Commentator and journalist Batya Ungar-Sargon said this week that major media outlets are now acknowledging realities about Ukraine and U.S. immigration that Americans were previously told did not exist, pointing to recent reporting by The New York Times as evidence of a broader shift.

Ungar-Sargon argued that criticisms of corruption in Ukraine and warnings about the scale of the immigration crisis were for years dismissed as extremist or foreign propaganda, only to later be confirmed by mainstream reporting once the political costs of denial grew too high.

“It can now be said that was the theme of the week,” Ungar-Sargon said.

“Things you have known for years but were called a Nazi or a Putin apologist for saying out loud are now being admitted in the pages of the New York Times, no less.”

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She cited a Times investigation published this week that examined corruption inside the Ukrainian government under President Volodymyr Zelensky.

According to Ungar-Sargon, the report found that “Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky government had embezzled hundreds of millions of dollars sent to Ukraine from the United States and Europe.”

Ungar-Sargon said the Times reported that Zelensky’s government “rewrote company charters to limit the government, keeping it in control and allowing hundreds of millions of dollars to be spent without outsiders poking around,” adding that “members of Zelensky inner circle laundered $100 million from the state owned nuclear power company, energoa.”

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She contrasted those findings with how similar claims were treated in earlier years.

“Tome, I am old enough to remember when pointing out that Ukraine is a deeply corrupt country, got you slammed as a Putin puppet for three years,” Ungar-Sargon said.

“Asking why the American people should be forking over billions of dollars with zero oversight to fund a war on another continent when we have our own problems here at home and we could instead be pushing for a negotiated peace was considered a Kremlin talking point.”

Ungar-Sargon also said that even basic historical facts were treated as disqualifying to discuss.

“Even pointing out basic facts that would help end the war, like the fact that Crimea had already been annexed by Russia eight years before the war began, got you labeled a propagandist for Putin,” she said.

She argued that Ukraine was not the only issue where long-denied realities are now being openly discussed. Ungar-Sargon pointed to another recent New York Times article titled How Biden ignored warnings and lost Americans’ faith on immigration.

“This week, the Times had another piece entitled How Biden ignored warnings and lost Americans’ faith on immigration,” she said.

“The open border that the mainstream liberal media denied even existed for five years is now being written up in the New York Times.”

Ungar-Sargon said the article detailed how Joe Biden and senior advisers “repeatedly rebuffed recommendations to address the border crisis, resulting in millions and millions of illegals pouring across the border and turning every major American city into a border town.”

She said Americans already understood what was happening.

“It can now be said, of course, we already knew that because we saw it with our own eyes,” Ungar-Sargon said.

“But that didn’t stop elite progressive media and the Democratic Party from gaslighting about it, denying it was happening, and smearing anyone who pointed it out as a white supremacist.”

Ungar-Sargon argued the shift in coverage is politically motivated.

“So why the 180 now?” she asked.

“Well, it’s simple until the Democrats can prove, or at least pretend, that they’ve moved on from the Biden era failures. They know they will lose national elections.”

She said blaming Biden serves as a shield for a broader lack of policy direction.

“Hence, the piece is blaming Biden they’re a good smoke screen for the fact that the Democrats don’t actually have a compelling agenda on immigration,” Ungar-Sargon said, adding that many Democrats believe the economy “requires an indentured servant cast of illegal labor to keep prices down.”

Ungar-Sargon said public opinion is moving in the opposite direction.

“Unfortunately for them, Americans want a closed border,” she said.

“They believe in hard work and good wages. They’re sick of funding other people’s fights that have nothing to do with our security and prosperity.”

She concluded by saying Americans are tired of what they see as systemic abuse.

“They’re sick of being fleeced, whether it’s by Somalis in Minnesota or Ukrainians in the Zelensky government, or millions and millions of illegal migrants who came here and sucked up billions of dollars in social services,” Ungar-Sargon said.

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