Determined not to let the US intelligence community’s open admission that they have “no evidence of direct Russian involvement” in the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines MH17, the State Department has once again insisted Russian President Vladimir Putin is “directly” to blame for it.
Puzzlingly, State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf cited the exact same intelligence community briefing as proving Putin’s guilt, even though the officials delivering that briefing said the exact opposite of it. Harf also claimed to be privy to even more secret evidence that had not gone public yet, which also pinned the whole thing on Putin.
Interestingly enough Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R – GA), the ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee and privy to all the same evidence the State Department saw, said that while there was some “circumstantial” evidence pointing to Russia, he saw no smoking gun.
Not that thinks like evidence and proof really matter to the administration, which made up its mind before the smoldering wreckage of MH17 was even cold, determined to use this as another truncheon with which to bludgeon Russia, and worsen US-Russia ties. The Pentagon is now said to be planning, in the next few weeks, to send “military advisers” to Ukraine, meaning the US will be getting itself directly involved in the war against ethnic Russians along the Ukraine-Russia border.
Sounds like the State department is part of the rogue government and not the official one.
The "official" one is the rogue one – it's just dysfunctional.
I don't think Obama and the rest of the official ones is half aware nor cares what the rogue government is up to.
Blame everything on Russia, even when Victoria Nuland admits that US state department have spend $5 billion dollars to help Neo fascism in Ukraine to become the Kiev government.
Then again, when you have a boss as John Kerry everything is relative to a business deal, like when the five billion paid out the matter of truth or who is wright or wrong becomes the state department headaches, so they have to side with Ukrainian Neo fascism regime then anything, this way they protect their investment.
What!, I can't believe my eyes and ears; and I thought the 5 'large-ones" was for Ms Nuland's new office in the US Embassy in Kiev . Perhaps the "Clueless Kerry" will be invited-in to check out the investment.
Amazing how truthful Chamblis can be when he doesn't have to worry about re-election!
So what's the status anyway?
Have separatists more or less admitted in a non-denial denial way that their side caused incontinent fire to occur in a "fat fingers" incident (see the Chicagotribune Exclusive)? This was the most likely à priori though I would not have raised an eyebrow if the Ukrainian forces had been the culprit either. There is Ray McGovern's hinting that the intelligence community has photos saying that the latter is indeed the case. There is no sign of "Putin" involvement as far as I can see. Meanwhile the ICRC wants to (non unreasonably) classify the fighting under "war" as opposed to "civil war" and to start to hand out war crime indictments, which one hopes won't be one-side though I am not holding my breath.
I think the US is going to go after Russia no matter what. The gov’t is crazy enough to, and they’ll cook up something just like they did Iraq. This war is going to be much bigger and brutal though.
Of course, it’s just like Iraq WMD: government spews total BS without proof, docile mainstream media owned by the same interests as the government repeats these blatant lies, and it all is very profitable for some people (I am using this term loosely).
I always thought that US president can not be worse than Bush, but Obama’s campaign slogan “Yes, we can!” turned out to be truer than is good for us.
Just like with Iraq, the US will kill lots of people, some sharks will get billions of our tax dollars, and two years later they will say: “Sorry, massive intelligence failure, can happen to anyone”.
Disgusting is the word.
2012 Malaysia held a judicial committee hearings and verdict was-Sept 11 2001 was done on purpose by USA to attack Iraq. Two Malaysia planes destroyed–connect the dots–America used Ukraine to blow up the doomed MH17 plane.
Ukraine prime minister, billionaire, forced out by fascist Svoboda party. Forced to resign.
No, Svoboda refused to support the IMF fleecing program and withdrew from the coalition. Yatsenyuk had no choice but to resign once his coalition fell apart. Poroshenko, meanwhile, continues to be the EU/FedGov enforcer, demanding that the Ukrainian Parliament pass the required legislation to get the fleecing underway. Of particular vehemence in his demands is the law that will fork over 49% of the Ukrainian gas transport system to EU and US investors. As I have said before, the Ukrainian fascists, no matter how useful they are to the FedGov for ginning up a war with Russia, aren't going to go along with the fleecing program, and they will be eliminated as soon as practicable. You surely do not believe that the FedGov really supports Ukrainian nationalist aspirations, do you?
Like to hear more? Have you got media links re the IMF program. Noting, it sounds like Biden's son is shilling for said Ukraine energy interests? Where does Kolomoisky come in – even the other oligarchs – what part do they play – do they have a part?
Washington wants to have a war with Russia. But the US would not be able to win such a war without nuclear weapons. The neocons think a nuclear war is winnable. I beg to differ.
There's no winners if a war takes place between the US and Russia.