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In reply to the discussion: Robert Parry: Who’s Telling the ‘Big Lie’ on Ukraine? [View all]Tommy_Carcetti
(43,085 posts)....or you choose to be willfully blind to them.
Odessa has become to the pro-Russian crowd what Benghazi has become to the US right wingers. A tragic event that unfortunately has become so propagandized and distorted that the reality of what actually happened was lost to them long ago.
Now regarding Crimea.....
Putin moved into Crimea not even a week after Yanukovych left Kiev. There was barely any time for Crimea to even react to that event for Putin to claim that a grave crisis existed requiring a Russian invasion.
His rationalizations were completely farcical. You have to admit that. And you have to admit that by moving his troops into Crimea proper that he was in violation of a treaty that Russia itself was a signatory to.
I can't believe that you would actually justify Putin's invasion of Crimea, but there you have it. I guess I shouldn't be so surprised given your insistence that that was a "coup" in Ukraine.