Today Caitlyn Johnstone’s “US May Help Ukraine Launch An Offensive On Crimea “ tore into the Jan. 18 New York Times article, “U.S. Warms to Helping Ukraine Target Crimea,” with a voice of morality and maturity tragically missing from Western warriors.
First she cites Responsible Statecraft’s Anatol Lieven from October, who wrote that, if “Ukraine goes on to try to reconquer Crimea, which the overwhelming majority of Russians regard as simply Russian territory, the chances of an escalation to nuclear war become extremely high.”