Imagine if somebody organized a coup against the Canadian government, which might or might not be popular at that moment (that could be determined at the next election, that’s what elections are for). Imagine if the coup gang then announced that English would henceforward be the only official language in Canada (a position later rescinded, but the incident would be unlikely to reassure Canadian French speakers). Imagine if French speakers in Canada predictably started organizing actively for independence from Canada. Imagine if the coup government then started shelling Quebec City, Chicoutimi, Trois Rivieres, and most of Montreal.
Oh, and imagine if a tape was produced of a senior US official, whose husband is one of the most notorious neocons in Washington, plotting the coup with the US ambassador to Canada.
That’s what happened in Ukraine. It doesn’t take Moscow’s gold to convince a great many of us, who have no connection to Ukraine or to Moscow, to see US behavior in Ukraine as outrageous. Especially since the tape showed the US official plotting to stick HER puppets into power in Kiev instead of the European Union’s puppets, with the remark „[expletive deleted] the EU.“
Washington’s behavior in Ukraine has been outrageous, and a lot of people, here and in Europe, think so. We haven’t take money or anything else from Vladimir Putin, or anybody else. I wish I could say that the members of the coup government in Kiev had not taken money from Washington.
Of course, proper propaganda pundit that it is, NYT has demonized Russia.
