Courtesy of Mish.
Rush to Judgment
The moment Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was gunned down last Friday, Western media rushed to judgment. Heck, even friends who should know better rushed to judgment.
One friend sent me the New York Times article After Boris Nemtsov’s Assassination, ‘There Are No Longer Any Limits’ along with this comment:
“The world cannot stand by and let the formula of repression and stealth special forces intervention and sowing contrived disruption succeed, as next there will be little green men in the Baltic states sowing dissention — we are not going to go through a rinse, repeat and shampoo cycle again in those countries.“
I replied…
The headline is ridiculous because
- No one knows who did it.
- It’s none of our business anyway
- If we have any moral responsibility it should not be to corrupt puppet governments, but rather the people of Ukraine
- The people of Ukraine do not need 4 more years of war nor a mass US invasion
- The people of the US do not need and cannot afford a war with Russia
To which I heard “Of course you think the US did it. That was predictable. One does not need to think too hard to figure out what happened here. There is a clear pattern. Europe and the liberal world order are too precious. This has to stop now.“
If that’s not rush to judgment, what is?
Numerous Possibilities
It would not surprise me in the least to find out the US or Ukraine had some involvement in this. Given disastrous US foreign policy everywhere, including involvement in the Ukraine Maidan uprising, how anyone can be sure of anything is beyond me.
I am not saying “Putin did not do it.” Rather I am saying “I don’t know”….
