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Tuesday, July 15, 2014

The Washington Post Declares War on Russia

The Washington Post Declares War on Russia

07/15/14
James W. Carden
Media, Security, United States, Ukraine

"Could it be the Post wants its new Cold War to turn hot?"

As if more evidence were needed that pronouncements by Fred Hiatt’s Washington Post editorial page with regard to Russia and Ukraine ought to be treated with extreme skepticism, if not outright ignored, last Friday’s offering, which calls for the United States to enact unilateral sanctions on Russia should suffice.
Let us start at the beginning. The Post contends that Kiev’s Orwellian-sounding “antiterrorist operation” has thus far succeeded because President Poroshenko “is resisting pressure to make unacceptable concessions to Moscow and its surrogates.” Not so much. Poroshenko is “succeeding” largely because Russia has, for the most part, acted with a fair amount of restraint in the face of what amounts to an ethnic-cleaning operation being waged by the Ukrainian government against the Russophone east.
This “success” which amounts to the shelling of civilians: unarmed men and women, children and elderly alike, has resulted in a humanitarian crisis that is rarely reported on. According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, over 110,000 Ukrainians have fled to Russia so far this year, and 54,000 have been displaced within Ukraine. It should be noted that State Department spokesperson Marie Harf breezily dismissed these figures, treating ethnically Russian Ukrainians as they have been throughout the crisis: as untermenschen.
Read full articlehttp://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-washington-post-declares-war-russia-10876

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