If Russia Had
‘Freed’ Canada
May 5, 2016
Special Report: The
U.S. government defined events in Ukraine as a “pro-democracy” revolution
battling “Russian aggression” — at least as far as the world’s mainstream media
was concerned. But what if the script were flipped, asks Joe Lauria.
By Joe Lauria
"This fictional scenario perhaps lays bare the absurdity of the U.S. version of events in Ukraine."
As the United
States plans to move thousands of NATO troops to Russia’s borders and continues
to bolster a fiercely anti-Russian regime in neighboring Ukraine, the official
line in Washington and its subservient corporate media is that beneficent
America is simply seeking to curtail Moscow’s “aggression.” But the U.S.
government and media might look at things quite differently if the shoe were on
the other foot.
What, for instance,
would the U.S. reaction be if Russia instead had supported the violent
overthrow of, say, Canada’s government and assisted the new Ottawa regime’s
“anti-terrorist operations” against a few rebellious “pro-American” provinces,
including one that voted 96 percent in a referendum to reject the new
Russian-backed authorities and attach itself to the U.S.?
Russian President
Vladimir Putin laying a wreath at Russia’s Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on May
8, 2014, as part of the observance of the World War II Victory over Germany.
If the U.S.
government tried to help these embattled “pro-American” Canadians – and protect
the breakaway province against the Russian-installed regime – would Washington
see itself as the “aggressor” or as simply helping people resist
anti-democratic repression? Would it view Russian troop movements to the U.S.
border as a way to stop an American “invasion” or rather an act of “aggression”
and provocation by Russia against the United States?
The Ukraine Reality
Before playing out
this hypothetical scenario, let’s look at the actual scene in Ukraine today as
opposed to the gross distortion of reality fed the American people by the U.S.
mainstream media the past two years. The reality is not the State Department’s
fable of a pro-democracy “revolution” cleaning up corruption and putting
Ukrainian people first.
