Readers will have to go elsewhere if they are looking for an account that includes German chancellor Angela Merkel’s summary rejection of Mr. Putin’s proposed tripartite deal to head off the crisis in November 2013. They will search in vain for any mention of the behind-the-scenes maneuvering of American diplomats like Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt to gain the Ukrainian government as their ally, the increasingly sanguinary war leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk. Maneuvering may be actually too mild a word. What Europe and Washington resorted to was outright intimidation in the form of financial threats. Can anyone imagine, for an instant, that the Times would publish a purported piece of news analysis of, say, the last hours of the Allende and Mossadegh regimes, without so much as a mention of possible CIA involvement? Of course not. All in all, this account of the events leading up to the coup of February 21-22 leaves the reader with the overwhelming impression that for the Times, the violent overthrow of democratically elected governments is fine—as long as they are against regimes that it doesn’t particularly like.
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 22:13:45 +0000
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