{"id":136319,"date":"2014-08-12T15:07:10","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T15:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=136319"},"modified":"2014-08-12T15:07:10","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T15:07:10","slug":"nato-baiting-russia-war-ukraine-nazis-western-complicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/nato-baiting-russia-war-ukraine-nazis-western-complicity\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO Baiting Russia into War. Ukraine Nazis and Western Complicity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tony Cartalucci<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Russia is consistently portrayed in the Western media\u00a0<\/span>as the \u201caggressor<\/a>\u201damid the ongoing Ukrainian conflict, however, it is clear through overt moves by NATO\u2019s proxy regime in Kiev, that attempts<\/span>\u00a0are being made to intentionally provoke<\/a>,\u00a0not defend against Moscow\u2019s ire.<\/span><\/p>\n

The New York Times, in a recent article\u00a0admits that the military campaign Kiev is carrying out against its own citizens in eastern Ukraine is overt brutality carried out by literal flag-waving Nazis, with the all but stated goal of provoking a Russian invasion.<\/span><\/p>\n

Brutal Provocations<\/b><\/p>\n

The New York Times in an article titled<\/span>, \u201cUkraine Strategy Bets on Restraint by Russia<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0states:<\/span><\/p>\n

Buoyed by successes against the separatists over the past two months \u2013 and noting that the Russians have threatened an invasion in the region before without following through \u2013 Ukrainian commanders have pressed ahead with an offensive to drive the rebels from their stronghold in Donetsk in the east.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The army continued to fire artillery into the city nightly, and paramilitary groups raided outlying villages despite warnings from President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia that he could intervene at any time to protect Ukrainians who favor closer ties with his country. And the Ukrainians have flaunted their victories.<\/em><\/p>\n

Shelling populated centers and raiding villages far from its tenuous base of support, does not appear to be Kiev \u201cdefending itself,\u201d nor in line with the \u201cinternational norms\u201d frequently cited by Washington, London, and Brussels when justifying \u201chumanitarian interventions\u201d elsewhere throughout the world. The NYT also notes that Russia \u201cthreatened\u201d to intervene amid Kiev\u2019s brutality, but never did \u2014 calling into question the notion that Russia is being \u201caggressive.\u201d<\/p>\n

The NYT continues, with what appears to be language designed to provoke Russia into crossing its border with Ukraine to intervene:<\/p>\n

But Western leaders and analysts remain unconvinced Mr. Putin will be willing to be taunted endlessly or to permit extensive deaths of pro-Russian civilians. The United Nations said recently that at least 1,543 civilians and combatants on both sides have died since mid-April.<\/i><\/p>\n

And in this statement, the NYT admits that indeed the Banderite Nazis NATO is aiding, funding, and soon to be training and arming , are carrying out a campaign of brutality causing \u201cextensive deaths of pro-Russian civilians.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nazis and Western Complicity \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

The NYT also explicitly admits that Nazis line the ranks of the \u201cmilitias\u201d fighting for NATO\u2019s regime in Kiev, and carrying out this campaign of provocation:<\/p>\n

Officials in Kiev say the militias and the army coordinate their actions, but the militias, which count about 7,000 fighters, are angry and, at times, uncontrollable. One known as Azov, which took over the village of Marinka, flies a neo-Nazi symbol resembling a Swastika as its flag.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

While the NYT attempts to cast as an ambiguous light as possible upon the connections Azov has with Nazism, the Azov Battalion does not simply fly a \u201cneo-Nazi symbol resembling a Swastika as its flag.\u201d The symbol is in fact the Wolfsangel used by Adolf Hitler\u2019s various SS military divisions during World War II and is as good as saluting Hitler himself to affirm allegiance to his toxic ideology and to celebrate the Nazis\u2019 numerous, notorious atrocities.<\/p>\n

The BBC would elaborate on the nature of militias like \u201cAzov,\u201d who are undoubtedly the recipients of US, British, and other NATO member states\u2019 aid, cash, and political support, in its article, \u201cUkraine conflict: \u2018White power\u2019 warrior from Sweden<\/a>.\u201d In it, it profiles a member of Azov Battalion, Mikael Skillt, and states:<\/p>\n

\u201cI have at least three purposes in the Azov Battalion: I am a commander of a small reconnaissance unit, I am also a sniper, and sometimes I work as a special coordinator for clearing houses and going into civilian areas.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

As to his political views, Mr Skillt prefers to call himself a nationalist, but in fact his views are typical of a neo-Nazi.<\/i><\/p>\n

Dismissed by the West as \u201cRussian propaganda,\u201d it is clear that even the most \u201cWestern\u201d media outlets cannot report on the Ukrainian conflict\u00a0<\/span>without coming across literal Nazis fighting for Kiev<\/a>\u00a0and operating in \u201ccivilian areas\u201d in eastern Ukraine. The BBC would admit the Azov Battalion is far from a fringe group and was raised by the Ukrainian Interior Ministry itself. When NATO members announce \u201caid\u201d to the regime in Kiev, they are also, by default, announcing aid to literal Neo-Nazi militant groups raised by Kiev\u2019s Interior Ministry, like the Azov Battalion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Using Humanitarian Concerns to Provoke War<\/b><\/p>\n

It was in 2011 that the US, UK, NATO, and its regional partners carried out a coordinated propaganda campaign including the fabrication of atrocities to justify the military invasion of Libya and Syria. It would later turn out that the \u201ccivilians\u201d the Libyan and Syrian governments were fighting were in fact heavily armed terrorists hailing from Al Qaeda.\u00a0The deceit in Libya unraveled<\/a>\u00a0but not before NATO began military operations in support of these terrorists. In Syria, the deception was exposed and attempts by the West to intervene directly have thus far failed.<\/p>\n

Conversely, in Ukraine, the West is backing literal Nazis who are admittedly mass murdering civilians in eastern Ukraine, in an attempt to intentionally provoke Russia into war.<\/p>\n

On one hand, humanitarian catastrophes are fabricated by the West to justify its own military interventions, while on the other, real humanitarian catastrophes are created to provoke military action from the West\u2019s enemies.<\/p>\n

While the NYT notes that Russia has thus far not taken the bait, \u201cexperts\u201d it interviewed for its story claim such patience is not likely to last. In reality, Moscow has weighed its strengths, weaknesses, and the strategic lay of not only Ukraine, but the region and the world, and has made the decision that will, in the long-term based on reason, produce the best outcome for Russia, the Russian people, and its compatriots beyond its borders.<\/p>\n

While the West continues its attempts to manipulate the public and the political circles intersecting amid the Ukrainian crisis, Moscow has already proven it will not take the bait unless it is sure it can swallow the fisherman as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tony Cartalucci,\u00a0Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher and writer,\u00a0especially for the online magazine\u00a0\u201c<\/a>New Eastern Outlook\u201d<\/a>.\u00a0This piece<\/a> was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tony Cartalucci Russia is consistently portrayed in the Western media\u00a0as the \u201caggressor\u201damid the ongoing Ukrainian conflict, however, it is clear through overt moves by NATO\u2019s proxy regime in Kiev, that attempts\u00a0are being made to intentionally provoke,\u00a0not defend against Moscow\u2019s ire. The New York Times, in a recent article\u00a0admits that the military campaign Kiev is carrying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":136320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,461,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-136319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-editorials","9":"category-war-terrorism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}