28 August 2014

Ukraine: A bumpy road to what?

The most inane headline of the week (if not of the year):


For the sake of full disclosure it must be added that the headline above is almost certainly the work of an on-line editor, the real headline of the article is "After 8 months of conflict, what's next for Ukraine?". Which is somewhat myopic too, but at least not that outright stupid.

If you look at another article on the same page of CNN, you shall see what I mean:
Pro-Moscow rebel forces in eastern Ukraine, backed by Russian tanks and armored personnel carriers, battled government forces on two fronts Thursday, a Ukrainian military official said.
And:
Moscow denies supporting and arming the pro-Russia rebels. It has also repeatedly denied allegations by Kiev that it has sent troops over the border.

However, the Prime Minister of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic, Alexander Zakharchenko, acknowledged Thursday that there are current Russian servicemen fighting in the rebels' ranks in eastern Ukraine.
This thing could very soon erupt in a full scale war, a possibility of WW III not excluded.

And the CNN deep thinkers keep carping about a bumpy road to peace?

A well paved road to war be an apt description. But what do I know about selling news?

Update
: Ukraine crisis: Nato images 'show Russia troops'

15 comments:

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Verily.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Hogwash, yes - lots of this going around lately.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

I used to look up to that network once. Oh well...

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Well, this is down to individual level this time. A specific individual who invented this headline.

Dick Stanley said...

Fox is all that's left now, for all its faults. At least in the US. The alphabet media are all the same.

BHCh said...

That's nothing, compared to the Commander in Chief: "The sanctions that we've already applied have been effective," Obama said."

http://www.nationaljournal.com/white-house/did-russia-just-invade-ukraine-depends-whom-you-ask-20140828

What IS he smoking? I mean... I would expect the likes of Putin to explain that war is peace and all that, but still get surprised when this shit is coming from POTUS.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

And here we are between Ynet and Haaretz. Oh well, there is ToI at least.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Could be.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Well, he has more than an average measure of the stuff.

Dick Stanley said...

ToI has a good story which indicates the Worm is still blocking transfer of arms, which could be another reason for the pullout:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/us-missiles-to-be-released-soon-whatever-the-hellfire-that-means/

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Yep. Time to build our own then, and quick.

Dick Stanley said...

Wormtongue is a special case. He has to try and get attention now since hardly anyone, in or out of the country, pays attention to him anymore.

Dick Stanley said...

Back when whats-his-name intoned "This is CNN"? Back before they hired the shouters.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Well, at list sometime in the eighties, far as I remember.

David All said...

This would probably include 100% of Palestinians in Gaza who do not want to be shot as traitors by Hamas for voicing a dissenting opinion.