Before reflexively labeling Russia a new Nazi Germany or calling it an aggressor in Ukraine, stop and consider the actions of the US over the years in the Caribbean or in Central America, and imagine how the US would respond to a Russian-sponsored coup in Mexico, followed by a pro-Russian Mexican government's military shelling American vacation spots in Tijuana or Encinada.
Source: thiscantbehappening.net
by: Dave Lindorff
The US corporate media are awash in fevered articles and news stories about a Russian “invasion” of Ukraine, as though it was 1938, with German troops marching into Sedetenland and Austria. But let’s step back and look at what’s going on, calmly and rationally.
Ukraine, the eastern half of which nation has historically been a part of Russia (the western part having in the past been a part of Poland), is in truth an ethnically and geographically divided “nation,” composed of Ukrainians, the majority of whom live in the western part of the country, and ethnic Russians who, while a minority within the whole of Ukraine, are a majority in the eastern part of the country.
