# Ukraine War: Criticism of Political Elites, Propaganda and Inequality

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2120488343360151841
- Source account: [@Mina7777Mina](https://x.com/Mina7777Mina)
- Source language: German
- Target language: English
- Duration: 2:42
- Published: 2026-11-11
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- Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1lncFjeBLA7p/de/ukrainekrieg-kritik-an-eliten-propaganda-und-sozialer-ungleichheit.md

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1lncFjeBLA7p/en/ukraine-war-criticism-of-political-elites-propaganda-and-inequality) The political elites made a bet They made the bet, that they could bring Russia to its knees on Ukrainian soil.

[0:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1lncFjeBLA7p/en/ukraine-war-criticism-of-political-elites-propaganda-and-inequality?t=10) They badly underestimated Russia and so they made the biggest mistake you can make in politics, underestimating your opponent.

[0:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1lncFjeBLA7p/en/ukraine-war-criticism-of-political-elites-propaganda-and-inequality?t=20) Now they’re left with egg on their faces.

[0:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1lncFjeBLA7p/en/ukraine-war-criticism-of-political-elites-propaganda-and-inequality?t=22) They invested a lot of money in the war and now, if they were honest, they would have to explain to their people that they accept responsibility for these failures and resign.

[0:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1lncFjeBLA7p/en/ukraine-war-criticism-of-political-elites-propaganda-and-inequality?t=34) Questions of criminal responsibility also arise here, because we’re talking about 1.7 million deaths on the Ukrainian side.

[0:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1lncFjeBLA7p/en/ukraine-war-criticism-of-political-elites-propaganda-and-inequality?t=42) But they won’t do that. They’re clinging to power and that’s why the propaganda sirens are wailing so loudly.

[0:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1lncFjeBLA7p/en/ukraine-war-criticism-of-political-elites-propaganda-and-inequality?t=51) That’s why hatred of Russians is being stirred up.

[0:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1lncFjeBLA7p/en/ukraine-war-criticism-of-political-elites-propaganda-and-inequality?t=55) Resentments are being stirred up. They prattle on about being ready for war, about people who, in a war zone, would wet themselves at the first live shot.

[1:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1lncFjeBLA7p/en/ukraine-war-criticism-of-political-elites-propaganda-and-inequality?t=66) And here’s what they’re trying to do: In all neoliberal societies, where the focus is on austerity, privatization, and worsening living conditions, cuts to pensions, restrictions on social benefits, there is enormous anger among the population.

[1:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1lncFjeBLA7p/en/ukraine-war-criticism-of-political-elites-propaganda-and-inequality?t=89) In everyday life, this anger stays bottled up for a long time.

[1:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1lncFjeBLA7p/en/ukraine-war-criticism-of-political-elites-propaganda-and-inequality?t=93) But of course the politicians responsible know about this anger, and so they do everything they can to ensure that this anger, on a certain day, when it erupts, isn’t directed at them.

[1:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1lncFjeBLA7p/en/ukraine-war-criticism-of-political-elites-propaganda-and-inequality?t=109) And now they’re trying to bring about a shift in aggression toward an external enemy with the aim of driving the population into new wars.

[2:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1lncFjeBLA7p/en/ukraine-war-criticism-of-political-elites-propaganda-and-inequality?t=120) Because these people who decide about wars never end up at the front.

[2:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1lncFjeBLA7p/en/ukraine-war-criticism-of-political-elites-propaganda-and-inequality?t=124) Their children study in Boston, Massachusetts, or somewhere far away, while the poor bastards, the wage earners, are left to pull their chestnuts out of the fire again.

[2:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1lncFjeBLA7p/en/ukraine-war-criticism-of-political-elites-propaganda-and-inequality?t=136) Rosa Luxemburg wrote: "The proletarians fall, the stock market rises."

[2:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/1lncFjeBLA7p/en/ukraine-war-criticism-of-political-elites-propaganda-and-inequality?t=141) And that is still true today. A clique of transatlantic power brokers in politics and business wants the people of Central Europe to die in new wars, so that money keeps pouring into their coffers and they can remain in power.