White House: Russia launched most destructive cyber-attack in history

QUOTE from the article above….

….Kremlin’s ongoing effort to destabilize Ukraine.

WHO….spent $5 BILLION…..in efforts to DE-STABiLIE$ Ukraine……..Victoria NEW-land$….or……Vlad. ?

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Why the West is to blame for the crisis in Ukraine: the full story

We can’t begin to understand the UKRANIAN CATASTROPHE unless we REJECT THE dominant WESTERN ACCOUNT of what is happening.

Richard Sakwa’s new book is a rare and precious exception. It is clear and measured and carefully researched and it shows that the story we are told in the west about events inside Ukraine is deeply flawed.

More generally, IT EXPOSES the idea that Russia is the aggressor and the West the protector of Ukraine’s democratic will as A
TRAVESTY of the TRUTH. In short, Sakwa’s analysis is diametrically opposed to what passes for an explanation of the Ukraine crisis in the mainstream.

One of the book’s great strengths is that it sees the crisis as a product of two connected processes, one domestic, one geopolitical.

Far from being a straightforward expression of popular will, Sakwa details how the government that emerged from the Maidan protests in February 2014 represented the victory of a minority hardline anti-Russian Ukrainian nationalism.

But this minority could come to dominate, he argues, because of the context provided by an aggressive, US-LED, Western FOREIGN POLICY DESIGNED TO ASSERT Western CONTROL OVER EASTERN EUROPE AND, at least in its more hawkish versions, DE-STABILISE RUSSIA.

THE PUSH TO THE EAST

NATO and the EU HAVE BEEN PSHING STEADILY EASTWARDS ever since the end of the Cold War, DESPITE VERBAL ASSURANCES from a series of Western leaders THAT THIS WOULD NOT HAPPEN.

http://www.stopwar.org.uk/news-comment/977-why-the-west-is-to-blame-for-the-crisis-in-ukraine-the-full-story