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The battle for Odessa and broader Ukraine conflict demonstrate the propaganda model operating with unusual clarity. Not because Russian invasion isn't aggression or Ukrainian suffering isn't real, but because systematic coverage patterns reveal filtering mechanisms serving Western interests while claiming humanitarian objectivity. Ukrainian victims receive extensive sympathetic coverage as worthy victims whose suffering justifies preferred Western policies, while comparable suffering in Yemen, Palestine, or other conflicts remains invisible because it implicates rather than serves Western power. Understanding Ukraine requires examining not just the conflict itself but how coverage serves specific interests through selective context provision, asymmetric application of principles, and systematic exclusion of perspectives threatening official narratives. The propaganda model predicts exactly these patterns and explains why humanitarian concern operates selectively based on geopolitical utility rather than representing universal principles consistently applied.