{"id":1392340,"date":"2022-03-21T15:14:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T19:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1392340"},"modified":"2022-03-21T15:14:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T19:14:56","slug":"3-corporate-media-shticks-about-ukraine-that-you-should-absolutely-ignore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/3-corporate-media-shticks-about-ukraine-that-you-should-absolutely-ignore\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Corporate Media Shticks About Ukraine That You Should Absolutely Ignore"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F3-corporate-media-shticks-about-ukraine-that-you-should-absolutely-ignore%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1392340&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Alexander_Vindman.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>For much of the national news media, the situation in Ukraine isn\u2019t about a deadly war involving a dangerous nuclear power so much as an opportunity to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/04\/the-war-in-ukraine-has-put-david-brooks-in-such-a-good-mood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">romanticize foreign conflict<\/a> and signal their virtue.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why it\u2019s best to ignore a lot of what the media are saying, lest we find ourselves needlessly and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/09\/the-media-narrative-about-bidens-strong-nato-leadership-is-predictably-imploding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">irreversibly entangled<\/a> in another costly, unwinnable struggle. Pro-war columnists and cable news people on the left and right are as excited as ever to push America to \u201cdo more\u201d for Ukraine, even if it does nothing to advance our own national interests.<\/p>\n<p>Avoiding that kind of manipulation isn\u2019t hard if you simply ignore these three things:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Any journalist or talking head swept up by the sight of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a T-shirt.<\/strong> Zelensky has become an emotional hero for so many of these people and the mere image of him apparently makes their insides ache for more war. Last week, after Zelensky\u2019s televised address to Congress pleading for additional military support, MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire, who is also White House bureau chief for Politico, could hardly contain himself. \u201cZelensky there, who has emerged as this really heroic figure,\u201d he said, \u201cthere in his trademark t-shirt, on the front lines, a wartime leader\u2026\u201d The Washington Post\u2019s Kathleen Parker has been similarly worked into a gooey mess, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/03\/15\/volodymyr-zelensky-modern-warrior-artist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">referring<\/a> to the Ukrainian president as \u201cthe modern-day warrior-artist,\u201d and \u201can Everyman in his trademark T-shirt and half-zip.\u201d People who think about war in corny feel-good symbols can\u2019t be taken seriously.<\/li>\n<li><strong>All appeals to ideals of  \u201cdemocracy\u201d and \u201cfreedom.\u201d <\/strong>That much of Ukraine\u2019s population is truly trying to be a free and democratic country is a good thing but that doesn\u2019t make that nation\u2019s problems our problems by default and it\u2019s not a reason for America to promise unlimited military support in the fight. On March 10, the New Republic ran the <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/165697\/defend-democracy-ukraine-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">headline<\/a>, \u201cWe Must Defend Democracy in Ukraine\u2014and Win It at Home Too.\u201d E.J. Dionne Jr. in The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/03\/06\/zelensky-ukraine-inspire-democracy-will-it-last\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">suggested<\/a> that \u201cVladimir Putin\u2019s aggression has, at long last, unleashed a come-to-democracy moment.\u201d It\u2019s all an attempt to assert that our own affairs are inextricably linked with the fate of Ukraine and that to suggest otherwise is anti-democratic. Well, no, it might just be an admission that we can\u2019t recreate the world in our image and attempts of the very recent past have been disastrous.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Every TV segment featuring Alexander Vindman.<\/strong> For weeks now, news shows have invited Vindman on air to say we should \u201cdo more\u201d in Ukraine, or some variation thereof. You\u2019ll recall Vindman as the government worker who took it upon himself to instigate a president\u2019s impeachment because he didn\u2019t think that president was sufficiently dedicated to the wellbeing of Ukraine. What else would he say? At the start of Russia\u2019s invasion, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs.com\/shows\/cbs-mornings\/video\/gMdeI74K5weKYskpt1K5WHeffZ6c4CnS\/alexander-vindman-on-russia-s-nuclear-provocations-sanctions-against-putin-and-biden-s-response\/\">said<\/a> on CBS, \u201cThere\u2019s more that we need to be doing.\u201d Last week, he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeadlineWH\/status\/1504583460417155072\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> on MSNBC, \u201cOur approach to supporting Ukraine is too incremental. \u2026 They need more.\u201d Vindman has long made clear his personal devotion to Ukraine. He has signaled a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AVindman\/status\/1492198961100345345\">desire<\/a> for the U.S., along with NATO allies, to institute a no-fly zone, which would involve shooting down Russian aircraft. There is nothing he isn\u2019t willing to risk, despite being in no position to risk anything himself.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Pay no attention to those three things, and what our position should be on the Ukraine-Russia war is a lot clearer.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Privileged-Victims-Americas-Fascists-Hijacked\/dp\/1642931454\">Privileged Victims: How America&#8217;s Culture Fascists Hijacked the Country and Elevated Its Worst People<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For much of the national news media, the situation in Ukraine isn\u2019t about a deadly war involving a dangerous nuclear power so much as an opportunity to romanticize foreign conflict<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1392340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1392340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1392340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1392340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1392340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}