{"id":20435,"date":"2016-05-05T05:51:09","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T10:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20435"},"modified":"2016-05-05T05:51:09","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T10:51:09","slug":"americas-biggest-of-all-big-lies-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20435","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Biggest of All Big Lies (I)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ERIC ZUESSE<\/a>\u00a0| 05.05.2016 |\u00a0WORLD<\/a><\/div>\n

America\u2019s Biggest of All Big Lies (I)<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

On April 26th,\u00a0Reuters<\/em>\u00a0headlined<\/a>\u00a0from Romania, \u00ab\u2018We\u2019re Not Here to Provoke,\u2019 Say US Pilots on Putin\u2019s Doorstep\u00bb, and gave as an example:\u00a0\u00ab\u2018We’re not here to provoke anybody, we’re here to work with our allies,\u2019 says Dan Barina, a 26-year-old pilot on his first trip to a region where tensions have risen markedly since Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Romania’s neighbor Ukraine two years ago\u00bb.<\/em><\/p>\n

How can it\u00a0not\u00a0be \u2018provoking\u2019, when Russia now faces a threat from Obama and America’s NATO alliance, that\u2019s vastly worse than what America had faced from the Soviet dictator Nikita Khrushchev and the USSR\u2019s Warsaw Pact alliance in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis? That was just one missile-base, 90 miles from the US \u2013 not dozens of them, some right\u00a0on\u00a0Russia\u2019s border. Are those American pilots idiots to believe their superiors\u2019 absurd statements about what their mission is, or is insanity the explanation here \u2013 or, is there even some third explanation possible for this oblivious statement from the American pilot? Perhaps those soldiers and airmen are simply drowning in (or drunk with) US propaganda? They really believe that Russia is moving too close to NATO, not that NATO has already moved too close to Russia?\u00a0Really?\u00a0The\u00a0Reuters\u00a0<\/em>report said that NATO countries were doing this to protect themselves from\u00a0\u00aban increasingly aggressive Russia\u00bb<\/em>.\u00a0Wow. But that\u2019s the line\u00a0promoted by US President Barack Obama<\/a>. And he\u2019s accepted as a decent person not only by the millions of voters in his own Democratic Party (though not in the Republican Party, which blames him for everything except the truth: that he is governing so far to the right that they have to concoct false \u2018leftist\u2019 reasons to criticize him); but, he\u2019s also respected even by the publics in Europe, where they suffer the flood of refugees from the invasions he leads.<\/p>\n

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ERIC ZUESSE\u00a0| 05.05.2016 |\u00a0WORLD America\u2019s Biggest of All Big Lies (I) On April 26th,\u00a0Reuters\u00a0headlined\u00a0from Romania, \u00ab\u2018We\u2019re Not Here to Provoke,\u2019 Say US Pilots on Putin\u2019s Doorstep\u00bb, and gave as an example:\u00a0\u00ab\u2018We’re not here to provoke anybody, we’re here to work with our allies,\u2019 says Dan Barina, a 26-year-old pilot on his first trip to a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13269,179,4394,2864,553,660,683,694,8203,821,862],"class_list":["post-20435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-big-lie","tag-crimea","tag-eric-zuesse","tag-lies","tag-nato","tag-putin","tag-reuters","tag-russia","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-ukraine","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20436,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20435\/revisions\/20436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}