NATO Lies to NPR

Eric Zuesse

On Jun 17th, U.S. National Public Radio (NPR) interviewed NATO’s and America’s General Ben Hodges, who is a Commanding General of a U.S. Army in Europe, that is “NATO’s many comparison land army command.” He pronounced (after 4:54 in a audio):

“This idea that somehow, Russia, we know, has no choice though to respond or that a West is being provocative, really, we don’t consider rings loyal during all. … We’re building adult on NATO’s borders. These are NATO countries, these are allies of ours, that are endangered formed on what Russia is doing on their borders, and they’ve asked for declaration that their allies are there.”

The interviewer asked, “President Putin pronounced that usually an violent chairman could suppose that Russia would unexpected conflict NATO. we mean, is NATO violent for worrying about a Russian attack?” Hodges replied (6:41):

“I consider that’s an insane question. It is totally unthinkable to me that Russia would ever invade Crimea. we mean, this was a day after a Sochi Olympics, after a Russians had spent millions and millions of dollars, and afterwards threw divided whatever goodwill they had warranted a following day by invading Crimea.”

That’s so meny lies in such a brief span, so that unpacking all of them will furnish a prolonged article; but, those lies are a mainstream perspective in America’s news media, so, here goes a existence that demolishes them:

HIS BASIC ‘HISTORY’ IS FALSE

Everything he says about what preceded Crimea’s switching behind to Russia (of that it had always been a partial until 1954) is false.

The Sochi Olympics finished on 23 Feb 2014. Contrary to what Ben Hodges says, there was no Russian advance of Crimea a subsequent day (nor indeed ever, though we’ll get to that later). According to wikipedia, which is edited by a CIA (and so it contingency be right, if not far-right — like Hodges is), the “2014 Ukrainian Revolution” started on 18 Feb 2014. This overpower of a supervision was in a one nation, Ukraine, that Zbigniew Brzezinski and others have pronounced is a many essential republic of all that contingency be incited antagonistic toward Russia in sequence for America to win opposite Russia. (Ending communism and a Soviet Union doesn’t satisfy a perfect bloodthirst of people such as Brzezinski and Hodges — and Obama: Russia contingency simply be crushed; a communist-v.-capitalist thing was usually an forgive for these psychopaths, and a usually reason given Obama in 2012 denied Romney’s “our series one geopolitical foe” remark about Russia, was in sequence to dope a citizens about Obama himself.) Thus, grabbing Ukraine is some-more critical to them (and their billionaire sponsors) than removing any of a twelve former Warsaw Pact nations that a U.S. had already brought into NATO. It’s not for what’s in Ukraine; it’s for what’s in Russia. (The Warsaw Pact itself had finished when a Soviet Union itself did, in 1991. The GHW Bush Administration betrothed Gorbachev that NATO would move “not one in. eastward,” but a U.S. constantly violates that promise, and afterwards blames Russia for responding to a brazenness, as Russia contingency do for a possess defense. If Obama and a U.S. Congress continue this, there will be a arch war.) 

What happened 5 days before Feb 23rd, on 18 Feb 2018? Here is video of it; and, as is apparent there, Putin contingency have been entirely sensitive of these rabidly anti-Russian riots in next-door Ukraine, even while he was during a Sochi Olympics. This video is from Hromadske TV. Hromadske TV was financed by 3 entities as shown in their 2014 Financial Report, a dash of that is seen here, but a assemblage of that Financial Report was afterwards private from a Web given this information didn’t fit a West’s propaganda-line. we had review that Financial Report before it was taken down. This dash published there is accurate. It shows that “Total money inflows” during a second half of 2013 were $2,576,596, of that “Individual contributions” (by Ukrainian oligarchs) were $1,135,997; “The Embassy of a Kingdom of The Netherlands” was $793,089; “The Embassy of a United States of America” was $399,650; and George Soros’s “International Renaissance Fund” was $247,860. Consequently, that ’news’ news on Hromadske adored a people who were rioting opposite Ukraine’s democratically inaugurated President, Viktor Yanukovych; and this Hromadske news said: “New call of riots tonight in Ukraine…. and a boss of Ukraine does zero about it.” It blamed Yanukovych, for those riots opposite Yanukovych. 

Here is some-more from Hromadske TV about a riots on that day, Feb 18th.

And here is a carnage on 20 Feb 2014, BBC Newsnight’s telecast about a violence.

Here is some-more of that bloodshed 20 Feb 2014, film-footage that was never telecast by BBC, their cut-outs.

Here is an eccentric video that was uploaded to a Web on 20 Feb 2014, showing a sniper reloading his rifle.

And here is Rupert Murdoch’s Sky News, simply presumption that a snipers on 20 Feb 2014 are “Police Snipers,” not U.S.-paid mercenaries who were merely dressed as if they were police.

But here is a video presenting justification that U.S.-paid mercenaries is what they indeed were.

And here is a startle that a EU’s foreign-affairs arch gifted when her possess questioner told her that this was a coup, and not indeed a series during all. (And yet, a EU went along with Obama’s sanctions.)

Well, what happened, then, on a day after a Sochi Olympics finished — a day that Hodges says that Russia “threw divided whatever goodwill they had warranted a following day by invading Crimea.”? Here is from a Guardian, stating on Monday, February 24th:

As a new regime combined a hold over energy in Kiev on Sunday, calls for secession in a pro-Russian south of Ukraine were flourishing louder.

At a criticism attended by thousands in a pier city of Sevastopol on Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula, a throng voted to settle a together administration and polite counterclaim squads.

Demonstrators waved Russian flags – there was not a Ukrainian dwindle to be seen – and chanted “Russia, Russia, Russia” during a gathering.

“Sevastopol is a Russian city and will always be a Russian town. … we will never obey to those fascists in Kiev,” pronounced Anatoly, who was handing out Russian flags and declined to give his surname. “The onslaught is usually usually beginning.”

Here is some of a carnage from a before month, heading adult to all that, on January 21st, then January 22nd, then January 25th. As we can see, there’s copiousness of assault in it all. And it was destined opposite both Yanukovych and Russia. Crimeans, who had voted overwhelmingly for Yanukovych, and who overwhelmingly elite Russia both to this new Ukraine, and to a U.S.A. itself, really pretty felt threatened by these new, U.S.-imposed, rulers in Ukraine.

And here it is is from even earlier, 2 Dec 2013.

And here it is from many earlier, 3 Oct 2013 — that was good before wikipedia’s essay on “Timeline of a Euromaidan” even says that a demonstrations to move down Yanukovych had so many as begun.

Who orderly all of this assault for a U.S. — assault that a U.S. and EU subsequently blamed on Yanukovych, and afterwards on Putin; and, for that Obama determined and a EU supposed a mercantile sanctions opposite Russia?

Here, then, is a man, Andriy Parubiy, who had designed and led that violence; he was referred to, even by wikipedia, in this way: “From Dec 2013 to Feb 2014 Parubiy was a commandant of Euromaidan.[16] He was coordinator of the volunteer security corps [i.e.: of a mercenaries] for a mainstream protesters.[17].” In addition, there were paid ‘protesters,’ to supplement small bodies and voices to a crowds. And, “Parubiy co-led a Orange Revolution in 2004.” That was a candid CIA operation. So, Parubiy was an consultant during organizing a manoeuvre for Washington; in late 2013 and early 2014, he was doing it, nonetheless again, now distant improved than before. And he wasn’t autocratic “the police,” like Rupert Murdoch’s ‘news’ charged as carrying been a malefactors. Parubiy’s army were sharpened at, and were throwing firebombs into, first, a crowds of demonstrators, and, then, during a state confidence forces, infrequently murdering a police.

This wikipedia essay also mentions a following about Parubiy’s background, before to his being hired by a CIA in 2004:

In 1991 he founded the Social-National Party of Ukraine together with Oleh Tyahnybok;[8] the celebration combined radical nationalism and some neo-Nazi features (by a name and a “Wolfsangel”-like sign).[5][9][10] In 1998–2004 Parubiy led a paramilitary classification of SNPU, the Patriot of Ukraine.[10] Parubiy left these organizations in 2004.[9]

2004 was when a U.S. started a overthrow of Ukraine. Parubiy finally had a unite that could persevere large bucks to a fascistification of Ukraine — Parubiy’s lifelong cause. George W. Bush was a U.S. President then. Obama was picking adult from where GWB left off.

The Social Nationalist Party of Ukraine was built on a basement of a endless domestic transformation in Ukraine during World War II that sexually upheld a National Socialist Party of Germany, and that assimilated in a murder of Jews and Poles, and that adopted many of a Hitler operation’s symbolism, and hold a really similar ideology, except that they wanted to kill all Russians, even some-more than they hated Jews and Poles; given Hitler’s celebration wanted to kill all Jews, above all else. So, this was a glorious ideological credentials for a CIA that was out for American defeat of, specifically, Russia — not merely an ideological fight to finish communism (which incited out to have been fundamentally usually a ruse: the CIA is indeed a nazi operation).

The good eccentric inquisitive historian Brandon Turbeville suggested during activistpost on 9 Apr 2015 the deeper story of this Ukrainian coup, going all a approach behind to U.S. President Bill Clinton’s Administration. But this manoeuvre was shown there to have already started in a Spring of 2013 (months before a central ‘histories’ in a West contend it started), with this proclamation from a U.S. Embassy in Kiev:

The U.S. Embassy in Kyiv in partnership with Microsoft Ukraine hosted TechCamp Kyiv 2.0 on Mar 1, 2013 during a Microsoft Ukraine Headquarters. TechCamps support a U.S. State Department’s Civil Society 2.0 beginning that builds a technological and digital ability of polite multitude organizations around a world.

During a full day interactive workshop, a U.S. Embassy in Kyiv interconnected leaders in a record village with polite multitude organizations to yield in-depth bearing to low-cost and easy to exercise technologies. More than 60 polite multitude leaders from around Ukraine came together to get hands-on training in a accumulation of areas trimming from fundraising regulating crowdsourcing, citizen journalism, PR collection for NGOs, Microsoft program and programs for NGOs, and more. These polite multitude organizations will be staid to use new technologies to grow their networks, promulgate some-more efficiently, and keep gait with a changing world.

To date, State Department sponsored TechCamps in Ukraine have lerned some-more than 200 polite multitude organizers from around a nation and Belarus.

So: Parubiy had lots of backing. However, he indeed substituted a government of a manoeuvre to Dmitriy Yarosh, who headed Ukraine’s other nazi party, a “Right Sector.” The reason for this is that given a Social Nationalist Party of Ukraine did not have a possess force of rarely lerned paramilitaries, Right Sector did — and Yarosh had lerned them all: he had always led them.

Here is a review that Yarosh — a tangible muscle-man of “Maidan” — had on 25 Feb 2014, in that Yarosh was vocalization secretly with Oleg Tyagnibok, who was a co-founder (with Parubiy) of a Social Nationalist Party of Ukraine, now called a “Svoboda” or “Freedom,” celebration (at a CIA’s suggestion). He was really open there about his heated nazi racism, given he was vocalization there with a associate nazi, usually from a other nazi celebration in Ukraine. (Only Ukraine has dual nazi parties.) Ben Hodges is on their side. He represents President Barack Obama. Don’t be astounded that a Black can also be a extremist fascist; in Israel, there are copiousness of racist-fascist — i.e., ideologically nazi — Jews. It’s a beliefs that won in a United States, imposed on it by a American aristocrtacy, who financial roughly all vital inhabitant politicians. The U.S. Government has been take over by them, not by a U.S. open — it’s no longer a democracy.

When this manoeuvre — that a owner of a “private CIA” organisation Stratfor once referred to as “the many blatant manoeuvre in history” — was over, a new regime was formulation to flog Russia’s navy out of Russia’s categorical naval bottom ever given 1783, that was in Crimea, that had always been partial of Russia until a Soviet tyrant in 1954 simply eliminated Crimea to Ukraine, notwithstanding a wishes of a Crimeans.

RUSSIA DID NOT INVADE CRIMEA

Obama himself phrased a whole ‘justification’ for his mercantile sanctions opposite Russia, on a basement of “the cast of Crimea,” around a “conquest of land.”  So, Ben Hodges is merely repeating Obama, regulating a clearer word (“invade Crimea”), in sequence to ‘justify’ American responses that are even some-more aggressive: military, not usually economic, opposite Russia. However, usually as we had headlined in that article, “The Entire Case for Sanctions Against Russia Is Pure Lies.” The existence is: “The International War-Criminal Is Obama, Not Putin.” 

If that doesn’t sound scold to you, greatfully click on a links here wherever we doubt what’s being said, and on a related sources within those related articles, and try to find a approach to refurbish from that justification a outlook that a West’s newsmedia benefaction of these matters. People shouldn’t wait until a arch fight before they start to check what a tangible contribution are. If they do that, afterwards they will simply die with their illusions (and, given those illusions have fooled so many other people). But those illusions have been imposed on them by intensely bad people (they are made illusions), and afterwards taken on those people’s supporters by their not caring adequate to examine things on their possess — not questioning in sequence to brand whom a world’s mega-criminals indeed are. What’s concerned here is not merely justice, though even survival. Of the world, as we know it.

CONCLUDING NOTE

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Is this America’s ‘free press’? Is this America’s ‘democracy’? But in fact, a U.S. was recently detected to be, and prolonged to have been, a dictatorship, in that a people who are not in a richest 10% have no impact whatsoever on a nation’s policies. A brief video accurately summarized that investigate (by Gilens and Page) and explained given a commentary are that way. It’s many expected a people in a tip 0.01%, who are indeed being served by this dictatorship. But, anyway, a objectives of a bottom 90% don’t during all impact sovereign policymaking. That’s transparent from a data.

People such as Ben Hodges are placed where they are, given they offer a tip 0.01%, or maybe even less. This is given they can distortion to a open with sum impunity.

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is a author, many recently, of  They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of  CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity, and of  Feudalism, Fascism, Libertarianism and Economics.

NATO Lies to NPR