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Aussie105

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23. George Orwell would be proud of the doubletalk happening today.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Wed Mar 4, 2026, 10:39 PM

Mar 4

Not really a war as such, people aren't really being killed, things really aren't being bombed and blown up.

The dead are crisis actors who go home when the cameras are off, the buildings in rubble is just CGI.

George Orwell smiles!
The double talk is just his style.

It's operation 'slightly angry', not Epic fury.
Made for the evening news for US MAGA propaganda believer consumption.

Other sane media sources like Al Jazeera, BBC (UK), DW seem to think it's an undeclared war.
Trump and Johnson need a stiff word with them to get them to see things more clearly.

The question no one, not even George Orwell, asked directly:

Who benefits?

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