{"id":170112,"date":"2015-08-02T00:30:26","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T00:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=170112"},"modified":"2018-02-19T17:29:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T16:29:32","slug":"the-anti-crimean-pogrom-that-sparked-crimeas-breakaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/the-anti-crimean-pogrom-that-sparked-crimeas-breakaway\/","title":{"rendered":"The Anti-Crimean Pogrom that Sparked Crimea’s Breakaway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse<\/span><\/p>\n

#1: <\/span><\/p>\n

Here is a description of the \u201cKorsun Pogrom\u201d or \u201cKorsun Massacre\u201d: the 20 February 2014 event that sparked Crimea\u2019s breakaway from Ukraine:<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.fort-russ.com\/2015\/02\/korsun-massacre-anniversary-what-really.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013\u2013<\/span><\/p>\n

#2:<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is a 25-minute documentary about it, dated 14 August 2014:<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/ukraine-human-rights.org\/the-pogrom-of-korsun\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s also here:<\/span><\/p>\n

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

\u2013\u2013<\/span><\/p>\n

#3:<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is a chaotic 19 minutes of video footage showing the massacre from a distance (silent for its opening 2:20):\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?t=13&v=pwtiw7MoRVs<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Some of its scenes ended up being included in the documentary, #2.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013\u2013<\/span><\/p>\n

And here are some scenes from the documentary (#2 above):<\/span>\"Screen<\/a> \"Screen<\/a> \"Screen<\/a> \"Screen<\/a> \"Screen<\/a> \"Screen<\/a> \"Screen<\/a> \"Screen<\/a> \"Screen<\/a> \"Screen<\/a> \"Screen<\/a> \"Screen<\/a> \"Screen<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2013\u2013<\/span><\/p>\n

Obama then imposed economic sanctions against Russia, for \u201cRussia\u2019s aggression.\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s only statement of what \u201cRussia\u2019s aggression\u201d consisted of, that has been even as lengthy as moderately brief \u2013 since he has never presented it at any more length \u2013 was\u00a0his interview with Fareed Zacaria of CNN<\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 1 February 2015, which happened to be a statement given just three days short of the first anniversary of\u00a0his agent\u2019s, Victoria Nuland\u2019s, having selected, on 4 February 2014, whom the next leader of Ukraine would be; it would be Arseniy Yatsenyuk (she called him \u201cYats\u201d),<\/span><\/a> as soon as the democratically elected and sitting Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovych, would become\u00a0overthrown<\/span><\/a>, which happened 18 days later, on 22 February 2014. (It was\u00a0nothing like Czechoslovakia\u2019s \u201cVelvet Revolution\u201d<\/span><\/a>. This wasn\u2019t democratic; it was a coup<\/span><\/a>.) Obama seized Ukraine, and blamed Putin for \u201caggression\u201d against Crimea \u2013 a \u201cconquest of land.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Obama said there, in this CNN interview, that the reason for the sanctions against Russia was that,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“since Mr. Putin made this decision around\u00a0Crimea and Ukraine\u00a0<\/i>\u2013 not because of some grand strategy,\u00a0but essentially because\u00a0he was caught off-balance by the\u00a0protests in the Maidan and\u00a0Yanukovych then fleeing after\u00a0we had brokered a deal to\u00a0transition power in Ukraine\u00a0<\/i>\u2013\u00a0since that time, this improvisation\u00a0that he’s been doing has\u00a0getting\u00a0<\/i>\u2013\u00a0has gotten him deeper and\u00a0deeper into a situation\u00a0that is a violation of international law,\u00a0that violates the\u00a0integrity, territorial integrity and sovereignty of\u00a0Ukraine, has\u00a0isolated Russia diplomatically, has made Europe\u00a0wary of\u00a0doing business with Russia, has allowed the imposition\u00a0of\u00a0sanctions that are crippling Russia’s economy at a time\u00a0when their oil revenues are dropping.\u00a0There’s no formula in which this ends up being good for\u00a0Russia.\u00a0The annexation of Crimea is a cost, not a benefit, to\u00a0Russia.\u00a0The days in which conquest of land somehow was\u00a0a formula\u00a0for great nation status is over.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

So, that\u2019s how Americans learned about what caused Russia\u2019s \u201cconquest of land,\u201d to seek \u201cgreat nation status,\u201d and Russia\u2019s consequent punishment for \u201cRussia\u2019s aggression.\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Eric Zuesse #1: Here is a description of the \u201cKorsun Pogrom\u201d or \u201cKorsun Massacre\u201d: the 20 February 2014 event that sparked Crimea\u2019s breakaway from Ukraine: https:\/\/www.fort-russ.com\/2015\/02\/korsun-massacre-anniversary-what-really.html \u2013\u2013 #2: Here is a 25-minute documentary about it, dated 14 August 2014: http:\/\/ukraine-human-rights.org\/the-pogrom-of-korsun\/ It\u2019s also here: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=loKajkXoTBU \u2013\u2013 #3: Here is a chaotic 19 minutes of video footage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":170113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,519],"tags":[115,30,32,96,887,535,59,753,804,543,524,92,51,523,49,36,76,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-170112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"category-newswire","9":"tag-barack-obama","10":"tag-big-brother","11":"tag-cia","12":"tag-cover-up","13":"tag-crimea","14":"tag-global-news","15":"tag-military","16":"tag-police-state","17":"tag-politics-2","18":"tag-putin","19":"tag-russia","20":"tag-terrorism","21":"tag-torture","22":"tag-ukraine","23":"tag-usa-news","24":"tag-video","25":"tag-warfare","26":"tag-white-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170112","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\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}