NATO General Uses False Claims to Justify Buildup Near Russia's Border
NATO is using the false claim of Russia's "invasion" of Crimea in order to justify its own military activities near Russia's border, Eric Zuesse underscores.
NATO is using the false claim of Russia's "invasion" of Crimea in order to justify its own military activities near Russia's border, Eric Zuesse underscores.
The
United States has recently turned into a "dictatorship" in which its
people, with the exception of the richest 10 percent, have no impact
on the country's policies, publicist and investigative historian Eric
Zuesse emphasizes.
Commenting on the recent interview given by NATO and America's
General Ben Hodges to the US national radio, the investigative historian
blasted the general for a blatant lie: Hodges claimed that Russia
"invaded" Crimea, "the day after the Sochi Olympics."
Analyzing
the chain of events, Eric Zuesse underscored that Washington's decision
makers had long been considering plans of grabbing Ukraine, since this
country "is more important to them (and their billionaire sponsors)
than getting any of the twelve former Warsaw Pact nations that the US
had already brought into NATO." Ukraine is key to restraining Russia
according to American political scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski.
The
Sochi Olympics ended on February 23, 2014, while the US-backed February
2014 "revolution" in Ukraine, carried out by the Ukrainian
ultra-nationalists and neo-Nazis in Ukraine started on February 18,
2014.
On February 24, Crimean citizens held a protest rally, following the
infamous "Pogrum of Korsun," the gruesome attack against Crimea's
Russian speakers launched by a Ukrainian Nazi gang. Crimea's civilians
strongly opposed the 2014 undemocratic coup in Ukraine and slammed the
junta for violating the human rights of ethnic Russians in the country.
Crimea's
referendum held on March 16, 2014 had clearly demonstrated that the
US-backed new Ukrainian government had no support among the majority
of the peninsula's population, which voted for reunification
with Russia.
However, "Obama himself phrased the entire 'justification' for his
economic sanctions against Russia, on the basis of "the annexation
of Crimea," via a "conquest of land." So, Ben Hodges is merely
repeating Obama, using a clearer phrase ("invade Crimea"), in order to
'justify' American responses that are even more aggressive: military,
not just economic, against Russia," Mr. Zuesse highlighted.
"That's so many lies in such a short span, so
that unpacking all of them will produce a long article; but, those lies
are the mainstream view in America's news media," the publicist
stressed.
"When this coup — which the founder of the
"private CIA" firm Stratfor once referred to as "the most blatant coup
in history" — was over, the new regime was planning to kick Russia's
navy out of Russia's main naval base ever since 1783, which was
in Crimea, which had always been part of Russia until the Soviet
dictator in 1954 simply transferred Crimea to Ukraine, despite the
wishes of the Crimeans," the historian elaborated.
The influential political elites in the US are
falsifying the facts with total impunity, the historian underscored,
asking rhetorically, whether the United States is still committed to its
values of democracy and free press.