"I Saw What Was Coming. That's Why I Won't Join This Carnival of Hypocrisy" by Peter Hitchins

PETER HITCHENS: I saw what was coming. That's why I won't join this carnival of hypocrisy  | Daily Mail Online

"In a country crammed with Russians, they were trying to make Russian a second-class language. 

Russians who had lived there happily for decades were pressured to take Ukrainian citizenship and adopt Ukrainian versions of their Christian names. 

The schools were promoting a national hero, Stepan Bandera, who Russians strongly disliked and regarded as a terrorist. 

And they were teaching history which often had an anti-Russian tinge. Quite a few people told me they felt put upon by these policies. Why couldn't they just be left alone? ...

Can you all please call off this carnival of hypocrisy?

I cannot join in it. I know too much. I know that our policy of Nato expansion – which we had promised not to do and which we knew infuriated Russians – played its part in bringing about this crisis.

I know that Ukraine's current government, now treated as if it was almost holy, was brought into being by a mob putsch openly backed by the USA in 2014.

I know that the much-admired President Zelensky in February 2021 closed down three opposition TV stations on the grounds of 'national security'. They went dark that night. I know that the opposition politician Viktor Medvedchuk was put under house arrest last year on a charge of treason. Isn't this the sort of thing Putin does?

I know that Ukraine's army has used severe force against Russian civilians in the Don Basin since 2014. The Russians have done dreadful things there, too, but there are plenty of people who will tell you that. The point is that this is not a contest of saints versus sinners, or of Mordor versus the Shire.

I also find it awkward that, when Britain and the USA rightly denounced Putin's illegal invasion of a sovereign country, they seemed to have forgotten that we gave him the idea, by doing this in Iraq in 2003. Unlike them I can truly claim to have opposed both these actions.

I tire of being told that Nato is purely defensive alliance when we know it bombed Serbia in 1999, incidentally killing civilians, when Serbia had not attacked a Nato member. 

I also don't recall Libya attacking a Nato member before that 'defensive' alliance launched the air war on Tripoli which also killed civilians, children included, and turned that country into a cauldron of chaos, benefiting nobody.

And then there's the other thing that sticks in my gullet. The countries of the West have egged Ukraine on into a confrontation with Russia which has predictably ended in Putin's barbaric invasion. 

But while we stand and cheer at a safe distance, the Ukrainians are the ones who get shelled, bombed, besieged and driven from their homes. Is this honourable? Does sentimental praise for their bravery make up for it?".......

Read it all.

I saw a FOX News General recently explain how we could shoot down all the Russian aircraft we wanted by simply calling it a UN Action instead of a NATO Action. Problem solved!

Never go Full-War Pig.

Opposite World-NATO UPDATE: Government of Poland Outlines U.S. State Dept Secretary Anthony Blinken as a Liar

"During three separate interviews today, U.S Secretary of State Anthony Blinken told media that Poland was sending fighter planes to Ukraine, and the U.S. was in negotiations with Poland to replace them.  The same assertion was made by U.S. Senator Marco Rubio.

However, the official Twitter account of the chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland calls those reports “fake news”:

‼️FAKE NEWS‼️ Unfortunately you are spreading misinformation with quotation from 27/02/22. Poland won't send its fighter jets to #Ukraine as well as allow to use its airports. We significantly help in many other areas."

It’s bad enough when the media is spreading fake news, now we have the U.S. Secretary of State doing it.

That said, the original statements by Secretary Blinken didn’t pass the smell test.  Now it looks like Tony Blinken was trying to provoke Poland to be the spark that ignited the NATO war against Russia.   Stunning.   This is a pretty big deal, but watch the media drop the issue as if it never happened.".......

So this is what you get now when you join NATO; the American Sec/State tries to get you attacked by Russia?!!!

Wow. Dead Ukrainians aren't enough for these vampires. They want Dead Poles, too.

I knew when they tried to wiretap, frame and overthrow Actual PDT in 2016, they would have to keep committing greater and greater crimes just to cover up each previous crime.

And so they have.

EVERYTHING is inside-out and upside down in Bizarro ObamaWorld.

“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”--Whoever Owns Fake Secretary of State Tony Blinken