COMMENT POSTED TO A COLUMN IN RINF
There can be no doubt that Mr. Zuesse is correct about
Ukraine having destroyed MH-17, however I cannot agree, without further
evidence, that the act was a "black flag” operation.
It may have been, of course, but we have no solid evidence
for that as we very much do for Ukraine's actually downing the airliner.
Sheer incompetence alone, demonstrated over and over, by
Ukraine's military provides a pretty compelling explanation with no further
motives required.
I think the greatest lesson we can all learn from these
events concerns America's approach to world affairs today.
The United States unquestionably has spy satellite data of
this event - its fleet of "Keyhole" satellites with capabilities resembling
those of NASA's space telescope cover the earth - yet it has never offered any
of it to the international community.
It also unquestionably has radar data of the event, this
being a region of constant interest to America’s military, and America has some
of the world's best radars yet, again, it has offered absolutely nothing to the
international community.
Last, the extraordinary - virtually criminal - dilatory
proceedings of the Dutch investigators can only reasonably be interpreted as
suppression of evidence in response to American pressure, America having been
deeply concerned that its fledgling coup-created government in Kiev would be discredited
so early in its life by a destructive blunder.
We have seen many times a fairly straightforward crash like
this explained by authorities within weeks or less, as was the recent case with
the German plane widely scattered over difficult terrain in the Alps. The delay
over MH-17 surely can only be deliberate.
Whatever the final resolution, the entire matter remains one
big tissue of lies, and it is profoundly disturbing that European leaders
remain so under the malign influence of the United States here and in other
matters, allowing themselves to hurt their economies through America's
insistence on penalties and needlessly to threaten a new cold war over an ugly
set of lies.
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Comment from another reader:
“Sadly, I think the UN
is as corrupt as any other politically controlled entity. Don't expect a
different result”
Indeed, today the UN behaves as corruptly as the Dutch crash
investigators and the seeming victory of Malaysia in bringing the investigation
to the UN’s scrutiny likely amounts to nothing. Ban Ki-Moon is Washington's man
in every last matter, often displaying the most obsequious and embarrassing
public behavior.
