"The first victim of all war is truth" – cliché, but absolutely true. There is simply a war in Ukraine. It is conducted on land, sea and air. A separate front is the information-propagand. The media keeps telling us that the Russian side is disinformation and lies. The another side is truthful like a consecrated virgin. Of course, it's a lie for the naive. The fact is that both sides, which is understandable, manipulate information. However, due to the strategical position for the West, the military-economic alliances in which we are, media ownership in our country and ubiquitous rusophobia, we are practically only subject to the influence of unilateral pro-Ukrainian communicative (propaganda).
The formations of information and intellectual operations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were trained by excellent and blended with Western NATO-Wski specialists (mainly American and British). Americans have been aware of the importance of this problem since the Vietnam War, and they have most likely sensed and trained Ukrainians. Ukrainian propaganda usually works for Poles. For many months, the information provided by the media was mostly accepted unreflexively by my fellow countrymen as revealed truth. Even erstwhile they were dealing with specified curiosities as dropping a drone with pickles. present Poles are most likely more careful, but they are far from critical and analytical reasoning on this issue.
We know the description of Russian propaganda from the media. It is discussed by many experts and commentators. On the another hand, who disinformations us? The answer is given by the professional magazine Nowa Wojskowa, which is referred to by Mr Jerzy Igniatowski on the portal "Myśl Polska". These are Information and intellectual Units of Operations (so-called IPSOs), which are part of the peculiar Operations Force of Ukraine. NTW lists the following branches:
72. Information and intellectual Centre of Operations (town of Brewery, Kiev Oblast);
74. Information and intellectual Centre for Operations (Lviv);
83rd Operations Information and intellectual Centre (Odessa) – together with the Lviv Centre is tasked with collecting and analyzing information, spreading propaganda and developing responses to political events;
16. Information and intellectual Centre for Operations (Hujwa settlement, Żytomier region).
NTW in 2023 confirmed the engagement of Americans and British in training these formations. "It has been reported that in practice, IPSO centres have been assisted straight by specialists from the American 4th Group of Information and intellectual Operations and the British 77th Division of Information."
So it is worth to stay critical of what we read and watch. There are various interests in Ukraine. The communicative of mainstream media about the fact that the interests of Poles and Ukrainians are completely identical is nonsense. We Poles should only be curious in what is beneficial to our nation. Unfortunately, fewer inactive understand. Many of our compatriots are constantly terrorized by a self-proclaimed inquisition that usurps the right to decide who is “Russian onuca”, “disinforator” or “useful Kremlin idiot”. The comic thing is that frequently this Hunwejbin chasing onucism is simply a scholarship holder or worker of an institution paid by Soros foundations and another Western NGOs.
Łukasz Jastrzębski
