See entire article for additional interesting background info.
Okay, so the Russians anticipated and are at least 50 percent culpable, I wouldn’t doubt one bit, but how is this drastically different from U.S. provoking war with Great Britain in 1812? Or with Indian Tribes from the 1776 to 1890? Or with Mexico in 1846, or with Spain in 1898? Or, as some would have it, by letting Japan hit us at Pearl Harbor in 1941, so as to justify going full bore in the Pacific and in Europe?
I just keep getting wind in a lot of the Western press of the “holier than thou” attitudes that very conveniently blank out any parallels to our own oftentimes questionable historical record (all-in-all, though, certainly still scoring an overall ‘A’ in this world.) Sure, the Rooskiis are pissed off and acting like big gorillas who just fell out of trees, but our own history, as much as we’d like to dress it up, oftentimes approximates this sort of ugliness, so why all the hypocritical hand-wringing?