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http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/margaret-kimberley/58242/nato-loses-ukraineNATO Loses Ukraine
by Margaret Kimberley | September 11, 2014 - 12:10pm
The United States and NATO attack on the Russian Federation has failed. The Ukrainians who refused to accept the legitimacy of the Wests puppet government emerged victorious on the battlefield. If there is any doubt on that point, Ukraines decision to sign the Minsk Protocol cease fire agreement is proof. President Poroshenko seemed like a man in the cat bird seat when western nations chose sides in a civil war and kicked out his predecessor. The road to hell was paved with very bad intentions.
One wouldnt know it from reading and viewing the corporate media, but the western gambit has been disastrous. More than 1 million people have been displaced (most fled to Russia), the economies of many countries have been damaged by sanctions, and atrocities such as the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines flight 17 would have been avoided if there had been any grown ups at work in the western capitals.
The talking heads should be telling us about the failing effort to prop up the empire, but instead they parrot the words of the losing side. After destroying Libya and killing president Gaddafi the evil empire concluded that they had found a winning formula. Fortunately for humankind, Bashir al Assad hangs on in Syria and all that NATO has to show for its misadventures is ISIS, which grows stronger by the day, beheads American journalists on video, and attacks the legitimacy of Saudi Arabia and the other gulf monarchies who worked hand in hand on the imperial project.
Assad is still in power and Putins nemesis Poroshenko waved a flag of surrender but the United States and its allies wont give up the failing strategy because they have no other plan for keeping the leaking ship afloat. Aggression is the only weapon they have and snatching defeat from the jaws of victory is the order of the day. Putin is the winner by any standard but the United States wont admit what is obvious to the rest of the world. Instead they dredge up phony claims of Russian treaty violations and behave as if Putin hasnt pulled off a coup of his own.
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NATO Loses Ukraine (Original Post)
unhappycamper
Sep 2014
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Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)1. Is 'TheSmirkingChimp' like 'The Onion'? nt
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(90,061 posts)3. NATO never had Ukraine. nt