Have NATO leaders created a crisis to justify NATO's continuation after its original purpose expired?

Former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul says: "Without U.S.-sponsored 'regime change,' it is unlikely that ... the Malaysian Airlines crash would have happened." Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation, wonders why Washington is risking war with Russia. John Mearsheimer argues the Ukraine crisis Is the West's fault.

William Pfaff, writing in these pages, agrees: the United States started the Ukraine crisis, which "may end in a war."