{"id":20496,"date":"2016-05-07T20:24:29","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T01:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20496"},"modified":"2016-05-07T20:24:29","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T01:24:29","slug":"if-russia-had-freed-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20496","title":{"rendered":"If Russia Had \u2018Freed\u2019 Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If Russia Had \u2018Freed\u2019 Canada<\/a><\/h3>\n
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As the United States plans to move thousands of NATO troops to Russia\u2019s borders and continues to bolster a fiercely anti-Russian regime in neighboring Ukraine, the official line in Washington and its subservient corporate media is that beneficent America is simply seeking to curtail Moscow\u2019s \u201caggression.\u201d But the U.S. government and media might look at things quite differently if the shoe were on the other foot.<\/p>\n

What, for instance, would the U.S. reaction be if Russia instead had supported the violent overthrow of, say, Canada\u2019s government and assisted the new Ottawa regime\u2019s \u201canti-terrorist operations\u201d against a few rebellious \u201cpro-American\u201d provinces, including one that voted 96 percent in a referendum to reject the new Russian-backed authorities and attach itself to the U.S.?<\/p>\n

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Russian President Vladimir Putin laying a wreath at Russia\u2019s Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on May 8, 2014, as part of the observance of the World War II Victory over Germany.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

If the U.S. government tried to help these embattled \u201cpro-American\u201d Canadians \u2013 and protect the breakaway province against the Russian-installed regime \u2013 would Washington see itself as the \u201caggressor\u201d or as simply helping people resist anti-democratic repression? Would it view Russian troop movements to the U.S. border as a way to stop an American \u201cinvasion\u201d or rather an act of \u201caggression\u201d and provocation by Russia against the United States?<\/p>\n

The Ukraine Reality<\/strong><\/p>\n

Before playing out this hypothetical scenario, let\u2019s look at the actual scene in Ukraine today as opposed to the gross distortion of reality fed the American people by the U.S. mainstream media the past two years. The reality is not the State Department\u2019s fable of a pro-democracy \u201crevolution\u201d cleaning up corruption and putting Ukrainian people first.<\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If Russia Had \u2018Freed\u2019 Canada Special Report:\u00a0The U.S. government defined events in Ukraine as a \u201cpro-democracy\u201d revolution battling \u201cRussian aggression\u201d \u2014 at least as far as the world\u2019s mainstream media was concerned. But what if the script were flipped, asks Joe Lauria. As the United States plans to move thousands of NATO troops to Russia\u2019s […]<\/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":[103,6236,6963,12261,553,694,821,827],"class_list":["post-20496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-canada","tag-con","tag-consortium-news","tag-joe-lauria","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20496","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=20496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20498,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20496\/revisions\/20498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}