Ukraine conflict: Vladimir Putin renews blame on West

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Source: BBC

Ukraine's crisis has been caused by the West, Russian President Vladimir Putin says, as he considers Franco-German proposals to end fighting between the government and pro-Russia rebels.

Western countries had broken pledges not to expand Nato and forced countries to choose between them and Russia, Mr Putin told an Egyptian newspaper.

The comments come amid new hopes of a peace deal this Wednesday.

Russia denies accusations of sending troops and supplying the rebels.

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31289051

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Bullshit, Mr Putin.

Gorbachev Confirms There Was No NATO ‘Non-Expansion’ Pledge

Russia Behind the Headlines, an English-language news site sponsored by the state-run Rossiyskaya Gazeta, ran an interview with the last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in which he refutes a common Kremlin propaganda claim about NATO expansion.

Taking their cue from Russian leaders, the pro-Kremlin propaganda outlet globalresearch.ca (Centre for Research on Globalization) has repeatedly published claims that Western leaders "lied" about plans for NATO, and even historians have interpreted Gorbachev's own memoirs to imply the West broke its promise to Moscow. Putin even blamed the forcible annexation of the Crimea on "NATO enlargement."

This interview shows why we're fortunate such a historical actor is still alive to explain what happened when the Berlin wall fell 25 years ago.

http://www.interpretermag.com/russia-this-week-hundreds-of-russians-poisoned-25-dead-in-spice-drug-epidemic/#4654

http://albloggedup-investigative.blogspot.com/2014/03/4-myths-ukraine-crisis-crimea-nato-russia-fascism-far-right.html

4 Myths About the Ukraine Crisis, Crimea and NATO (Updated)
Myth #1
Russia's invasion of Crimea was a logical reaction to a U.S. and European plot to expand NATO. Part of the plot was overthrowing Ukraine's pro-Moscow president and installing a new pro-NATO government.
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Myth #2
"Washington spent $5 billion of U.S. taxpayer dollars engineering a coup in Ukraine."
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Myth #3
Ukraine's new leaders are anti-Semitic Nazis.
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Myth #4
Crimea is historically Russian and shouldn't be part of Ukraine anyway.

[srican69]

1. Putin was not hugged enough by his mom and was called a chicken by his dad.nt

[cstanleytech]

2. Yes the West just forced him to make a land grab in another country

[George II]

3. "Putin renews blame on West"...has he been hanging around with Cruz, McConnell, Boehner, etc.??

[Jefferson23]

4. He owns this, whether he likes it or not. n/t

[freshwest]

5. The Russian Empire Strikes Back...

Hey, I got nothing. Need coffee...

[pampango]

6. The art of proganada.

In the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily," are often misquoted or paraphrased as: "The bigger the lie, the more it will be believed."

Propaganda should be popular, not intellectually pleasing. It is not the task of propaganda to discover intellectual truths.

The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success.

If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels

[Cayenne]

7. Let's take it all back by force and hope it doesn't go nuclear