{"id":41081,"date":"2018-11-30T09:18:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T14:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41081"},"modified":"2018-11-30T09:18:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T14:18:11","slug":"washington-is-ramping-up-military-confrontation-with-russia-and-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41081","title":{"rendered":"Washington is Ramping Up Military Confrontation With Russia and China"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington is Ramping Up Military Confrontation With Russia and China<\/a><\/h3>\n
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On November 26 the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0asserted that<\/a>\u00a0\u201cRussia\u2019s seizure [on November 25] of three Ukrainian naval vessels was the first overt armed conflict between the two since 2014, when Russian forces occupied Crimea.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was no armed conflict in Crimea and not a drop of blood was spilled. There was no \u201coccupation\u201d because, under treaty, over 20,000 Russian troops were stationed there.<\/p>\n

Crimea\u2019s citizens have always been\u00a0Russian-speaking, Russian-cultured and in general pro-Russia. Following the US-sponsored rebellion in Ukraine that went the way the US intended it to go, there was the awkward matter of Crimea which had been part of Russia until, as\u00a0noted by the BBC<\/a>, \u201cIn 1954 Crimea was handed to Ukraine as a gift by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.\u201d\u00a0In 2014 the majority of Crimean citizens wanted to rejoin Russia rather than stay with crippled post-revolution Ukraine which would have victimized them because of their Russian heritage. In March 2014 Crimea\u2019s parliament voted to ask to join Russia.\u00a0 A\u00a0referendum<\/a>\u00a0was held and the vast majority of voters were in favor. But you wouldn\u2019t know this from western media or politicians, who continue to refer to Russia\u2019s supposed \u201cannexation\u201d of Crimea.<\/p>\n

The Ukraine revolution of 2014 was encouraged by the United States whose Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Victoria Nuland, was photographed together with the US ambassador\u00a0handing out cookies<\/a>\u00a0to rebels in Kiev\u2019s Maidan Square in December 2013.\u00a0 (The goodies were taken to the square by her armed US security guards.\u00a0 Then when the time was right for the cameras she was given the bags and doled them out. It was a gruesome but well-orchestrated little pantomime.)<\/p>\n

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Washington is Ramping Up Military Confrontation With Russia and China Photo Source DVIDSHUB |\u00a0CC BY 2.0 On November 26 the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0asserted that\u00a0\u201cRussia\u2019s seizure [on November 25] of three Ukrainian naval vessels was the first overt armed conflict between the two since 2014, when Russian forces occupied Crimea.\u201d There was no armed conflict in Crimea […]<\/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":[64,12435,130,5493,179,12256,694,742,821,827,862,865],"class_list":["post-41081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-bbc","tag-brian-cloughley","tag-china","tag-counterpunch","tag-crimea","tag-military-confrontation","tag-russia","tag-soviet-union","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-war","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41081","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=41081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41082,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41081\/revisions\/41082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}