Peter Dickinson: How the international media enables Russian aggression in Ukraine
People hold a banner reading "No to a foreign armed mission" as pro-Russian insurgents take part in a drill exercise in preparation for deployment of an armed international police force in rebel-held areas on July 20, 2016 in Shakhtarsk.
If anyone had attempted to report on "German-backed forces" in Nazi-occupied France or "pro-Soviet forces" during the Prague Spring, they would have been dismissed as either hopelessly misinformed or deeply disingenuous.
