The pattern has become a familiar one. For months, Breedlove has been commenting on Russian activities in eastern Ukraine, speaking of troop advances on the border, the amassing of munitions and alleged columns of Russian tanks. Over and over again, Breedlove's numbers have been significantly higher than those in the possession of America's NATO allies in Europe. As such, he is playing directly into the hands of the hardliners in the US Congress and in NATO.

The German government is alarmed. Are the Americans trying to thwart European efforts at mediation led by Chancellor Angela Merkel? Sources in the Chancellery have referred to Breedlove's comments as "dangerous propaganda."

When are the Europeans going to figure out that NATO is dominated by imperious neocons and run for imperious neocon interests, and for no other agenda?

Facts, logic, and even reality mean nothing to these people. They say: "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality."

And they also make of their own facts to suit whatever their latest (self-serving) version of "reality" happens to be.

Putin's Russia is their latest target for nation-hijacking, and so in their sick, arrogant and deluded minds, Putin's Russia is doing whatever they say it's doing because they dictate reality (no matter how far-fetched or fantastical those dictates).

But it's not just the neocons; Big Brother-stooge "liberal" American MSM has been making up facts about "Russian aggression" out of whole cloth as well, and passing them off to their readers as reality.

So it's not just Europeans who are dumbfounded. I don't think average Americans have figured out exactly how sick, deluded, totalitarian and dangerous these insular, neolib-neocon, echo chamber-dwelling freaks and gurus truly are.