With their prototypical lack of evidence and a conspicuous lack of any details, the US State Department is once again accusing Russia of a military buildup along the Ukrainian border.
In the statement, they labeled the “Russian aggression” as involving the largest force they’ve had in the area since October, and a significant amount of air defenses.
The allegations also included claims that Russia had put some of the air defense systems inside Ukrainian territory, though they did not offer details on this, and it’s unclear from the allegations if this deployment was purported to have occurred in rebel Donetsk or in Crimea, the later of which Russia annexed last year but which the US regularly refers to as “Ukrainian territory” for the sake of such allegations.
The US claimed the deployments amounted to a violation of the Minsk ceasefire between Ukraine and its rebels, though in the absence of anything beyond the State Department’s word, it’s probably not going to impact anything in that regard, as the ceasefire continues to mostly hold.
And the US sending military to Ukraine is not a violation? Or at least an act of aggression?
Whatever we do is good. Whatever our opponents do is wrong. Life is so much simpler that way.
No, Putin started it. In 1940, Germany attacked France. Britain sent troops to France to help. Not agression but rather assistance to the victim of agression. The Ukrainians are the innocent victims. The US created the mess by overthrowing the elected president of Ukraine. Putin did not intervene to restore Yanukovych to office. He sought to take advantage of Ukraine's weakness to grab parts of its territory. The Ukrainians are entitled to call upon the US to make good the damage it has done and have so far received very little of the help they asked for.
Re: "No, Putin started it." and "The US created the mess by overthrowing the elected president of Ukraine."
Obvious contradiction there Kenny.
Re: "Putin did not intervene to restore Yanukovych to office."
You are seriously suggesting that Putin should have invaded Ukraine to restore Yanukovych to office? You are honestly claiming that you would have supported that? What dishonest drivel you are capable of.
And by the way, the correct spelling is aggression, not agression
Entitled huh? And how is the US making good?
It is important to remember that the US is talking directly to Russia and does not care (nor does it need) to substaniate the claims especially to the media. If Russia is doing as the US states, they know that the US can see it. If the US is indeed making unsubstantiated claims that Russia is not performing, it also tells Russia that the US can not see what it is doing. There would be huge ramifications to either possiblitiy. For this reason, while we can not say imperically that the US is making correct claims, we should be able to say that most likely they are.
or perhaps it means that the state department spokescritter can simply
speak whatever is on the teleprompter without worrying about those
pesky fakts. repeat it enough, someone will believe it. and after all,
everyone knows putin=hitler, 'nuff said.
You have inadvertently coined a neologism: "imperical evidence." I think we should define it as: any naked claim advanced by the empire—and accepted by MSM parrots, jingo morons and partisan dupes—as prima facie evidence of some warlike proposition. Probably not evidence under any conventional laws of evidence or rules of logic—but then conventional laws of evidence and rules of logic are no longer operational in what Justin Raimondo has aptly dubbed our "Bizarro World."
If Washington and its lackeys really can see what they say they're seeing in Ukraine, they're not showing it to us; and we must remember that no state engages in foreign policy showmanship for the mere sake of its enemies, but all do so with an eye toward manipulating and herding their subject populations in desired directions. In brief, had they any evidence for their claims—say, satellite photos, which ought to be easy enough to come by—they would be waving it about with abandon. And even if they really are seeing just what they claim to be seeing in Ukraine: so what? Such sights would hardly be worth getting worked up over—let alone blowing the whole world to hell and gone.
Since the US government has not told the truth on any matter of import for several decades, why on Earth would anybody assume that they are telling the truth now?
So WHO has just put in Paratroopers into Ukraine, I too, if I was a military leader be increasing my troops on the Border when Foreign Troops from a totally different continent enter my back yard! Are you telling me that if Russia put troops into Mexico, the US wouldn't react in a similar way! Of course they would and there would be WHOLESALE threats from the US senate!
When Putin grabbed Crimea, there were no foreign troops in Ukraine. If the US invaded Mexico and Putin sent troops to help the Mexicans, who would the agressor be? The country that invaded or the country that came to the assistance of the country that had been invaded?
What if the US invaded Mexico after Russia had overthrown it's democratically elected government? Would Russia be required to make things right for the Mexicans by not allowing the US to interfere?
In this one regard I agree with the teabaggers…we have an emasculated coward for a President. It's obvious that he doesn't have a backbone to stand up against the "advisors" who are directing his foreign policy. Nor does he have the balls to fire the military "advisors" who are pushing for global military involvements, logic notwithstanding.
Yes, there was "change," but there is no hope. We are truly and royally screwed. And looking at the lineup of potential candidates for the job, things will only get worse.
John Ellis Claims US Military Buildup Along Mexico Border
So, senseless confusion is it to claim news of global importance when you have no eyewitness knowledge of facts, such as a news video shown on primetime TV.
And so, far better is it to say nothing if you have not the facts, unless your goal is to establish an Empire as most terrorizing awesome by broadcasting self-evident illusions, just to show how easy you can get away with it.
If things like this were happening in Mexico, the US would move very substantial forces to cover our border.
The US might even threaten to intervene if things got out of hand, as it in fact did several time, most recently when Pershing took an expedition into Mexico during WW1 in Europe.
The US already does arm people in Mexico, and already has agents roaming Mexico, and it would certainly have more if it went the way of Ukraine.
So far, Russia has not sent in its equivalent of Pershing to crush the civil war on its terms as we did.
There have been a lot of signs from Putin's Americn supporters that he's planning to break the ceasefire sometime in May, no doubt after his 9 May shindig. He will probably claim that the dastardly Ukrainians have prevented "patriotic Russians" (i.e.colonists) in Ukraine from "celebrating" the Red Army's victory. (Imagine the reaction if Germany decided to "celebrate" the June 1940 defeat of France!) It's clear that Putin cannot just stay where he is, with that ridiculous sausage of land. Either he capitulates or he goes to war (and loses!).
That's quite the elaborate fantasy world you're concocting. But, first, an equivalency between V-E Day and the Fall of France? Please.
Russia is engaged in a military buildup inside its own borders? That's like saying the US is engaged in a militaray buildup in Ft. Bragg NC.
David Smith (above) had it right: "Whatever we do is good. Whatever our opponents do is wrong. Life is so much simpler that way."
The truth is irrelevant. The truth is not even a consideration to Washington.
"April 23, 2015. Donetsk, Ukranian Army is shelling Pesky every hour. Fights in progress are in Shyrokyne and Donetsk Airport. In the West part of Shyrokyne erupted battles with tanks, mortars and small arms . UAF attempt to advance yesterday in Shirokino & from Avdeyevka failed despite tank & artillery support. Gorlovka was under heavy shelling by Kiev militants with 152mm shells from 3am this morning."
Does this sound like "the ceasefire is holding"?
Minsk 2.0 is dead as a doornail. The war should resume at any time – and it will resume with a Ukraine offensive, not a DPR/LPR offensive, contrary to the drivel posted above by certain morons.
This is only news to a country of people deeply propagandized into the belief that others are not allowed to defend themselves from us because we are so good – a fascist ideology, as John Pilger recently enumerated.