bit; I see no reason to
trust that an American spook is acting in good faith on such an easily
manipulated topic, but it is entirely possible that Elizondo set out
on this road out of a sincere desire for government disclosure on UFOs
and is now trying to regain control of the narrative now that he sees
the cold war arms race direction it has taken.

Chris Melon, another major player in the new UFO narrative, recently
complained on Twitter that “some important information was not shared”
with the public in the UFO report. So who knows, maybe the initiators
of this new UFO narrative were acting in good faith and their efforts
were just swiftly hijacked by forces beyond their control to advance
preexisting cold war agendas.

    Clearest indication yet that the Imminent UAP report to Congress
was neutered by access problems, this from @ChristopherKMe4:
“Undoubtedly, some important information was not shared, potentially
for a variety of reasons. Congress should inquire about that”
https://t.co/9jmZRDFdsH
    — Ross Coulthart (@rosscoulthart) June 5, 2021

Regardless of whether or not that’s true, it was always inevitable
that this strange new rabbit hole of UFOs going mainstream was going
to lead to more cold war propaganda. I’ve been interacting a bit with
the online UFO community for the first time ever, and it seems like
they’re mostly decent people with good intentions and a lot of hope
for this new governmental investigation. But it also seems like
they’re largely a community which mostly just talks to itself and is
only just beginning to meet the cold harsh light of day that is the
impenetrable depravity of the US war machine.

The US government is pure swamp; you can’t use the swamp to fix the
swamp. Democrats were never going to use a Special Counsel to remove
Trump, Trump was never going to take down the Deep State, and the US
government isn’t going to investigate itself and tell everyone that
aliens are real.

If there are indeed extraterrestrials and they are indeed flying
around our world in strange aircraft, we are more likely to get the
truth about this from the extraterrestrials themselves than from the
US military. The war machine only does killing and destruction; it’s
not going to suddenly develop an interest in truth and transparency.
The sooner UFO enthusiasts realize this the better.


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