Is NATO going to start World War III based on this?!
U.S. Officials Won’t Call Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine An “Invasion”http://t.co/...
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— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) August 28, 2014Michael R. Gordan, who co-wrote, U.S. Says Hussein Intensifies Quest for A-Bomb Parts, with Judith Miller, on September 8, 2002 for the New York Times, is still at it, co-writing, Ukraine Leader Says ‘Huge Loads of Arms’ Pour in From Russia, with Neil MacFarQuhar for the New York Times, August 28, 2014.
Ukrainian aerial bombing has killed over 2,000 ethnic Russian civilians, including children, which makes it a humanitarian crisis similar to Gaza. Not only is the US ignoring the slaughter, but American hubris engineered the coup, ousting a democratically elected Ukrainian president in the first place, which led to this predictable bloodbath.
The article neglects to report how more than half a million ethnic Russians have fled their homes in East Ukraine, many of whom have received shelter in Russia. This is what makes it so different from Iraq, which was not exactly our next door neighbor hemorrhaging refugees across our border.
Another fact that escapes this particular New York Times article is that Ukrainian brown shirts, who believe in ethnically cleansing Ukraine of anyone who isn't purely Christian Ukrainian, are fighting ethnic Russians in East Ukraine. The New York Times has mentioned this "inconvenient truth" almost "in passing":
“Officials in Kiev say the militias and the army coordinate their actions, but the militias, which count about 7,000 fighters, are angry and, at times, uncontrollable. One known as Azov, which took over the village of Marinka, flies a neo-Nazi symbol resembling a Swastika as its flag."Emphasis mine. These Ukrainian brown shirts the US supports fly a neo-Nazi symbol resembling a Swastika as its flag! Hello?“In pressing their advance, the fighters took their orders from a local army commander, rather than from Kiev. In the video of the attack, no restraint was evident. Gesturing toward a suspected pro-Russian position, one soldier screamed, ‘The bastards are right there!’ Then he opened fire.”
Tucked into Michael R. Gordon's latest spin is this nugget:
...Mr. Putin, whose popularity in Russia soared when he annexed Ukraine’s Crimea Peninsula last March.Ahem, Crimea voted for independence, remember?
Fair and balanced? Uh, no.
Once again, the US does not have the moral high ground here, and once again, the MSM hacks are treating us like a bunch of forgetful nincompoops who don't remember how often they have misled us into needless wars in the not so distant past.