Invading a country on false pretext would definitely be bad. In unrelated news Secretary Kerry is on his way to Kiev, hopefully TSA allows him to pass through the security checkpoint with his foot permanently inserted in his mouth. Let’s just hope the dipshit doesn’t start WW3.
Kerry to Russia: You Can’t Just Invade a Country on False Pretext
Poor John Kerry. He is prone to foot-in-mouth syndrome, but clearly the stress is getting to him. It’s understandable. The Secretary of State and his minions went and provoked a regime change in Ukraine to which they sang the chorus “democracy” and “people power” only to discover that: 1) the new leadership has a bad case of Basil Fawlty syndrome, stiff-arming at every opportunity; and 2) a good chunk of the country (as the rest of us could tell looking at voting maps) had no intention of going along with the US-engineered regime change in Kiev.
First Crimea, with a majority Russian and Russian-speaking population, rejected the self-proclaimed government in Kiev, then one by one eastern Ukrainians began mass demonstrations where the Russian flag was hoisted on public buildings.
In Kiev, the demonstrations are “people power.” In Donetsk and Sebastopol it is “armed gunmen.” That is the view of western governments and their media class. But the authorities in the autonomous province of Crimea — backed by tens of thousands in the streets — did the unthinkable: they asked the Russians to protect them against the new Kiev regime which was en route to crush dissent.
Interventionism is a dirty game and there is considerable danger in believing too closely in one’s own self-deceptions and on closed-loop analysis.
But what Kerry and his boss called a “invasion” looked a lot more like the neocon fantasy of how US troops would be greeted in Baghdad. In other words, for an invading force, the Russians seemed to be welcomed by the local population.
The stress was clearly too much. Today on Face the Nation Kerry delivered the kind of hilarious groaner that undermines the entire US manufactured outrage at Russia’s action next door in Ukraine. Said Kerry on camera:
It is really a stunning, willful choice by President Putin to invade another country…You just don’t in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pretext.
One risks ruining the punchline by mentioning such words as Iraq, Libya, Mali, Somalia, Yugoslavia, and so on…
11:31 pm on March 2, 2014
Original HERE.
Kerry and Obama both need to STFU, otherwise they just might light the fuse on WWIII this time.
So was like Syria a bust, so we’re gonna try again in the Ukraine. Syria was a proxy for Russia – so now we’re just cutting out the middle-man? As in, ‘Disaster, direct from the factory to your front door!!!’ and I don’t want the ‘but wait, there’s more!’ crap.
I really liked Fred Reed’s description of Kerry..
“A head of hair in search of a brain.”
Now I know he’s a muppet on a string, dancing to the tune of TPTB but Jebuss, he looks so stupid, acts so stupid and is so totally without character or ideas of his own, it makes one want to barf..
BARF….
MA
I would die laughing if the Russian counterpart replied with just names of counties that the US attacked. Nothing else.
Start in the 1990s.
Serbia, Haiti, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, Libya
Was Panama in 1980s or 1990s?
Why are we in Ukraine ? Why are we provoking Russia ?Why the 5 billion to right-wing groups
like Svoboda and Pravy Sektor ? Why is germany so quiet ? Why have we crowded our weaponry
right up to the russians in Poland, Czech Republic and Roumania. What happened to the senior Bush’s promise to Gorbashev that the west would not fill the military gap left by the end of Warsaw
Pact dissection ?
Hmmmmmmm……US and the petroleum corporations unhappy with flow through Ukraine to Europe
from southern Russia ? Prefer it go through Kosovo ? Syria ?
BND and CIA funding fascists using old FHO intelligence nets to aid all those old Galizianer SS
groups, Svoboda, Pravy Sektor ?
Is the Fourth Reich alive and well in europe and the US ?
In case you didn’t understand they WANT this war to blame on Russian for the coming market crash.
I always said that to my friends the past years: I hope they won’t start a war in order to hide the financial coup they engineered under the carpet.
this is a worldwide plan to restrict individual liberties, to gain full control on the citizens (last step: rfid chips in the credit cards). what they see now is a good opportunity to limit population on earth, and turn the survivors in slaves through the end of democracy thanks to bigger unions than Europe or US.
the white male is their enemy, he’s the one that understand their plans
why do think they welcome Mex fucks in the US or arabs in Europe? mostly because the majority of them are under-educated braindeads that don’t get it and vote for socialo-facists.
I hope NATO will have its ass reamed this time
there’s no other way to calm down the fuckers that claim to be our leaders