by Eric Zuesse, The Duran:

The highly respected and non-partisan retired CIA analyst Larry Johnson, in a recent youtube titled “Will Biden Start WW3 Over Ukraine?”, said (at 6:21) “It’s frightening, the level of the ignorance, in the United States, particularly, about Russia, and its technological might.” His interviewer promptly deflected onto whether the war against Russia, in the battlefields of Ukraine, is “a marathon or a sprint,” but Johnson had just made an extraordinarily remarkable statement, which virtually begged the interviewer to discuss what this statement — this stunning fact, which Johnson had just asserted — would indicate about U.S.-and-allied ‘news’-media and academic ‘expert’ opinions that the media cite and present that possibly caused this “frightening ignorance” to exist; which produced this “ignorance … about Russia, and its technological might” — this ignorance that could itself enable a WW3 to result (a war that both sides and the entire world would lose).