Nice to see some pushback on the Dkos rec list
Dear United States, not everything in the world is about YOU…

Several contributors here wrote diaries about neocon involvement in the events in Ukraine. These diaries share two common misconceptions, and both of these misconceptions are glaringly conspiracy-minded, Americo-centric, and anti-progressive:
1. Everything that happens in the world happens because some force in the US made it happen.
2. Reading a popular article (or several) in the US or (at best) English press makes you an expert on a mad rat’s nest of regional conflicts that predates the US by several centuries.