Ron Paul Defends Russia After Malaysian Plane Crash

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Former Congressman Ron Paul defended the Russian government on Sunday and slammed Western leaders for spreading "propaganda" after a Malaysian Airlines plane was allegedly shot down by Kremlin-backed separatists in Ukraine.

"Western politicians and media joined together to gain the maximum propaganda value from the disaster. It had to be Russia; it had to be Putin, they said," the former presidential candidate wrote. "While western media outlets rush to repeat government propaganda on the event, there are a few things they will not report."

One of those unreported things, Paul claimed in his weekly "Texas Straight Talk" column, was the United States' own responsibility for destabilizing the region. Ukraine is currently embroiled in violent conflict between the Ukrainian government and the pro-Russian separatists.

"They will not report that the crisis in Ukraine started late last year, when EU and US-supported protesters plotted the overthrow of the elected Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovych. Without US-sponsored 'regime change,' it is unlikely that hundreds would have been killed in the unrest that followed. Nor would the Malaysian Airlines crash have happened," Paul wrote.

The U.S. government has said its intelligence suggests the plane was shot down by the separatists with weapons supplied by the Russian government. But Paul, echoing Russia's own line of defense, insinuated the Ukrainian government is to blame.

美國眾議員羅恩·保羅 抨擊西方領導人:

“西方政客和媒體聯合起來，從災難中獲得最大的宣傳價值它"

他們說: 必須是俄羅斯; 必須是普京!

 “雖然西方媒體急於重複政府的宣傳活動，有幾件事情，他們將不會報告。”

保羅在他每週的“德州實話實說”欄目聲稱: 其中的一個未報告的事，是美國自己分裂區域不穩定的責任。烏克蘭目前正捲入烏克蘭政府和親俄分裂勢力之間的暴力衝突。