New York Times, Chrystia Freeland, on Ukraine: ‘This is not a civil war.’

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New York Times, Chrystia Freeland, on Ukraine: ‘This is not a civil war.’
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by Eric Zuesse | September 8, 2014 - 7:19am

The New York Times publishes many wildly false articles, and this will expose only one of them, as an example:

According to Christia Freeland, writing there, on September 5th, the conflict in which the Ukrainian Government has since May 9th been bombing the residents in southeastern Ukraine -- which is the area that had declared its independence from Ukraine -- this "is not a civil war." Those residents had declared their independence; the Government then bombed them for months; but that's "not a civil war."

Freeland wrote, "This is not a civil war, nor is it (referring now to the violent February overthrow of the Ukrainian President, who had been overwhelmingly elected in 2010 by the votes from the residents of this region that’s now being bombed) a fascist coup. Eastern Ukrainians are not rising up against an oppressive regime in Kiev (despite that Government's having condemned the people in the southeast and then bombed them incessantly). ... What makes the Ukrainian conflict consequential is that it is not a civil war. It is an annexation of territory, the invasion of one European country (Ukraine) by another (Russia)."

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Chronologically, the first of those allegations is that the February 22nd overthrow of Yanukovych "was not a fascist coup." However, as this proves, it was precisely that. And as the transcript of the phone conversation between two EU officials shown here documents, they recognized on February 25th that it had been precisely that. Furthermore, President Obama's agent, Victoria Nuland, on February 4th, had already selected Arseniy Yatsenyuk, whom she affectionately referred to there as "Yats," to run the country. And her U.S.-engineered coup in Ukraine didn't occur until February 22nd, and it installed “Yats” to run the country. And, if the coup shown there isn't a "fascist coup," then what coup ever has been, and how could Freeland distinguish this one from that one? She ignores such questions, and leaves only a phrase "fascist coup" that's thus devoid of any and all real-world reference.

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