'Fundamentally misleading' - Seumas Milne on Ukraine conflict and Western media spin

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Seumas Milne, associate editor of The Guardian, talks to Going Underground host Afshin Rattansi about the Ukraine crisis. He thinks that Cameron knew what he was doing when he supported the overthrow of a 'corrupt but elected' leader and that it was a provocation that would cause conflict with Russia. In addition, he says there is a substantial part of the population that doesn't want a government focused on the west of the country looking to Europe. He believes the media has presented a very one-sided story of the Maidan rebellion and ensuing events, playing down the role the far-right played in it and creating a picture which is misleading and fanning the flames of the conflict. He says there is covert support from Russia for the rebels, but clearly Russia does not have troops in the country otherwise the defeats suffered by government forces would have been considerable. He feels the West are hypocrites for criticising this given the role they have played in various wars across the globe in past years. He says that what needs to happen is a settlement based on autonomy for the east of the country and that Ukraine will not become part of NATO, but there seems to be no pressure on the Kiev government to come to this, risking thousands more deaths and the chance of the east of the country breaking away. The NATO powers are following a policy of escalation over Ukraine despite not being willing to go to war over Ukraine, and their policy will lead to the losers being the Ukrainian people.

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