Members of the Ukrainian ultra-nationalist Svoboda Party rally in Kiev (ReutersMaxim Zmeyev)
The Silence Of American Hawks About Kiev’s Atrocities -- Stephen F. Cohen, The Nation
The regime has repeatedly carried out artillery and air attacks on city centers, creating a humanitarian catastrophe—which is all but ignored by the US political-media establishment.
For weeks, the US-backed regime in Kiev has been committing atrocities against its own citizens in southeastern Ukraine, regions heavily populated by Russian-speaking Ukrainians and ethnic Russians. While victimizing a growing number of innocent people, including children, and degrading America’s reputation, these military assaults on cities, captured on video, are generating pressure in Russia on President Vladimir Putin to “save our compatriots.”
The reaction of the Obama administration—as well as the new cold-war hawks in Congress and in the establishment media—has been twofold: silence interrupted only by occasional statements excusing and thus encouraging more atrocities by Kiev. Very few Americans (notably, the independent scholar Gordon Hahn) have protested this shameful complicity. We may honorably disagree about the causes and resolution of the Ukrainian crisis, the worst US-Russian confrontation in decades, but not about deeds that are rising to the level of war crimes, if they have not already done so.
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My Comment: Even though Stephen Cohen is a critic of U.S. policy on Ukraine .... I was still surprised by this report .... I guess the truth is now finally coming out. I know that the pro-Russian militias are not angels .... and a good number of the them have committed horrible crimes. But they are not the Ukraine government with it's resources and lethal firepower .... and what the Ukraine military and it's militias are doing in eastern Ukraine would (in my opinion) be judged as a war crime in any western court.
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