It didn’t take long for Dutch newspapers and national television broadcast editors to locate U.S. neocon ‘experts’ to tell us how we should think and handle the investigation into the crash of Malaysian passenger jet MH-17 in Ukraine.
Interview Anne Applebaum with Dutch tv Nieuwsuur on Sat. July 19, 2014
According to the renowned journalist / columnist Anne Applebaum is the crash the result of the Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine who only created chaos. Russian President Vladimir Putin was out on the chaos and is therefore guilty, argues Applebaum.
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Promocja książki Anne Applebaum "Iron Curtain"Scandulous, especially as the Dutch expert Hubert Smeets claims all her arguments are plausible. He does mention she is married to Radek Sikorski, foreign minister of Poland. He further adds: “She is not known for anti-Russian bias.” What an extreme portion of neocon propaganda. We have seen the original media bias on Dutch television become more aggressive. So far I expect the independent and professional community of forensic experts not to be influenced by any political pressure. It appears the Dutch political community are already succumbing to media pressure.
Dutch foreign minister Timmermans had traveled to Kiev to make arrangement for Dutch forensic experts to travel to the Donetsk region, a distance of 800 km to the crash site. I sincerely wonder why he did not travel via Russia as the crash site at Shakhtars’k, just east of the city of Donetsk and 30 km from the border with Russia. According to western propaganda from Samantha Power and coming from the White House, the open borders to the rebels in eastern Ukraine, Russia has delivered the Buk-M1 SAM system used to take Malaysian flight MH-17 down. May I suggest Dutch PM Mark Rutte use the Russian ‘hospitality’ of president Putin to travel from Moscow to the border in the Donetsk region. Rutte can hitch a ride with one of those military convoys or take the bike for the last 30 km and make it happen himself as he promised the Dutch people [Google translation to English].
Close Trading Ties Between Russia and Netherlands
Russian export to The Netherlands is due to gas transport from the east and re-distributed. The Dutch had one of the largest gas fields of Slochteren and has the pipeline infrastructure in place for Europe.
Gazprom and Gasunie ink MOU – 2006
April 2014 – Amsterdam hosted the annual meetings of the Coordinating Committee for Strategic Cooperation and the Coordination Committee for Sci-Tech Collaboration between Gazprom and Gasunie, chaired by Dmitry Lyugai, Member of the Management Committee, Head of the Prospective Development Department of Gazprom and Hans Coenen, Vice President for Corporate Strategy & Portfolio Management, Managing Director of Gasunie Deutschland. [Source: Gazprom]
Dutch Shell has an excellent working relationship with Russia on their joint projects.
The Dutch have had warm relationship with Russia dating back to Peter the Great.
In today’s politics, PM Rutte supports a moderate towards Russia as advocated by Angela Merkel. The Dutch rely on their exports on Germany due to its port in Rotterdam and the Rhine waterway for transport to the Rühr industrial area. The Dutch will likely support Italian FM Federica Mogherini. above Poland’s neocon hawk Radek Sikorski for the position as EU’s foreign policy chief.
[A few hours ago, I linked to Sikorski’s original article which now appears to have been scrubbed. I will link below the cached version on server of WayBackMachine]
AEI Conference “Ukraine’s Choice: Europe or Russia?” attended by NAI director Sikorski
- ○ Defense minister, Radek Sikorski, is a card carrying neocon – 2005
○ EU initiated the Eastern Partnership Program in 2009
The rebels in East Ukraine don’t have a BUK-M1 defence system so the Russians must have delivered one. The rebels don’t have the qualifications to launch a missile from such a complex system, so Russians must have operated the system and pushed the button. Tú entiendes? ○ Remarks by Ambassador Samantha Power, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations, at the Security Council Meeting on Ukraine US building case tying separatists to plane crash by White House correspondent Julie Pace WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States began building a case Friday linking pro-Russian separatists to… Read more »
Will they release the evidence that they claim to have for all to see and evaluate? Or will this be like the Iraq WMD propaganda based on a tissue of lies?
Odd that the public so quickly accepts an obvious and concerted effort to gain their support without any facts after all the times they’ve been punked.
Is Europe prepared to freeze next winter? And get only a bit of relief by buying US LNG at some multiple of the cost of Russian gas?
Liquified natural gas lies in the future, for the plants to liquify the gas do not yet exist–provided the fracking bubble does not pop and it never happens at all!
This winter Europe freezes. Don’t tell them and spoil the fun!
–Gaianne
Plants already exist and we’ve been exporting LNG for at least fifteen years. Not in the quantity needed to keep Europeans warm this winter which is why I said “only a bit of relief.” Quite silly to think that the US can frack its way to keeping Europe warm and cozy.
Red flag alert: Ghouta gas attack Sniper killings Maidan revolution Downing Malaysian airliner MH-17 Apparently using the same blueprint to act on gossip, rumor, propaganda and lies as a year ago with the expected bombing raid over Syria. What was the purpose of an Ukrainian Su-27 fighter jet flanking the MH-17 passenger plane. More questions than answers. You are moderate, the Dutch right wingers want to send the Marines to Donetsk to pick up the body bags of the victims by military force. Shame. The junta in Kiev has intensified its siege on Luhansk and started bombing Donetsk this morning… Read more »
[sic] Obama and his team have really hit the RESET button. Brave warrior Joe Biden. U.S. Expert Pushes for Soviet Debt Write-Off by Alexei Germanovich, Maxim Trudolyubov, Yulia Ulyanova (Moscow Times) June 18, 2001 – One of Washington’s most influential security experts has said that the United States could call for a total write-off of Russia’s Soviet-era debt, even if the move stirs the ire of Western allies such as Germany. Richard Perle, who served as Assistant Secretary of Defense under former U.S. President Ronald Reagan and is regarded by some observers as an unofficial advisor to the current… Read more »
British And American Covert Operations In Chechnya “The Clinton administration followed up by providing strong support to the KLA, even though it was known that the Kosovo Liberation Army supported the Muslim mujahadeen. Despite that knowledge, then Secretary of State Madeleine Albright had the KLA removed from the State Department list of terrorists. This action paved the way for the United States to provide the KLA with needed logistical support. At the same time, the KLA also received support from Iran and Usama bin Laden, along with ‘Islamic holy warriors’ who were jihad veterans from Bosnia, Chechnya and Afghanistan. Swiss… Read more »
Due to damaged tracks and bombed infrastructure in Donetsk Region, the train had a delay of 16 hours and is expected to arrive in Charkov at 12:00 [-1:00]. Dutch government ofiicials have communicated solely with the western regime in Kiev. Large swats in East Ukraine are under control of local militia and international groups like OSCE provide the contact with a diverse network of rebels. The official term used by the OSCE is non-state actors. Malaysia experts have had talks with the local ‘rebel’ leaders to secure the release of the two black boxes. `Industrial scale’ tampering of evidence at… Read more »
I’ve had serious issues with the writing from Pat Lang, but is this an indication of mutiny inside the CIA?
○ MH-17 = Ghouta Redux? by Confused Ponderer [blog Sic Semper Tyrannis]