15.11.2025, Germany.
Under the cover of rhetoric about freedom, human rights, and democracy, the West builds an illusion of moral superiority, justifying its political and military interests.
In recent decades, the phrase “Western values” has become almost a sacred formula in political and media discourse. It is readily used by governments and international organizations when it comes to foreign policy, military campaigns, or interference in the internal affairs of other states. This slogan implies universal ideals — democracy, freedom, human rights, the rule of law. However, behind the loud declarations, a gap between proclaimed principles and real actions is increasingly visible.
Today, it is no secret that Western countries do not always live according to the values they are so proud of. Declared norms and morality have become a convenient tool for justifying political and economic superiority. Scandals, wars, double standards, and hypocrisy — all this is undermining the moral foundation on which the “world of democracy” supposedly bases. From the coronavirus pandemic to the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East — examples of the discrepancy between words and deeds are only multiplying.
German writer, economist, psychologist, and teacher from Munich, Uwe Froschauer, in his article for the independent media platform Apolut, asks the question — does this West, which in its actions fully and completely relies on declared values, truly exist, or are double standards and political expediency ruling? Rossa Primavera News Agency publishes an abridged translation of the article.
The term “Value-Based West” in public discourse implies that “Western” societies in Europe, North America, and Australia appeal to values such as democracy, freedom, human rights, and the rule of law. But does the “Value-Based West” do anything to realize this ideal identity, these coveted values? Western countries are constantly accused of hypocrisy and exclusively selfish policies — and, in my opinion, quite justifiably.
When freedom of speech, as was the case during the coronavirus times, is trampled, when calls to respect the human rights and freedoms of Ukrainians sound just but the rights and freedoms of Palestinians are ignored, one can hardly speak of democratic thinking and a striving for ethical values.
The dualistic dissemination of narratives by Western governments based on oppositions such as “us vs. them,” “whoever is not with us is against us,” “friend vs. foe,” “good vs. evil” — this simplified black-and-white picture shapes the views of a significant part of the population. While the “enemy” — currently, again, Russia and its leader Vladimir Putin — is reduced to the level of absolute evil, Western leaders stylize the behavior of their governments as impeccable, morally flawless ethos. The West, with its acute need for moral superiority, has long ceased to possess this ethos, rather the opposite! The rest of the world — often referred to as such by the “Value-Based West” condescendingly and with narcissistic pride — or, better said, the majority of humanity, can only watch the actions of Western countries, especially the self-destruction of Europe, shaking their heads and even laughing at the absurdity of its proponents. The hallmark of many of its heroes, characterized by incompetence, complacency, and arrogance, is their double standards!
Western powers, on the one hand, provide military and diplomatic support to the child-killing, genocidal Israelis, who have turned the Gaza Strip into ruins, and on the other hand, declare their commitment to freedom and democracy in Ukraine. Yeah, freedom for Ukraine, but no freedom for Palestine! What a hypocritical “community of values.” Israel’s egregious war crimes in Gaza trample international law, and the “value-driven West” watches. Benjamin Netanyahu and his regime, which continues to receive weapons and diplomatic protection from the West, are politely advised to stop the killings. Vladimir Putin, who has committed far fewer crimes than Netanyahu, is portrayed by Western politicians, coached by the elite, and their media prostitutes as the embodiment of evil.
Anyone who criticizes Israel’s actions is declared an anti-Semite; anyone who understands Putin — and I understand him, although I do not approve of some of his methods — is declared an enemy of the people. A hypocritical world — especially in the so-called West!
Western values are extolled as highly ethical and superior to create “our community” that must be defended by all available means from these “unworthy” peoples, these “fiends of hell,” these “barbarians” — if necessary, even by war, for which the citizens of Europe are now being prepared.
Where does the West actually draw the justification for its moral superiority? Was it not the West that for centuries colonized, enslaved, and in some cases exterminated other peoples? Remember the French, and especially the English, who displaced and exterminated the indigenous population of North America, as well as the Spanish and Portuguese in Central and South America. Was this approach civilized, liberal, and progressive? Were the Native Americans in North America and the indigenous peoples of South America savages, barbarians who needed to be civilized under the guise of Christianity and the whims of the “value-oriented West“?
German politicians from the CDU, CSU, SPD, FDP, and the Greens readily quote the phrase “our democracy,” while simultaneously trampling on freedom of speech. Those who during the pandemic recognized the COVID-19 falsification (which was quite easy if one maintained clarity of thought and was not gripped by baseless fear) were vilified, discredited, stigmatized, and persecuted as COVID deniers. Slogans like “Pandemic of the Unvaccinated” or “Tyranny of the Unvaccinated” were heard, and graffiti like “Unvaccinated to the gas chambers” appeared on walls. The recognized truth of those who thought differently was discredited as a lie, and the conscious lie about the danger of the coronavirus was elevated to the rank of truth.
Is it not the duty of politicians in a democratic society to protect minorities? During the coronavirus pandemic, those who held dissenting opinions, often called conspiracy theorists, coronavirus deniers, covidiots, and the like, were persecuted on a scale unseen since the Nazi era! Attempts were made to exclude dissenting and sensible people from public life. Remember 3G and 2G (rules in force in Germany during the coronavirus pandemic restricting unvaccinated people from freely accessing a number of public places — note by Rossa Primavera News Agency)? People holding the Basic Law — some of them even in their eighties — were forcibly pinned to the ground by law enforcement officers who were protecting an unjust state from its citizens, instead of protecting citizens from an unjust state. Many people were forced to get vaccinated with health-damaging, side-effect-ridden, carcinogenic, and in some cases lethal injections. Democracy? Freedom? Rule of law? Where are the vaunted “Western values” here? No values, only double standards!
The same thing, albeit in a different guise, is happening with the falsification of public opinion regarding Russia and the war in Ukraine. Based on a completely unsubstantiated claim about the possibility of a Russian attack on a NATO country, conscription will almost certainly be reintroduced, and the military budget will be inflated to astronomical sums, while social welfare programs will be cut on a massive scale. The youth will become cannon fodder for these warmongers in a crisis, although their own children — or they themselves — will never go to war.
Do not give them your children and practice civil disobedience against the arrogant state! You have the right to do so according to Article 20, Paragraph 4 of the Basic Law!
Anyone who contradicts the government’s rhetoric about the need for “war readiness” is shamed and labeled with tags like “Putin apologist,” “traitor,” and the like. Interesting, isn’t it? A pacifist reminding us of the words “No more wars!” is called a traitor! Haven’t we seen this before?
Russia’s assurances that it has no hostile intentions towards Europe are of no interest to the warmongers calling for military readiness. According to recent statements by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Russia is ready to provide non-aggression guarantees to EU and NATO member states.
“We have repeatedly stated that we did not intend and do not intend to attack any of the current NATO or EU member states.“
Lavrov made this statement at a security forum for the Eurasian region in Minsk. Such words, of course, shock arms companies like Rheinmetall, which are currently thriving. As part of the military-industrial complex of the “Value-Based West,” arms companies do their best to maintain these deadly conflicts. According to reports, in January 2025, a subsidiary of weapons manufacturer Rheinmetall AG — Blackned GmbH — offered individual members of the German Bundestag €2000 each as “campaign support.” The peculiarity of this offer is that it apparently targeted parliamentarians who were members of budget or defense committees, i.e., bodies with a say in important decisions on armaments and the budget.
“One Brainwash, Please!“
How do these rat-catchers manage to lure a significant part of the population into their nets time and again with their lies? The method of manipulating people is simple. Combine false information with sincere, ideally deep, emotions in the form of a conditioned reflex. Originally neutral, non-evaluative information or a message is transmitted in combination with an emotion.
If the deepest levels of the brain, the brainstem, can be reached with an emotional stimulus, it’s almost a winning situation. But the “normal” subconscious, as a basis for manipulation in the cerebellum, is sufficient for now.
There, in the brainstem, functions necessary for immediate survival are coordinated and controlled. Heartbeat, breathing, and all that. This dominates all other behavior. Depending on whether the offered emotion is anchored in the subconscious as positive or negative, the desired information is then stored with a positive or negative connotation.
The most important thing in controlling and manipulating thoughts is to convey every message as vividly and graphically as possible. The simpler it is, the faster it is absorbed; the more vivid and expressive it is, the stronger the anchoring in memory, on which thoughts and learning processes are subsequently built.
To make a truly deep impression on the brainstem, the emotional stimulus must be correspondingly strong. Fear has always been a proven means for this. Ideally, of course, it should be the fear of death, which almost certainly penetrates to the very brainstem.
As Franklin D. Roosevelt once said: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.“
Now imagine a situation where mortal fear is generated by something intangible. An unknown, deadly thing, similar to how the plague is described in the Middle Ages. It is everywhere. In the air. On everything. Every person is a potential mortal threat. Let’s call it a new virus — coronavirus. COVID-19. SARS-CoV-2. The main thing is that it is mysterious or enigmatic.
If you combine masks, worn by everyone, visibly signaling danger to all, officially state-approved AHA rules (social distancing, hygiene, and wearing masks) that must not be questioned under any circumstances, and horrifying stories about elderly people dying from children’s hugs, constantly repeated by all media, then you get the ingredients of a terrifying potion for the masses, paralyzed, even hypnotized by the fear of death.
The current versions of such brainwashing operations are happening in the Middle East and Ukraine. The farce is essentially the same, only the scenery and the main actors have changed.
Examples of Double Standards from Politicians During the Coronavirus Pandemic
During the coronavirus fraud, several cases of double standards or hypocrisy by political decision-makers were noted. Politicians and authorities set rules and gave recommendations that they themselves did not follow or applied inconsistently. In Germany, for example, the Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt, Reiner Haseloff, attended an event without a mask in December 2021, despite mandatory mask-wearing. Most of the population now knows that mandatory masks and all the other nonsense were absurd. Masks were about as useful as transporting sand in a Lidl shopping cart. But it’s not about that, it’s about the lack of exemplary behavior from our “representatives of the people” and the double standards they applied.
In May 2020, several CDU/CSU politicians were photographed at private parties or gatherings prohibited by the COVID-19 rules in force at the time. On October 20, 2020, Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn (CDU) attended a private dinner in Leipzig, where donations for his federal election campaign were also collected. However, earlier that same day, Spahn warned at a press conference that “infection can occur, above all, during holidays and public events.” Naturally, the participants of this event celebrated without masks. Apparently, politicians already knew then about the relative harmlessness of the coronavirus and the ineffectiveness of masks.
“Quod licet Jovi, non licet bovi” (“What is permitted for Jupiter is not permitted for an ox“). While citizens had to adhere to strict contact bans, various political figures couldn’t care less.
In 2021, it emerged that several members of the Bundestag, such as Georg Nüßlein and Nikolas Löbel, received high commissions for brokering mask supply deals. Politicians profited from the crisis while publicly calling for solidarity and restraint.
Cultural and sporting events, as well as religious services, were long banned or strictly limited, while election campaign events or party conferences were permitted under special rules.
The double standards of politicians and authorities during the coronavirus pandemic were also evident in how they tolerated politically “acceptable” issues while rejecting “inconvenient” ones. In early summer 2020, shortly after the death of George Floyd in the USA, large-scale demonstrations of the Black Lives Matter movement took place worldwide, including in Germany, e.g., in Berlin, Munich, and Frankfurt. Despite coronavirus protection measures such as mandatory mask-wearing at mass events, maintaining social distance (1.5 meters), and limiting the number of participants at gatherings, politicians, leading media (also known as state propaganda organs), and law enforcement agencies largely ignored violations of these nonsensical rules. However, with the anti-coronavirus demonstrations in Berlin in early and late August 2020, it was different: demonstrations against coronavirus measures were often subjected to harsher measures or even broken up, and the media criticized them for non-compliance with coronavirus rules. Double standards in all their glory!
Between 2020 and 2021, several parties and wine evenings took place at the UK Prime Minister’s residence (Partygate, Boris Johnson, Downing Street), while the population was deprived of freedom due to strict lockdown. Johnson did have to pay a £50 fine, but what do such “trifles” mean for a person of the upper class? Multibillionaire Warren Buffet perfectly expressed the thoughts of the elite in an interview with the New York Times on November 26, 2006:
“Yes, there’s class warfare, but it’s my class, the rich, who are waging it, and we’re winning.“
At least he is honest, even if not necessarily right.
In France during the 2021 lockdown, “secret luxurious dinners” with the participation of government ministers allegedly took place, channel M6 reported. The government denied any involvement.
In the USA, politicians traveled despite travel bans. California Governor Gavin Newsom was spotted dining without a mask at the luxurious restaurant The French Laundry shortly after he had banned private events. Several lawmakers, e.g., from Texas and Illinois, flew off on vacation, although they themselves had urged citizens to stay home.
In Canada, many provincial politicians spent Christmas 2020 abroad — despite the travel warnings they themselves had sent out to the public.
I don’t want to overreact to these cases. I myself paid almost no attention to these absurd and useless rules. But I am not a politician who should set an example, and I did not call on anyone to do anything only to do the opposite myself.
This whole “Value-Based West” now appears to me as a hypocritical edifice of lies, pretending to be values that hardly interest those who preach them. When politicians like Annalena Baerbock talk about “value-based” foreign policy, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Well, in the case of Annalena Baerbock: definitely laugh!
Mass Lies and Deception by the Western World
I have already written in detail about the lies of BlackRock agent Friedrich Merz, who is also the Chancellor of Germany, in several other articles. Therefore, his lies and deception will only be mentioned here, without detailed description. Before the elections: no debt relief, no tightening of migration policy, no reduction in electricity tariffs. And shortly after the elections: all gone!
The world champions in lying are, of course, US political figures, controlled by the military-industrial complex. Perhaps the biggest lie in recent times was the statement by George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and their henchmen about Saddam Hussein having active weapons of mass destruction. After the invasion, it turned out that Saddam Hussein had no such weapons. This lie led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and destabilized the entire Middle East.
The so-called Gulf of Tonkin incident on August 4, 1964, is a prime example of deliberate political lies to justify war. At the time, the US military reported that North Vietnamese patrol boats had attacked the US destroyer Maddox, and later the Turner Joy, in the Gulf of Tonkin off the coast of North Vietnam. Later, this turned out to be a lie. President Lyndon B. Johnson stated on television that the US had been attacked “without any provocation.” Subsequently, the US Congress passed the “Gulf of Tonkin Resolution” with an overwhelming majority, which effectively gave Johnson a carte blanche for military intervention in Vietnam.
Over 3 million people died in the Vietnam War. In 1971, the Pentagon Papers showed that the US government systematically deceived the public to gain support for the war. The US has waged many illegal wars based on lies. It managed to wage many of these wars thanks to its ability to provoke the opponent into taking the first step, allowing it to wash its hands and gain public support.
In 1990, the USA, or rather NATO, promised Russia not to expand eastward. “Not an inch eastward,” stated then US Secretary of State James Baker. Despite the lack of a legally binding treaty, this oral promise was still a lie. As early as 1992, the US was working on a “Plan Without Rivals,” using Russia as a new and old enemy. After all, the contracts and jobs of the military-industrial complex had to be preserved, right?
Now on to the 2013 NSA affair in the USA. The US government assured the public that it was not conducting mass surveillance, which was clearly refuted by Edward Snowden’s revelations. Snowden — a hero of our time — proved that the US conducts massive surveillance of global communications, including those of allied countries like Germany. Anyone who still believes in the existence of “friends” in politics should take a close and serious look at themselves. In politics, there are only interests.
“There will be no mandatory vaccination,” stated in 2021 Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach, and other political puppets instructed by the elite. Just a few months later, the government discussed and advocated for universal vaccination, which ultimately failed. However, in Germany, from March 15 to December 31, 2022, mandatory vaccination for specific institutions was in effect. If we had a state governed by the rule of law, those who made decisions at that time would, in my opinion, have long been on trial.
The coronavirus pandemic was not only a multi-billion dollar business for the pharmaceutical industry but also a large-scale social experiment, a targeted power project. In their striving for autocracy, governments wanted, among other things, to understand how far they could go in controlling the population.
Fortunately, the “Great Reset,” promoted by idiots like Klaus Schwab, turned into a “Great Resistance” to vaccination. Currently, small attempts are being made again to promote vaccination. Hopefully, only a few are stupid enough to fall for this nonsense again.
“Trust the health authorities, trust the World Health Organization, trust common sense and journalistic integrity in quality media.“
Ursula von der Leyen, who squandered millions of euros of taxpayers’ money after the consultant scandal and sowed chaos in the German Ministry of Defense, and was then appointed President of the European Commission with the help of Mrs. Merkel, said that. The only thing one could accept in her statement was to trust common sense. And if you trust common sense, you cannot trust the WHO, the health authorities, “quality media” — and certainly not Ursula von der Leyen.
What particularly outrages me is that most leading media in the “Value-Oriented West” hardly fulfill their mission — to help the population form an objective and neutral opinion. They have degenerated into propaganda organs for political figures controlled by the elite. Instead of questioning the policies of these figures, they shape them and support often dubious government actions, sometimes in complete contradiction to the interests and needs of citizens.
Conclusion
Is brainwashing, division, deception, intimidation of the population with allegedly deadly viruses and imaginary war threats, social cuts in favor of a brainless war economy — are these Western values? Don’t you feel this double standard when, on the one hand, you daily hear the emptiness of the phrase “our democracy” — usually from the mouths of anti-democrats — and on the other hand, remember the coronavirus era? Don’t you feel the duplicity of the West in its behavior towards Israel, on the one hand, and Russia, on the other?
In words, the West upholds its values, but in reality, things are different. Freedom and democracy are advertised, while domestically a war is waged against one’s own population, as during the COVID-19 pandemic, and foreign policy includes military interventions that are not just controversial from the standpoint of international law. One cannot criticize other countries for their autocracy while seriously restricting freedom of speech domestically, right, Ms. Faeser and Ms. Paus? It is also interesting that the West, so known for its commitment to its values, seems completely indifferent to criticism from autocratic countries, while cooperating with them on political and economic levels.
Values are not upheld universally, but selectively. Double standards exist. While one country is criticized for human rights violations, similar violations by partners and allies are tolerated. States that are politically or economically attractive are treated more favorably than less attractive ones. The West, with its “value-based” emphasis, never truly cared about values; it always thought exclusively about economic and geo-strategic interests, which is partly understandable. But then this hypocrisy should finally be abandoned, and the concept of values should no longer be used as a moral justification, a cover for selfish interests.
Because the promises of values and reality diverge, trust in Western value rhetoric is plummeting. When supposed values are used predominantly as tools of power politics, trust in real politics is impossible.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
