http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/06/ukraine-and-the-apocalyptic-risk-of-propagandized-ignorance.html
"Remarkably, contrary to what we’ve all been told, Russia didn’t
invade Ukraine any of the numerous times we were told that it had just
done so. We’ve graduated from mythical weapons of mass destruction,
through mythical threats to Libyan civilians, and false accusation of
chemical weapons use in Syria, to false accusations of launching
invasions that were never launched. The “evidence” of the invasion(s)
was carefully left devoid of location or any verifiable detail, but has
all been decidedly debunked anyway.
The downing of the MH17 airplane was blamed on Russia with no
evidence. The U.S. has information on what happened but won’t release
it. Russia released what it had, and the evidence, in agreement with
eye-witnesses on the ground, and in agreement with an air-traffic
controller at the time, is that the plane was shot down by one or more
other planes. “Evidence” that Russia shot the plane down with a missile
has been exposed as sloppy forgeries. The vapor trail that a missile
would have left was reported by not a single witness.
Baldwin and Heartsong close with the case that U.S. actions have
backfired, that in fact whether the people of the United States have any
idea what is going on or not, the power brokers in Washington have
Second Amendmented themselves in the foot. Sanctions against Russia have
made Putin as popular at home as George W. Bush was after he’d managed
to exist as president while planes were flown into the World Trade
Center. The same sanctions have strengthened Russia by turning it toward
its own production and toward alliances with non-Western nations.
Ukraine has suffered, and Europe suffers from a cut-off of Russian gas,
while Russia makes deals with Turkey, Iran, and China. Evicting a
Russian base from Crimea seems more hopeless now than before this
madness began. Russia is leading the way as more nations abandon the
U.S. dollar. Retaliatory sanctions from Russia are hurting the West. Far
from isolated, Russia is working with the BRICS nations, the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization, and other alliances. Far from impoverished,
Russia is buying up gold while the U.S. sinks into debt and is
increasingly viewed by the world as a rogue player, and resented by
Europe for depriving Europe of Russian trade."