Western Blame For Escalating Tensions in The Ukraine

Is the threat of a war between Russia and the Ukraine exclusively about Russian aggression or has the West played a role in escalating the conflict?

Mainstream Western media tends to paint a very one-sided view of the conflict that has been developing between the West and Russia over several years. What about the Russian perspective on this conflict? How often do we hear it?

Before continuing, let me be clear about the intention of this story as people tend to view these issues in completely black and white. Putin is an oppressive autocrat. He kills opposition politicians and journalists exposing the abuses of his regime. Russia itself suffers from a countrywide paranoia about the West and Western intentions.

Yet we do a disservice to the public by presenting only one perspective on this conflict and simplifying the Russian perspective as being exclusively about some megalomaniac desire to expand and build a huge empire. It is about as dumb as when George W. Bush explained to the public that 9/11 happened because Osama bin Laden hated American freedom. Such explanations are beyond idiotic but it seems people like hearing them. It doesn’t mean Osama bin Laden had good reasons to do what he did. But that is not the point. Just because somebody is a bad person and has bad reasons doesn’t mean you get to change the facts to serve your own agenda. The public has a right to…