Putin Says Plan to Take Crimea Hatched Before Referendum

[JackRiddler]

41. Really?

So Putin issued an ultimatum to Kiev that it had to follow within 48 hours, or it would be bombed. Putin ordered the Russian military to conduct a shock and awe campaign that leveled the Ukraine infrastructure and destroyed the Kiev military, killing tens of thousands of people from the air. The Russian army invaded and occupied all Ukraine within a couple of weeks (which it undoubtedly could do). It now holds Kiev and has installed an occupation government. Is that what you think is a valid analogy?!

This is exactly what I'm talking about: Let's dispense with the analogies. Western propaganda is engaging in an awesome misrepresentation of a civil-war conflict that started in Kiev, and got Russians involved on the side of the Russian-speaking Ukrainians. Even if you want to say Moscow planned this from behind one side (the way the State Department has admitted doing from behind the other), you've got this absolutely rabid nonsense being dispensed by people like Breedlove and Nuland and in the U.S. media - and on DU, where people think nothing of calling Putin a "Hitler." And that's what they did with Saddam! Therein lies the analogy - not in any actions, but in the absurdity of the propaganda being claimed and swallowed, and in its dangerousness. When people invoke "appeasement" of the Nazis as a valid parallel in this case, they are flirting with World War III.