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In reply to the discussion: Ukraine: The Truth [View all]DetlefK
(16,670 posts)First, the author uses US and NATO interchangeably as if Europe is a mindless pawn to the evil american empire.
Second, the article reveals a partisan agenda by using the phrase "neocon thug".
Third, the article claims that NATO has been anti-Russia during the time between the Cold War and the Ukrainian Crisis. That remains to be proven.
Fourth. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia and Albania. They were all either members of the Soviet Union or loosely associated with it. Why, why in the name of the high heavens, would they be willing to turn from being allies of Russia to being allies of the West? Might it have to do something with Russia itself?
Fifth, the article mentions the destruction Ukraine suffered in WWII at the hands of european fascists (the Nazis). The article DOES NOT mention the genocide perpetrated by russian folk-hero Joseph Stalin in the 1930s which killed millions of Ukrainians and made them sympathetic to the Nazis in the first place.
The article also does not mention how this genocide split Ukraine into a Russia-loving and a Russia-hating population, which ultimately led to the internal political conflict that turned into this civil war.
Nobody wants complicated history when you can have good-vs-evil and be the noble hero fighting against an evil empire.
Fighting an evil empire is waaaaaaaaaaay cooler.
Fuck reality. It's way too complicated. I have the ULTIMATE AND FINAL TRUTH!!!!!!