Another Big Lie About Ukraine’s War
By Eric Zuesse
Global
Research, August 16, 2015
Region: Russia and FSU
Theme: US NATO War Agenda
In-depth
Report: UKRAINE
REPORT
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What
follows here, about the current U.S. government’s lying, is banned by all major
news sites in the United States, and by most ‘alternative news’ sites, such as
Common Dreams, Alternet, and Truthout (although some of those alt-news sites do
issue watered-down reports from Robert Parry and a few other establishment
journalists, about related matters):
Vladimir Kornilov posted
to his facebook page on August 15th, a terrific question that’s getting
increasing attention on other independent websites:
I
wonder about this: When the army of the DNI [commonly
called Ukraine’s ‘rebels’] are retired
Russian military, the West immediately writes about “Russian aggression”. And
if retired (believe that retired) military mercenaries from the EU are fighting
on the side of the APU [commonly called the Ukrainian government], why do the same media not write about “the
aggression of the European Union?”
That’s a great question, because it
laser-focuses upon a Big Lie in the Western press regarding the civil war in
Ukraine: that the Russian army is itself participating in Ukraine’s civil war
(not merely providing professional military advisors to a self-arisen civilian
army who are protecting their own families from invasions and basically from a
U.S.-sponsored ethnic
cleansing campaign by an imposed Ukrainian government in Kiev, which the
residents in the separatist region never even had any participation in
democratically electing — and, after the man, for whom those
residents had actually voted 90%+ in Ukraine’s last genuinely democratic
election, was thrown out of office in a violent February 2014 U.S. coup).
The
Russian armed forces are not participants in Ukraine’s U.S.-caused civil war:
that’s a fact. The allegation to the contrary is a
U.S.-Ukrainian government lie — nothing else. (See note at the bottom if you
don’t believe this.)
The U.S. Government is simply trying to
fool the public into believing that the Ukrainian government’s bombing that
area of the former Ukraine doesn’t cause thousands of the residents there to
take up arms against those invaders, and against that government — the
government which calls all of these residents ‘terrorists.’
Despite the claims by the Ukrainian
government and by
the American government that placed them into power, the Ukrainian
government only wishes that it
were fighting against Russia, and so it is urging the U.S. government and
America’s allies to supply more weapons to them so as to enable that to happen.
On August 15th, a Ukrainian government site headlined, “Ukrainian
army is not ready for war with Russia with the use of aircraft, helicopters and
missiles – expert,” and quoted “Director of the Center for Army, Conversion
and Disarmament, Valentine Badrak. According to the expert, ‘I am still of the
opinion that the Kremlin made a bet on the maximum loss of Ukrainian personnel
[in the event that Ukraine were to invade Russia — an invasion which
some Ukrainian leaders strongly want], but in the final analysis the
Kremlin boss can decide on war generation using modern aircraft, helicopters
and missile technology.’”
Of course, ever since the war started, the
bombs have been dropped by the Ukrainian government’s planes, onto
the residents in this area, not by planes on the residents’ side, which has
no air force of its own.
On 19 September 2014, I had headlined, “Russia’s
Leader Putin Rejects Ukrainian Separatists’ Aim to Become Part of Russia,”
and reported that, “The leader of the Ukrainian separatists says that their
efforts to get Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to accept their territory as
being a part of Russia have been firmly rejected by Putin’s government; and,
so, ‘We
will build our own country.’” And, ever since then, Putin has been very
clear in all of his communications with Merkel and other foreign leaders, that
Russia would not accept that region as being a part of Russia. He also made
clear his reason: He wants the people in that region — who had voted 90%+ for a
neutralist person, Yanukovych, to lead Ukraine — to remain within Ukraine’s
electorate, so as to provide the necessary moderating element and
counterbalance to the
rabidly anti-Russian racists that were placed into power in Ukraine (next
door to Russia), by Obama’s
February 2014 coup.
In other words: not only is the
Ukrainian government not at war with the Russian government, but Russia’s
leader, Vladimir Putin, is doing everything he can to prevent such a war from
occurring.
In fact: Before the United States
overthrew and replaced Ukraine’s government in February 2014, in
a coup that started being organized in early 2013, Ukraine had no civil
war; it was at peace, as it long had been.
Obama destroyed
Libya, and also Ukraine, and is now destroying Syria, all in his obsession to
conquer Russia, which had helped all three. And, now, Vladimir
Putin is demonized by the Western ‘news’ media.
That’s how ‘news’ is being ‘reported,’
in the West. Except for sites like this, which don’t sugar-coat the reality to
protect the guilty (and to shift blame to the actual victim).
Please click onto the link here at any
point where you want to see the evidence. (For example, here you can listen-in
while Obama’s people are actually planning whom to place in charge of Ukraine
after their coup will be over. Obama has some nerve, pontificating against
Putin, even after such vileness became public.)
NOTE:
So many comments have come in from readers at various websites who have been
duped by Western propaganda to reject the reality that Ukraine’s armed forces
were being defeated by the residents of Donbass (the former Ukrainian region
where voters had voted more than 90% for Yanukovych), rather than by the
Russian army. Therefore, I now recognize that a need exists for more than a
link to the Ukrainian general saying this. His statement should be understood
within its context. Here is that context: He went on television to explain to
Ukrainians that the defeat of Ukraine’s armed forces was due to the residents
of Donbass. He needed a bit of reality to sink into the duped Ukrainian public.
He went as far as he could to avoid contradicting official propaganda, which
blamed all of Ukraine’s problems upon Russia. But he needed the public also to
understand that this really was a defeat of his forces by the residents of
Donbass, instead of by Russia. A certain amount of truthfulness is occasionally
needed even in a dictatorship (in this case, originating from Washington). He
thus needed his people to understand that their armed forces actually were
defeated by the Donbass residents. Here are some of the news reports at the
time, which make clear the extent of that defeat:
If he had been saying this at a time
when Ukraine’s forces were winning, then he might have been giving a speech
about the ‘need’ to go further, beyond Donbass, and to invade Russia itself
(which so many in the coup-government’s leadership have said they want to do).
But he was instead saying this at a time when he needed a certain minimal
amount of realism to sink in amongst his public. This was perhaps more
patriotic on his part than the U.S. stooge-regime he represented wanted, but he
evidently felt the need for a bit of honesty here. He just had to let some of
the truth out, regardless what the regime’s masters in Washington might have
wanted. After all: he knew that, ultimately, if he was to win at all, he would
need his own troops, and their families, to understand the reality, at least a
little bit, in order to be able to achieve such a victory. He knew that support
from Washington would never be able to be enough to do the job, on its own.
Investigative
historian Eric Zuesse is the author,
most 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.
Copyright ©
Eric Zuesse,
Global Research, 2015
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