The G20 Summit has kicked off in Australia over the weekend, but the talk of economic cooperation that was on the schedule was very much sidelined in favor of NATO officials railing against Russia about its putative “invasion” of Ukraine.
Virtually every leader went into the summit promising to really stick it to Russian President Vladimir Putin when they saw him at the summit, and similarly their press offices were crowing about confrontations with Putin after the fact.
President Putin, for his part, would say only that it was “impossible” to comply with demands to withdraw troops from Ukraine because Russia doesn’t have any troops in Ukrainian territory.
Western officials have been claiming on a near daily basis for months now that “everyone knows” Russia has invaded Ukraine to back the eastern rebels, but no credible evidence has been presented to show that the troops are actually there.
The perception of an invasion has been enough to push for dramatic increases in military spending across NATO, and provides plenty of photo opportunities like these for officials to stand up to a nation nominally bent on world domination, but which in practice can’t even really be proven to have invaded a border territory in open rebellion.
Putin also said he would "gladly' sign up for Obama care IF the west could provide proof of Russian Troops invading Ukraine..
It'd take real malice to 'prove' it after that…
" provides plenty of photo opportunities like these for officials to stand up to a nation nominally bent on world domination,"
Perhaps they should stand up to a country actually bent on world domination first! But then they're all chickenshits so they wouldn't dare.
It's a good thing nothing much of interest ever happens in S****horpe.
Not hardly
Are the NATO nation officials completely in the dark about their own group funding and orchestrating the fascist coup that destroyed the democratic government in Ukraine?
Not hardly, for if they did not know it then, they know it now, that the NATO invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq started the brutal imperialism of wars of aggression and plunder most criminal.
Not hardly, for they all come from nations with a most treacherous and backstabbing system of politics, for they could have won their high official position by being keenly aware of who is controlling what and how best to work in harmony with NATO’s highest and only priority — expansion, endless expansion.
Not hardly, for quadrupled has NATO deadly force since World War Two and this could have happened only by the organized will of the officials, the organized and aggressive pursuit of coups and invasions to destroy democracy.
If Putin has nothing to do with the "rebel" enclaves in Donetsk and Lugansk, why is he not helping Ukraine to put down the rebellion? Why does he threaten war every time anyone else wants to help Ukraine? What is clear from experiences in other countries is that an insurgency cannot survive without outside support and, in Donetsk and Lugansk, that support cannot come from anywhere else but Russia and could not be provided without the connivance of the Russian authorities. Thus, it matters little whether there are any members of the Russian armed forces in the enclaves. There are very obviously trained Russian soldiers and heavy military equipment which no local "rebellion" could obtain by its own efforts. Thus, Putin is complicit in the fake "rebellion" in Donetsk and Lugansk and cannot expect to escape the consequences of his acts. The bright side is that the sanctions are clearly hurting Putin and his oligarch cronies. They can hardly travel anywhere, their businesses are disrupted and their bank accounts are frozen. The ruble has gone through the floor and Putin is having to sell gold to prop it up. He's running first this way and then that trying to find a way out of the corner he has painted himself into. His countersanctions will cost 300 000 jobs, he claims. International trade is being hurt "as well as Russia" (subtext: Russia is indeed being hurt). The sanctions are illegal (no, they're a prefectly normal exercise of national sovereignty). And now, he has more or less walked out of the G20 in an old maids huff (Vladimir Pouting?). It's easy to see why the NATO leaders are so encouraged (and Mr Ditz so half-hearted).
"If Putin has nothing to do with the 'rebel' enclaves in Donetsk and Lugansk, why is he not helping Ukraine to put down the rebellion?"
Non sequitur. If Sir Jonathan Sirleaf has nothing to do with the "rebel enclaves" in Donetsk and Lugansk, why isn't the Nigerian army helping Ukraine put down the rebellion?
If indeed it is a rebellion, it's nobody's job to put it down except for Ukraine's.
But of course it is not a "rebellion." It's a secession. There's a difference between a civil war in one country and an invasion of two countries (the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics) by a third (Ukraine).
The power of US/Nato propaganda. The US invades Iraq and slaughters thousands on false pretences and remains on the side of right.
Putin/Russia protect Russia's interests against US/Nato encroachment by annexing the Crimea after a hugely positive referendum and is being bankrupted by popular demand. Not to even have to mention US/Nato meddling in the Balkans without UN approval.
What's wrong with this picture?
To — Michael Kenny
You have no facts, which means you are mainstream brainwashed, which means that you offer us nothing but propaganda.
>”Western officials have been claiming on a near daily basis for months now that “everyone knows” Russia has invaded Ukraine to back the eastern rebels, but no credible evidence has been presented to show that the troops are actually there.”
The fact that “everyone knows” that Russia has “invaded” the Ukraine despite the complete absence of any evidence of the supposed “invasion” is a remarkable thing. One can only marvel at how many people can be so utterly convinced that the most transparent and absurd lies are the truth. The breathtaking effectiveness of our modern orchestrated government/media propaganda machine would leave Josef Goebbels slack-jawed in admiration and amazement if he was alive and able to see it today.