John, what are you, an apologist for a warmongering, bloodthirsty Stalinist Russian president!? Or are you just as demonstrably mad as the aforementioned is?
I don't see any American boots on the ground in the Ukraine, but plenty of Russian special forces ones!
Nor do I see American troops massing on Ukraine's border, just a huge Russian military build up.
Twice the Russian President has promised to move his forces back and twice all we can see is more of the same!
John, your articles stand out for the sheer amount of BS! But this time you seem to have excelled and shoveled it by the shipload!
So the Americans have 124 secret bases?
Can't be too secret, given you seem to know about them? What did they do, send you a list?
What you don't seem to know or care about, is how many Russian and China have, or how many unarmed citizens have been shot where they stood, just for having the temerity, for trying to leave?
Putin may be able to "acquire" Ukraine's considerable oil reserves? Mostly by turning really dumb Ukrainians against each other, with more of the stuff you've been shoveling!
Well done and ably assisted by none other, than filth shoveling fifth columnists?
But what good will that do him if 90%+ of his European oil and gas markets dry up? I mean, it is all the keeps the Russian economy afloat!
And Ukraine nationalists are never going to take on the Russians in a conventional war, but emulate the Afghans, who just made conquest far too expensive for an already impoverished Russia, with little else to sell but oil and gas!
And Putin could just make sure he kills off 100% of his oil/gas market, just by starting WW111!
If America is involved, it will be by just shipping quite massive ordinance to Poland etc, so that they can unite in an, who's next on Putin's list, underground war of resistance, that bleeds the Russian paper thin economy dry!
[Patently, Putin's verbal assurances are not worth the paper they're written on!]
Rhrosty.

Why is America's fault? The Ukraine ousted an extremely corrupt President who favoured Russia. The Russians send in goons to intimidate people & mass their Army directly on the Border. Russia sends in thugs to intimidate people.

The Yanks say, "That's not nice," & the UN puts in sanctions against Russia for their bulling tactic. Suddenly it's America's fault? eh!

How can Pilger assert that for the first time since the Reagan years the US is trying to take the world to war? And this after Afghanistan and Iraq, to name just the two foremost examples of the US recently taking the world to war.

I think you have totally lost the plot Mr. Pilger. Possibly because your myopic view of the world prevents you from seeing anything beyond your emotional activism.

Try some simple stuff for a change, it sort of goes like this.

The Ukraine is part of the post Soviet block by treaty. The Ukraine is part of the Russian supply line for Gazprom to Europe and sources 50% of it’s own gas from Russia.

Russia has many pipelines to Europe, Eastern Mediterranean and UK customers and can simply ramp up volume at will.

The Ukraine defaulted on payment for gas bills because it sold gas but did not pay for it and now owes Russia $2.5bn.

Any EU/UN G7 sanctions on gas purchases from Russia will be tokenistic at best because the idiots running Europe were so busy building winds farms they forgot all about strategic energy security and now they are in the Poo.

The USA will change their energy legislation to permit exports of a wider range of their surplus fossil fuels just to “help” their European friends of course.

The Ukraine has been responsive to UN, EU and NATO overtures which obviously threatens Russian access to vast military infrastructure and Russia’s only all year round Naval base in the Crimea.

Putin can do whatever he likes with the Ukraine because the USA and the Euro coalitions are gutless, impotent wimps who will/can do nothing more than squeal like schoolgirls.

That John, is all you need to know.

Have a lay down and take a Bex until you can slowly drift back into some sort of reality.

http://tarpley.net/
some HISTORIC BACk GROUND

We're already amidst WWIII...what do you think a global "war on terror" where you can't identify a country, a flag or a uniform means? It's a war whereby anybody or any group can be deemed a "terrorist" by anyone, for their own political agenda(s), but of course, mainly America's.

Next!