Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
July 24, 2014
Obviously, this was my assumption to begin with, given the ridiculousness of the claim that the separatists were responsible.
The paper says that the US has stopped the release of the satellite photos because they tell such a different story than the one being pushed by the media, which is basically that Vladimir Putin shot it down himself, on purpose, because he is a mean person.
The article describes drunken soldiers (everyone on both sides of this war is apparently in a constant state of inebriation) in Ukrainian military uniforms firing the BUK missiles. The Maidan has yet to explain why it is they had anti-aircraft missiles in the region when the separatists have no planes, despite inquiring minds wanting to know.
The German paper cites Consortium News, which reported:
What I’ve been told by one source, who has provided accurate information on similar matters in the past, is that U.S. intelligence agencies do have detailed satellite images of the likely missile battery that launched the fateful missile, but the battery appears to have been under the control of Ukrainian government troops dressed in what look like Ukrainian uniforms.
The source said CIA analysts were still not ruling out the possibility that the troops were actually eastern Ukrainian rebels in similar uniforms but the initial assessment was that the troops were Ukrainian soldiers. There also was the suggestion that the soldiers involved were undisciplined and possibly drunk, since the imagery showed what looked like beer bottles scattered around the site, the source said.
Instead of pressing for these kinds of details, the U.S. mainstream press has simply passed on the propaganda coming from the Ukrainian government and the U.S. State Department, including hyping the fact that the Buk system is “Russian-made,” a rather meaningless fact that gets endlessly repeated.
However, to use the “Russian-made” point to suggest that the Russians must have been involved in the shoot-down is misleading at best and clearly designed to influence ill-informed Americans. As the Post and other news outlets surely know, the Ukrainian military also operates Russian-made military systems, including Buk anti-aircraft batteries, so the manufacturing origin has no probative value here.
One thing is certain: the US government has satellites capable of reading the license plate of cars, so there is simply very little possibility that they don’t know who fired these missiles. Their only option here, if this information is proved to be true, would be to claim that separatists had put on Ukrainian military uniforms.
Though I doubt they will ever release the satellite footage anyway, and the media won’t ask them for it. So they won’t ever be in a position of having to explain it.