...but they can't because no one will give US, Inc. any more money. It's too expensive because of the oil thing we started.

- Whoops.

K&R

Crimea was annexed after the coup. The coup brought fascist, neo-nazis into power who commenced killing innocent ethnic Russian civilians. The Odessa Massacre was the catalyst for East Ukrainians starting to defend themselves. The Kiev army then drove 500 kilometers east and bombed the civilians population relentlessly for the last 10 months. That is what really happened. The people of East Ukraine peacefully voted twice to separate and have been denied that right and instead killed by the Kiev regime with the backing of the US and EU governments.

It seems that violent coups trump democracy and that if people vote to be aligned with Russia then their democracy doesn't count. Such hypocrisy is astounding. Federalization was suggested from the very beginning by Russia but their calls were ignored and now over 10,000 people have died. (The numbers the US media are putting out are as completely off as their false narrative)

Chuck Hagel to invade Russia

And let Russia/Ukraine handle their own problems!

1) 20 fake invasions. check
2) 2 fake sub alerts off Sweden. check.
3) 5300 civilians killed by Ukrainian blameless fascist regime. check
4) Meme that separatists are shelling themselves. check
5) Promotion of 'neo-nazis 'cyborgs'. check
6) Keep the message on Putin. check
7) Double the intensity of the message on Putin. check
8) Only cite information from Kievs 'Baghdad Bob". check
9) Constantly report NATO is worried about Russian aggression. check
10) Make NATO sound like benevolent Boy Scouts who can do no wrong. check
11) Write the initial US backed coup out of the story. check
12) Insert US 'advisors' to train fascist regimes neo-nazi troops. check
13) Black out civilian casualty stories from US media. check
14) Dehumanize Russians and play down neo-nazi fascism. check
15) Ignore effects of sanctions on regular citizens and the future blowback. check
16) Call for investigations on camera but never conduct them or follow up. check
17) Supply arms to fascist regime killing innocent civilians. check
18) Ignore the fact the majority fighting are Ukrainians. check
19) Ignore fact it's a civil war and instead blame Russia
20) Constantly hammer that Russia is at fault.
21) Hijack and attempt to control comments sections, blogs and forums. check
22) Constantly denounce anyone in disagreement as a 'Putin Apologist'. check


Do all these things while making sure to downplay your own total responsibility for the crisis, even though it was all orchestrated long ago and there is tons of evidence of such.

http://www.imi-online.de/2009/01/01/imperial-geopolitics/

IMI-Analyse 2009/013, in: IMI/DFG-VK: Kein Frieden mit der NATO
Imperial Geopolitics: Ukraine, Georgia and the New Cold War between NATO and Russia

von: Martin Hantke | Veröffentlicht am: 1. Januar 2009
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Zbigniew Brzezinski’s book The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand current and future U.S., EU and NATO policy. Over ten years ago the former National Security Advisor gave a graphic description of the imperatives of imperial geopolitics. He argued that the U.S.A.’s position of supremacy should be preserved under all circumstances. To this end NATO, acting as a “bridgehead” of the U.S.A., should expand into Eurasia and take control of geostrategically important regions so as to prevent Russia’s resurgence as a powerful political force.

Brzezinski had in mind two countries or regions in particular: “Ukraine, a new and important space on the Eurasian chessboard is a geopolitical pivot because its very existence as an independent country helps to transform Russia. Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire. Russia without Ukraine can still strive for imperial status, but it would then become a predominantly Asian imperial state, more likely to be drawn into debilitating conflicts with aroused Central Asians, who would then be supported by their fellow Islamic states to the south.” [...] “However, if Moscow regains control over Ukraine, with its 52 million people and major resources as well as access to the Black Sea, Russia automatically again regains the wherewithal to become a powerful imperial state, spanning Europe and Asia.”1 Brzezinski argued further that there was an imperative need to gain control of the southern Caucasus, i.e. Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, on Russia’s southern flank. The past master of U.S. geopolitics set out the aim and purpose of NATO policy with impressive clarity: “The United States and the NATO countries – while sparing Russia’s self-esteem to the extent possible, but nevertheless firmly and consistently – are destroying the geopolitical foundations which could, at least in theory, allow Russia to hope to acquire the status as the number two power in world politics that belonged to the Soviet Union.”2

In the years that followed, these words were systematically put into political practice with NATO taking its eastward expansion right up to Moscow’s borders. Furthermore, active Western support for the “colourful revolutions” in Georgia (2003) and Ukraine (2004) led to the sitting pro-Russian or neutral governments and presidents being ousted by pro-Western candidates.3 Russia regarded NATO’s policy as crossing the “red line”. As the war between Russia and Georgia in the summer of 2008 showed, Russia is no longer prepared to stand idly by in the face of further attempts at expansion. Nevertheless, the Western military alliance is doggedly pursuing its escalation policy, in which Ukraine and Georgia are now being offered NATO membership as a means of safeguarding the “successes” that have been scored. U.S. President Barack Obama is also in favour of these two countries joining NATO.4 The announcement that Michael McFaul, a hardliner on policy towards Moscow, is to be appointed senior director for Russian affairs at the National Security Council gives little cause for hope that Washington under its new president will abandon its aggressive, anti-Russian policy. This amounts to tacit acceptance that the New Cold War between NATO and Russia, invoked so frequently of late, will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.



The article above is from 2009, one year after Obama took office.