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.
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