How
many times has Russia invaded Ukraine in the last year? Let’s add
them up
From
Sarah Palin to John McCain, from the NYT to the BBC, over the past
year Russia has invaded Ukraine so many times that Google delivers
over 1.3 million results on the subject. The newest accusation of
Russian invasion has gotten so old and worn out, that people are
simply starting to tune out the folly and silliness of the “boy who
cried wolf.”
13
November, 2014
As
we approach the one year anniversary of the “Euromaidan”
protests, and eventual coup of President Yanukovych, one meme has
dominated the Ukraine headlines ever since, the
‘Russian military invasion of Ukraine.’
Last
week Ukraine’s Military spokesman Col. Andriy
Lysenko, accused Russia of sending tanks, troops and lot’s of
other stuff across the border into Ukraine, as reported
by the NY Times:
Speaking in Kiev, the capital, Col. Andriy Lysenko, a Ukrainian military spokesman, said 32 tanks, 16 howitzers and 30 trucks hauling ammunition and fighters had crossed into the Luhansk region from Russia.
He presented no clear evidence to support the claim, nor did the wealth of social media outlets in eastern Ukraine display any footage of a tank convoy. The Kiev government frequently made such claims that could not be substantiated during intense fighting between Ukrainian government troops and separatists earlier this year.
Neither NATO nor the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which is monitoring a cease-fire, could confirm the report.
Zerohedge’s
article on the newest Russian invasion into Ukraine was aptly
titled,
“The
Ukraine Who Cried Wolf: Kiev
Reports 32 Russian Tanks Cross Border, Market Completely Ignores.”
So
how many times has Ukraine, NATO, Jen Psaki and the main stream media
“cried wolf?” Let’s find out.
First
off, doing a simple Google search for just the term, “Russian
invasion of Ukraine” yields
1,350,000 results. Lots of Russian invasion stories are floating
about online.
Let’s
get into just how many instances of ‘Russian
invasions’ or
near ‘Russian
invasions’ have
been reported this past year, starting from early days of the coup
until Col. Andriy Lysenko latest ‘invasion’ announcement.
It’s
a long, long list…
February
28, 2014: Ukraine
Accuses Russia Of Invasion, Considers State Of Emergency After Masked
Gunmen Occupy Two Crimean Airports.
March
2, 2014: Sarah
Palin Predicted Ukraine Invasion in 2008
March
3, 2014: Russian
Invasion of Crimean Peninsula. Movements and Forces
March
3, 2014: Why
Did Russia Invade Ukraine? Because The West Is Weak
March
13, 2014: Russian
Troops Mass at Border With Ukraine. Possible Invasion
March
15, 2014: Ukraine
Says It Has Repelled A Russian Army “Invasion”
March
18, 2014: Ukraine
Hikes Tensions Again, Says Russian Army Concentrated Near East Border
For “Quick Invasion”
May
1, 2014: Ukraine
minister: Russia planning invasion
May
30, 2014: Russians
Invade Donetsk (VIDEO)
June
14, 2014: Russia’s
slow invasion of Ukraine
June
20, 2014: Open
Russian invasion into Ukraine has begun
July
30, 2014: Putin
could invade Ukraine in response to sanctions
August
05, 2014: Poland’s
Sikorski Saying Russian Units Are Poised to Pressure or Invade
Ukraine, Sees ‘Huge’ Escalation of Crisis if This Happened
August
6, 2014: Growing
threat of Russia invading Ukraine, Hagel says
August
14, 2014: Russian
aid convoy blocked as Ukraine fears invasion pretext
August
14, 2014: Russia’s
invasion of Ukraine continues
August
22, 2014: Russian
Humanitarian Convoy Enters Ukraine Without Authorization; Ukraine
Considers Move “Direct Invasion”
August
25, 2014: Russia
Prepares 2nd Humanitarian Convoy “Invasion”
August
27, 2014: Ukraine
Reports Russian Invasion on a New Front
August
28, 2014: Ukraine
Accuses Russia Of Launching Invasion, Then Promptly Retracts
August
28, 2014: Has
Russia invaded Ukraine? Here’s what we know
August
28, 2014: Poroshenko
says Russia invaded Ukraine
August
29, 2014: U.S.
official says 1,000 Russian troops have entered Ukraine
August
29, 2014: Russia’s
Slow-Motion Invasion of Ukraine
September
2, 2014: The
State Department Says Russia Is Invading Ukraine—Should We Believe
It?
September
4, 2014: Invasion
of Ukraine Continues; Russian Ideologist Calls for “Genocide”
October
3, 2014: Can
US Support for Ukraine Help Prevent a New Russian Invasion?
November
8, 2014: NATO
Sees ‘High Probability’ Of Russian Invasion Of Ukraine
November
12, 2014: Ukraine’s
Ambassador to the UN says Russia planning full-scale invasion
Thats
a lot of invasions, near invasions, possible invasions and fear of
invasions going on…and that’s just like 3 pages of Google
results.
With
all that Russian troop movement west, one would think they would
have captured London by now.
Now the
truth as spoken by CounterPunch, in a post titled, “What
Russian Invasion?”
The agreement to stop the fighting was reached at negotiations organized and led by Russia and held in Minsk, the capital of Belarus. It was reached at the same time that the US was pressing leaders of the NATO countries, at a meeting in Wales, to boost their military spending and to set up more offensive military positions in countries bordering Russia.
The one thing that did not happen as a result of the cease-fire, and that in fact never even got addressed in the Minsk talks, was a withdrawal of Russian troops from eastern Ukraine.
There was no withdrawal or even mention of those troops — said to number about 1000 by the US and the Kiev government — because there never were Russian troops invading Ukraine.
Usually
when someone cries wolf it’s because they want something, likely a
scam or some kind of swindling going down.
In
this case Ukraine is crying wolf in order to have EU and US taxpayers
front the bill for their expenses…gas, oil, oligarch party
funds, Hunter Biden – Igor Kolomoisky benders, etc…
For
the main stream media, well they are in bed with the MIC (military
industrial complex), so their payoff is more business manufacturing
war.
The
US and EU leaders who support the invasion meme are also in the
pockets of the MIC, so it’s good business…and manufacturing fear
is also what helps keep them in office.
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