« on: May 11, 2024, 12:59:49 pm »
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/don-t-buy-the-fringe-anti-ukraine-myth-about-the-run-up-to-russia-s-invasion/ar-BB1m7H3V?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=c61074fc5fb043ec837694d65d7c06ca&ei=16Aaron Maté, a leftist Canadian who writes for the fringe conspiracy-theory website Grayzone, has recently become a favorite source for the far-right fringe of the MAGA universe, the fringe that prefers to “Make America Guilty Again.”
Don’t buy it.
Maté just produced a long-read article on Ukraine for RealClearPolitics. Because of RCP’s credibility, his error-riddled “investigation” into the origins of the war in Ukraine is gaining a readership, even in congressional circles.
Indeed, Maté’s polemic is full of distortions.
His central claim: The Russia-Ukraine war is the spawn of intervention by the Obama-Biden administration, which supported and directed a coup in 2014 by Ukraine’s “far-right” — a claim that echoes the most persistent theme of Russia’s propaganda machine.
The truth: As anyone in Kyiv during those turbulent months (as I was) knows, the Maidan protests of 2013-2014 were led and directed by democratic, pro-European politicians and supported by the mass protests of hundreds of thousands of ordinary middle-class citizens from Kyiv and around the country.
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This story deserves it's own thread since I've seen this absurd nonsense argued everywhere, especially by the pro-Kremlin crowd at TOS.
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