American art director Oliver Stone says no one should trust US media, which condemn pro-Russian separatists for downing Malaysia's Boeing-777 in Ukraine. According to the filmmaker, there is no certain proof that the jet was downed by the rebels. The US authorities and media are trying to manipulate the public, Stone believes.
Russian political analyst Sergey Mikheyev agrees with the American art director. "The Americans have almost gone mad, thinking about their mission to make everybody happy, a mission they have made up for themselves. They believe the whole world consists of second-grade people. They are experimenting with other countries. They treat people like guinea-pigs. Ukraine is some kind of a laboratory to them," Mikheyev said.
According to him, Russians are still bound by old Soviet stereotypes. "We believe the West is great, that it is a sparkling city on a high hill, at the bottom of which we live. We think that they don't understand us, that they can't hear us. In fact they understand everything. They simply don't care. They are not interested in dialogue. They think they can rule the world as they want to," Mikheyev says.
Mikheyev also says that the EU is not interested in a successful investigation into the case. "If the investigation proves that Russia is responsible for the attack, the EU will be forced to impose further sanctions on the country, which European countries are not interested in at all. If it is proved that the Ukrainian military conducted the attack, it will be clear that the EU has been supporting criminals. In any case, the EU seems likely to follow the US line," he says.
