23-02-2014, 10:26 PM
The tiring US media spin on all of this is that the protestors are good guys just trying to get closer to the West and freedom, while the bad guys in the government are making the mistake of trying to be close to Russia.
For 20 years, NATO has been steadily expanding, gobbling up former Soviet republics, right up to the borders of Russia itself. To the extent that the media talks about it at all, it's portrayed as some sort of normal process. Only the "paranoid" Russians think there's something bad about it.
For 20 years, NATO has been steadily expanding, gobbling up former Soviet republics, right up to the borders of Russia itself. To the extent that the media talks about it at all, it's portrayed as some sort of normal process. Only the "paranoid" Russians think there's something bad about it.