And yet you quote that particular think tank when it supports your position, post #13 in this thread. You may quote your experts, other posters may quote different ones.
No Lewis, I quoted it because what it says in that article lines up with the bulk of the evidence.
I don't have a position. You may find hundreds of articles that tells you what you want to hear. I know I can find hundreds of articles claiming Russia invaded Ukraine. Like the one you posted. I can also find a bunch of articles claiming Saddam had an active nuclear weapons program when in fact he didn't but all the corporate new networks claimed he did anyway.
Same goes for Syria. I can find "mainstream" articles claiming Assad gassed his own people, when in fact it was Washington's pet proxies that used the poison gas.
If as you keep claiming, "Russia has invaded Ukraine and Crimea" there would no doubt be ample evidence of that and you should have no trouble providing it.
What would that evidence look like?
If Russia were to invade Ukraine tomorrow morning, it would probably look something like this by Sunday afternoon. . .
1. Ukrainian artillery fell silent almost immediately. They are no longer shelling residential districts of Donetsk and Lugansk. This is because their locations had been pinpointed prior to the operation, and by Thursday afternoon they were completely wiped out using air attacks, artillery and ground-based rocket fire, as the first order of business. Local residents are overjoyed that their horrible ordeal is finally at an end.
2. The look of military activity on the ground in Donetsk and Lugansk has changed dramatically. Whereas before it involved small groups of resistance fighters, the Russians operate in battalions of 400 men and dozens of armored vehicles, followed by convoys of support vehicles (tanker trucks, communications, field kitchens, field hospitals and so on). The flow of vehicles in and out is non-stop, plainly visible on air reconnaissance and satellite photos. Add to that the relentless radio chatter, all in Russian, which anyone who wants to can intercept, and the operation becomes impossible to hide.
3. The Ukrainian military has promptly vanished. Soldiers and officers alike have taken off their uniforms, abandoned their weapons, and are doing their best to blend in with the locals. Nobody thought the odds of the Ukrainian army against the Russians were any good. Ukraine's only military victory against Russia was at the battle of Konotop in 1659, but at the time Ukraine was allied with the mighty Khanate of Crimea, and, you may have noticed, Crimea is not on Ukraine's side this time around.
4. There are Russian checkpoints everywhere. Local civilians are allowed through, but anyone associated with a government, foreign or domestic, is detained for questioning. A filtration system has been set up to return demobilized Ukrainian army draftees to their native regions, while the volunteers and the officers are shunted to pretrial detention centers, to determine whether they had ordered war crimes to be committed.
5. Most of Ukraine's border crossings are by now under Russian control. Some have been reinforced with air defense and artillery systems and tank battalions, to dissuade NATO forces from attempting to stage an invasion. Civilians and humanitarian goods are allowed through. Businessmen are allowed through once they fill out the required forms (which are in Russian).
6. Russia has imposed a no-fly zone over all of Ukraine. All civilian flights have been cancelled. There is quite a crowd of US State Department staffers, CIA and Mossad agents, and Western NGO people stuck at Borispol airport in Kiev. Some are nervously calling everyone they know on their satellite phones. Western politicians are demanding that they be evacuated immediately, but Russian authorities want to hold onto them until their possible complicity in war crimes has been determined.
7. The usual Ukrainian talking heads, such as president Poroshenko, PM Yatsenyuk and others, are no longer available to be interviewed by Western media. Nobody quite knows where they are. There are rumors that they have already fled the country. Crowds have stormed their abandoned residences, and were amazed to discover that they were all outfitted with solid gold toilets. Nor are the Ukrainian oligarchs anywhere to be found, except for the warlord Igor Kolomoisky, who was found in his residence, abandoned by his henchmen, dead from a heart attack. (Contributed by the Saker.)
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http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2014/0...ussia-has.html
Do you see any of that on Fox News, CNN, ABC, NBC or CBS?
If the Russians were to "invade" Ukraine and Crimea there would be no doubt what so ever about it Lewis.
They wouldn't sneak in there in the middle of the night and hide behind trees, they'd go in and take out the Ukraine military in no uncertain terms. It would be the Russian version of "shock and awe" and it would be all over your TV screen for weeks. Washington and the corporate media would plaster satellite images of tanks and troop movements and images of Ukrainian planes blown to bits and big craters where Ukraine's military encampments used to be across your TV screen 24/7 for weeks.
But we don't see any of that. All we have is Washington and the corporate media's word on it, and they've been caught lying before Lewis.
What they claim doesn't matter it's what they can
prove and so far all they've proven is you guys will keep believing the same old lies and propaganda over and over and over again.
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