Yes some, but also very biased and it's debatable as to how suppressed it is considering it's pretty much common knowledge.
Sure, Libya has become a terrorist haven, that's true. But if there was no intervention, Libya would have been a war zone AND a terrorist haven. Syria has shown us what inaction does. So yes there's some truth there but the important parts are what he left out. At best the merits of the Libyan intervention are debatable and not so matter of factly as he presents.
Hardly any actually. The so-called "coup" was "masterminded" by Yanukovych himself when he trucked in the Berkut special police force from Crimea into Kiev and ordered them to open fire on demonstrators despite the official orders from the Interior minister who ordered them not to. That's why there's a warrant out for Yanukovych's arrest for the murder of a hundred or so Ukrainians. Did the CIA orchestrate that? That's pretty laughable. The idea that the US cares about the Russian naval base in Crimea is pretty funny too. Even if Ukraine joined NATO, which was and still is unlikely, those bases would surely stay where they are because 1) they present no real threat and 2) provide a steady source of income for Ukraine. And if say the worst case scenario came true, and Ukraine kicked out the Russian bases, is that really a big deal? Look on the map and you'd see that Russia could build new bases just across the sea on the Russian side. It's not like Russia would lose strategic value here, which means, there's little incentive for NATO to oust Russian naval bases in Crimea only so they can relocate a few hundred KMs to the East.
The Hitch was also in favour of the Iraq war. I disagree with Hitchens on whether we should throw our support blindly behind the program of US hegemony just because it's killing a lot of Muslims.
Libya would have been a whole state mostly peaceful with jihadis continuing to cause trouble in the East though likely suppressed by now while Al Qaeda members would still be safely behind bars and more people would still have electricity, clean water and sewage treatment. We backed nutcases and busted up the civilian infrastructure and we have turned that place into a total mess that we will have to deal with for years. This is no defense of Ghaddafi as a person, but the place was a better, more stable place to live for more people under him than under the chaos they have now.
Seems like our inaction is leading to the jihadists being defeated - despite our efforts to arm and train them - which doesn't count as inaction, but I know what you mean. Action, to you, is bombing the crap out of a country - destroy the village to save it kind of thing, like Iraq.
That is one parties narrative. One would hardly expect they would investigate this and find themselves guilty. And considering that the police had been holding back despite extreme violence from a small sector of the crowd and the fact that shooting at protesters is a well worn and time honoured way to escalate the situation - well, the Yanukovych orchestrated a coup against himself theory is not the least kooky conspiracy theory I've ever heard.
Because the neo-cons would never be that venal? Have you forgotten PNAC or did you think that the Cheneyites, after 30 years, would just down tools because there's a black president. Hegemony requires denying adversaries strategic territory.
I'm still waiting for you to post the big names associated with Gazprom and Rosneft.
Sorry, when did we get on the topic of Iraq?
I imagine that's how you think other people think, but that's, well, too cartoony. Black and white thinking is in the realm of the extreme thinker, most middle of the road thinkers think in grey. And that means people try to find the least corrupt or least evil. Those who seek out whatever color they think purity is are missing something in the head.
I don't know. Are these the trucks that have been inspected by the red cross and Ukraine and confirmed to be carrying only humanitarian aid or are these other trucks? It was my understanding that all the trucks art the border had been inspected in the days they have been stuck there.