June 2015 USA MUST GET OUT OF THE WORLD'S BUSINESS.... AND CONSTANT WAR ... and interfering in everything in our global nations.... they are sacrificing their troops needlessly and it's not like they have that many.... and Canada we must do our own thinking now... please ...enough..
USA constant interference in world issues creating havoc and Russia and China - United Nations must disband..... and save humanity
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rt.com/business/241005-russia-second-arms-exporter/ - Cached
16 Mar 2015 ... Home /; Business /
... The United States remains the leading arms exporter increasing sales by 23 ... Germany has reduced the export
of weapons by 43 percent, .... as in Ukraine, the US is the
evildoer who interfered in the internal ..... When the EU realized, Merkel acted to stop
the war in Ukraine with the ...
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CANADA'S ELECTION 2015- YES IT F**KING MATTERS...
Let's see the Taliban Jack party, the Liberal Rwanda Party, the Green useless... the Bloc don't matter and the Tories who ain't a gonna change BUT at least provided decent gear 4 our troops in Afghanistan after the horrendous and humiliating and danger of Chretien ( and he was so a man of the people- had his picture on my prayer table...till Rwanda) ... all need 2 do much better 4 Canadians... every one of them... and protect and care 4 our vets and troops... and get off the USA titty wars they and Russia and China create.... come on...imho - let's see what each party actually will bring 2 the Canadians supper table.... instead of just spewed rhetoric hatred of each other's politics...imho
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UPDATE: MARCH 28/2015- Scott Taylor talks facts... shame on USA, EU, Nato and Canada and their White Man's War.... over humanity and prosperity....
Putin is not alone in redrawing borders- March 22/15 The Chronicle Herald
ON TARGET: Crimea, one year later
It has been just over one year since Russian President Vladimir Putin orchestrated the virtually bloodless annexation of Crimea.
At that juncture, Viktor Yanukovych, Ukraine’s elected president, had just been ousted by pro-West protesters following months of violent demonstrations in the streets of Kyiv.
With Yanukovych officially deposed by a vote in parliament, the long-standing divisions within Ukraine rose to the fore. Ukrainians living east of the Dnieper River, many of them ethnic Russians, began their own violent demonstrations in rejection of the new interim administration in Kyiv.
In the midst of this political turmoil and instability, Russian military personnel based in Crimea moved quickly to surround and disarm Ukrainian military garrisons with whom they shared the strategic peninsula.
Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union and independence of Ukraine in 1991, Russia had been leasing the port of Sebastopol, the home base for the Russian navy’s Black Sea fleet.
In April 2010, the two countries negotiated the Kharkiv Pact and an extension of the lease until 2042. However, with Kyiv under new management and threatening closer ties to the West, the Kremlin was taking no chances over any future eviction notice.
Despite the fact that the Ukrainian military outnumbered the Russians, they surrendered their weapons and bases without firing a single shot. In fact, the majority of the Ukrainian military personnel who were detained voluntarily re-enlisted in the Russian military, where they would receive a considerably more lucrative salary.
Those Ukrainian soldiers wishing to leave Crimea were allowed to do so, along with the majority of their major weapons systems, such as tanks and fighter jets.
To give an element of legitimacy to his annexation, Putin staged a hasty referendum in March 2014 that produced a result of over 95 per cent of the popular vote in favour of uniting Crimea to Russia.
This resulted in international howls of indignation, with Canada’s then-foreign affairs minister, John Baird, likening Putin to Adolf Hitler.
Hillary Clinton, the American secretary of state, blustered that “You can’t simply redraw the lines of the map of Europe." This would, of course, be news to any student of 20th-century history.
The Treaty of Versailles, following the First World War, saw the creation of numerous independent countries and territories that once belonged to the vanquished German, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires, while the Russian Bolsheviks, in turn, annexed territory to create the Soviet Union.
Ditto the end of the Second World War, when the victors rewarded allies and punished foes by redrawing the maps. Then came the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, which coincided with the start of the breakup of Yugoslavia and the division of the Czech and Slovak republics, not to mention the reunification of East and West Germany.
While many of these developments were bloodless, it was a different story in both the former Yugoslavia and the Caucasus. The bitter civil wars and border disputes in these two regions remain simmering global hot spots and frozen conflicts.
As for redrawing maps, it was Hillary Clinton’s husband, then-president Bill Clinton, who was instrumental in leading NATO’s intervention against Serbia in the spring of 1999. After a 78-day bombing campaign that killed more than 1,200 innocent civilians, Serbia capitulated and allowed NATO troops to enter the disputed province of Kosovo.
The Americans immediately began the construction of an enormous military base known as Camp Bondsteel, which remains a strategic foothold in the Balkans.
In February 2008, the ethnic Albanian Kosovar majority unilaterally declared independence and the United States was the first nation to redraw the map of Europe by recognizing the newly created state of Kosovo. Unlike Crimea, there was no referendum.
The thankful Albanian Kosovars officially recognized the contributions to the creation of their country. In Pristina, Kosovo’s capital, there is a seven-storey portrait of a smiling Bill Clinton on Hillary Clinton Way.
In 2015, however, times are tough in Kosovo. Since last fall, a mass exodus of young Albanians has been underway, flooding into Europe, complaining of poverty, unemployment and widespread corruption in their new country.
This couldn’t be further from the one-year litmus test taken among the newly annexed residents of Crimea. Obviously hoping to prove dissatisfaction with the annexation, a Canadian government-funded survey of 800 Crimean residents taken in January proved the exact opposite. The poll revealed that 82 per cent fully supported the annexation, 11 per cent partly supported it and a mere four per cent opposed it. The majority also reported that their standard of living had improved in the last year.
That evil Putin has some nerve gobbling up territory and making people happy.
ON TARGET
SCOTT TAYLOR staylor@herald.ca @EDC_Mag -Scott Taylor is editor of Esprit de Corps magazine
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Ukraine army killing innocent Ukraine people in the East.... THIS MUST STOP
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SEPTEMBER 25- 2014 Foreign Affairs- A great solution 2 UKRAINE- instead of white man's war- Ukraine must stop killing their brothers and sisters in the East... it's just wrong... and murder...
Imagine
the American outrage if China built an impressive military alliance and tried
to include Canada and Mexico.
SEE-
The taproot of the trouble is NATO- EXACTLY... NATO WAS LOOKING 2 DISBAND AFTER
AFGHANISTAN.... check der Spiegel English - we said this... just trying 2 make
this a white man's war.... it's so wrong.... BUT THEN SO IS THE MUSLIM ON
MUSLIM HATE QUIETLY IGNORED BY ARAB AND PERSIAN NATIONS- imho... so tired of
this sheeet. Ebola, our children- our Electronic Waste destroying our beautiful
earth.... it's getting 2 be 2 much...imho.
And realisticly... we need NATO... NOW.... feeding war horses instead of
poverty (... well despots and thieves) - pls make our world better...
But
this account is wrong: the United States and its European allies share most of
the responsibility for the crisis. The taproot of the trouble is NATO
enlargement, the central element of a larger strategy to move Ukraine out of
Russia’s orbit and integrate it into the West. At the same time, the EU’s
expansion eastward and the West’s backing of the pro-democracy movement in
Ukraine -- beginning with the Orange Revolution in 2004 -- were critical
elements, too. Since the mid-1990s, Russian leaders have adamantly opposed NATO
enlargement, and in recent years, they have made it clear that they would not
stand by while their strategically important neighbor turned into a Western
bastion. For Putin, the illegal overthrow of Ukraine’s democratically elected
and pro-Russian president -- which he rightly labeled a “coup” -- was the final
straw. He responded by taking Crimea, a peninsula he feared would host a NATO
naval base, and working to destabilize Ukraine until it abandoned its efforts
to join the West.
Courtesy
Reuters)
Why the Ukraine Crisis Is
the West’s Fault
VIDEO 34 min 45 secs
+ADD TO PLAYLISTBUY AUDIO VERSION
According
to the prevailing wisdom in the West, the Ukraine crisis can be blamed almost
entirely on Russian aggression. Russian President Vladimir Putin, the argument
goes, annexed Crimea out of a long-standing desire to resuscitate the Soviet
empire, and he may eventually go after the rest of Ukraine, as well as other
countries in eastern Europe. In this view, the ouster of Ukrainian President
Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014 merely provided a pretext for Putin’s
decision to order Russian forces to seize part of Ukraine.
But
this account is wrong: the United States and its European allies share most of
the responsibility for the crisis. The taproot of the trouble is NATO
enlargement, the central element of a larger strategy to move Ukraine out of
Russia’s orbit and integrate it into the West. At the same time, the EU’s
expansion eastward and the West’s backing of the pro-democracy movement in
Ukraine -- beginning with the Orange Revolution in 2004 -- were critical
elements, too. Since the mid-1990s, Russian leaders have adamantly opposed NATO
enlargement, and in recent years, they have made it clear that they would not
stand by while their strategically important neighbor turned into a Western bastion.
For Putin, the illegal overthrow of Ukraine’s democratically elected and
pro-Russian president -- which he rightly labeled a “coup” -- was the final
straw. He responded by taking Crimea, a peninsula he feared would host a NATO
naval base, and working to destabilize Ukraine until it abandoned its efforts
to join the West.
Putin’s
pushback should have come as no surprise. After all, the West had been moving
into Russia’s backyard and threatening its core strategic interests, a point
Putin made emphatically and repeatedly. Elites in the United States and Europe
have been blindsided by events only because they subscribe to a flawed view of
international politics. They tend to believe that the logic of realism holds
little relevance in the twenty-first century and that Europe can be kept whole
and free on the basis of such liberal principles as the rule of law, economic
interdependence, and democracy.
But
this grand scheme went awry in Ukraine. The crisis there shows that realpolitik
remains relevant -- and states that ignore it do so at their own peril. U.S.
and European leaders blundered in attempting to turn Ukraine into a Western
stronghold on Russia’s border. Now that the consequences have been laid bare,
it would be an even greater mistake to continue this misbegotten policy.
U.S. and European leaders blundered in
attempting to turn Ukraine into a Western stronghold on Russia’s border.
THE
WESTERN AFFRONT
As
the Cold War came to a close, Soviet leaders preferred that U.S. forces remain
in Europe and NATO stay intact, an arrangement they thought would keep a
reunified Germany pacified. But they and their Russian successors did not want
NATO to grow any larger and assumed that Western diplomats understood their
concerns. The Clinton administration evidently thought otherwise, and in the
mid-1990s, it began pushing for NATO to expand.
The
first round of enlargement took place in 1999 and brought in the Czech Republic,
Hungary, and Poland. The second occurred in 2004; it included Bulgaria,
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Moscow complained
bitterly from the start. During NATO’s 1995 bombing campaign against the
Bosnian Serbs, for example, Russian President Boris Yeltsin said, “This is the
first sign of what could happen when NATO comes right up to the Russian
Federation’s borders. ... The flame of war could burst out across the whole of
Europe.” But the Russians were too weak at the time to derail NATO’s eastward
movement -- which, at any rate, did not look so threatening, since none of the
new members shared a border with Russia, save for the tiny Baltic countries.
Then
NATO began looking further east. At its April 2008 summit in Bucharest, the
alliance considered admitting Georgia and Ukraine. The George W. Bush
administration supported doing so, but France and Germany opposed the move for
fear that it would unduly antagonize Russia. In the end, NATO’s members reached
a compromise: the alliance did not begin the formal process leading to
membership, but it issued a statement endorsing the aspirations of Georgia and
Ukraine and boldly declaring, “These countries will become members of NATO.”
Moscow,
however, did not see the outcome as much of a compromise. Alexander Grushko,
then Russia’s deputy foreign minister, said, “Georgia’s and Ukraine’s
membership in the alliance is a huge strategic mistake which would have most
serious consequences for pan-European security.” Putin maintained that
admitting those two countries to NATO would represent a “direct threat” to
Russia. One Russian newspaper reported that Putin, while speaking with Bush,
“very transparently hinted that if Ukraine was accepted into NATO, it would
cease to exist.”
Russia’s
invasion of Georgia in August 2008 should have dispelled any remaining doubts
about Putin’s determination to prevent Georgia and Ukraine from joining NATO.
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who was deeply committed to bringing
his country into NATO, had decided in the summer of 2008 to reincorporate two
separatist regions, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. But Putin sought to keep
Georgia weak and divided -- and out of NATO. After fighting broke out between
the Georgian government and South Ossetian separatists, Russian forces took
control of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Moscow had made its point. Yet despite
this clear warning, NATO never publicly abandoned its goal of bringing Georgia
and Ukraine into the alliance. And NATO expansion continued marching forward,
with Albania and Croatia becoming members in 2009.
The
EU, too, has been marching eastward. In May 2008, it unveiled its Eastern
Partnership initiative, a program to foster prosperity in such countries as
Ukraine and integrate them into the EU economy. Not surprisingly, Russian
leaders view the plan as hostile to their country’s interests. This past
February, before Yanukovych was forced from office, Russian Foreign Minister
Sergey Lavrov accused the EU of trying to create a “sphere of influence” in
eastern Europe. In the eyes of Russian leaders, EU expansion is a stalking
horse for NATO expansion.
The
West’s final tool for peeling Kiev away from Moscow has been its efforts to
spread Western values and promote democracy in Ukraine and other post-Soviet
states, a plan that often entails funding pro-Western individuals and
organizations. Victoria Nuland, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for
European and Eurasian affairs, estimated in December 2013 that the United
States had invested more than $5 billion since 1991 to help Ukraine achieve
“the future it deserves.” As part of that effort, the U.S. government has
bankrolled the National Endowment for Democracy. The nonprofit foundation has
funded more than 60 projects aimed at promoting civil society in Ukraine, and
the NED’s president, Carl Gershman, has called that country “the biggest
prize.” After Yanukovych won Ukraine’s presidential election in February 2010,
the NED decided he was undermining its goals, and so it stepped up its efforts
to support the opposition and strengthen the country’s democratic institutions.
When
Russian leaders look at Western social engineering in Ukraine, they worry that
their country might be next. And such fears are hardly groundless. In September
2013, Gershman wrote in The Washington Post, “Ukraine’s choice to join Europe
will accelerate the demise of the ideology of Russian imperialism that Putin
represents.” He added: “Russians, too, face a choice, and Putin may find
himself on the losing end not just in the near abroad but within Russia
itself.”
CREATING
A CRISIS
Imagine the American outrage if China built
an impressive military alliance and tried to include Canada and Mexico.
The
West’s triple package of policies -- NATO enlargement, EU expansion, and democracy
promotion -- added fuel to a fire waiting to ignite. The spark came in November
2013, when Yanukovych rejected a major economic deal he had been negotiating
with the EU and decided to accept a $15 billion Russian counteroffer instead.
That decision gave rise to antigovernment demonstrations that escalated over
the following three months and that by mid-February had led to the deaths of
some one hundred protesters. Western emissaries hurriedly flew to Kiev to
resolve the crisis. On February 21, the government and the opposition struck a
deal that allowed Yanukovych to stay in power until new elections were held.
But it immediately fell apart, and Yanukovych fled to Russia the next day. The
new government in Kiev was pro-Western and anti-Russian to the core, and it
contained four high-ranking members who could legitimately be labeled
neofascists.
Although
the full extent of U.S. involvement has not yet come to light, it is clear that
Washington backed the coup. Nuland and Republican Senator John McCain
participated in antigovernment demonstrations, and Geoffrey Pyatt, the U.S.
ambassador to Ukraine, proclaimed after Yanukovych’s toppling that it was “a
day for the history books.” As a leaked telephone recording revealed, Nuland
had advocated regime change and wanted the Ukrainian politician Arseniy
Yatsenyuk to become prime minister in the new government, which he did. No
wonder Russians of all persuasions think the West played a role in Yanukovych’s
ouster.
For
Putin, the time to act against Ukraine and the West had arrived. Shortly after
February 22, he ordered Russian forces to take Crimea from Ukraine, and soon
after that, he incorporated it into Russia. The task proved relatively easy,
thanks to the thousands of Russian troops already stationed at a naval base in
the Crimean port of Sevastopol. Crimea also made for an easy target since
ethnic Russians compose roughly 60 percent of its population. Most of them
wanted out of Ukraine.
Next,
Putin put massive pressure on the new government in Kiev to discourage it from
siding with the West against Moscow, making it clear that he would wreck
Ukraine as a functioning state before he would allow it to become a Western
stronghold on Russia’s doorstep. Toward that end, he has provided advisers,
arms, and diplomatic support to the Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, who
are pushing the country toward civil war. He has massed a large army on the
Ukrainian border, threatening to invade if the government cracks down on the
rebels. And he has sharply raised the price of the natural gas Russia sells to
Ukraine and demanded payment for past exports. Putin is playing hardball.
THE
DIAGNOSIS
Putin’s
actions should be easy to comprehend. A huge expanse of flat land that
Napoleonic France, imperial Germany, and Nazi Germany all crossed to strike at
Russia itself, Ukraine serves as a buffer state of enormous strategic
importance to Russia. No Russian leader would tolerate a military alliance that
was Moscow’s mortal enemy until recently moving into Ukraine. Nor would any
Russian leader stand idly by while the West helped install a government there
that was determined to integrate Ukraine into the West.
Washington
may not like Moscow’s position, but it should understand the logic behind it.
This is Geopolitics 101: great powers
are always sensitive to potential threats near their home territory. After all,
the United States does not tolerate distant great powers deploying military
forces anywhere in the Western Hemisphere, much less on its borders. Imagine
the outrage in Washington if China built an impressive military alliance and
tried to include Canada and Mexico in it. Logic aside, Russian leaders have
told their Western counterparts on many occasions that they consider NATO
expansion into Georgia and Ukraine unacceptable, along with any effort to turn
those countries against Russia -- a message that the 2008 Russian-Georgian war
also made crystal clear.
Why
the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault
The
Liberal Delusions That Provoked Putin
According
to the prevailing wisdom in the West, the Ukraine crisis can be blamed almost
entirely on Russian aggression. Russian President Vladimir Putin, the argument
goes, annexed Crimea out of a long-standing desire to resuscitate the Soviet
empire, and he may eventually go after the rest of Ukraine, as well as other
countries in eastern Europe. In this view, the ouster of Ukrainian President
Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014 merely provided a pretext for Putin’s
decision to order Russian forces to seize part of Ukraine.
But
this account is wrong: the United States and its European allies share most of
the responsibility for the crisis. The taproot of the trouble is NATO
enlargement, the central element of a larger strategy to move Ukraine out of
Russia’s orbit and integrate it into the West. At the same time, the EU’s
expansion eastward and the West’s backing of the pro-democracy movement in
Ukraine -- beginning with the Orange Revolution in 2004 -- were critical
elements, too. Since the mid-1990s, Russian leaders have adamantly opposed NATO
enlargement, and in recent years, they have made it clear that they would not
stand by while their strategically important neighbor turned into a Western
bastion. For Putin, the illegal overthrow of Ukraine’s democratically elected
and pro-Russian president -- which he rightly labeled a “coup” -- was the final
straw. He responded by taking Crimea, a peninsula he feared would host a NATO
naval base, and working to destabilize Ukraine until it abandoned its efforts
to join the West.
Putin’s
pushback should have come as no surprise. After all, the West had been moving
into Russia’s backyard and threatening its core strategic interests, a point
Putin made emphatically and repeatedly. Elites in the United States and Europe
have been blindsided by events only because they subscribe to a flawed view of
international politics. They tend to believe that the logic of realism holds
little relevance in the twenty-first century and that Europe can be kept whole
and free on the basis of such liberal principles as the rule of law, economic
interdependence, and democracy.
But
this grand scheme went awry in Ukraine. The crisis there shows that realpolitik
remains relevant -- and states that ignore it do so at their own peril. U.S.
and European leaders blundered in attempting to turn Ukraine into a Western
stronghold on Russia’s border. Now that the consequences have been laid bare,
it would be an even greater mistake to continue this misbegotten policy.
U.S. and European leaders blundered in
attempting to turn Ukraine into a Western stronghold on Russia’s border.
THE
WESTERN AFFRONT
As
the Cold War came to a close, Soviet leaders preferred that U.S. forces remain
in Europe and NATO stay intact, an arrangement they thought would keep a
reunified Germany pacified. But they and their Russian successors did not want
NATO to grow any larger and assumed that Western diplomats understood their concerns.
The Clinton administration evidently thought otherwise, and in the mid-1990s,
it began pushing for NATO to expand.
The
first round of enlargement took place in 1999 and brought in the Czech
Republic, Hungary, and Poland. The second occurred in 2004; it included
Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Moscow
complained bitterly from the start. During NATO’s 1995 bombing campaign against
the Bosnian Serbs, for example, Russian President Boris Yeltsin said, “This is
the first sign of what could happen when NATO comes right up to the Russian
Federation’s borders. ... The flame of war could burst out across the whole of
Europe.” But the Russians were too weak at the time to derail NATO’s eastward
movement -- which, at any rate, did not look so threatening, since none of the
new members shared a border with Russia, save for the tiny Baltic countries.
Then
NATO began looking further east. At its April 2008 summit in Bucharest, the
alliance considered admitting Georgia and Ukraine. The George W. Bush
administration supported doing so, but France and Germany opposed the move for
fear that it would unduly antagonize Russia. In the end, NATO’s members reached
a compromise: the alliance did not begin the formal process leading to membership,
but it issued a statement endorsing the aspirations of Georgia and Ukraine and
boldly declaring, “These countries will become members of NATO.”
Moscow,
however, did not see the outcome as much of a compromise. Alexander Grushko,
then Russia’s deputy foreign minister, said, “Georgia’s and Ukraine’s
membership in the alliance is a huge strategic mistake which would have most
serious consequences for pan-European security.” Putin maintained that
admitting those two countries to NATO would represent a “direct threat” to
Russia. One Russian newspaper reported that Putin, while speaking with Bush,
“very transparently hinted that if Ukraine was accepted into NATO, it would
cease to exist.”
Russia’s
invasion of Georgia in August 2008 should have dispelled any remaining doubts
about Putin’s determination to prevent Georgia and Ukraine from joining NATO.
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who was deeply committed to bringing
his country into NATO, had decided in the summer of 2008 to reincorporate two
separatist regions, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. But Putin sought to keep
Georgia weak and divided -- and out of NATO. After fighting broke out between
the Georgian government and South Ossetian separatists, Russian forces took
control of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Moscow had made its point. Yet despite
this clear warning, NATO never publicly abandoned its goal of bringing Georgia
and Ukraine into the alliance. And NATO expansion continued marching forward,
with Albania and Croatia becoming members in 2009.
The
EU, too, has been marching eastward. In May 2008, it unveiled its Eastern
Partnership initiative, a program to foster prosperity in such countries as
Ukraine and integrate them into the EU economy. Not surprisingly, Russian
leaders view the plan as hostile to their country’s interests. This past
February, before Yanukovych was forced from office, Russian Foreign Minister
Sergey Lavrov accused the EU of trying to create a “sphere of influence” in
eastern Europe. In the eyes of Russian leaders, EU expansion is a stalking
horse for NATO expansion.
The
West’s final tool for peeling Kiev away from Moscow has been its efforts to
spread Western values and promote democracy in Ukraine and other post-Soviet
states, a plan that often entails funding pro-Western individuals and
organizations. Victoria Nuland, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for
European and Eurasian affairs, estimated in December 2013 that the United
States had invested more than $5 billion since 1991 to help Ukraine achieve
“the future it deserves.” As part of that effort, the U.S. government has
bankrolled the National Endowment for Democracy. The nonprofit foundation has
funded more than 60 projects aimed at promoting civil society in Ukraine, and
the NED’s president, Carl Gershman, has called that country “the biggest
prize.” After Yanukovych won Ukraine’s presidential election in February 2010,
the NED decided he was undermining its goals, and so it stepped up its efforts
to support the opposition and strengthen the country’s democratic institutions.
When
Russian leaders look at Western social engineering in Ukraine, they worry that
their country might be next. And such fears are hardly groundless. In September
2013, Gershman wrote in The Washington Post, “Ukraine’s choice to join Europe
will accelerate the demise of the ideology of Russian imperialism that Putin
represents.” He added: “Russians, too, face a choice, and Putin may find
himself on the losing end not just in the near abroad but within Russia
itself.”
CREATING
A CRISIS
Imagine the American outrage if China built
an impressive military alliance and tried to include Canada and Mexico.
The
West’s triple package of policies -- NATO enlargement, EU expansion, and
democracy promotion -- added fuel to a fire waiting to ignite. The spark came
in November 2013, when Yanukovych rejected a major economic deal he had been
negotiating with the EU and decided to accept a $15 billion Russian
counteroffer instead. That decision gave rise to antigovernment demonstrations
that escalated over the following three months and that by mid-February had led
to the deaths of some one hundred protesters. Western emissaries hurriedly flew
to Kiev to resolve the crisis. On February 21, the government and the
opposition struck a deal that allowed Yanukovych to stay in power until new
elections were held. But it immediately fell apart, and Yanukovych fled to
Russia the next day. The new government in Kiev was pro-Western and
anti-Russian to the core, and it contained four high-ranking members who could
legitimately be labeled neofascists.
Although
the full extent of U.S. involvement has not yet come to light, it is clear that
Washington backed the coup. Nuland and Republican Senator John McCain
participated in antigovernment demonstrations, and Geoffrey Pyatt, the U.S.
ambassador to Ukraine, proclaimed after Yanukovych’s toppling that it was “a
day for the history books.” As a leaked telephone recording revealed, Nuland
had advocated regime change and wanted the Ukrainian politician Arseniy Yatsenyuk
to become prime minister in the new government, which he did. No wonder
Russians of all persuasions think the West played a role in Yanukovych’s
ouster.
For
Putin, the time to act against Ukraine and the West had arrived. Shortly after
February 22, he ordered Russian forces to take Crimea from Ukraine, and soon
after that, he incorporated it into Russia. The task proved relatively easy,
thanks to the thousands of Russian troops already stationed at a naval base in
the Crimean port of Sevastopol. Crimea also made for an easy target since
ethnic Russians compose roughly 60 percent of its population. Most of them
wanted out of Ukraine.
Next,
Putin put massive pressure on the new government in Kiev to discourage it from
siding with the West against Moscow, making it clear that he would wreck
Ukraine as a functioning state before he would allow it to become a Western
stronghold on Russia’s doorstep. Toward that end, he has provided advisers,
arms, and diplomatic support to the Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, who
are pushing the country toward civil war. He has massed a large army on the
Ukrainian border, threatening to invade if the government cracks down on the
rebels. And he has sharply raised the price of the natural gas Russia sells to
Ukraine and demanded payment for past exports. Putin is playing hardball.
THE
DIAGNOSIS
Putin’s
actions should be easy to comprehend. A huge expanse of flat land that
Napoleonic France, imperial Germany, and Nazi Germany all crossed to strike at
Russia itself, Ukraine serves as a buffer state of enormous strategic
importance to Russia. No Russian leader would tolerate a military alliance that
was Moscow’s mortal enemy until recently moving into Ukraine. Nor would any
Russian leader stand idly by while the West helped install a government there
that was determined to integrate Ukraine into the West.
Washington
may not like Moscow’s position, but it should understand the logic behind it.
This is Geopolitics 101: great powers are always sensitive to potential threats
near their home territory. After all, the United States does not tolerate
distant great powers deploying military forces anywhere in the Western
Hemisphere, much less on its borders. Imagine the outrage in Washington if
China built an impressive military alliance and tried to include Canada and
Mexico in it. Logic aside, Russian leaders have told their Western counterparts
on many occasions that they consider NATO expansion into Georgia and Ukraine
unacceptable, along with any effort to turn those countries against Russia -- a
message that the 2008 Russian-Georgian war also made crystal clear.
Officials
from the United States and its European allies contend that they tried hard to
assuage Russian fears and that Moscow should understand that NATO has no
designs on Russia. In addition to continually denying that its expansion was
aimed at containing Russia, the alliance has never permanently deployed
military forces in its new member states. In 2002, it even created a body
called the NATO-Russia Council in an effort to foster cooperation. To further
mollify Russia, the United States announced in 2009 that it would deploy its
new missile defense system on warships in European waters, at least initially,
rather than on Czech or Polish territory. But none of these measures worked;
the Russians remained steadfastly opposed to NATO enlargement, especially into
Georgia and Ukraine. And it is the Russians, not the West, who ultimately get
to decide what counts as a threat to them.
To
understand why the West, especially the United States, failed to understand
that its Ukraine policy was laying the groundwork for a major clash with
Russia, one must go back to the mid-1990s, when the Clinton administration
began advocating NATO expansion. Pundits advanced a variety of arguments for
and against enlargement, but there was no consensus on what to do. Most eastern
European émigrés in the United States and their relatives, for example,
strongly supported expansion, because they wanted NATO to protect such
countries as Hungary and Poland. A few realists also favored the policy because
they thought Russia still needed to be contained.
But
most realists opposed expansion, in the belief that a declining great power
with an aging population and a one-dimensional economy did not in fact need to
be contained. And they feared that enlargement would only give Moscow an incentive
to cause trouble in eastern Europe. The U.S. diplomat George Kennan articulated
this perspective in a 1998 interview, shortly after the U.S. Senate approved
the first round of NATO expansion. “I think the Russians will gradually react
quite adversely and it will affect their policies,” he said. “I think it is a
tragic mistake. There was no reason for this whatsoever. No one was threatening
anyone else.”
The United States and its allies should
abandon their plan to westernize Ukraine and instead aim to make it a neutral
buffer.
Most
liberals, on the other hand, favored enlargement, including many key members of
the Clinton administration. They believed that the end of the Cold War had
fundamentally transformed international politics and that a new, postnational
order had replaced the realist logic that used to govern Europe. The United
States was not only the “indispensable nation,” as Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright put it; it was also a benign hegemon and thus unlikely to be viewed as
a threat in Moscow. The aim, in essence, was to make the entire continent look
like western Europe.
And
so the United States and its allies sought to promote democracy in the
countries of eastern Europe, increase economic interdependence among them, and
embed them in international institutions. Having won the debate in the United
States, liberals had little difficulty convincing their European allies to
support NATO enlargement. After all, given the EU’s past achievements,
Europeans were even more wedded than Americans to the idea that geopolitics no
longer mattered and that an all-inclusive liberal order could maintain peace in
Europe.
So
thoroughly did liberals come to dominate the discourse about European security
during the first decade of this century that even as the alliance adopted an
open-door policy of growth, NATO expansion faced little realist opposition. The
liberal worldview is now accepted dogma among U.S. officials. In March, for
example, President Barack Obama delivered a speech about Ukraine in which he
talked repeatedly about “the ideals” that motivate Western policy and how those
ideals “have often been threatened by an older, more traditional view of
power.” Secretary of State John Kerry’s response to the Crimea crisis reflected
this same perspective: “You just don’t in the twenty-first century behave in
nineteenth-century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped-up
pretext.”
In
essence, the two sides have been operating with different playbooks: Putin and
his compatriots have been thinking and acting according to realist dictates,
whereas their Western counterparts have been adhering to liberal ideas about
international politics. The result is that the United States and its allies
unknowingly provoked a major crisis over Ukraine.
BLAME
GAME
In
that same 1998 interview, Kennan predicted that NATO expansion would provoke a
crisis, after which the proponents of expansion would “say that we always told
you that is how the Russians are.” As if on cue, most Western officials have
portrayed Putin as the real culprit in the Ukraine predicament. In March,
according to The New York Times, German Chancellor Angela Merkel implied that
Putin was irrational, telling Obama that he was “in another world.” Although
Putin no doubt has autocratic tendencies, no evidence supports the charge that
he is mentally unbalanced. On the contrary: he is a first-class strategist who
should be feared and respected by anyone challenging him on foreign policy.
Other
analysts allege, more plausibly, that Putin regrets the demise of the Soviet
Union and is determined to reverse it by expanding Russia’s borders. According
to this interpretation, Putin, having taken Crimea, is now testing the waters
to see if the time is right to conquer Ukraine, or at least its eastern part,
and he will eventually behave aggressively toward other countries in Russia’s
neighborhood. For some in this camp, Putin represents a modern-day Adolf
Hitler, and striking any kind of deal with him would repeat the mistake of
Munich. Thus, NATO must admit Georgia and Ukraine to contain Russia before it
dominates its neighbors and threatens western Europe.
This
argument falls apart on close inspection. If Putin were committed to creating a
greater Russia, signs of his intentions would almost certainly have arisen
before February 22. But there is virtually no evidence that he was bent on
taking Crimea, much less any other territory in Ukraine, before that date. Even
Western leaders who supported NATO expansion were not doing so out of a fear
that Russia was about to use military force. Putin’s actions in Crimea took
them by complete surprise and appear to have been a spontaneous reaction to
Yanukovych’s ouster. Right afterward, even Putin said he opposed Crimean
secession, before quickly changing his mind.
Besides,
even if it wanted to, Russia lacks the capability to easily conquer and annex
eastern Ukraine, much less the entire country. Roughly 15 million people --
one-third of Ukraine’s population -- live between the Dnieper River, which bisects
the country, and the Russian border. An overwhelming majority of those people
want to remain part of Ukraine and would surely resist a Russian occupation.
Furthermore, Russia’s mediocre army, which shows few signs of turning into a
modern Wehrmacht, would have little chance of pacifying all of Ukraine. Moscow
is also poorly positioned to pay for a costly occupation; its weak economy
would suffer even more in the face of the resulting sanctions.
But
even if Russia did boast a powerful military machine and an impressive economy,
it would still probably prove unable to successfully occupy Ukraine. One need
only consider the Soviet and U.S. experiences in Afghanistan, the U.S.
experiences in Vietnam and Iraq, and the Russian experience in Chechnya to be
reminded that military occupations usually end badly. Putin surely understands
that trying to subdue Ukraine would be like swallowing a porcupine. His
response to events there has been defensive, not offensive.
A
WAY OUT
Given
that most Western leaders continue to deny that Putin’s behavior might be
motivated by legitimate security concerns, it is unsurprising that they have
tried to modify it by doubling down on their existing policies and have
punished Russia to deter further aggression. Although Kerry has maintained that
“all options are on the table,” neither the United States nor its NATO allies
are prepared to use force to defend Ukraine. The West is relying instead on
economic sanctions to coerce Russia into ending its support for the
insurrection in eastern Ukraine. In July, the United States and the EU put in
place their third round of limited sanctions, targeting mainly high-level
individuals closely tied to the Russian government and some high-profile banks,
energy companies, and defense firms. They also threatened to unleash another,
tougher round of sanctions, aimed at whole sectors of the Russian economy.
Such
measures will have little effect. Harsh sanctions are likely off the table
anyway; western European countries, especially Germany, have resisted imposing
them for fear that Russia might retaliate and cause serious economic damage
within the EU. But even if the United States could convince its allies to enact
tough measures, Putin would probably not alter his decision-making. History
shows that countries will absorb enormous amounts of punishment in order to
protect their core strategic interests. There is no reason to think Russia
represents an exception to this rule.
Western
leaders have also clung to the provocative policies that precipitated the
crisis in the first place. In April, U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden met with
Ukrainian legislators and told them, “This is a second opportunity to make good
on the original promise made by the Orange Revolution.” John Brennan, the
director of the CIA, did not help things when, that same month, he visited Kiev
on a trip the White House said was aimed at improving security cooperation with
the Ukrainian government.
The
EU, meanwhile, has continued to push its Eastern Partnership. In March, José
Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission, summarized EU
thinking on Ukraine, saying, “We have a debt, a duty of solidarity with that
country, and we will work to have them as close as possible to us.” And sure
enough, on June 27, the EU and Ukraine signed the economic agreement that
Yanukovych had fatefully rejected seven months earlier. Also in June, at a
meeting of NATO members’ foreign ministers, it was agreed that the alliance
would remain open to new members, although the foreign ministers refrained from
mentioning Ukraine by name. “No third country has a veto over NATO
enlargement,” announced Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO’s secretary-general. The
foreign ministers also agreed to support various measures to improve Ukraine’s
military capabilities in such areas as command and control, logistics, and
cyberdefense. Russian leaders have naturally recoiled at these actions; the
West’s response to the crisis will only make a bad situation worse.
There
is a solution to the crisis in Ukraine, however -- although it would require
the West to think about the country in a fundamentally new way. The United
States and its allies should abandon their plan to westernize Ukraine and
instead aim to make it a neutral buffer between NATO and Russia, akin to
Austria’s position during the Cold War. Western leaders should acknowledge that
Ukraine matters so much to Putin that they cannot support an anti-Russian
regime there. This would not mean that a future Ukrainian government would have
to be pro-Russian or anti-NATO. On the contrary, the goal should be a sovereign
Ukraine that falls in neither the Russian nor the Western camp.
To
achieve this end, the United States and its allies should publicly rule out
NATO’s expansion into both Georgia and Ukraine. The West should also help
fashion an economic rescue plan for Ukraine funded jointly by the EU, the
International Monetary Fund, Russia, and the United States -- a proposal that
Moscow should welcome, given its interest in having a prosperous and stable
Ukraine on its western flank. And the West should considerably limit its
social-engineering efforts inside Ukraine. It is time to put an end to Western
support for another Orange Revolution. Nevertheless, U.S. and European leaders
should encourage Ukraine to respect minority rights, especially the language
rights of its Russian speakers.
Some
may argue that changing policy toward Ukraine at this late date would seriously
damage U.S. credibility around the world. There would undoubtedly be certain
costs, but the costs of continuing a misguided strategy would be much greater.
Furthermore, other countries are likely to respect a state that learns from its
mistakes and ultimately devises a policy that deals effectively with the problem
at hand. That option is clearly open to the United States.
One
also hears the claim that Ukraine has the right to determine whom it wants to
ally with and the Russians have no right to prevent Kiev from joining the West.
This is a dangerous way for Ukraine to think about its foreign policy choices.
The sad truth is that might often makes right when great-power politics are at
play. Abstract rights such as self-determination are largely meaningless when
powerful states get into brawls with weaker states. Did Cuba have the right to
form a military alliance with the Soviet Union during the Cold War? The United
States certainly did not think so, and the Russians think the same way about
Ukraine joining the West. It is in Ukraine’s interest to understand these facts
of life and tread carefully when dealing with its more powerful neighbor.
Even
if one rejects this analysis, however, and believes that Ukraine has the right
to petition to join the EU and NATO, the fact remains that the United States
and its European allies have the right to reject these requests. There is no
reason that the West has to accommodate Ukraine if it is bent on pursuing a
wrong-headed foreign policy, especially if its defense is not a vital interest.
Indulging the dreams of some Ukrainians is not worth the animosity and strife
it will cause, especially for the Ukrainian people.
Of
course, some analysts might concede that NATO handled relations with Ukraine
poorly and yet still maintain that Russia constitutes an enemy that will only
grow more formidable over time -- and that the West therefore has no choice but
to continue its present policy. But this viewpoint is badly mistaken. Russia is
a declining power, and it will only get weaker with time. Even if Russia were a
rising power, moreover, it would still make no sense to incorporate Ukraine
into NATO. The reason is simple: the United States and its European allies do
not consider Ukraine to be a core strategic interest, as their unwillingness to
use military force to come to its aid has proved. It would therefore be the
height of folly to create a new NATO member that the other members have no
intention of defending. NATO has expanded in the past because liberals assumed
the alliance would never have to honor its new security guarantees, but
Russia’s recent power play shows that granting Ukraine NATO membership could
put Russia and the West on a collision course.
Sticking
with the current policy would also complicate Western relations with Moscow on
other issues. The United States needs Russia’s assistance to withdraw U.S.
equipment from Afghanistan through Russian territory, reach a nuclear agreement
with Iran, and stabilize the situation in Syria. In fact, Moscow has helped
Washington on all three of these issues in the past; in the summer of 2013, it
was Putin who pulled Obama’s chestnuts out of the fire by forging the deal
under which Syria agreed to relinquish its chemical weapons, thereby avoiding
the U.S. military strike that Obama had threatened. The United States will also
someday need Russia’s help containing a rising China. Current U.S. policy,
however, is only driving Moscow and Beijing closer together.
The
United States and its European allies now face a choice on Ukraine. They can
continue their current policy, which will exacerbate hostilities with Russia
and devastate Ukraine in the process -- a scenario in which everyone would come
out a loser. Or they can switch gears and work to create a prosperous but
neutral Ukraine, one that does not threaten Russia and allows the West to
repair its relations with Moscow. With that approach, all sides would win.
comment:
How
many conflicts has Putin started and how many people died as a result in last
14 years? Now compare this to how many conflicts we started and how many people
died.
comment:
So
we should have left Germany to the Nazis? left them to commit mass murder and
rape and torture? You seem to forget that the Russians raped their way through
Germany and it was official policy to do so.
comment:
No
one ever seems to take into account how 2000000 Russian people lost their lives
in that war and how Germans broke the treaty first and raped, burned and
pillaged their way through Russian villages. Hundred were burned to the ground
. Or how they were under siege for so many years but the people didn't give up
even after they starved and watched their loved ones die. My grandnma lived
through the war and she's the real hero, one of many and yet no one ever counts
Russia's role in winning this war
comment:
Val,
please keep the truth.
This
is Russia, which started II WW, as ally of Germans, jointly attacking Poland on
September 1939.
Hitler
just had outsmarted Stalin, invading Russia prior to invert move of Soso.
Stalin
killed more people then Hitler, by far.
It
was Red Army, who treated its soldiers as meat, sending people for certain
death, with KGB officers standing at back lines and shooting with Nagans to own
soldiers who were trying to withdraw themselves.
Russia
had raped and occupied lot of countries and nations.
Russia
caused genocide of many nations, i.e. killed the whole elite of Poland by
single pistol shoot at headback of 30.000 people
Russia
had not brought any freedom but only death and slavery.
Russia
was the same as Nazist.
Your
Grandma is hero, cause she was able to live and survive in Soviet Union - the
Empire of Evil. The biggest one in the history of the World.
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Dozens die in Ukraine in
street battles, Donetsk shelling
By Richard Balmforth and Thomas Grove
KIEV/DONETSK
Ukraine Thu Aug 21, 2014 10:37am EDT
1 of 12. Ukrainian
servicemen stand guard at a military camp in Luhansk region August 20, 2014.
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(Reuters) - Heavy shelling hit residential
neighborhoods in Ukraine's rebel stronghold of Donetsk and government forces
fought street battles in other towns on Wednesday as they sought to crush a
four-month-old separatist rebellion.
The
forces of the Western-backed Kiev government are steadily gaining the upper
hand over the separatists in Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine and are tightening the noose around the
main rebel bastions of Donetsk and Luhansk.
Reuters
reporters in Donetsk said mortar bombs had struck Chelyuskintsev Street in the
north of the city, a few km (miles) from the frontline of the conflict,
shattering the windows of several five-floor apartment buildings and shearing
off the branches of trees and downing power lines.
The
attack left large craters in the street and a meter-wide hole in the first
floor of one of the apartment buildings.
"The
Ukrainian army or whoever they are – they’re bombing us again. I've lived in
the apartment building my entire life and now they want to take everything I
have. There is nothing left to lose here in this city," said Nina, 52.
The
Donetsk city administration, controlled by the separatists, said nine residents
had been killed in shelling on Wednesday. The Ukrainian government denies that
its forces are targeting civilian areas.
Another
nine people, pro-Ukrainian volunteer fighters supporting Kiev's forces, were
killed overnight in separate clashes near Donetsk, Ukrainian officials said.
The government
in Kiev and its allies have accused Moscow of orchestrating the separatist
rebellion and equipping the rebels with tanks, missiles and other heavy
weaponry.
Moscow
denies this and accuses Kiev of waging a war against its own people and
shelling civilians.
The
conflict has plunged relations between Russia and the West to their worst level since
the end of the Cold War in 1991.
The United Nations puts the death toll in the
conflict at 2,086, including civilians and combatants. That figure has nearly
doubled since late July, when Ukrainian forces stepped up their offensive and
the fighting spread to major urban areas.
"DUST
AND SMOKE"
Another
Donetsk resident, Lidia, recounted how shelling had hit the shop where she
works.
"I
hid behind the counter and closed my eyes. When I opened them everything was
dark, full of dust and smoke," she said.
"How
can we live like this being bombed by the leaders of our own country?"
Six
military trucks rumbled past the wreckage of the house, including one equipped
with an anti-tank machine gun and a mobile Grad rocket system. Rebels, wearing
green camouflage and sunglasses, looked over the wreckage as they passed.
"They’ll
pay for this," one rebel said, as rebel convoys sped through parts of the
city, running red lights.
Elsewhere
in the region, Ukrainian forces fought street battles with rebels in the town
of Ilovaisk overnight into Wednesday, Interior Ministry official Anton
Gerashchenko said.
The nine
Ukrainian volunteer fighters were killed in those clashes.
"The
enemy can come up to you from wherever he wants and shoot from an attic, a
basement or from a children's nursery," Gerashchenko said.
Separately,
health authorities said 34 civilians had been killed as a result of fighting in
the 24 hours up to noon Wednesday in the wider Donetsk region.
Authorities
in Luhansk, the other big separatist stronghold, also reported artillery fire
and heavy automatic fire on Wednesday as government forces kept up their
assault on rebel positions there.
Luhansk
has been largely cut off for weeks and is without water and regular supplies of
electricity which have hit mobile and landline phone connections.
Only
vital foodstuffs are on sale while long queues form for bread being distributed
from vans.
"The
humanitarian crisis is critical. Since there's no electricity, people are now
cooking meals outside in their yards on open fires," Oleksander Sabenko, a
municipal official, told the Ukrainian news channel 112.ua.
As well
as worsening conditions for people on the ground, Ukrainian Prime Minister
Arseny Yatseniuk said the fighting was draining the potential of the economy by the day, with attacks damaging mines,
power stations, rail lines and bridges.
"Russia is aware that rebuilding the Donbass (the
industrial east) will cost not millions but billions of hryvnia," he said.
(The
story was refiled to make a correction in paragraph 16 to rebel instead of
government convoys)
(Writing
by Dmitry Zhdannikov and Richard Balmforth; Editing by Gareth Jones)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/21/us-ukraine-crisis-idUSKBN0GK12220140821
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AUGUST 21 - the world knows full well that UKRAINE BROUGHT DOWN THAT PLANE.... not Russia, not East Ukraine...... the hijacked democracy that has created horrid monsters under the umbrella of USAs owned NATO... and shame on Canada.... voted 4 Harper because of Mackay and our troops loyalty... but this is beyond the pale....... and the disgrace is running all over the faces of Europe- USA-Nato-United Nations... and our Canada..... those beautiful innocent Ukraine citizens in a nation that is 67% Russian speaking??? - Obama ur spite is showing.... Edward Snowden is a hero- the Winter Olympics/Paralympics were incredible... and as Pope Francis says - NO ONE NATION SHOULD BE ALLOWED 2 RULE THE WORLD...... beautiful Americans and the incredible American Military are better than this.... and have more honour that u politicians.... OWN UP KIEV- U BROUGHT DOWN THAT PLANE AND HAVE KILLED HUNDREDS OF YOUR CITIZENS... under the guise of pretend war..... never... will u be 4given by the real world....
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UKRAINIAN MILITARY MOVED 3 BUK MISSILE LAUNCHERS TO REBEL TERRITORY ON JULY 17,
BACK OUT ON JULY 18
Also, Ten 13 Unanswered Questions Russian Air Force Generals Posed to US,
Ukrainian Governments…
…and one of our own (Truth in Media): Why Have NONE of Western Major Media Reported These FACTS about
MH17 Crash?
The trouble with trying about the Russian military is that
they’ve got eyes in the skies as good as we do in
America. So I have been wondering when the other shoe would drop, and the
lies and deceptions of the New World Order leaders and their Ukrainian puppets
would blow up in the faces of these mass murderers. Well, today is that
day.
The
world has seen the New World Order leaders and their Ukrainian
minions spin the tale of how the pro-Russian rebels allegedly shot down
the MH17 using a Russian-made BUK missile. (Imagine that, even on the very day
of this tragedy, they already knew even the type of a missile the rebels
supposedly used!?).
Never mind that the rebels do not
possess such sophisticated weapons. And even if they did, they would
not know how to use them.
But if those facts were not enough to
raise the eyebrows of any objective analyst, then today’s radar and
satellite images released by the Russian Ministry of Defense ought to.
They
prove that the Ukrainian military jet, “equipped with air-to-air R-60 missiles that can hit a target at a
distance up to 12km, up to 5km for sure”, was within 3-5km of
the doomed Malaysian jet moments before it was shot down.
And they also show that the Ukrainian
military moved three of its own BUK missile launchers to the rebel territory
between July 14-17 to serve as props for their fanciful story. By July 18,
the BUK’s were gone.
So those are the facts. Now here are
the details, starting with circumstantial evidence from independent sources.
Early Circumstantial Evidence of
NWO’s Plot to Deceive the World Matches New Russian Facts
Two
days ago, I published the Truth in Media editorial “How Washington
Manufactured Another Crisis, Invented New Villain” (July 19). The
day MH17 was shot down, I also shared tweets from a Spanish air traffic
controller who worked at the Kiev control tower at the time of the crash. The
controller alleged that two Ukrainian military jets were tracking the MH17
flight in close proximity (see Air Traffic Controller, July 17).
This
morning, July 21, the Russian military released radar evidence of the Ukrainian
SU-25 fighter jet detected as “gaining height towards the MH17 Boeing
on the day of the catastrophe.
The head
of the Main Operations Directorate of the HQ of Russia’s military forces,
Lieutenant-General Andrey Kartopolov speaking at a media conference in Moscow
on Monday, asked “[We] would like to get an
explanation as to why the (Ukrainian) military jet was flying along a civil
aviation corridor at almost the same time and at the same level as a passenger
plane?”
Furthermore, the Russian Defense Ministry satellite
images prove that the Ukrainian military had moved at least three BUK
missile launchers onto the rebel territory to serve as props on July 17, only
to remove them the day later.
To
read the full RT story, click on… Ukrainian SU-25 fighter
detected close to MH17 before catastrophe – Moscow.
Why would the Ukrainian
military shuffle the bulky BUK missiles to rebel territory and back?
Now
that you have seen the evidence, answer that question to your own
satisfaction, and then you’ll also know who
is responsible for the mass murder of 298 innocent civilians on July 17.
But
every crime needs a motive. Why would someone do a horrific thing like
that? If you want to understand why would someone commit such a heinous crime,
I suggest you (re)read “How Washington
Manufactured Another Crisis, Invented New Villain” (July 19) and Hillary Tells Europe How to React to MH17 Crash (July 17).
Not
that this was the first time the New World Order leaders were caught with their
pants down while trying to deceive the world. Back in September of last year,
when Putin outsmarted Obama diplomatically to thwart the American plan to
bomb Syria, the Russian president also called John Kerry a liar (see PUTIN CALLS SPADE A SPADE
AND KERRY A LIAR, Sep 5, 2013).
Read more… (click on image below).
* * *
Also, Ten 13 Unanswered Questions Russian Air
Force Generals Posed to US, Ukrainian Governments…
…and one of our own (Truth in
Media): Why
Have NONE of Major Western Media Reported These FACTS about MH17 Crash?
The Truth in Media published yesterday a story
about the new FACTS that have emerged regarding the downing of MH17 based
on Russian radar and satellite data and images (see RUSSIAN MILITARY:
UKRAINIAN SU-25 FIGHTER DETECTED CLOSE TO MH17 JUST BEFORE CATASTROPHE,
July 21). This is what we now know:
The new information leaves little
doubt that the Malaysian Air MH17 flight was diverted and forced to fly over
rebel territory, where it was probably shot down by a Ukrainian
military jet. To back up the planned ruse and a false flag attack, the
Ukrainian military parked three BUK missiles on the rebel territory
on July 17. They were gone the following day (July 18).
The
new FACTS about what happened to MH17 on July 17, backed up radar and satellite
images, were released in Moscow by Russia’s Chief of General
Staff, Andrey Kartopolov, and chief of the Air Force Main Staff, Lt. Gen. Igor
Makushev. The rank of Russia’s two highest military and Air Force officers
added weight to both the new data and the questions they posed to their
Ukrainian and American counterparts (see “10 questions Russian military posed to Ukraine, US over MH17 crash”,
July 22).
(Actually, there were 13 questions as
some were multiple part questions).
They say, “silence speaks louder than
words.” They also say, “silence is acquiescence.”
On
Monday (July 21), the State Department Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf described
Russia’s statements as “propaganda and misinformation.”
But when reporters asked her whether Washington would be releasing their
intelligence and satellite data, Harf only replied “maybe.“
The deafening silence from Washington
and Kiev seems to merely confirm what this writer has felt all along since the
morning of July 17 – that these New World Order criminals have now been
caught in the act of mass murder and deception.
Now, we (Truth in Media) have one
question of our own:
“Why Have NONE of the Major Western
Media Reported These New Russian FACTS about MH17 Crash?”
By withholding such critical
information from the American and other western public, the heads of these
media organizations are now complicit in the act of mass murder in
which 298 civilians lost their lives.
Since the establishment media leaders
are an essential part of the New World Order’s version of Agitprop (agitation
and propaganda), perhaps they have no conscience and are used to participating
in criminal undertakings which further the warmongers’ causes?
For that reason, it might serve as a
wake-up call to them and to their world of lies and deceptions if they were all
to be named as co-defendants to the lawsuits that will invariably follow. Along
with the main culprits, of course, heads of state of the US and Ukraine and the
intelligence and military officials who cooked up this monstrous plot to draw
the Europeans and Russia into war.
Stand by for more on that…
(“Massive Buildup of Fascist Military Under Way in Ukraine” – story &
VIDEO)
UNANSWERED QUESTIONS ABOUT MH17 SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS
Ten 13 Unanswered Questions Russia Posed to US, Ukrainian Governments Remain Unanswered
UNANSWERED QUESTIONS ABOUT MH17 SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS
Ten 13 Unanswered Questions Russia Posed to US, Ukrainian Governments Remain Unanswered
And one of our own (Truth in Media): Why Have NONE of Major Western Media Reported These FACTS about MH17 Crash?
The Truth in Media published yesterday a story about the new FACTS that have emerged regarding the downing of MH17 based on Russian radar and satellite data and images (see RUSSIAN MILITARY: UKRAINIAN SU-25 FIGHTER DETECTED CLOSE TO MH17 JUST BEFORE CATASTROPHE, July 21). This is what we now know:
The new information leaves little doubt that the Malaysian Air MH17 flight was diverted and forced to fly over rebel territory, where it was probably shot down by a Ukrainian military jet. To back up the planned ruse and a false flag attack, the Ukrainian military parked three BUK missiles on rebel territory on July 17. They were gone the following day (July 18).
The new FACTS about what happened to MH17 on July 17, backed up radar and satellite images, were released in Moscow by Russia’s Chief of General Staff, Andrey Kartopolov, and chief of the Air Force Main Staff, Lt. Gen. Igor Makushev. The rank of Russia’s two highest military and Air Force officers added weight to both the new data and the questions they posed to their Ukrainian and American counterparts (see “10 questions Russian military posed to Ukraine, US over MH17 crash”, July 22).
(Actually, there were 13 questions as some were multiple part questions).
They say, “silence speaks louder than words.” They also say, “silence is acquiescence.”
On Monday (July 21), the State Department Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf described Russia’s statements as “propaganda and misinformation.” But when reporters asked her whether Washington would be releasing their intelligence and satellite data, Harf only replied “maybe.“
Sure. When hell freezes over. When does a mass murderer volunteer a confession?
The deafening silence from Washington and Kiev seems to merely confirm what this writer has felt all along since the morning of July 17 – that these New World Order criminals have now been caught redhanded in the act of terrorism and deception. So they are only fooling the ignorant and the gullible.
Now, we (Truth in Media) have one question of our own:
“Why Have NONE of the Major Western Media Reported These New Russian FACTS about MH17 Crash?”
By withholding such critical information from the American and other western public, the heads of these media organizations are now complicit in the act of mass murder in which 298 civilians lost their lives.
Since the establishment media leaders are an essential part of the New World Order’s version of Agitprop (agitation and propaganda), perhaps they have no conscience and are used to participating in criminal undertakings which further the warmongers’ causes?
For that reason, it might serve as a wake-up call to them and to their world of lies and deceptions if they were all to be named as co-defendants in the lawsuits that will invariably follow. Along with the main culprits, of course, heads of state of the US and Ukraine and the intelligence and military officials who cooked up this monstrous plot to draw the Europeans and Russia into war. At the very least, such establishment media should be charged with obstruction of justice.
Stand by for more on that… (“Massive Buildup of Fascist Military Under Way in Ukraine” – story & VIDEO)
Editorial Comment: PC, Internet Revolutions, Identified 20 Years Ago, Are Now Liberating Truth from Shackles of NWO
Meanwhile, thank God for the Internet. As this writer pointed out 20 years ago, the PC and Internet Revolutions may end up being the liberators of mankind from the Dark Forces which want to run this planet.
Back in 1994, we likened the PC and the Internet revolutions to the invention of a handgun. They empower the individual and small companies to compete with industrial giants on a level playing field. (see this writer’s FORBES column – “Move over Einstein, Signor Da Vinci Is Back“).
And that is also why today – July 22, 2014 – we know who the terrorists are who are responsible for the MH17 crime.
So thank you, “Gods of the Internet,” for liberating the Truth from the shackles of the New World Order. It is not a small irony that the greedy NWO corporations may have invented the weapons of their own eventual demise.
For, Truth is Knowledge. And Knowledge is Power. And now they are losing control of both.
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US Finds No Direct Link to Russia in Downing of MH17
Well, we did not have to wait long for the other shoe to drop. Within a couple of hours of our publication of the story (UNANSWERED QUESTIONS ABOUT MH17 SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS, July 22), three US intelligence officials told the Associated Press that the United States has found no direct link between the Russian government and the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 last week. They spoke on condition of anonymity.
“There’s not going to be a Perry Mason moment,” one U.S. official said. “We don’t know who pulled the trigger.”
Instead, this looks like another “Obama & Kerry moment.” Caught lying and spying once again. How are the American people EVER to believe “leaders” like that?
Despite earlier claims that the media would be presented with unclassified evidence from intelligence sources, the unnamed Obama administration officials mostly reiterated earlier claims based on social media posts and unverified audio and video recordings published by Ukrainian government.
Par for the course.
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August 21 2014
MASTERS OF DISASTERS
OBAMA WILLING TO TRADE MORE FRACKING IN AMERICAN HOMELAND FOR WAR ON RUSSIA?
EVEN MOSCOW’S NEW WORLD ORDER RAG DRAWS THE LINE ON OBAMA’S WARMONGERING
MOSCOW TIMES’ Ivan Sukhov: Nailing Shut ‘Window To Europe’ Will Empower Russian Nationalists
“The most frightening possible result of sanctions is that the West could nail shut the “window to Europe” that Russia has been laboring hard to develop ever since Peter the Great first built it at tremendous cost in the early 18th century.”
The Moscow Times is the English-language New World Order rag in the Russian capital. So you’d think they might echo Obama’s and other Washington war(t)hogs’ recent anti-Russian diatribes. Maybe not always.
Even Moscow Times’ Ivan Sukhov drew the line on manic Russophobia emanating from Washington these days. In a front page piece published yesterday in both Moscow Times and Huffington Post, this journalist tried to remind the world of the painful and bloody lessons of history in the last two centuries since Peter the Great opened Russia’s window to Europe.
The piece was accompanied by an image of a Russian Bear straddling two trees – East and West. I used it as basis for a cartoon image that reflects the true nature of East-West relations at this moment in history.
During the World Cup in Brazil, Germany’s Angela Merkel and Russia’s Vladimir Putin met and agreed to pursue a peaceful resolution to the Ukraine conflict. But the New World Order leaders would not hear of it. So they ensured that the downing of MH17 put at least a halt, if not an end, to such peaceful rapprochement between the EU (Germany) and Russia.
So here’s now a true picture of who is who in the quest for peace or war. Our (American) Nobel Peace Prize Winner has morphed into the world’s chief flamethrower, aiming for the fledgling peace dove.
During a quarter century since the end of Cold War, the world’s would-be masters have only proven two things:
1. They are merely Masters of Disasters2. Russia has continued to be for them Bogey #1 (see Russia Is Still NWO’sBogey No.1!, Dec 1997)
Consistency of Anti-European US Policy
There has been also a remarkable consistency in US anti-European policy in the last two decades (see A Bear in Sheep’s Clothing, Dec 1998).
Right now, for example, Washington is using all possible means, including mass murder, to try to corral Europe into staying in its harness on Ukraine and against Russia.
US WILLING TO TRADE MORE FRACKING IN AMERICAN HOMELAND FOR WAR ON RUSSIA?
And not just Europe. The American president and his administration have just proven how UNAMERICAN they really. They willing to trade more fracking of American homeland for a war on Russia.
Which means, more damage to the American environment, especially in the Midwest, and more health and safety risks for the American people. And all that, just for the (remote) chance of displacing Russia’s natural gas exports to Europe (see Europe: All Pain, No Gain, Apr 2014).
No wonder there has been already an eruption of environment groups’ protests against such Obama policies. Two days ago, the Huffington Post reportedthat, three dozen environmental groups sent a letter to the Obama administration on Thursday (July 24), asking him to reject part of a proposed trade deal with the European Union that would give a major boost to fracking in the U.S.
Here are some excerpt from that HP report:
Given the sheer size of the EU economy — roughly equivalent to that of the United States — the proposal would dramatically increase the demand for American oil drilling and natural gas hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
Burning natural gas is less environmentally destructive than oil or coal, but not nearly as beneficial as clean energy alternatives. The energy required to ship natural gas abroad would offset much of its environmental benefit. Extracting the gas with fracking may destroy local ecosystems and pollute drinking water (also see THRIVE movement story: No Fracking Way, just released today 7-26-14).
The U.S. government banned crude oil exports in 1975. The U.S. Department of Energy currently has the power to reject applications for natural gas exports to countries that do not have a free trade agreement with the U.S.
Trade deals frequently have more to do with foreign policy concerns than economic or environmental considerations. Recent tension with Russia over Ukraine, in particular, has highlighted the EU’s dependency on Russian natural gas. Loosening U.S. exports of natural gas to the EU would increase American leverage in diplomatic negotiations involving Russia.
It was near the same spot over half a century ago that President Kennedy delivered his famous “Ich bin ein Berliner”-speech (I am a Berliner).
How low the West has fallen since 1963. Back then, America was the country that stood for hope and freedom. Now, it is an Evil Empire, not unlike the Soviet Union, denying that same right to millions of people around the world.
-------------------This Brit has it right... my Uncle Harold would weep and so would my Great, Great Grandfather 2 see the sheeety mess Politicians have made of our precious and beautiful world that was meant 2 be built on humanity, freedom, basic human dignity and women equal in the eyes of our planet..... so many tears....
blogged:
NATO CAUGHT IN BULLSHIT AND BEANS-UKRAINE-Edward Snowden Love- Der Spiegel- "Prior to the Ukraine crisis, there were many asking what purpose NATO would serve once the alliance's troops had withdrawn from Afghanistan"- ALL THOSE $$$ SALARIES 4 THE BIGWIGS? Shame on the lot o ya-/APRIL 9 DAILY UPDATES- Germans Poll they like their Russian Brothers and Sisters- many people in West want nations 2 concentrate on their own nations
http://nova0000scotia.blogspot.ca/2014/04/nato-caught-in-bullshit-and-beans.html---------------
MH17 Verdict: Real Evidence Points to US-Kiev Cover-up of Failed False Flag
July 25, 2014 By 141 Comments
21st Century WireSPECIAL REPORT
UPDATED
Until this past Monday, the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 on July 17th, 2014, was a potential game changer for global geopolitics and the New Cold War. However, a funny thing happened on the way to the Kremlin…In this report, we will lay out the facts based on a wide breadth of available information and data surrounding MH17. We will also present and give critique to Washington and Kiev’s “mountain of evidence” that has saturated US and European-based media coverage since the incident took place. 21WIRE has compiled this report with the help of many contributors and references from English-speaking media, as well as material translated from Russian and Ukrainian media sources, along with other historical references to provide context. Our objective is to get as close to the truth as possible. Although many revelations will appear to be self-evident, we still encourage the public to draw their own conclusions regarding this pivotal event.
LISTEN TO 21WIRE’S FULL MH17 AUDIO REPORT HERE
There are other well-known anomalies surrounding this event which have been covered at 21WIRE, as well as connections to MH370, but for the purposes of this investigation we will focus on both factual and speculative evidence brought forth by the US, Ukraine and Russia.
As we will clearly demonstrate, the only wild conspiracy theories being pushed right now, are those coming out of the US State Department, and the government in Kiev, Ukraine, which are being repeated by CNN, BBC, FOX-NewsCorp, ABC, CBS and NBC…
The Brink of War
Last Monday morning was not a pleasant one for the US State Department. Russian officials surprised Washington and its NATO partners when it released all available satellite imagery and air traffic control data which was recorded in and around the final minutes of Flight MH17 – and presented it to the world media on live television. The data painted a very different picture, drawing contrasting conclusions to what Washington and Kiev officials had been disseminating via western media since July 17th. Following their presentation, Moscow handed its findings – air traffic data and time stamped satellite imagery – to European authorities. We will review those findings in detail later in this report. In stark contrast, US officials have been reluctant to do the same. Is Washington willing to share any object data or evidence to the public, or is it only interested in sharing that which somehow fits into the same predetermined narrative it stood by on July 17th, one which already assigned guilt to both rebel fighters in eastern Ukraine and Russia?
We hope that political leaders and media organizations in the US and Europe will take the time to consider all available information, rather than simply repeat and spin what is bouncing around the media echo chamber. It’s also crucial to understand the geopolitical context in which this incident has occurred in order to discover who really possessed the motive, and the means to destroy this passenger aircraft, and which parties stand to benefit most from such an international incident.
After reviewing the evidence, all indicators points to the downing of MH17 as a highly coordinated, but failed false flag event.
MH17: A Doomed Flight PathA Malaysian Airlines spokesman has already confirmed that, for some unknown reason, Kiev-based Ukrainian Air Traffic Control (ATC) ordered MH17 off of its original flight path along the international air route, known as L980.
Most likely, this order was given to pilots while MH17 was still in Polish air space. L980 is one of the most popular and most congested air routes in the world, as well as a key link between major international hubs in Europe, like London Heathrow, Amsterdam Schiphol, and Frankfurt, and Asian destinations, like Singapore, Mumbai, Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur.
As MH17 moved into Ukrainian air space, it was moved by ATC Kiev approximately 200 miles north – putting it on a new course, heading directly into a war zone, a well-known dangerous area by now – one that’s hosted a number of downed military craft over the previous 3 weeks.
Robert Mark, a commercial pilot and editor of Aviation International News Safety magazine, confirmed that most Malaysia Airlines flights from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur would normally travel along a route significantly further south than the route MH17 was diverted onto. Data on all airline flight records can be found here.
The BBC reported on July 17th: “Ukraine’s
SBU security service has confiscated recordings of conversations
between Ukrainian air traffic control officers and the crew of the
doomed airliner, a source in Kiev has told Interfax news agency.”
Independent
investigators are worried that ATC audio records of the MH17 flight
appear to have been confiscated by the Kiev government. No reason has
been given for this loss of transparency, but not a word from Washington
regarding this cover-up of crucial evidence.
Did this order to change the flight path come from the Ukrainian authorities? Was the pilot instructed to change course? To be sure, the order to change the flight path did not come from Eurocontrol, but rather from ATC in Kiev.
Clue: British media run interference by conjuring a “Storm”
Soon after the incident, British news outlets began floating the story - without evidence, that MH17 was diverted to “avoid thunderstorms in southern Ukraine”. This was also placed on Wikipedia at the same time. Nico Voorbach, who is Dutch, is president of the European Cockpit Association, and was the man used to nudge out this talking point. Voorbach casually slides this crucial fabrication out there, telling The Guardian of all papers, “I heard that MH17 was diverting from some showers as there were thunderclouds”.
The only problem is that Malaysian Airlines immediately refuted this in a report from Malaysia News:
“MAS operations director Captain Izham Ismail has also refuted claims that heavy weather led to MH17 changing its flight plan (…) There were no reports from the pilot to suggest that this was the case,” Izham said.
Did this order to change the flight path come from the Ukrainian authorities? Was the pilot instructed to change course? To be sure, the order to change the flight path did not come from Eurocontrol, but rather from ATC in Kiev.
Clue: British media run interference by conjuring a “Storm”
Soon after the incident, British news outlets began floating the story - without evidence, that MH17 was diverted to “avoid thunderstorms in southern Ukraine”. This was also placed on Wikipedia at the same time. Nico Voorbach, who is Dutch, is president of the European Cockpit Association, and was the man used to nudge out this talking point. Voorbach casually slides this crucial fabrication out there, telling The Guardian of all papers, “I heard that MH17 was diverting from some showers as there were thunderclouds”.
The only problem is that Malaysian Airlines immediately refuted this in a report from Malaysia News:
“MAS operations director Captain Izham Ismail has also refuted claims that heavy weather led to MH17 changing its flight plan (…) There were no reports from the pilot to suggest that this was the case,” Izham said.
What is significant, however, is that the Western media acknowledged that the change in the flight path did
occur, indicating that the alleged “heavy weather” narrative is a
fabrication designed to distract, and obscure the fact that MH17′s
course was indeed divert into the war zone that day.
Global Research clarifies this confusing issue:“The route over Ukrainian airspace where the incident occurred is commonly used for Europe to Asia flights. A
flight from a different carrier was on the same route at the time of
the MH17 incident, as were a number of other flights from other carriers
in the days and weeks before. Eurocontrol maintains records of all flights across European airspace, including those across Ukraine.”
“What
this statement confirms is that the MH17 ‘s “usual flight path” was
similar to the flight paths of some 150 international flights which
cross Eastern Ukraine on a daily basis. According to Malaysian Airlines “The usual flight route [across the sea of Azov] was earlier declared safe by the International Civil Aviation Organisation. The International Air Transportation Association has stated that the airspace the aircraft was traversing was not subject to restrictions (that approved flight path is indicated in the maps below).”
The regular flight path of MH17 (and other international flights) over a period of ten days prior to July 17th (day of the disaster), crossing Eastern Ukraine in a southeasterly direction is across the Sea of Azov.
The Times of India reported this: “Minutes before the crash caused by a missile strike, the AI pilots had also heard the controller give the Malaysian aircraft MH17 what is called “a direct routing”. This permits an aircraft to fly straight, instead of tracking the regular route which is generally a zig-zag track that goes from one ground-based navigation aid or way point to another. “Direct routing saves fuel and time and is preferred by pilots. In this case, it proved fatal,” said an airline source.”
The Times of India reported this: “Minutes before the crash caused by a missile strike, the AI pilots had also heard the controller give the Malaysian aircraft MH17 what is called “a direct routing”. This permits an aircraft to fly straight, instead of tracking the regular route which is generally a zig-zag track that goes from one ground-based navigation aid or way point to another. “Direct routing saves fuel and time and is preferred by pilots. In this case, it proved fatal,” said an airline source.”
UPDATE TBC: A number of bloggers have reported that the past flights on FlightRadar and FlightAware were changed between July 24-25th, the new “old flights” were placed over the Donetsk People’s Republic instead of the flights going further south. This does not jibe with what was reported last week by researcher Vagelis Karmiros using data from flight-tracking website Flightaware and published on a number established sites like Zero Hedge. Stay tuned here for updates.
The Event
The fatal event occurred somewhere in the interval between 17:21:28 and 17:22:30 Moscow Time. The exact time of the crash is believed to be at 5:23pm. The last available geographic coordinates can be found here on Flight Radar24:
Weather and Visibility Factor
Kiev-based air traffic controllers not only led MH17 right over its alleged ‘target zone’ in Eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, but also helped make it visible.
Although weather data online is all but unavailable for the area of Donetsk, Ukraine for July 17th, conditions are evident by numerous videos depicting the crash and crash site in the aftermath – it was cloudy and overcast, with more visibility above the cloud canopy. This factor is important because at its cruising altitude of approximately 33,000 feet (10,000 meters), the airliner would not be visible from the ground in the rebel-held area where Washington is insisting a SAM missile was launched. Why Kiev air traffic controllers order MH17 to suddenly drop its altitude, from 35,000 feet to around 33,000 feet, just before the plane’s demise is unknown for sure, but it would have been near impossible for the alleged rebel gunman occupying this relatively small rebel-held patch of land to make a visual sighting of MH17 and acquire the target during the 1-2 minute window they would have had (assuming they were even in possession of the BUK missile system).
The Los Angeles Times reports:
“Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was cruising just 1,000 feet above restricted airspace when it was struck by a missile in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, according to aviation and intelligence officials.To date, Kiev has refused to acknowledge or explain why the plane was moved into position in this way. Moreover, Interfax news agency reported that Ukraine’s SBU security service confiscated recordings of conversations between Ukrainian air traffic control officers and the crew immediately after the incident.
“Despite ongoing violence in eastern Ukraine, including the recent downing of two military aircraft, Ukrainian aviation officials had closed the region’s airspace only below 32,000 feet in altitude.Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was cruising just 1,000 feet above restricted airspace (33,000 ft) when it was struck by a missile in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, according to aviation and intelligence officials.”
The probability that this is all an ‘unfortunate coincidence’ reduces to near zero when one considers the air traffic data and Kiev’s denial of the close proximity of its Ukrainian SU-25 fighter jet in pursuit of MH17 minutes before the crash (see ‘Aircraft in the Vicinity’ below).
Small Rebel Target Window
Much has been made by the US and its media of MH17 being shot down and crashing in “the rebel-held area”, but few are aware of just how small the said area actually is. The Ukrainian military had already isolated the rebel area which Kiev and Washington insist a rebel-controlled BUK SAM missile battery had fired on the passenger jet. The actual size of this rebel-held patch is only 50 miles wide, with MH17 approaching on a southeastern route over Horlivka, the frontline of this rebel-held zone, towards Snezhnoye (Snizhne). Cruising at 580 mph (933 kmph), MH17 would have only been visible for a very short time – just over 1 minute (if Kiev had not ordered MH17 to alter its course and altitude then it would not have been visible at all), from the vantage point of the alleged rebel firing position. According the Janes Defense, the alleged culprit – an SA-11 (NATO code name) or ‘BUK’ missile system, requires 5 minutes set-up active targeting, followed by an additional 22 seconds ‘reaction time’ for target acquisition and firing. As the MH17 was only visible for 70 seconds above this rebel-held area surrounding Grabovo, unless the alleged rebel firing position was specifically tracking MH17 long before it entered the rebel-held airspace and could distinguish it from other military civilian aircraft also in the general vicinity, Washington’s theory and Kiev’s accusation – that rebels shot down this aircraft becomes even weaker.
Considering these factors, the probability increases greatly that targeting MH17 would have had to be premeditated far in advance of the 70 seconds it was visible above this particular rebel-held area.
Russian Satellite Data and Public Presentation
On Monday, the Russian government, with almost every major global media outlet in attendance, released all of its air traffic data and satellite imaging data (in fact, only part of it) – all verifiable, including time stamps and supporting data. The entire content of the presentation was also handed over to the European authorities. The conclusions to be drawn from this are stunning, to say the least. Despite the public release of this information, US and British media outlets did report back to its people on these findings. They are as follows:
Minutes before the downing of MH17, the plane made a mysterious ‘Left Turn’ as it flew over the Donetsk area at approximately 5:20pm Moscow time, making a sharp 14km deviation, before attempting to regain its previous course before dropping altitude disappearing from radar at 5:23pm. As we previously pointed out, air traffic controllers in Kiev had already diverted MH17 200 miles further north into the target zone, so the question remains: was Kiev ATC also responsible for this final, fatal diversion, or is there another reason for this unusual turn (see ‘Mysterious Left Turn’, below)?
According to clear satellite images provided, on July 16th, the Ukrainian Army positioned 3-4 anti-aircraft BUK M1 SAM missile batteries close to Donetsk. These systems included full launching, loading and radio location units, located in the immediate vicinity of the MH17 crash site. One system was placed approximately 8km northwest of Lugansk. In addition, a radio location system for these Ukrainian Army missile batteries is situated 5km north of Donetsk. On July 17th, the day of the incident, these batteries were moved to a position 8km south of Shahktyorsk. In addition to this, two other radio location units are also identified in the immediate vicinity. These SAM systems had a range of 35km distance, and 25km altitude.
From July 18th, after the downing of MH17, Kiev’s BUK launchers were then moved away from the firing zone.
Unlike rebel fighters, the Ukrainian military is in possession of some 27 BUK missile systems capable of bringing down high-flying jets, and forensic satellite imagery places at least 3 of their launchers in the Donetsk region on the day of this tragedy. Yet, Washington and NATO will not inquire about the possibility that any of these system had targeted MH17.
Watch the official video here:
This is a definitive smoking gun: why did the Ukrainian Army move these short-range anti-aircraft SAM missile batteries into position on July 16-17th – to an interior region of East Ukraine where it’s known that the rebel resistance possess no air crafts whatsoever? Not surprisingly, both the US and Kiev have not answered that difficult question, perhaps for obvious reasons.
In addition, the Ukrainian Army’s radio location traffic near Donetsk peaked on the 16th and 17th, including a total of 9 separate radio location systems active. On the 18th and 19th of July, radio location traffic from these stations dropped sharply, down to 4 stations. If, as Washington/Kiev claims, rebels fired a BUK missile at MH17, then the rebel radar location signals would be clearly noted and verifiable on the day; only, they are not.
All Aircraft in the Vicinity
Between 5pm-6pm Moscow Time on July 17th, the following aircraft have been identified in the general vicinity of MH17 on its course heading to its fatal destination of Grabovo:
1. Boeing 772 – traveling southeast from Copenhagen to Singapore at 5:17pm
2. Boeing 778 – traveling southeast from Paris to Taipei at 5:24pm
3. Boeing 778 – traveling northwest from Delhi to Birmingham circa 5:20pm
4. Boeing 777 – Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 at 5:17pm
5. Ukrainian Fighter Jet (confirmation of model TBC) appears on radar, trailing MH17 at same altitude, est. 4km behind it at 5:21pmNote: the pilots and passengers of Singapore Airlines Flight SIA351 were close enough to have visually observed, at high altitude, the demise of MH17.
At 5:20pm MH17 began to abruptly lose speed, eventually slowing to 124mph (200kmph). About this time, possibly an Su-25 Ukrainian fighter jet appears on ATC radar climbing in the direction of MH17, before trailing MH17 on the same flight path approximately 3-5km behind MH17, rapidly approaching the same flight level - only minutes before MH17 disappeared on radar. Note that a Ukrainian fighter would not have been visible on ATC radar before it broke the ATC long-range standby radar tracking ceiling of 5km in altitude. Civilian ATC radar would not be able to identify this Su-25 as military because no secondary detection system is mounted – typical for military aircraft. Over the next four minutes, the Ukrainian fighter remained in the area.
Note also that the Su-25 can be armed with air-to-air R-60 missiles with a range of up to 5km-12km, but as 21WIRE has discovered, the Su-25 is not the only combat aircraft the Ukrainian Air Force has in its possession. On June 4, 2014, Janes Defense reported that Kiev have recently returned to service two other higher performance fighters, including the Su-27 ‘Flanker’ and the MiG-29 ‘Fulcrum’ fighters. The altitude ceiling performance characteristics of all in-service Ukrainian fighters are as follows:Su-25 ‘Frogfoot’ fighter – Ceiling: 23,000 ft/ 7,000 m, or up to 32,800 ft/ 10,000 m (depending aircraft modifications)
Su-27 ‘Flanker’ fighter – Ceiling: 64,000 ft/ 19,000 m
MiG-29 ‘Fulcrum’ jet – Ceiling: 59,000 ft/ 18,000 m
Su-24 ‘Fencer’ fighter – Ceiling: 36,000 ft/ 11,000 m, or up to 57,400 ft/ 17,500 m (depending on variations of turbo intake)Although the exact altitude position of MH17 is not yet know for every given second of its final minutes, it’s clear that a Ukrainian combat jet was in its shadow. Suffice to say, Kiev had a number of combat aircraft capable of engaging MH17 at within a wide range of altitudes, as well as firing air-to-air missile at short range (3-5km)either upwards, or downward angles using laser guided targeting which is standard on many of these models.
Another Smoking Gun: Kiev government officials insisted on July 17th that, “No military aircraft were available in the region”. Based on available data detailed above, this appears to be a lie, indicating that a cover-up was taking place.
Again, it’s important to note here that at the moment when MH17 was allegedly was hit for the first time, at around 5:23pm Moscow time, the passenger jet was also within the range of several Ukrainian BUK batteries deployed close to Donetsk and as well as the Ukrainian Army’s BUK system positioned on the day just 8km south of Shakhterskoye, only a few miles from the eventual crash site at Grabovo.
IMAGE: A Ukrainian military Su-25 fighter jet carries air-to-air missiles, as do the Su-27 ‘Flanker’, and the MIG-29 Folcrum Fighter.
MH17′s Mysterious Left Turn
On passing glance, this seemingly minor, yet unexplained event doesn’t appear to be significant, but as is often the case, the devil is in the detail.
Again, was Kiev ATC also responsible for MH17′s final and fatal diversion from its course, or is there another reason for what appears to be an evasive maneuver?
One very real possibility for MH17 losing being diverted 14km to the left is that its GPS or navigation system was being jammed. US-NATO forces happened to be conducting an electronic warfare exercise in the Black Sea on July 17th (see ‘SEA BREEZE 2014′, below). In addition to this possibility, all Boeing jets (except Germany’s Lufthansa fleet) are equipped with a remote override that can be accessed by authorities in certain foreign countries, one being the United States. Although not publicly acknowledged until recently, Boeing Uninterruptible Autopilot (BUAP) systems have been standard since the late 1990′s, apparently designed to take control of a commercial aircraft away from the pilot or flight crew, chiefly in the event of a terrorist incident.
Another possible explanation for this crucial event in the timeline is that MH17 was hit, or damaged, taking an emergency 180º left turn for 14km, before disappearing completely off of radar. This appears to be the case. On July 23rd, Anna-News published an interview with retired Russian Air Force colonel Aleksand Zhilin (Александр Жилин) a frequent military commentator on Ukraine’s Civil War.
“According to the colonel, at 16:19:45 (local time, and 5:19pm Moscow time), a Ukrainian jet fighter targeted the Boeing with an air-to-air missile R-60.
The missile damaged the right engine of the Boeing. The Boeing was hit,
but still managed to stay in the air. However, in doing so, the Boeing
turned 180 degrees to the left. It was at this moment that the false
flag attack started falling apart. According to Zhilin, part of the plan
controlled by the US with Ukrainian hands executing it was to have the
Boeing crash past the southern frontline by the Ukrainian-Russian
border. Had the Boeing fallen there, securing the crash sites with the
troops in response to international pressure was on top of all else
effectively to allow Kiev to lift the encirclement of its brigades
(currently pinned down by rebels) in the southern pocket by the Russian
border.”
“When,
however, the Boeing started to turn in the opposite direction and was
still apparently manageable, the US-Ukrainian headquarters of the
special operation panicked and ordered the Buk battery to destroy the
plane in the air in order to pre-empt the possibility of the Boeing’s
emergency landing. A Buk missile was fired and the plane was then
finally destroyed.”
21WIRE spoke to former Czech diplomat and political analyst, Vladimir Suchan, who puts Zhilin’s comments into context of what was happening militarily at the time of the crash. Suchan explains, “If
MH17 was hit right over the frontline over Snezhnoye, this would have
placed the timing and location of the intended downing and crash site to
either the territory controlled by the Ukrainian army, or much closer
to the border between Russia and Ukraine where the “securing of the
site” would allow lifting the strategic encirclement of the Ukrainian
troops in the south and thus, on top of other objectives, saving Kiev’s
armed forces from its first major military defeat.” (see ‘Military
All-Out Offense’ section below)If, indeed MH17 was struck by an air-to-air missile at that time, a distress call may have been sent to Kiev ATC, but as yet, Kiev officials may be reluctant to share, or release the entirety of its communications from July 17th.
At the time of this report being filed at 21WIRE, a second source to verify this testimony is not presently available. Zhilin’s account certainly makes sense when placed next to all ATC and satellite data released by Moscow. However, flight recorder information and data from MH17′s black boxes would certainly be able to corroborate this timeline of events, and one hopes that Great Britain’s predetermined political stance against Russia does not prevent Downing Street, or MI5 Intelligence Services from releasing the black box information in its entirety and more importantly, a full and unedited disclosure to the media. More than likely, the BBC will have first access to this release, and how the BBC report their findings will be very telling.
Above, is one possible map of MH17 final minutes, as calculated from one source of available public data, available here: http://nikolay-istomin.livejournal.com/3057934.html.
This account is also consistent with the location of key pieces of wreckage scattered over the wider crash site radius. It shows M17 turning back on itself, after being struck initially. If this was the final path, then it completely disapproves the US (US State Department) conspiracy theory that a rebel-controlled BUK missile hit the plane head-on from Snezhnoye (Snizhne). This U-turn then also helps explain why Kiev’s first “leaked conversation of the rebels” (see ‘Kiev’s Botch Social Media Audio’ below) tried to place the rebel’s BUK battery at a completely different location in Debaltzevo, a few kilometers northwest of the main crash site at Grabovo. However, that would not explain the U-turn, which they tried so much to conceal – for it points to the Ukrainian jet fighter.
As part of their PR damage-control exercise, Washington released this Google Map-style graphic on Tuesday July 22nd, illustrating its theory that the rebel missile battery was now located in Snezhnoye:
Incredibly, Washington’s latest evidence/theory, depicted above, put their alleged rebel firing position in an entirely new spot – at Snezhnoye, and this now contradicts other ‘social media’ items being held-up by John Kerry and President Obama in their “mountain of evidence” (see ‘More Falsified and Sloppy ‘Evidence’ Supplied by SBU’, below).
The irony of this somehow escaped US State Dept. Deputy Spokesperson, Marie Harf during her globally televised ‘intelligence’ briefing on Tuesday (see ‘US Now in Full Retreat and Damage-Control Mode’, below).
Almost certainly, the US government already has a comprehensive communications, satellite and radar data set which could either corroborate, or disprove what Russia has released. The fact that Washington only has this Google graphic to offer to the public indicates that what it has… may not be what it wants.
Whistleblower: A Spanish Air Traffic Controller in KievAll evidence pointing to a Ukrainian Su-25 fighter jet in the same frame as MH17, also validates the testimony of ‘Carlos’, an ATC contractor in Kiev. ETN received information from an air traffic controller (Borispol Airport) in Kiev on Malaysia Airlines flight MH17:
“This Kiev air traffic controller is a citizen of Spain and was working in the Ukraine. He was taken off duty as a civil air-traffic controller along with other foreigners immediately after a Malaysia Airlines passenger aircraft was shot down over the Eastern Ukraine killing 295 passengers and crew on board. The air traffic controller suggested in a private evaluation and basing it on military sources in Kiev, that the Ukrainian military was behind this shoot down. Radar records were immediately confiscated after it became clear a passenger jet was shot down. Military air traffic controllers in internal communication acknowledged the military was involved, and some military chatter said they did not know where the order to shoot down the plane originated from. Obviously it happened after a series of errors, since the very same plane was escorted by two Ukrainian fighter jets until 3 minutes before it disappeared from radar.”‘Carlos’ was reporting from the Kiev airport in real time on Twitter, of the downing of MH17 as the tragedy was taking place — during that very time and in the very next hour – only to disappear immediately, along with his Twitter account.
Again, real mounting evidence which points to an obvious cover-up by Kiev and its NATO partners.
CSI: Flight MH17
1. A bomb on board (this is still a possibility).
2. An air-to-air missile.
3. A surface-to-air missile.
After that, the autopsy of the bodies would reveal additional evidence about what really took place on July 17th. A present, the majority of the remains are being handled by the Netherlands government, and given their NATO involvement to date in the Ukrainian conflict, it’s debatable whether or not they would present any findings which do not square with Washington and Kiev’s narrow, yet ever-evolving narrative of the incident.Finally, if MH17 was indeed shot down as a false flag provocation of war by either a Ukrainian SU-25 fighter, or a Ukrainian Army BUK SAM – or both, as much of the hard evidence suggests, then would Malaysia declare war on the Ukraine? Would the UN table a resolution backing sanctions against Ukrainian officials in Kiev for their role in this international war crime?
US-NATO’s Military Drill in the Black Sea Ended on July 17th
Russia’s Satellite Data and Public Presentation on Monday July 21st has put Washington on its back foot. The existence of this intelligence, now made public, along with other data in Russia’s possession, means that the Washington cannot show the real intelligence – which they too have. It’s no coincidence that US and NATO conducted a large-scale military and intelligence drill in the Black Sea just south of Crimea named, SEA BREEZE 2014, which just so happened to end on… July 17th. The drill included hundreds of US military specialists running ‘war simulations’ in electronic warfare, data collection from a spy satellite, and ‘monitoring’ of all passenger aircraft flying in the region. A massive drill – yet another improbable coincidence.
Another smoking gun: Is it a coincidence that the US had its new experimental satellite positioned over Eastern Europe for 1-2 hours, and directly over Donetsk in eastern Ukraine from 5:06pm – 5:21pm. Taking this fact into consideration, alongside the other improbable ‘coincidences’, leads to an almost certain conclusion.
In addition to SEA BREEZE, both US and British armed forces had also scheduled a concurrent military exercise, code named, Rapid Trident 2014, a NATO event which takes place annually in and around the Ukraine, designed to “promote regional stability and security, strengthen partnership capacity and foster trust while improving interoperability between the land forces of Ukraine, and NATO and partner nations,” according to the US Forces in Europe website. Since March, the Pentagon has kept quiet regarding the number of US forces, and hardware assets expected to participate in the maneuvers.
According to US Army spokesman Col. Steven Warren, Rapid Trident is the only Ukraine military exercise the US planned to participate in this year, and it’s main purpose was, “To help the Ukrainian military improve its troops and weapons operability with NATO forces.”
Ukrainian Military All-Out Offensive Timed For July 18th
Three uncomfortable realities in Kiev were prevailing before the downing of MH17 on July 17th.
First, the troops were losing morale, and suffering defections and other serious set-backs in an increasingly unpopular military theater of Eastern Ukraine. Kiev was losing the PR war hearts and minds in the Ukraine and abroad.
After the downing of MH17, Kiev garnered huge public sympathy and support, and just so happened to launch a massive offensive on July 18th, one which military analysts believe would have to have been planned many weeks in advance – and could not just be a knee-jerk reaction to the MH17 tragedy as government spokespersons in Kiev insist.
Secondly, they were losing the war. Behind the lines battle reports from ‘Strelkov’s Blog’ at the time confirms this all-out offensive at Snezhnoye by the Kiev military planners against the People’s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk – allowing the Ukrainian Army to penetrate deeper and deeper, in effect splitting Donetsk and Lugansk. 21WIRE observed other data which supports the same conclusion – a major military offensive was launched in the aftermath of the MH17 crash.
Vladimir Suchan adds, “After the loss of MH17 and some talk about “humanitarian ceasefire”, the Kiev regime launched three massive offensives from the north, the west (from Artemovsk, which included a large tank attack) and in the south. Since it always takes some good time to prepare an offensive, this had to be planned sufficiently ahead, though, with a view of the desperate situation for the junta in the south, most likely at a very accelerated pace. http://voicesevas.ru/news/yugo-vostok/2968-voyna-na-yugo-vostoke-onlayn-18072014-hronika-sobytiy-post-obnovlyaetsya.html
“In this regard, it is also very plausible that some hope was put on having the command of Novororrysia paralyzed, busy and distracted over MH17. By all accounts, both the timing and location of the MH17 crash, has enabled a huge ‘game changer’ in terms of how this conflict was previously going.”
If the international community were indeed to connect the prospect of a false flag attack on MH17 with the false flag attack by Maidan snipers back in February, and the attempted false flag attack with the Odessa massacre, perhaps the Ukrainian Civil War could be abated, for the right reasons.
As the US media juggernaut rolls ahead, there is still no sign of either Washington, London or Brussels admitting that their partners in Kiev are massacring civilians in a brutal civil war…
Disturbing reports are also coming in about the Ukrainian Military dropping White Phosphorus on civilian targets this week, as forces continue bombarding areas surrounding of Lugansk. Here are two unconfirmed videos, possible evidence of unconventional chemical weapons being deployed over several locations near Lugansk People’s Republic of Novorossia, from July 20-21, 2014:
Thirdly, Kiev is going broke trying to fund what appears to be an ethnic cleansing campaign in eastern Ukraine. Sources from the Parliamentary budget office in Kiev now confirm that as of August 1st, Kiev can’t pay its military (who are, in fact, waging war against its own people and calling it ‘anti-terror operations’).
“To continue the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine, it is necessary to amend the state budget and to find additional sources of its content. We do not have money to pay at least a cash security to our military from August”, stated Ukraine’s Finance Minister Oleksandr Shlapak, speaking in Parliament this week. According to Shlapak, funds previously provided by the state budget for these purposes has been calculated for the period prior to July 1st, and continued operations will require additional funds totaling 9 billion UAH ($1 billion). Infighting has already begun, as MP’s are now blaming the Ministry of Defense and army staff for corruption and looting of money.In the wake of the MH17 disaster, US and its NATO allies are responding with a renewed call for more military aid to Kiev and to fast-track the Ukraine’s membership into Washington’s overseas military surrogate, NATO. As an emergency response to “secure the crash site”, NATO stalwart, The Netherlands, are weighing up deploying NATO troops into the middle of this war zone. Such a move could easily cascade into something much worse should another bizarre “accident” occur, or some tragedy befalls Dutch troops inserted into the hot zone.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has responded with strong words of condemnation, stating, “No matter what our Western counterparts tell us, we can see what’s going on. As it stands, NATO is blatantly building up its forces in Eastern Europe, including the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea areas. Its operational and combat training activities are gaining in scale.”
While the US push Kiev eastwards to fight Washington’s proxy war against Russia, the political and financial situation in Kiev is rapidly falling apart.
On Thursday July 24th, Victoria Nuland’s hand-picked coalition leader following a US-backed violent military coup back in February, Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy ‘Yatz’ Yatsenyuk (photo, left) announced his resignation in connection with the collapse of a Washington-designed coalition and parliament blocking government initiatives.
Watch as a fist fight break out this week between Washington’s new Neofascist partners during a Parliament session in Kiev:
His resignation indicates that ‘Yatz’ may be falling out of favor with central planning in Washington, and a sign of chaos still to come in the halls of Kiev’s Parliament.
Made-up ‘Evidence’ From Washington and Kiev
The talking point shift by the US media on Tuesday July 22nd was an obvious reaction to the Russian data dump. US media are now airing Washington DC’s revised conspiracy theories. Theory 1) “The rebels shot MH17 down by mistake”, and Theory 2) “Russia is responsible for creating the conditions for this tragedy”.
In reality, no evidence actually exists to date, other than anecdotal, that the rebels in the east possess any ‘BUK’ surface-to-air missile systems (see Washington and Kiev’s ‘BUK’ Missile Evidence Debunked’, below).
Close observers of Washington DC’s media blitz can only be left with a feeling of embarrassment, as the US State Department still clings to some semblance of continuity in the face of a total PR meltdown. As late as July 22nd, the US State Department was still attempting to pass-off its ‘evidence’ from social media (Twitter and YouTube), and backed-up by what it claims is “common sense”, that “clearly indicates Ukrainian militia shot down MH17″.
Since the incident on July 17th, the Kiev regime and US State Department have built their case against Rebels in eastern Ukraine and Moscow, and even Vladimir Putin himself, on the following items, which have all been thoroughly discredited by now:
1. The audio “tapes” issued by Kiev
2. A video and photos of BUK missile batteries issued by Kiev (of their own BUK missile batteries)
3. Claims by Kiev and supported by the West, that Ukraine had “no military aircraft in the air” at the time of the crash of the MH17 plane.
On July 22nd, the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (photo, left) was forced to change Kiev’s story - a damage-control exercise to the overwhelming evidence against Ukraine. He has since reversed this position.
Suchan explains the western political media machine and its all-out effort to cast Russia and Putin as international pariahs over the incident:
“What has been thus established is that Ukraine, as well as the US, the EU, NATO, and other Western countries, have been systematically and grossly lying about evidence pertaining to the tragedy of MH17, thus willfully – and bluntly, abusing the tragedy and the demise of the victims and the suffering of their families for perverse political goals related to NATO expansionism and anti-Russian hysteria, and ‘Russophobia’, in order to support an openly fascist regime in Kiev, whose objective is the deliberate destruction of civilians and civilian infrastructure in east Ukraine.”
“The smearing campaign has also been used to demonize and criminalize anti-fascism and its resistance to a fascist dictatorship in Kiev, enrolled by Ukraine’s criminal oligarchs.”
Washington and Kiev’s ‘BUK’ Missile Evidence DebunkedImmediately after the MH17 crash event on July 17th, the Ukrainian government in Kiev quickly uploaded a brief YouTube video it purported to be ‘evidence’ of “a ‘BUK’ missile system being moved” out of a rebel-held area near Donetsk. US State Department officials, and every US media outlet, led by CNN, FOX, ABC, NBC and CBS, along with major US talk radio hosts like Sean Hannity, immediately jumped on this 5 second YouTube video claiming it was, “Irrefutable proof that a Russian-made BUK missile system was being moved away after it shot down MH17″. That talking point began to cascade from media, and into public chatter. It seemed their job was all but done.
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation newspaper , The Sun, always ready to take any pro-war line to the extreme, led the ‘conflict pornography’ on news stands, intentionally inciting fear and jingoism, doing what it always does: nudge British working class readers in a predetermined direction and fuse public opinion among differing classes on divisive international issues. No surprise then, as The Sun ran, “Putin’s Missile” as its headline the next morning. Similar covers and headlines were cloned across US and British media. Within hours of the news breaking – and despite this blanket coverage, not one of these newspapers or TV broadcasters offered any real evidence outside of anecdotal and wild speculation and conjectural theories.
Once again, we’ve witnessed the world’s most powerful, highly coordinated and synchronized propaganda machine. Once it’s set in motion, most western consumers are helpless to fend off its relentless repeating and universal coverage across hundreds of media outlets owned in most part by 5 US, and 2 British corporations.
A similar attempt was made by Washington and London last September, when US Secretary of State John Kerry, along with then British Foreign Secretary William Hague, presented their now infamous claim of ‘open source evidence’ (YouTube videos) used to assign blame to the Syrian government for a chemical weapons attack against its own people. Many of the photos and videos were later proven to be faked and staged, and ‘the gas’ was made in Britain, and that ‘chemical attack’ was in fact staged by Syrian insurgents still being supported by the US-British-Saudi-Qatari Axis.
Verdict: Active Cover-Up Taking Place
Washington’s initial ‘BUK Missile’ social media evidence seems to be rapidly heading down the same memory hole as its Syria predecessor, and soon, it will not be mentioned again by any US official. The speed at which it was released after the crash, and the fact that falsified audio, video, and photos have been intentionally released by the Kiev government in the wake of such a tragedy, demonstrates a clear motive to deceive the public about who is to blame for the MH17 event – using falsified evidence to build a case against ‘pro-Russian separatists’ and Moscow, and even Russian President Vladimir Putin himself.
What is obvious, but not being discussed in mainstream western circles is that, as with Syria since 2011, Washington and its NATO allies have been openly conducting a proxy war in the Ukraine, and have managed to control media coverage in the west so that what clearly a Civil War in the Ukraine – is being cynically, and very wrongly labeled as an “anti-terror operation”. On a daily basis, the Ukrainian Military are carrying out attacks on civilian targets all over Eastern Ukraine, killing thousands of its own innocent citizens with the full logistical and financial backing of the Washington and NATO. In Syria, the tables are reversed, where the government in Damascus is clearly fighting against known al Qaeda and ISIS-linked foreign terrorists brigades, as Washington and London politicians and media insist on calling it a ‘civil war’. Both are classic proxy wars being waged by the NATO block of nations.
More Falsified and Sloppy ‘Evidence’ Supplied by SBU Defense Ministry in Kiev
Let’s start with the famous 5 second YouTube video released by Kiev and lauded by Washington, CNN, ABC, FOX et all, of a BUK missile battery being moved, we were told, secretly by rebels out of the area after the plane crash. Not only does signage clearly visible in the video place this truck in Krasnoarmeysk – a town which has been in control of the Ukrainian Army since May 11th. Here is one early news release of the now discredited video.
In the absence of any real evidence or data, it’s worth asking who has paid large sums of money to create a 3-D computer animation sequences, of what the US/Kiev governments claim look place?
In addition to falsified YouTube video, Kiev also published falsified photos of an alleged BUK missile system on July 19th. Kiev’s Security Service (SBU) published photos online it claimed showed ‘Russia’ secretly withdrawing a BUK-M system from the Ukraine civil war zone, but shortly after publishing this article the photos in question were deleted. The photo released by Kiev was actually an image taken of its own military’s BUK missiles – ironically, our readers will find that Kiev showing photos of its own systems is much closer to the real story than we previously thought.
Somewhat haphazardly, Kiev’s SBU, which is overseen by the new CIA station occupying the top floor in the same building in Kiev, released two more videos meant to assign blame to rebels in Donetsk, with Kiev claiming these were of Russian-made BUK-M being transported back to Russia on July 18th after the crash – but both videos were clearly shot during the winter time, with one found to have been previously published in March. Again, more intentional lying by Kiev, in order to assign blame to ‘pro-Russian Separatists’, and Moscow.
Kiev’s Botched Social Media ‘Audio Clips’
Early on, Washington and the entire western media machine, made much of two audio ‘tapes’ released via YouTube by Kiev officials, alleged to be taken from conversations between ‘pro-Russian separatist’ rebel commanders. Both Kiev and Washington held these up as ‘evidence’ of rebels using a BUK SAM missile system to shoot down MH17. The only problem here, is that both ‘tapes’ contradict each other regarding the location of the alleged missile batteries.
Vladimir Suchan points out the obvious, “The identification of the direction of the blast then also disproves the junta’s videos with “leaked conversations” from yesterday and today–for the missile could not then be launched either from Debaltzevo, or Donetsk, as claimed on both tapes -these places were by then a bit far, and not in front of MH17. That’s also evidently why, today the junta’s sites are claiming that the BUK missile battery was supposed to be in Snezhnoye, forgetting all about their first tape leak with commander ‘Bes’ from Gorlovka (40 miles north-west). If the Ukrainian Army used a BUK missile, then it would most likely have been fired from north of Amvrosivka, which is a place of a large concentration of Ukrainian troops. It is also southwest of Torez and Snezhnoye in the proximity of which the crash site is located. BUK missiles have a range of up to 20 miles. Enough for a battery in the Amvrosivka region.”
Zero Hedge reported on July 17th:
“The only problem is that there is absolutely no way to confirm who “Major” and “Grek” are, and considering the entire Ukraine civil war has been merely one provocation and counter-provocation after another, explicitly staged in advance by either the CIA on the side of Kiev or the Kremlin on the Russian side, one does have to wonder whether the said two “smoking gun” participants aren’t merely two random people speaking Russian and reading off a script?The clip concludes with another unnamed “Militant” who supposedly is speaking to Mykola Kozitsyn, one of the purported leaders of the Cossacks operating in east Ukraine. The Militant makes it clear to Kozitsyn that it is not a military plane and has “Malaysian Airlines” written on the side. One wonders just where one could find such writing on the side of the crashed and exploded fuselage but that one is for the forensics to decide.”
In addition, multiple independent analysis’s of these audio recordings also reveals that these audio recordings were not integral files, indicating they were spliced together, as is evident from the different time stamp dates visible from the raw audio data. It also reveals at least one portion was recorded, or edited on July 16th – before the crash of MH17. ITAR-TASS Agency confirms this:“The tape’s second fragment consists of three pieces but was presented as a single audio recording. However, a spectral and time analysis has showed that the dialog was cut into pieces and then assembled. Short pauses in the tape are very indicative: the audio file has preserved time marks which show that the dialog was assembled from various episodes, the expert said. The tape’s linguistic analysis also shows that those who made the faked tape clearly did not have enough material and time, the expert said. That is why, speech fragments can hardly correlate with each other in terms of their sense and the spectral picture of audio materials also differs, the expert said. But the most indicative moment is that the audio tape clearly shows that it was created almost a day before the airliner crash, the expert said.”
Only one conclusion can be drawn here: these tapes were faked, and released after the crash in order to assign blame on rebels and Russia for this event.
In addition to this, video production on both Kiev ‘tapes’ matches a previous YouTube video – same graphics style and editing, which was previously proven to be another fake. Interestingly, Ukrainian producers used the same actor, an alleged Cossack rebel commander, Mykola Kozitsyn, in their MH17 audio production. Zero Hedge also reveals: “Finally, we clearly have no way of authenticating the recording or the participants, it was just over a month ago, on June 5, when in another attempt to cast blame and discredit the separatists, Ukraine released another trademark YouTube clip seeking to disparage and frame Kozitsyn, entitled “Russian Cossack Formations are Responsible For Chaos In Ukraine.”In summary, multiple falsified information releases by Kiev government officials only points to one conclusion: a cover-up. By contrast, Russia officials have not released or promoted any falsified or fraudulent ‘evidence’ used to assign blame to any parties – instead Moscow released all of its verifiable data surrounding the incident which has now forced Washington to rethink its wild approach which previously tried to pin responsibility on Russia itself…
IMAGE: President Obama and John Kerry unable to settle on a version of events (Photo: RCJ)Up until now, Washington has been able to give its support to openly fascist and racists political parties and militants in western Ukraine, but as Kiev’s brutal civil war wages on, world media and more historically-minded members of Europe may eventually revolt against this risky marriage of convenience.
US Now in Full Retreat and Damage-Control Mode
Amazingly, in a US State Department briefing led by Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf on Tuesday July 22nd, Harf insisted that, yes, US intelligence officials still include these ‘social media’ posts as part of what Secretary of State John Kerry describes as a “mountain of evidence”.
Obviously under great pressure to show strength in the face of a complete collapse in confidence, Harf (photo, below) could be seen stuttering and twitching nervously as difficult questions were raised by members of the media.
#MARIE HARF: Under President Obama, State Department spokespersons have become ‘political activists’.
In one of the biggest flops in State Dept. history, Harf appeared so desperate to shed any further questions on ‘social media evidence’, that she opted for a fatal gaff - stating on record that “US intelligence officials have authenticated the audio”. Unless she means they’ve authenticated these as fake, this statement may come back to haunt US officials. Many are now calling it a bold-faced lie, designed to cover-up the mishandling and over-politicization of posts found on social media, shamelessly used by Washington to promote a war agenda.
As a result, CNN and others are now scavenging the tragedy, trying to hide the emerging facts under the heap of its “fair and balanced” mainstream conspiracy theories. The story has now shifted from what happened, to how US politicians are dealing with the crisis, as was evident after one major outlet who ran this headline, “Obama: What exactly are they trying to hide?”
On Tuesday, the US government finally admitted (as well as it could), that it had been bluffing about its ‘certainty’ that Russia was behind the downing of Malaysian Air Flight MH-17.
Washington’s New Conspiracy TheoryIn a damage control exercise this past Tuesday, Washington invited members of the majors like the Washington Post and the LA Times, to an ‘intelligence update’ briefing, and a press conference run by the inexperienced Marie Harf.
The Los Angeles Times reported: “U.S. intelligence agencies have so far been unable to determine the nationalities or identities of the crew that launched the missile. U.S. officials said it was possible the SA-11 [anti-aircraft missile] was launched by a defector from the Ukrainian military who was trained to use similar missile systems.” The quiet U-turn by Washington signals that its previous case blaming the rebels has been destroyed, and rather than concede that the Ukrainian Army has actually shot down MH17, they’ve chosen to instead concoct a new revision about a “rogue defector” and his “rogue team” who happen to be wearing Ukrainian Army uniforms.
Washington’s new and creative official conspiracy theories now include:
1. Ukrainian separatists shot down plane by mistake after misreading ‘fuzzy’ radar images on a much-too sophisticated AS-11 system (as if US intelligence officials were actually there), probably mistook the airliner for a Ukrainian military plane (reverting to their original line).
2. Missile that brought down Malaysian jet probably fired by ‘ill-trained crew’ of pro-Russian rebelsThe “ill-trained crew” theory is the work of one U.S. official who, “requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly on the issue”. And who could blame him?
Finally, Washington ends up at a place it knows well – reducing a major geopolitical event or crime down to the work of a lone wolf, or in this case, a ‘rogue defector’ from the Ukrainian Army, an image which will no doubt fuel even more wild commentary by Wolf Blitzer, Anderson Cooper, George Stephanopoulos and Sean Hannity.
American investigative reporter Robert Parry (who broke many of the Iran-Contra scandal for AP and Newsweek in the 80′s) published this on Consortium News, July 20th (based on his CIA source):
“What I’ve been told by one source, who has provided accurate information on similar matters in the past, is that U.S. intelligence agencies do have detailed satellite images of the likely missile battery that launched the fateful missile, but the battery appears to have been under the control of Ukrainian government troops dressed in what look like Ukrainian uniforms.”
This account is fully consistent with 1) the “anonymous US intelligence officers’ briefing from US mainstream media on Tuesday July 22,” as reported, 2) the briefing by the Russian Ministry of Defense on July 21 and, 3) Alexandr Zhilin‘s analysis previously covered.Backpedaling even further, Washington has officially downgraded its overall indictment, with another ‘senior intelligence official’ announcing a brand new party line – a weaker thesis, somehow claiming that, “Russia created the conditions for this to happen”.
More Western Media Manipulation
London’s media arms have also sprung into action in an attempt to reinforce Washington-NATO-Kiev Axis assignment of guilt. In a classic demonstration of its pro-Foreign Office institutional bias, Guardian writer Shawn Walker carefully attempts to contain the western guilty verdict, considering only ‘pro-Russian rebels’ and intentionally reinforcing the ‘Rebel-BUK conspiracy theory’.
Walker states, “Claims by pro-Russia separatists in east Ukraine that they have never been in possession of the missile launcher apparently used to down flight MH17 are looking increasingly flimsy, as several witnesses told the Guardian they had seen what appeared to be a Buk missile launcher in the vicinity of the crash site last Thursday.The sightings back up a number of photographs and videos posted online that put the Buk system close to the crash site on the day of the disaster. Just before lunchtime last Thursday, prior to the Malaysia Airlines plane’s takeoff, a Buk was driven through Gagarin Street, one of the central thoroughfares of Torez, witnesses said.”
The Guardian could very well be relaying genuine eyewitness accounts here, but only advanced media watchers will have noticed the slight of hand being applied here: Walker has ruled out any other possible suspects other than rebels – skillfully hiding his paper’s bias in reporting by pouring evidence collected into a pre-determined verdict. If the Guardian were not applying an institutional (British Foreign Office pre-determined conclusion) bias, then its editor would have combined the eyewitness accounts to the clear satellite photographic evidence provided by the Russian authorities, and it doesn’t take a genius to figure out who was really in possession of these surface-to-air missile systems – the Ukrainian military.
Official US Plan to Destroy Civilian Aircraft for Diplomatic Gain
The first official known plan to fake the destruction of a civilian aircraft was drafted by the US Pentagon in 1962. A former NSA analyst at Strategic Culture reports:
“The use of commercial passenger planes as false flag targets of opportunity for U.S. national security and intelligence planners is nothing new. The U.S. National Archives yielded an explosive formerly classified document some five months before the 9/11 attack in 2001. The document, “Justification for U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba”, outlined for Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, a series of false flag attacks, code named OPERATION NORTHWOODS, which would be carried out by the United States on various targets but be blamed on the Fidel Castro government of Cuba. Dated March 13, 1962, the Top Secret NORTHWOODS document was prepared by America’s top covert Special Operations officer, General Edward Lansdale.”
“The
NORTHWOODS plans called for the sinking of a boatload of Cuban refugees
en route from Cuba to U.S. shores, blowing up an American ship in Cuban
waters, and more importantly in light of the recent downing of
Malaysian Airlines flight 17 over eastern Ukraine, faking a Cuban Air
Force attack on a civilian jetliner.
Lansdale
and his NORTHWOODS planners concluded that the U.S. invasion of Cuba
would receive wide support as a result of an outraged public. The
document states: “World opinion and the United Nations forum should be
favorably affected by developing the international image of Cuban
government as rash and irresponsible, and as an alarming and
unpredictable threat to the peace of the Western Hemisphere.”
Most
certainly, this blueprint by US intelligence is mirrored today in 2014,
as the US and its NATO member allies (and media assets in tow) using
totally synchronized messaging – dominated by wild speculation,
hyperbole and hysteria characterizing the rebels in the east of Ukraine
as terrorists, Russia as the enemy, and President Vladimir Putin as ‘the
personification of evil’ for American and British media consumers.
The world can only pray, that the truth may prevail.LISTEN TO SUNDAY WIRE RADIO’S SPECIAL REPORT ON MH17 HEREREAD MORE MH17 NEWS AT: 21st Century Wire MH17 Files
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July 28, 2014:
International teams find ‘no violations’ by Russia along Ukrainian border
RT | July 27, 2014
Inspectors who came to check the state of Russian troops along the Ukrainian borders have found no violations, Russia’s Ministry of Defense said. This came as a response to the US alleging 15,000 Russian troops have amassed in the area.“It has come to our attention that new allegations by top US officials as to the alleged amassing of Russian troops along the Ukrainian border have been voiced,” the statement by the Defense Ministry read, following allegations by the US Permanent Representative to NATO, Douglas Lute, and State Department spokeswoman, Marie Harf.
“The last four months have witnessed 18 separate inspections along the Ukrainian border with the Russian Federation, all in line with the Vienna Open Skies Treaty and the Vienna agreement of 2011.”
The statement goes on to list the international makeup of those inspections, which included representatives from the US, as well as NATO and Ukraine. The inspections also included flybys and visits to any military units that might have aroused suspicion.
“No instances of violations by Russia along the Ukrainian border had been registered by the inspectors,” adding that in spite of the above, “frequent action by the Ukrainian military taking place on the Russian border has hindered our own ability to perform similar inspections and flybys along our border.”
While no evidence of a Russian military buildup at Ukrainian border regions was registered, similar inspections in other regions, were they to be carried out, would undoubtedly find that the opposite is true for Ukrainian forces, who’ve had heavy equipment stationed there, firing regularly onto Russian settlements, the ministry states.
“Their actions have already led to casualties on our side,” the statement concludes.
Just on Friday, Ukraine’s army fired at least 45 mortar shells at targets located inside the Rostov-on-Don region, Russia’s border officials said. The barrage destroyed houses and forced an evacuation of civilians. Ukrainian officials denied responsibility, and say that it is Russia that has been using its artillery to support anti-Kiev militants in the Donetsk region across the border.
Shells from artillery fights in Ukraine
have frequently landed on Russian territory since the beginning of summer.
Earlier this week, a temporary refugee camp for Ukrainians fleeing the conflict
was relocated further from the border, after several mortars landed nearby.
General Dempsey: We’re
Pulling Out Our Cold War Military Plans Over Ukraine
By mrdsk on July 26, 2014
‘Hours after the U.S. State
Department on Thursday claimed (though failed to describe) new evidence that
Russia’s military was both increasing the flow of arms to rebel fighters in
eastern Ukraine and firing artillery at Ukrainian Army positions across its
border, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey elevated
the rhetoric against Russian President Vladimir Putin and directly
invoked the idea that a new Cold War-like posture is now being taken by the
U.S. military.
Speaking
from the Aspen Security Forum, a defense industry conference in Colorado,
Dempsey said Pentagon planners are now looking at military options “we haven’t
had to look at for 20 years” and warned that Putin—who he characterized as
escalating the crisis inside Ukraine—“may actually light a fire” he cannot
control. And not just in Ukraine or eastern Europe, Dempsey said, but globally.
Drawing a
dramatic historic comparison, Dempsey equated Putin’s alleged involvement in
eastern Ukraine to the Soviet Union’s invasion
of Poland in 1939: “It does change the situation. You’ve got a Russian
government that has made a conscious decision to use its military force inside
another sovereign nation to achieve its objectives. It’s the first time since
1939 or so that that’s been the case,” Dempsey said. “They clearly are on a
path to assert themselves differently not just in Eastern Europe, but Europe in
the main, and towards the United States.”’
- Dempsey: Russian Attacks Change Europe’s Security Landscape
- Are The U.S. And Russia On The Verge Of War?
- General Breedlove calls for a retooling of NATO’s Response Force
- General Breedlove or Dr Strangelove?
- Vladimir Putin: ‘We will react to NATO build-up!’
- Eric Draitser: Russian Expansion or US Aggression?
- NATO sees signs weapons still moving from Russia to Ukraine
- Senator Feinstein: The U.S. Is Now At Cold War Levels With Russia
- NATO official: Russia now an adversary
- Special Summit Series: The United States and NATO
- Russian Institute of Strategic Studies: Ukrainian crisis, danger and threat
- NATO chief to move forces from U.S. to Europe to respond to Russia in Ukraine
- EUCOM Chief Breedlove: Time To Stop the Drawdown in Europe
- June: Obama escalates NATO confrontation with Russia
- June: Obama Seeks $1 Billion To Boost U.S. Military Presence In Europe
PressTV: Brzezinski bombs Bibi and Putin, by Jim W. Dean
As
I read this story, I came to the conclusion that ‘they’ are all going off the
rails now . . . and finally! ~J
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Sat Jul 26, 2014 3:13AM GMT
I have always had a
love-hate relationship with Ziggy.
I love the sometimes silver bullet concise gems
that he can hit you with right between the eyes, and all the pieces of the
puzzle come together in the next five seconds. He also taught me that you have
to approach an issue from the right direction to find the open door that lets
you inside.
But then a switch is flicked and I find myself
sitting in front of a reactionary from an age and area where his personal roots
in Poland are a ball and chain around an otherwise flexible mind. But we can’t
shoot Ziggy for things we don’t like, because he is one of America’s senior
statesman, and there are few of them around, lots of seniors, but not many
statesmen.
The silver bullet
this week was his admonition to Netanyahu that he had shot himself in the foot
and seriously wounded his country by using the killings of the three settler
teens to launch an Israeli Jihad on Hamas to undermine its budding coalition
government with the Palestinian Authority. In his Sunday morning CNN interview,
Ziggy told Fareed Zakaria:
“No, I think he (Netanyahu) is making a very
serious mistake. When Hamas, in effect, accepted the notion of participation in
the Palestinian leadership it acknowledged the determination of that leadership
to seek a peaceful solution from Israel – with Israel. That was a real option.
They should have persisted in that.”
But that was
just the warm up shot. He went on to warn that Bibi was isolating Israel,
threatening its future and then dropped the big bomb. To my astonishment, Ziggy
said that the international community, including the US, might have to pursue
steps to legitimize Palestine, even mentioning the UN.
To hear this coming
from the top member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) was an unprecedented
event. I wondered how he thought AIPAC could be neutered for such an event. If
you could get them all onto a convention dinner cruise boat that sank it might
do the trick, but alas there are just too many of them. He said what needed to
be said, which few have the courage to do, and I admire the man for that.
But the switch was
flicked when the subject turned to Ukraine and Russia. Brzezinski was solidly
in the anti-Russian camp, actually pitching Putin as a threat to Europe which
had to be stopped. So now I was astonished twice in one interview, and one I
will remember. The idea of doing this commentary came up instantly, digging
into how a widely-regarded brilliant man (whether you like him or not) could be
courageously progressive in one moment and a cave man reactionary the next. So
a little digging into Ziggy’s background is in order.
His incredible blue blood childhood had him
following his father to Germany during the rise of the Nazis, and then to the
Soviet Union during the Stalin purges, being ten years old when they left. WWII
had a lasting effect on him, as he described: “The extraordinary violence that
was perpetrated against Poland did affect my perception of the world, and made
me much more sensitive to the fact that a great deal of world politics is a
fundamental struggle.”
I sense that this is
Ziggy’s psychological ball and chain when it comes to Russia, despite
the tremendous changes the world has gone through where the old models and
formulas are outdated. But they are not gone, as long as old men with old
grudges still have influence on policy. Brzezinski still has both feet in the
geopolitical game as one of the founders of the Trilateral Commission with
David Rockefeller, and also became a Bilderberger to go with his CFR
membership.
His history on policy shows him being an early
advocate of NATO expansion. That means a proponent for conflict to achieve
goals, as evidenced in his support for the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999 and
his current anti-Russian stance. But he was later a big critic of the Bush War
on Terror, and the 2003 invasion of Iraq, which surprised a lot of people, so
calling him predictable is a mistake.
When Fareed Zakaria
asked him about the New Cold War, he claimed that Putin started it and had
gotten himself into a big jam. Wham! Ziggy seemed to be a stroke victim who had
forgotten about all the color revolutions, Victoria Nuland’s claim that the US
had pumped $5 billion into destabilizing Ukraine, and the Western actors
bringing in the outside Maidan killers to destroy a compromise agreement before
the ink was dry.
A rookie analyst at the bottom of his class would
see these cause and effect connections instantly, as anyone who wants to does,
unless they choose to ignore them. And that just makes them a cheap “pin the blame
on the guy guy” actor. Brzezinski is aware of the cultural, language, business,
energy and loan ties of Ukraine to Russia. And he is aware of the
missile-defense ruse for the non-existent Iranian nuclear missile threat, used
to bring NATO and its missile interceptors close to the Russian border.
You can add to that
our Bill Clinton era new pre-emptive strike defense policy of not waiting for
an imminent threat to trigger, but where we reserved the right to strike anyone
who might become a threat in the future. This was a patently offensive policy
which was slipped by the public unnoticed at the time, which included me. I was
astounded when I learned about it, and that no one else knew either.
Excuse me Ziggy, but
I don’t see any “Putin started it” in any of that at all. He went on to make an
indirect mention of Crimea as the first territorial grab in Europe since the
end of WWII. This was a dishonest remark on his part, as anyone would have to
be nuts to think the Russians would leave their critical Black Sea Base under a
new Ukrainian Junta jurisdiction, where the rent had been paid for like 20
years in advance, and massive energy subsidies given to help keep Ukraine
afloat.
The overwhelming vote showed that the Crimean
people certainly did not consider it a land grab. So we see the selective use
of ignoring the obvious to impose an analysis on the situation. This is known
in Intel analysis shooting the arrow and then painting a bulls-eye around it.
It was the West that was making the territorial
grab to establish an eventual Eastern NATO base on the Russian border, with a
rebuilt Ukrainian military to be turned into proxy throw-away troops like the
Jihadis are being used in Syria. That East Ukrainians wanted no part of this
was not only understandable, and obviously critical national security issue for
them, and also supported by many Americans who oppose the US regime change
march to war.
Ziggy then chastised the EU to hang tough more.
Germany and the EU were insulted by alleging that getting hooked on Russian gas
had made them a colony. His economics background seems to have taken a back
seat to his political one, and I sense he was shilling for the oil interests.
It is the EU that has
a huge $110-billion trade surplus with Russia, not the other way around. The EU
gets all of the money it spends on Russian energy returned through Russia’s
monthly imports of European products and services. Can we all say JOBS! It is a
win-win situation for both sides.
Brzezinski also
bashed the Brits for financing Russian trade and development, and France for
selling “advanced arms”, referring to the helicopter landing ships. Even this
was spin because they had undergone extensive design changes to prepare them
for heavy Arctic work, where extensive energy development was being undertaken,
which by the way the Russians have opened to Western developers.
So these ships were
not offensive weapons platforms but he was pitching them as such. This was
dishonest, an attempt to cheat us, which I resent from someone of his stature
for the example it sets. So no, I do not admire all the Ziggy hype on steroids
on his Russian Bear scare. Listen to what he closed with.
“There are
responsibilities these leaders have to face, and they have publics which I
think are becoming increasingly aware that this is truly a moment of decisive
significance for the future of the system – of the world system.”
Good gosh
Ziggy, a huge part of the world has applauded the coolness and professionalism
of the Russian government and its diplomats during this entirely
Western-manufactured crisis. The EU, and especially the US, are taking a hell
of a credibility beating at their own hands, and it seems that Ziggy has jumped
in for a piece of that action.
Mr.
Brzezinski this is not a good legacy to leave at the end of one’s career. A lot
of deaths are on the hands of the real aggressors, and we at VT know who they
are. It wasn’t hard to figure out. If someone should pay for all of these
unnecessary deaths, it should be them, and we hope to see that done.
JD/HSN
Jim W. Dean comes from an old military family dating back to the American Revolution. His father was a WWII P-40 and later P-51 Mustang fighter pilot. Jim’s mother was a WWII widow at 16, her first husband killed with all 580 aboard when the SS Paul Hamilton, an ammunition ship with 7000 tons of explosives aboard, was torpedoed off the coast of Algiers. He has appeared on PBS most recently on the Looking for Lincoln documentary with Prof. Henry Lewis Gates and lectured at the Army Command and General Staff School at Fort Gordon. His current writing focus is on national security, intelligence, black and psyops, military/Intel history including personal video archives, and the current wars. Jim Dean is the managing editor of Veterans Today. More articles by Jim W. Dean
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Does Russia (And Humanity) Have A Future? — Paul Craig Roberts
July 25, 2014
I will publish only excerpts which I’d put them normally in bold when quoting whole text, go for full article to PCR website.
From David Dees Archives
ATTENTION: Putin’s Last Chance to Save The World!
July 26, 2014
Posted by on July 25, 2014
I will publish only excerpts which I’d put them normally in bold when quoting whole text, go for full article to PCR website.
Does Russia (And Humanity) Have A Future?
Europe is complicit in its own demise
From David Dees Archives
The Russian government has finally realized that it has no Western “partners,” and is complaining bitterly about the propagandistic lies and disinformation issued without any evidence whatsoever against the Russian government by Washington, its European vassals, and presstitute media.
Perhaps the Russian government thought that only Iraq, Libya, Syria, China, and Edward Snowden would be subjected to Washington’s lies and demonization.
It was obvious enough that Russia would be next.
The Russian government and Europe need to look beyond Washington’s propaganda, because the reality is much worst.
NATO commander General Breedlove and Senate bill 2277 clearly indicate that Washington is organizing itself and Europe for war against Russia (see my previously posted column).
(…)
The US Senate’s Russian Aggression Prevention Act, about which I reported in my previous column, does even more mischief than I reported. If the bill passes, which it likely will, Washington becomes empowered to bypass NATO and to grant the status of “allied nation” to Ukraine independently of NATO membership. By so doing, Washington can send troops to Ukraine and thereby commit NATO to a war with Russia.
Notice how quickly Washington escalated the orchestrated Ukrainian “crisis” without any evidence into “Russian aggression.” Overnight we have the NATO commander and US senators taking actions against “Russian aggression” of which no one has seen any evidence.
(…)
It is hardly surprising that Washington now targets Russia. The world has given Washington carte blanche to do as it pleases. We have now had three administrations of US war criminals welcomed and honored wherever the war criminals go. The other governments in the world continue to desire invitations to the White House as indications of their worth. To be received by war criminals has become the highest honor.
(…)
Washington is accustomed to its free pass, granted by the world, to murder and to lie, and now is using it against Russia.
Russian President Putin’s bet that by responding to Washington’s aggression in Ukraine in a unprovocative and reasonable manner would demonstrate to Europe that Russia was not the source of the problem has not payed off. European countries are captive nations. They are incapable of thinking and acting for themselves. They bend to Washington’s will. Essentially, Europe is a nonentity that follows Washington’s orders.
If the Russian government hopes to prevent war with Washington, which is likely to be the final war for life on earth, the Russian government needs to act now and end the problem in Ukraine by accepting the separatist provinces’ request to be reunited with Russia. Once S.2277 passes, Russia cannot retrieve the situation without confronting militarily the US, because Ukraine will have been declared an American ally.
Putin’s bet was reasonable and responsible, but Europe has failed him. If Putin does not use Russian power to bring an end to the problem with which Washington has presented him in Ukraine while he still can, Washington’s next step will be to unleash its hundreds of NGOs inside Russia to denounce Putin as a traitor for abandoning the Russian populations in the former Russian provinces that Soviet leaders thoughtlessly attached to Ukraine.
The problem with being a leader is that you inherit festering problems left by previous leaders. Putin has the problems bequeathed by Yeltsin. Yeltsin was a disaster for Russia. Yeltsin was Washington’s puppet. It is not certain that Russia will survive Yeltsin’s mistakes.
If Washington has its way, Russia will survive only as an American puppet state.
(…)
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts’ latest books are The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West and How America Was Lost.
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