Russia Invades Ukraine: Again. And Again. And Yet Again
Article well worth reading.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/11/20/russia-invades-ukraine-again-and-again-and-yet-again/
NOVEMBER 20, 2014
The Missing Burden of Proof
Russia Invades Ukraine: Again. And Again. And Yet Again
by WILLIAM BLUM
“Russia reinforced what Western and Ukrainian officials described as a stealth invasion on Wednesday [August 27], sending armored troops across the border as it expanded the conflict to a new section of Ukrainian territory. The latest incursion, which Ukraine’s military said included five armored personnel carriers, was at least the third movement of troops and weapons from Russia across the southeast part of the border this week.”
None of the photos accompanying this New York Times story online showed any of these Russian troops or armored vehicles.
“The Obama administration,” the story continued, “has asserted over the past week that the Russians had moved artillery, air-defense systems and armor to help the separatists in Donetsk and Luhansk. ‘These incursions indicate a Russian-directed counteroffensive is likely underway’, Jen Psaki, the State Department spokeswoman, said. At the department’s daily briefing in Washington, Ms. Psaki also criticized what she called the Russian government’s ‘unwillingness to tell the truth’ that its military had sent soldiers as deep as 30 miles inside Ukraine territory.”
Thirty miles inside Ukraine territory and not a single satellite photo, not a camera anywhere around, not even a one-minute video to show for it. “Ms. Psaki apparently [sic] was referring to videos of captured Russian soldiers, distributed by the Ukrainian government.” The Times apparently forgot to inform its readers where they could see these videos.
“The Russian aim, one Western official said, may possibly be to seize an outlet to the sea in the event that Russia tries to establish a separatist enclave in eastern Ukraine.”
This of course hasn’t taken place. So what happened to all these Russian soldiers 30 miles inside Ukraine? What happened to all the armored vehicles, weapons, and equipment?
lots more...
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Knowing that the US has never violated any other countries sovereignty.
The US likes to mind it's own business when at all possible and at all times conducts itself with diplomacy and dignity.
without the overt use of U.S. military force. Often, such operations are tasked to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
1 During the Cold War
1.1 Communist states 1944–89
1.2 Syria 1949
1.3 Iran 1953
1.4 Guatemala 1954
1.5 Tibet 1955–70s
1.6 Indonesia 1958
1.7 Cuba 1959
1.8 Iraq 1960–63
1.9 Dominican Republic 1961
1.10 South Vietnam 1963
1.11 Brazil 1964
1.12 Chile 1970–73
1.13 Afghanistan 1979–89
1.14 Turkey 1980
1.15 Poland 1980–89
1.16 Nicaragua 1981–90
1.16.1 Destablization through CIA assets
1.16.2 Arming the Contras
2 Since the end of the Cold War
2.1 Iraq 1992–96
2.2 Venezuela 2002
2.3 Iraq 2002–03
2.4 Iran 2005–present
2.5 Syria 2012–present
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William Blum:
William Blum is an American author, historian, and critic of United States foreign policy. He worked in a computer related position at the United States Department of State in the mid-1960s. Initially an anti-communist with dreams of becoming a foreign service officer, he became disillusioned by the Vietnam War. He lives in Washington, D.C
Blum left the State Department in 1967 and became a founder and editor of the Washington Free Press, the first "alternative" newspaper in the capital. In 1969, he wrote and published an exposé of the CIA in which was revealed the names and addresses of more than 200 CIA employees. He has worked as freelance journalist in the United States, Europe and South America. In 1972-73 Blum worked as a journalist in Chile where he reported on the Allende government's "socialist experiment". In the mid-1970s, he worked in London with ex-CIA officer Philip Agee and his associates "on their project of exposing CIA personnel and their misdeeds". He supports himself with his writing and speaking engagements on college campuses.
In his books and online columns, Blum devotes substantial attention to CIA interventions and assassination plots. Noam Chomsky has called Blum's book on the CIA, "far and away the best book on the topic."
Blum is well worth reading. Thanks for posting.
Looks like the "Now Hate Russia" theme is going to intensify in the next few months. What a disgrace. As if the US has a single moral toe to stand on, even if the lies were true. "It's a New American Century"
we have photos that are widely accepted as evidence of an invasion:
And then we're given this as evidence of the invasion of Ukraine:
Pretty much proves Blum's point.
Sid
