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As Washington and America’s media keep pumping up the intelligence reports of which they have not provided a scintilla of evidence, another the D.C. media’s greatest lies and greatest hits is Russia’s invasion and takeover of Crimea in Eastern Ukraine.
In the print-news world, “nut graphs” are statements of fact that explain a story’s news value and provide historical context. And in mainstream media in print and on the air, a familiar nut graph is repeated over and over… Russia invaded Crimea in the winter of 2014, and annexed it.
Russia did not attack Crimea. And it would likely still be a part of Ukraine if the US had not orchestrated a coup to overthrow the government of the democratically elected president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych. (See “WASHINGTON IS DRIVING THE WORLD TO THE FINAL WAR,” 28 Apr 2014).
No, Russia did not invade Crimea. The Russian military already had a presence there. Under a lease agreement (which did not expire until 2047), negotiated when Russia granted independence to Ukraine, its Black Sea Fleet is based at Sevastopol port in Crimea.
However, Vladimir Putin did order more troops into Crimea as he feared the government takeover in Kiev would provoke an attack.
It was Crimean’s who voted overwhelmingly—by 95 percent—to rejoin Russia.
Crimea had been part of Ukraine only since 1954, when then-Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, a Ukrainian, designated it as such. In fact, Crimea had been part of Russia longer than the United States has been a country.
TRENDPOST: In the Spring of 2014, Hillary Clinton compared Crimea 2014 to Czechoslovakia 1930 and said Russian President Vladimir Putin’s actions were like ‘what Hitler did back in the ’30s’.
And Vice President Biden at the time—managing to ignore that over 80 percent of Crimeans turned out to vote, with over 95 percent voting “yes” to reestablish its centuries-long union with Russia, in what international observers called a fair and clean election process—declared it to be “blatant, blatant violation of international law … nothing more than a land grab.”
Pimping himself before 1,000 LGBQT rights supporters at a Los Angeles gala, Biden made a stab at linking Russia’s anti-gay laws to the position it had taken in the Ukraine crisis!