Ukraine Flies a False Flag

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Ukraine Flies a False Flag

By Kevin Barrett, for American Free Press

On Tuesday, April 5, Pope Francis kissed a Ukrainian flag from “the martyred city of Bucha.” The symbolic gesture made headlines worldwide.

But it isn’t just the Pope who’s gone crazy. Ukrainian flag idolatry is the latest fad, replacing the cloth masks worn during the COVID scamdemic—which magically ended on the day Russia invaded Ukraine! Uncritical media consumers are using blue-and-yellow flag images as their social media handles. Some are purchasing the flags online and flying them, while others decorate their cars with Ukrainian flag stickers.

It is dangerous to question the magical power of talismanic pieces of cloth. After 9/11, people who knew little and cared less about their nation’s history and culture went bananas for the red-white-and-blue, and woe to anyone who challenged them. During COVID, skeptics who scoffed at cloth masks likewise courted ferocious pushback. Today, those of us who are not impressed by the Ukrainian flag and the cause it represents may be setting ourselves up for a social media lynching, or even (horror of horrors) “cancelation.”

But the truth is that the Ukrainian flag (and cause) are as phony as cloth masks for COVID.