Alan Watterson’s recent ad hominem attack, under the absurdly inappropriate heading ‘Scrivener’s Ukraine’ (Letters, 30 August), demonstrates uncritical acceptance of the mainstream narrative and contempt for anything else. He was triggered by a letter that he clearly didn’t read, or else failed to comprehend, because it wasn’t about Ukraine or Russia and had nothing to do with Wagner.
It was actually about Australia and America and the warmongering war-profiteering plutocracy that rules them. This tragedy in Ukraine was obviously instigated by Nuland’s 2014 regime change operation and furthered via Biden’s corrupt dealings in Kiev. Washington’s goal is to harm Russia using Ukraine, just like it aims to harm China using Australia. America’s self-entitled political elite, devoid of self-awareness, incapable of self-reflection, deluded by hypocrisy and emboldened with odious arrogance, have clearly committed a colossal crime in Ukraine.
But one can hardly expect Alan Watterson to realise this, he’s someone who employs the epithet ‘antivax’ to insult critics of the mass vax agenda. He admits that AUKUS is a waste of money and accepts that America’s previous military adventures were all disastrous, yet he believes this time it’s a worthy cause.
His opinion represents a win for the pro-war PR campaign.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
