{"id":134537,"date":"2014-08-01T00:35:51","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T00:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=134537"},"modified":"2016-11-30T04:34:21","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T03:34:21","slug":"basic-reality-simple-truth-ukraines-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/basic-reality-simple-truth-ukraines-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The Basic Reality, and Simple Truth, of Ukraine’s Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse\u00a0<\/em>
\nRINF Alternative News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Obama appoints the people who appoint the people\u00a0who appoint the people<\/span><\/a>\u00a0who appoint the people who appoint the people who appoint the people who appoint the people who do this sort of thing rather randomly to the people, the residents, who live in southeastern Ukraine (and Obama’s team call them “terrorists” because it wants to get rid of them because those people elected the Ukrainian President whom Obama overthrew, and Obama doesn’t want to have to do that again):<\/p>\n

\"Screen<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=He2pEbzlBGA<\/a><\/p>\n

And they, in turn, do this, whenever they can, to the people at the very bottom of that chain-of-command (usually conscripts):<\/p>\n

\"Screen<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/cassad.net\/tv\/videos\/627\/2014\/<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

[product id=”131271″ sku=”1880026090<\/span>“]And the aristocrats (who in Ukraine are called “oligarchs,” and in the U.S. are called “Wall Street” and “the elite” and various other non-descriptive names but are simply America’s aristocracy, our controlling families) go about their business of controlling “our” government and media, and of getting bailed out by us whenever their investments go so badly bust that they can’t pay their debts to each other\u00a0(like happened in 2008).<\/p>\n

How does it feel to be someone else’s meat?\u00a0Just ask the people today in southeastern Ukraine, those “terrorists.”<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

However, in America’s “news media,” the source of this problem is said to be Russia’s Vladimir Putin, the leader of the country against which Barack Obama is determined to place nuclear missiles a mere ten-minute flight-path to Moscow (sort of like Khruschev had wanted to do to the United States in Cuba in 1962, but more extreme even than that). Obama headlines\u00a0“Russia Is Once Again Isolating Itself from the International Community,”<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and he\u00a0says,\u00a0“These Russian-backed separatists … have continued to shoot down Ukrainian aircraft\u00a0[which are bombing the hell out of them]\u00a0in the region. \u00a0And because of their actions,\u00a0scores of Ukrainian civilians continue to die needlessly every day [i.e.: they’re dying because of their attempts to defend themselves against the Obama team’s bombs]. Meanwhile, Russia continues to support the separatists.” Obama doesn’t want Russia to do anything at all to help the ethnic Russians whom Obama is murdering en-masse in southeastern Ukraine. And, so, “our” “news” media think that we are stupid enough to go for that, and so they call the Obama team’s victims “terrorists,” whom the Obama team is killing. That burnt baby and its family are “terrorists,” we are supposed to believe.<\/p>\n

And this is the basic reality, and the simple truth, of Ukraine’s civil war.<\/p>\n

But, of course, it also has resonance in places such as\u00a0Gaza<\/span><\/a>, and\u00a0Honduras<\/span><\/a>, and elsewhere. So, the problem goes\u00a0quite deep<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

———-<\/p>\n

Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0\u00a0They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/a>,<\/i>\u00a0\u00a0and of\u00a0\u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/a>.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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