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As former Rep. Dennis Kucinich has written, this important background and the earlier expansion of NATO into eastern Europe would put the Ukraine story in a very different light:
NATO encirclement, the U.S.-backed coup in Ukraine, an attempt to use an agreement with the European Union to bring NATO into Ukraine at the Russian border, a U.S. nuclear first-strike policy, are all policies which attempt to substitute force for diplomacy.
Russias response to the terror unleashed by western-backed neo-nazis in Crimea and Odessa came after the local population appealed to Russia to protect them from the violence. Russia then agreed to Crimea joining the Russian Federation, a reaffirmation of an historic relationship.
The Western press begins its narrative on the Crimea situation with the annexation, but completely ignores the provocations by the West and other causal factors which resulted in the annexation. This distortion of reality is artificially creating an hysteria about Russian aggressiveness, another distortion which could pose an exceptionally dangerous situation for the world, if acted upon by other nations. The U.S. Congress is responding to the distortions, not to the reality.
woah woah woah woah:
did i miss something where Crimea was annexed AFTER the violence started? pretty sure the only violence I heard of in Crimea was the Russians, relatively peacefully, taking control of key government buildings AFTER they were annexed.
so apparently it is ok for Russia to step in to help a local population when they cry for help but its a terrible sin when the US does in Iraq and Syria, gotcha. double standard works both ways.
and lastly there at the end they have found WMDs in Iraq. There is a thread dedicated to it somewhere here in this forum.
again pot to kettle syndrome.
Ah, but we didn't "take over" Iraq.
The new Army commander in Europe plans to bolster the U.S. armored presence in Poland and the Baltic states and keep rotations of U.S. troops there through next year and possibly beyond to counter Russia.
Lt. Gen. Frederick "Ben" Hodges, who replaced Lt. Gen. Donald M. Campbell earlier this month as commander of U.S. Army Europe, said the Army was looking to add about 100 Abrams tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles to the forces in Eastern Europe.
Right, we liberated it.
US Army Plans to Send Abrams Tanks and Bradleys to Eastern Europe | Military.com
You kidding? We liberated Iraq and gave them freedom and democracy. A burgeoning economy. Security and peace. And made sure their WMDs didn't kill anybody.
All of this allows us to say that Crimea, the ancient Korsun or Chersonesus, and Sevastopol have invaluable civilisational and even sacral importance for Russia, like the Temple Mount in Jerusalem for the followers of Islam and Judaism.
