"Stealth invasion"? In other words, Gordon has settled on a substitute for WMD. What a surprise.
This isn't even good fiction; it's more like Grimm's Fairy Tales. And where are the photos? If you have evidence, Gordon, let's see it. But, please, make sure it's better than the last time, you know, those fake photos of Russian soldiers that were supposedly operating in Ukraine. That was another deceit, wasn't it? (See: Another NYT-Michael Gordon Special?, Robert Parry, Consortium News)
This is like the Malaysia airlines crash, isn't it? Remember how Kerry went on a five-TV-talk-show blitz the day after the crash, making all kinds of spurious accusations, about surface-to-air missiles and phantom Russian convoys, without a shred of evidence, and then -- the very next day -- Russian military experts calmly produced hard evidence, from radar and satellite data, that a Ukrainian fighter plane was seen closing in on MH17 just moments before it was downed. (BBC also interviewed eyewitnesses who saw the SU 25 approaching the passenger plane.)
So, who do you believe; Kerry or the facts? And who are you going to believe this time; "Aluminum tubes" Gordie or Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) monitor Andrey Kelin who said yesterday:
"We have said that no Russian involvement has been spotted, there are no soldiers or equipment present.
"Accusations relating to convoys of armored personnel carriers have been heard during the past week and the week before that. All of them were proven false back then, and are being proven false again now." (RT)
Repeat: "No Russian involvement." All the accusations "were proven false." "False" as in fake, phony, propaganda, bunkum, lies which, by the way, appears to be Gordon's area of expertise.
Anyone who has been following the conflict knows that the Washington-backed junta in Kiev has waged a war against its own people in the East, and that they've been bombing hospitals, schools, libraries, apartments, public buildings, residential areas, etc., all in an effort to drag Putin into a war that will sabotage EU-Moscow economic integration and further US interests in the area. It's all geopolitics, every bit of it. Remember the pivot to Asia? This is what it looks like in real time. A lot of people get butchered so the big money guys in Washington can maintain their grip on global power for another century or so.
Well, you can put that pipedream to rest now, mainly because a group of scrappy ex-military types in east Ukraine gathered themselves into an effective and lethal militia which has turned things around pronto. If you follow developments on blogs that chronicle the daily events, you'll know that what I'm saying is true. The disorganized and demoralized rabble they call the Ukrainian Army has been routed in nearly every dust-up they have with the Novorussia militia. Here's how blogger Moon of Alabama summed it up on a post on Thursday:
"Their morale is bad, their equipment old, ammunition is low and the entire aim of their campaign is dubious. Now even a few weak counterattacks, the 'counteroffensive,' have them on the run."
The only thing he could've added to the litany is the fact that they are led by the biggest moron to ever hold high office, Petro Poroshenko, the overstuffed buffoon who thinks he's Heinz Guderian deploying his Panzers through the Ardennes and on to Paris. What a joke!
The Times even admits that the Ukrainian army is badly demoralized. Take a look at this:
"Some of the Ukrainian soldiers appeared unwilling to fight. The commander of their unit, part of the Ninth Brigade from Vinnytsia, in western Ukraine, barked at the men to turn around, to no effect. 'All right,' the commander said. 'Anybody who refuses to fight, sit apart from the others.' Eleven men did, while the others returned to the city.
"Some troops were in full retreat: A city busload of them careened past on the highway headed west, and purple curtains flapped through windows shot out by gunfire." (New York Times)
Have you ever heard of a commanding officer asking his men whether they want to fight or not? It's ludicrous. This is a defeated army, that much is clear. And it's easy to understand how the average grunt feels, too. The average working guy doesn't have the stomach for killing his own people. That's not something he's going to feel good about. He just wants to see the war end and go home, which is why they're getting whooped so bad. It's because their hearts aren't in it.
In contrast, the farmers, shopkeepers and miners who make up the militia are highly-motivated; after all, this isn't some geopolitical game for them. Most of these people have lived in these cities their entire lives. Now they're watching neighbors get gunned down in the streets or pulling friends out of the wreckage of bombed-out buildings. For these people, the war is real and it's personal. They're defending their towns, their families, and their way of life. That tends to build resolve and focus the mind. Here's more from the NY Times:
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