Quote from article below: A False Narrative Official Washingtons group think on the crisis has been driven by a completely phony narrative of what has happened in Ukraine over the past year. It has become the near-monolithic view of insiders that the crisis was instigated by Putin as part of some diabolical scheme to recreate the Russian Empire by seizing Ukraine, the Baltic states and maybe Poland. But the reality is that the crisis was initiated by the West, particularly by Official Washingtons neocons, to pry Ukraine away from the Russian sphere of influence and into Europes, a ploy that was outlined by a leading neocon paymaster, Carl Gershman, the longtime president of the U.S.-funded National Endowment for Democracy. On Sept. 26, 2013, Gershman took to the op-ed page of the Washington Post and pronounced Ukraine the biggest prize and an important interim step toward toppling Putin and putting down the resurgent and willful Russia that he represents. Gershman, whose NED is financed by the U.S. Congress to the tune of about $100 million a year, wrote: Ukraines choice to join Europe will accelerate the demise of the ideology of Russian imperialism that Putin represents. ... Russians, too, face a choice, and Putin may find himself on the losing end not just in the near abroad but within Russia itself.
Posted on: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 06:18:13 +0000