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Here’s How The Media Are Lying Right Now: ‘Rewriting’ Ukraine War History Edition

By: Eddie Scarry

February 21, 2025

 When people like Peter Baker claim that it’s ‘rewriting’ history to acknowledge the truth, what they really mean is that the propaganda they prefer has been a failure.

Before writing an incredibly superficial piece on Eastern Europe’s geopolitical affairs from the frontlines of Pennsylvania Ave., New York Times White House correspondent Peter Baker might have checked in with his colleague who was actually stationed in Russia and knows what he’s talking about.
Baker joined the obnoxious media chorus this week in disputing virtually every single thing President Trump said recently with regard to the war in Ukraine, including Trump’s characterization of the conflict as something Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky could have avoided and Trump’s labeling of Zelensky as a dictator.

“President Trump is rewriting the history of Russia’s invasion of its smaller neighbor,” Baker wrote on Wednesday. “Ukraine, in this version, is not a victim but a villain. And Mr. Zelensky is not a latter-day Winston Churchill, but a ‘dictator without elections’ who somehow started the war himself and conned America into helping.” He went on to write that Trump had “falsely” accused Zelensky of starting the war and had engaged in a “revision” of historical record that “seems to be laying a predicate for withdrawing support for an ally under attack.”

That annoying thing the media do where they have to have the last word on every disagreement under the guise of calling it a “fact-check”? This is more of that.

If there’s any “revision” in challenging the absurd levels of propaganda that the Biden administration and the media disseminated for the sake of selling that war to the American public, so be it. Almost everything said about it by the people in power advocating to prolong it was a lie. They said it was about “democracy” and “freedom” when it was in reality a long-standing territorial dispute. They said Ukraine could “win” while privately acknowledging that was impossible. They said Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was decimating his own country’s economy when it was in fact relatively stable and even strengthening.

The more offensive lies are related to what started the war and who’s to blame. Like the rest of us quickly growing insane with our involvement in the conflict, Trump seems to truly not care at this point. He wants to see an end and that’s all that matters. But if Baker is going to print things in the Times like “Mr. Zelensky did not talk the United States into giving him money ‘to go into a war.’ He and his country were attacked,” then we’re going to have to keep correcting him using his own paper’s reporting.