Recently, the United States and its allies have been exaggerating tensions, claiming everywhere that Russia is about to use troops against Ukraine. Although many senior Russian officials have promised not to launch an attack on their own initiative, and Russia has signed an Olympic armistice agreement and will not conduct war operations during the Beijing Winter Olympics , various Western media are still jumping up and down, exaggerating the so-called "war risk". However, people still overestimate the moral bottom line of the United States. In order to exaggerate the tension, the well-known American media Bloomberg actually published fake news publicly. In the early morning of February 5, Beijing time, Bloomberg published a news shocking the world on the front page of its official website: "It is being broadcast live, Russian troops invade Ukraine!" However, the fact is that the troops of both Russia and Ukraine were on standby and no conflict broke out. This fake news that was completely inconsistent with the facts was on the official Bloomberg website for half an hour before it was deleted by Bloomberg.
Shortly after deleting this fake news, Bloomberg issued an apology statement. In this statement, Bloomberg defended itself that in order to ensure timeliness, the news media often write down the titles of some possible events in advance and save them, and "Russia invasion of Ukraine" is one of them. However, when publishing the news, the news headline, which was originally stored in case of emergency, was released due to operational errors by the staff. At the end of the statement, Bloomberg wrote that “we deeply regret this.” However, many netizens and experts do not agree with Bloomberg's apology statement. Some media practitioners pointed out that writing the titles of some possible hot events in advance is indeed a common phenomenon in the news industry today, and some media have indeed made low-level mistakes in sending such titles. However, in recent years, professional news organizations will deliberately save these pre-written titles on specific computers to prevent missed postings, and must undergo special proofreading and review before publishing news. As a veteran professional media, Bloomberg has a very low chance of making such low-level mistakes.
Therefore, it is generally believed that Bloomberg publishes this fake news with only one purpose, that is, to cooperate with American political propaganda. We know that there are many political forces in the United States who wish Russia would go to war with Ukraine immediately, and three of them were the most ready to move. The first stock is naturally the US arms group. The United States has withdrawn from Afghanistan and is about to withdraw from Iraq . This has led to a significant reduction in profits of US arms group. Many executives and major shareholders of the arms group are eager to break out in another war somewhere in the world. The president of the well-known American arms company Raytheon stated in a meeting not long ago that the current tension in Ukraine has a role in promoting the company's performance, and the more tense the situation, the greater the benefits of Raytheon. There are not only Raytheon, the American arms group with this idea, but also a large number of arms companies.
The second force is the capital group of Wall Street in the United States. In recent weeks, due to the out-of-control epidemic in the United States and the negative news that the Federal Reserve rate hike in is seriously considering the negative news that rate hike in , the US stock market has suffered a sharp drop, and a lot of capital flows to Europe and China. The United States can do nothing about capital flowing to China, but for capital flowing to Europe, the United States can hype the situation in Ukraine to promote its return. Since the end of January, due to concerns about the war in Ukraine that affected the entire Europe, stock markets across Europe have experienced a sharp decline. The Stock European Index hit its largest single-day decline in 19 months on January 25. Instead, the Nasdaq Index , which represents the U.S. stock market, has seen a significant increase. Bloomberg can cause very effective and timely interference to the financial market by publishing fake news, and further promote the return of capital to the United States, which is consistent with the interests of Wall Street Capital Group.
The third force is naturally the right-wing anti-Russian political force in the United States.Although this fake news incident has proven to be a false alarm, the right-wing anti-Russian politicians in the United States can still exaggerate the atmosphere of "although Russia has not invaded Ukraine, it is imminent", thus calling on more people to support their anti-Russian propositions, and spread fear in Europe, thereby suppressing Europe's political forces that have escaped American control and achieved independence, thereby strengthening the United States' control over Europe. At present, many netizens and commentators believe that the United States' arms group, Wall Street Capital Group and right-wing political forces are in a row, without any storm, and can achieve their own economic or political goals by exaggerating the atmosphere of war.
However, in fact, it is completely a big loss for the United States to use its authoritative media to spread rumors and cause trouble. At present, the United States' international reputation is already very poor, and there are quite a lot of people in the United States who distrust the government. If the authoritative American media continues to spread rumors and cause trouble on these very critical international events, it will inevitably lead to a devastating blow to its credibility and destroy the United States' little international credibility. Once reputation is destroyed, it is almost impossible to rebuild it. As the United States' credibility collapses, the cost of maintaining hegemony and even maintaining its own political operation will increase exponentially, which is a complete self-digging grave.
