Forget the pogroms in Japan and Iraq, talk about Ukraine

After boycotting the Japanese vote after the Vietnam War and World War II, the US realized that victory meant "winning the hearts and minds of Iraqis and Americans".

To this end, unlike the wars in Southeast Asia where the media were often considered a fifth column, the media was used as a force supporting soft power.
In the case of Vietnam, it was clear to the Americans that a militarily inferior enemy would embarrass the most powerful military in the world largely because the Vietnamese army had the support of its own people.
Therefore, the "perception management" strategy was used in Iraq. The USA also had the experience of silencing the Japanese victims of the use of atomic bombs. Placing journalists in military units helped control the perspective from which Americans viewed the conflict.
The sufferings of the American soldiers are highlighted and the Iraqis are ignored. And this is not an accident. This is done in order for Americans to focus more on the suffering of these soldiers instead of questioning the issue of sending their soldiers to war.
The Western press almost did not address the fact that the US invasion of Iraq was illegal. The news about the violation of Iraqi sovereignty and the crimes that the Americans committed in Fallujah were not covered in the media. The same policy was applied in the case of Japan.
However, the sharp difference in the American opinion about the invasion of Iraq by American forces or the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan is more than hypocrisy about the war in Ukraine.
In the coverage of the news about this war in the American media, voices of condemnation of Putin and calls to hold Russia accountable for international law dominate.
 In 2002-2003, little attention was paid to the Bush administration's exaggerated claims that Saddam's regime possessed weapons of mass destruction. In addition, there was no criticism of the US statement that the Second World War would have continued for years if the Americans had not killed several hundred thousand ordinary Japanese citizens.
While the US media talked about the legal issues surrounding Russia's invasion of Ukraine this month, the US propaganda machine diverted public opinion from asking similar questions about the invasion of Iraq. The Americans had already done something similar in the case of Japan. 
As far as the mainstream media is concerned, Iraq is a forgotten country and the Iraq war is a thing of the past, like the killings of people in Japanese cities.
This sad silence is the testimony of a sad truth. two decades after the invasion, American propaganda has decisively won on the battlefield in Iraq. In the same way, the USA won in the case of Japan.