America's selective memory loss on Ukraine
Posted: 07/21/2014 1:27 pm EDT Updated: 07/21/2014 4:59 pm EDT
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ivan-eland/americas-hypocrisy-on-ukr_b_5606510.html
Much finger-pointing has occurred on the downing
of Malaysia flight MH-17 over separatist-held
territory in Ukraine. The American media -- still
reflexively anti-Russian even though the Cold War
has been over for almost a quarter-century and
heaping blame on Russia and its leader, Vladimir
Putin, since even before his annexation of Crimea
-- have gone hog wild with recrimination after the downing of the aircraft.
And Russia and Putin are easy targets. In
America, our story line goes much like this:
After the Cold War ended, the United States
benevolently showered Russia with assistance,
acceptance into the G-8 talkshop of industrial
democracies, and "experts" on creating a
democracy (I was on one of those trips), but the
Russian people let the dour Vladimir Putin ruin
our efforts to export democracy there by
re-instituting autocratic rule. Americans feel
rejected, because the Russians just didn't want
to be like us. And with our usual assumed
benevolence, we just don't understand why Russia
is behaving in a "20th century manner," by
annexing Crimea and funneling training and
weapons to Russian separatists in eastern
Ukraine, when the rest of the world, including
America, has moved on to a new era in the next
millennium. Americans -- always very ahistorical,
even more so with the advent of 24-7-365 cable
"news" -- have amnesia about any role the United
States might have had in bringing U.S.-Russian
relations to their current sad state of affairs.
After the Cold War ended, the then-democratizing
Russia, still inducing suspicions in the West,
was excluded from the expanding NATO and European
Union. After the Berlin wall fell, in a verbal
promise to then-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev
to coax him to agree to the reunification of
Germany, then-President George H. W. Bush pledged
to Gorbachev that NATO, a military alliance
hostile to the Soviet Union during the Cold War,
would not expand into the territory of the now
defunct Soviet-led Warsaw Pact (that is, Eastern
Europe). In violation of that promise, the
outdated NATO alliance, instead of going the way
of the Cold War, repeatedly expanded and is now
on Russia's borders. In fact, during the latest
crisis over Ukraine, the United States has
reinforced forces near Russia and increased their
"training" activity. In addition, since the end
of the Cold War, the United States has been
trying to win increased influence in the oil and
gas-rich former Soviet Central Asian states on
Russia's borders. The Cold War ended but the U.S.
containment noose around Russia just moved
eastward and northward toward a weaker Russia.
This U.S. tack was very unwise. After the
Napoleonic Wars, at the Congress of Vienna,
European nations welcomed France back into the
community of European nations; a century with no
European-wide war ensued. Yet the triumphalist
behavior of the United States and NATO after the
Cold War more resembled what the allies did to a
defeated Germany after World War I; Germany was
unfairly blamed for starting the war and required
to pay reparations, thus leading to the rise of
Adolf Hitler and World War II. The United States
keeping post-Cold War Russia out of Europe and
humiliating it, instead of being more inclusive,
has made Putin's nationalism resonate in Russia.
So Russia has experienced a shrinking protective
buffer in surrounding areas. But isn't such a
protective buffer so last century? To the
Russians, who know history all too well, not in
the least. In the past, for example, Russia has
been invaded by Napoleonic France and Nazi
Germany, and it lost a staggering 25 million
people in World War II -- with total dead a
quantum leap above that of any other country. The
Russians see their critical buffer zone eroding
and are trying to salvage what they can of it.
For Russia, Ukraine has always been the crown
jewel of Eastern Europe and is very important
economically for Russia. Prior to a coup induced
by street protests (not the way a democracy is
supposed to work), a Russian-friendly government
existed in Ukraine. Now that that is gone,
Russia's unacceptable annexation of Crimea and
military aid to the Russian separatists in the
eastern part of the country should at least be
put in perspective. Furthermore, U.S. hypocrisy
in criticizing Russia for such assistance to
shore up its withering buffer zone is nothing short of amazing.
I believe that Latin American countries would say
that the United States' Monroe Doctrine is still
alive in a U.S. sphere of influence that consists
of the entire Western Hemisphere. And fairly
recently, the United States decided to help the
Kosovo Liberation Army rip off a province of
Kosovo from Serbia, a traditional ally of a
weakened Russia. Also, Russia felt double crossed
by the Americans when the West overthrew Muammar
Gaddafi of Libya after getting the Russians to
vote for a United Nations Security Council
Resolution that only allowed military actions for
humanitarian reasons to save the lives of Libyan
rebels. Finally, the CIA has attempted to aid
many rebellions around the world, far from the
U.S. sphere of influence in the Western
Hemisphere -- even perhaps in Ukraine's street
protests against the former pro-Russian
government, which is not out of the realm of possibility.
In Ukraine, one other parallel exists with World
War I. One of the events that led to the
unnecessary U.S. entry into World War I was the
German torpedoing of the British passenger ship
Lusitania, killing almost 1,200 people, including
128 Americans. Yet the German embassy in the
United States had put an ad in newspaper warning
Americans not to sail on the Lusitania and the
ship was carrying munitions through a declared war zone.
The Malaysian aircraft shot down was civilian,
but like the Lusitania, it was unbelievably
traversing a war zone (regardless of who you want
to win the war in eastern Ukraine). Unless it can
be proven that the Ukrainian separatists or the
Russians shot down the plane intentionally (which
is doubtful, given that it would be in neither
party's interest to do so, Ukrainian-released
communications among the separatists indicating
surprise that the aircraft was civilian, and the
Russian experience of heavy international fallout
from the downing of a Korean airliner during the
Cold War in the 1980s), there is not much
substance to the cries of "war crime" in the
West. It is the Ukrainian government's fault for
an incredible failure to completely close its
airspace to civilian airline traffic (some other
airlines had wisely rerouted their planes
anyway). The separatists or Russians may have
been incompetent in shooting down a civilian
plane, but incompetence can happen in the chaos of war.
And the hypocrisy of U.S. foreign policy --
famous in the world for criticizing other
countries for the same things it has done -- is
again on display. Do Americans remember the
Iranian civilian airliner the world's most
sophisticated U.S. Aegis air defense system blew
out of the sky, without an apology, in the
Persian Gulf during U.S. meddling in the
Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s on behalf of Saddam
Hussein's Iraq? Of course not, because the sad
fact is that most Americans don't care about history.
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MH17 Shot Down: This Is Not The First Time
By Tanvi Nalin | Jul 19, 2014 | 1 Comment
<http://www.youngisthan.in/world/mh17-shot-down-this-is-not-the-first-time/8259>http://www.youngisthan.in/world/mh17-shot-down-this-is-not-the-first-time/8259
http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?t=22401
#MH17 Shot Down: This Is Not The First Time
In a new twist to the Malaysian Airlines MH17
crash story, the Ukraine has accused pro-Russian
rebels of trying to destroy evidence of
"international crimes" at the crash site of a Malaysia Airlines plane.
The Ukrainian government has said that the rebels
led by Russia were preventing international
representatives and its own experts from starting their investigation.
The Boeing 777 was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala
Lumpur. It is believed flight MH17 crashed after
being hit by a surface-to-air missile fired from
a Buk launcher from rebel-held area in east
Ukraine on Thursday. All 298 people on board died.
The plane was carrying 192 Dutch nationals
(including one with dual US citizenship), 44
Malaysians (including 15 crew), 27 Australians,
12 Indonesians and 10 Britons (including one with
dual South African citizenship), four Germans,
four Belgians, three from the Philippines, and
one each from Canada and New Zealand.
It is believed that nearly 100 HIV/AIDS
scientists, activists, policy makers and
consultants lost their lives in the tragic
accident as they were headed to a conference in Melbourne, Australia.
While it is a terrible news and puts forth
questions on the world peace initiatives, it is
not the first time that a plane has been shot
down. Here is a list of such cases:
* Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 -- On February
21, 1973, the Libyan Airlines Boeing 727-200
plane was shot down by Israeli fighters when it
strayed into the airspace of the Sinai Desert,
then under Israeli control.It was believed that
the pilots got lost due to bad weather and
equipment failure over northern Egypt, resulting
in the plane entering Israeli-controlled airspace
over the Sinai desert. After firing warning shots
and giving signals to land, two Israeli fighter
jets shot down the plane. Out of 113 people on
board, only five, including the co-pilot, survived.
* Korean Air Lines Flight 007 -- On September 1,
1983, 239 people aboard a Korean Air Lines flight
bound from New York to Seoul were killed when the
passenger jet was shot down by Soviet fighters
during the Cold War. KAL Flight 007 had veered
off course and into Soviet territory, and pair of
fighter jets was dispatched to intercept the
perceived intruder. U.S. Rep. Larry McDonald of
Georgia was among the passengers. The downing
produced a giant outcry at the time, though the
full facts did not become known until after the Cold War's end.
* Iran Air Flight 655 -- On July 3, 1988, Dubai
bound Iran Air Airbus A300 was shot down by the
USS Vincennes above the volatile Persian Gulf.
All 290 passengers and crew aboard were killed.
The United States said the Navy ship had been
exchanging fire with Iranian ships and mistook
the passenger jet for an Iranian F-14 fighter jet
that had been sold to Iran before the 1979 revolution.
Iran condemned the incident, calling it a
"criminal act", an "atrocity" and a "massacre",
while the US insisted it was a misunderstanding.
The case led Iran to begin legal proceedings
against the US in the International Court of
Justice in 1996. The American government later
compensated the families of victims.
* Transair Georgia -- A total of 136 people died
when three Tupolev civilian airliners belonging
to Transair Georgia were hit by rebel missiles
and gunfire in the breakaway region of Abkhazia
during its war of independence with Georgia.
The first plane, a T-134 flying from Russia, was
struck on approach to Abkhazia's Sukhumi airport
on 21 September. The jet crashed into the Black
Sea, claiming the lives of all five crew members and 22 passengers.
The following day, a T-154 was shot down while
attempting to land at Sukhumi airport. The attack
killed 108 of the 132 people on board.
On 23 September, passengers were boarding an
aircraft at Sukhumi when it was struck and caught
fire, leaving one crew member dead.
* Siberian Airlines Flight 1812 -- On October 4,
2001, a Siberian Airlines Tupelov 154 headed from
Tel Aviv, Israel, to Novosibirsk, Russia, was
shot down and plunged into the Black Sea, killing
all 78 aboard, most of them Russian-born
Israelis. The Ukrainian military denied at first
but later admitted its military mistakenly shot
down the plane during a training exercise.
* Cathay Pacific Airways C-54, July 1954 -- On 23
July 1954 a Cathay Pacific C-54 Skymaster
carrying 19 passengers and crew was flying from
Bangkok to Hong Kong when it was shot down by a
mainland Chinese Army fighter plane off the coast
of Hainan Island. Ten people died. China said it
had mistaken the plane for a military aircraft on an attack mission.
So many innocent lives are lost when a war is
waged against one country by the other. In the
name of revolution, separatist tendencies have
been coming to the fore and disturbing the peace balance of the world.
The question is how many more lives will have to
sacrificed before we come to our senses?
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Deadliest plane crashes in recent history
Some of the world's worst air accidents since 1977
<http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jun/30/world-plane-crashes>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jun/30/world-plane-crashes
www.theguardian.com, Tuesday 30 June 2009 09.37 BST
30 June 2009: Yemenia Airbus A310 en route to the
Comoros islands crashes in the Indian Ocean - 153
people are on board and only one survives, a
14-year-old girl pulled from the sea.
1 June 2009: Air France Airbus A330 runs into
thunderstorms over the Atlantic after leaving
Brazil and disappears - all 228 people on board are killed.
17 July 2007: Tam Airlines flight 3045 crashes on
landing during rain in Sao Paulo. All 187 on board killed.
19 February 2003: Iranian Revolutionary Guard
military plane crashes into a mountain - 275 dead.
25 May 2002: China Airlines Boeing 747 breaks
apart midair and crashes into the Taiwan Strait - 225 dead.
12 November 2001: American Airlines Airbus A300
crashes after takeoff from JFK airport into the
New York City borough of Queens - 265 dead, including people on the ground.
30 January 2000: Kenya Airways jet (Airbus A310)
crashes in sea shortly after take-off from Abidjan, Ivory Coast. 169 dead.
31 October 1999: EgyptAir Boeing 767 crashes off
Nantucket; the NTSB blames actions by the co-pilot - 217 dead.
3 September 1998: Swissair flight 111 from New
York to Geneva crashes in sea south-west of
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, following fire in
cockpit. All 229 passengers and crew killed.
16 February 1998: China Airlines Airbus A300
crashes on landing at airport in Taipei, Taiwan - 203 dead.
26 September 1997: Garuda Indonesia Airbus A300
crashes near airport in Medan, Indonesia - 234 dead.
6 August 1997: Korean Air Boeing 747-300 crashes
on landing in Guam - 228 dead.
12 November 1996: Saudi Boeing 747 collides with
Kazakh cargo plane near New Delhi - 349 dead.
17 July 1996: TWA Boeing 747 explodes and crashes
into the Atlantic off Long Island, New York - 230 dead.
8 January 1996: 350 people die when a
Russian-built Antonov-32 cargo plane crashes into
a crowded market in the centre of the Zairean capital, Kinshasa.
6 June 1994: 160 people killed as Chinese
airliner crashes minutes after take-off from
Xian. Russian manufactured Tu-154 involved.
26 April 1994: China Airlines Airbus A300 crashes
on landing at Nagoya Airport in Japan - 264 dead.
11 July 1991: All 261 people on board a chartered
Canadian Nationair DC-8 carrying Muslim pilgrims
back to Nigeria are killed when it crashes in flames at Jeddah airport.
12 December 1985: Arrow Air DC-8 crashes after
takeoff from Newfoundland, Canada - 256 dead.
12 August 1985: Japan Air Lines Boeing 747
crashes into a mountainside after losing part of
its tail fin - 520 dead in the world's worst single-plane disaster.
19 August 1980: Saudi Tristar makes emergency
landing in Riyadh and bursts into flames - 301 dead.
28 November 1979: Air New Zealand DC-10 on a
sightseeing trip crashes on Mount Erebus in the
Antarctic, killing all 257 passengers and crew.
25 May 1979: American Airlines DC-10 crashes
after takeoff from Chicago's O'Hare Airport - 275 dead.
1 January 1978: Air India Boeing 747 crashes into
the ocean after takeoff from Mumbai - 213 dead.
27 March 1977: KLM 474, Pan American Boeing 747
collide on runway in Tenerife, Canary Islands -
583 dead in world's worst airline disaster.
3 March 1974: Turkish Airlines DC-10 en route to
London crashes in a forest near Paris, killing
all 345 people on board, nearly 200 of them British.
Source: World Almanac
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