{"id":9199,"date":"2015-06-18T05:37:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T10:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9199"},"modified":"2015-06-18T05:37:22","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T10:37:22","slug":"nato-lies-to-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9199","title":{"rendered":"NATO Lies to NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"

NATO Lies to NPR<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n

On June 17th, U.S. National Public Radio (NPR)\u00a0interviewed<\/span><\/a>\u00a0NATO\u2019s and America\u2019s General Ben Hodges, who is the Commanding General of the U.S. Army in Europe, which is\u00a0\u201cNATO\u2019s most senior land forces command.\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0He said (after 4:54 in the audio):<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis notion that somehow, Russia, you know, has no choice but to respond or that the West is being provocative, really, I don\u2019t think rings true at all. \u2026 We\u2019re building up on NATO\u2019s borders. These are NATO countries, these are allies of ours, that are concerned based on what Russia is doing on their borders, and they\u2019ve asked for assurance that their allies are there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The interviewer asked, \u201cPresident Putin said that only an insane person could imagine that Russia would suddenly attack NATO. I mean, is NATO insane for worrying about a Russian attack?\u201d Hodges replied (6:41):<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think that\u2019s an irresponsible question. It is completely unimaginable to me that Russia would ever invade Crimea. I mean, this was the day after the Sochi Olympics, after the Russians had spent millions and millions of dollars, and then threw away whatever goodwill they had earned the following day by invading Crimea.\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s so meny lies in such a short span, so that unpacking all of them will produce a long article; but, those lies are the mainstream view in America\u2019s news media, so, here goes the reality that demolishes them:<\/span><\/p>\n

HIS BASIC \u2018HISTORY\u2019 IS FALSE<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Everything he says about what preceded Crimea\u2019s switching back to Russia (of which it had always been a part until 1954) is false.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Sochi Olympics ended on 23 February 2014. Contrary to what Ben Hodges says, there was no Russian invasion of Crimea the next day (nor actually ever, but we\u2019ll get to that later). According to wikipedia,\u00a0which is edited by the CIA<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(and so it must be right, if not far-right \u2014 like Hodges is), the\u00a0\u201c2014 Ukrainian Revolution\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0started on 18 February 2014.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n

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