AS THE world draws closer to nuclear war, led by the US and cheered on by the vassal countries of the Nato alliance, even as those countries face the prospect of de-industrialisation and a frozen winter, it may be time to update Winston Churchill’s announcement of the Cold War in describing the role of Western media: “From Barcelona on the Mediterranean to Philadelphia on the Atlantic, an Iron Curtain has descended across The West.”

Because of the impenetrability of the present mediatic “Iron Curtain,” there is almost no anti-war movement to speak of in the West. To question the war is simply forbidden. Do it and you will end up censored and ostracised, even as it draws us all closer to Armageddon.

As the European economy tanks — as in France — even bakeries close because electricity is too expensive to keep them open; as the environmental crisis worsens, to which can now be added the massive leaks from the sabotaging of the Russian pipeline, weirdly blamed on the Russians themselves.