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Russia Vs. Ukraine Is Not Our War

A reader e-mails: Some of your commentators have challenged you: “Yeah, but what IF it was the Ukrainians who shot it down”? Well, what then? Do we demand that Obama make Kiev stop fighting? He can’t do that — this would be happening if the US didn’t exist. (It’s a peculairity of the far-left/far-right mind […]

A reader e-mails:

Some of your commentators have challenged you: “Yeah, but what IF it was the Ukrainians who shot it down”?

Well, what then? Do we demand that Obama make Kiev stop fighting? He can’t do that — this would be happening if the US didn’t exist. (It’s a peculairity of the far-left/far-right mind that they see the US as the primum mobile of everything in the universe. A sparrow does not expire 12 times zones away without but that the Satanic zionist-occupied neo-con neo-liberal government in Washington caused it…) Ukrainians and Russians had a history before the USA existed.

Or, barrring that, do we THEN admit that Ukraine has no right to defend itself from a proxy military invasion launched by its former imperial hegemon? “Yeah, THEN the Russians have been right all along. Ukraine doesn’t exist. Ukrainian doesn’t exist. Ban the language, like the tsars did. Give the whole country to the Russians, and let them do what they’ve done in the past — shoot all the non-Russian priests and intellectuals. Etc. Etc. Make Lviv into another Grozny, an hour away from the Russian border. Start a famine.”

So it’s a strange question they’re asking. It’s very inconvenient for them: Ukraine and Ukrainians exist, independently of Obama/ZOG/Washington. And they will act as they think best for them.

UPDATE: Let me underscore that the reader is using “ZOG” sarcastically, to make fun of far-rightists who blame everything on the “Zionist-Occupied Government” of the US.

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