Bloomberg says in
a post today that the “confrontation between Russia and the US” over
Ukraine was “provok[ed]” by Putin’s annexation of Crimea:
“…Putin annexed the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea last March, provoking the biggest confrontation between Russia and the U.S. and Europe since the Cold War.”
That’s odd, though, because the reintegration of Crimea into Russia
(after a vote in favor – but remember democracy is what we say it is)
happened, as Bloomberg says and BBC confirms, in March, 2014, about five months after violent,
US-backed protests began in November 2013, and ended in the the elected
Ukrainian president, Victor Yanukovych, being driven out of the country
by, as BBC put it, “radical groups”, including neo-Nazis: see BBC’s “Neo-Nazi Threat in Ukraine“,
Feb. 28, 2014. (“BBC Newsnight’s Gabriel Gatehouse investigates the
links between the new Ukrainian government and Neo-nazis.” Later
articles covering the topic were published by, among many others, Glenn Greenwald, Robert Parry, and even, albeit 8 or 9 months too late to make a difference, NBC)
