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TheAnarchist
reply to post by GrantedBail
Welcome to the Cold War, version 2.0.
I'm gonna be right here, choosing the side of humanity and not getting involved in either side. I think ALL major governments of today are run by corrupted idiots who are either too greedy or too evil to behave normally and think like a healthy human being, and I want no part to do with any of their corrosive, self-destructive regimes.
Anarchism all the way until death for me. Anyone who actively supports any of these governments deserves whatever terrible consequences befall them as far as I'm concerned. It's time we put our money where our mouth is and stopped complying with (and encouraging) these bloodthirsty idiots.
declair
reply to post by Danbones
Military attaches do not use gmail or nippernet. They use the SIPRNET. This is a fake set up
GrantedBail
reply to post by Vasa Croe
On the heels of this:
General Dempsey: US ready for military response to Russia if Crimean conflict escalates
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States General Martin Dempsey has claimed that in the case of an escalation of unrest in Crimea, the U.S. Army is ready to back up Ukraine and its allies in Europe with military actions.
According to the Web site of the Atlantic Council, Dempsey said that "he's been talking to his military counterparts in Russia, but he's also sending a clear message to Ukraine and members of NATO that the U.S. military will respond militarily if necessary."
"We're trying to tell [Russia] not to escalate this thing further into Eastern Ukraine, and allow the conditions to be set for some kind of resolution in Crimea. We do have treaty obligations with our NATO allies. And I have assured them that if that treaty obligation is triggered [in Europe], we would respond," Dempsey said.
Linkedit on 12-3-2014 by GrantedBail because: (no reason given)
‘I think Yats is the guy who's got the economic experience, the governing experience’.
During the conversation, Paet quoted a woman named Olga – who the Russian media identified her as Olga Bogomolets, a doctor – blaming snipers from the opposition shooting the protesters.
"What was quite disturbing, this same Olga told that, well, all the evidence shows that people who were killed by snipers from both sides, among policemen and people from the streets, that they were the same snipers killing people from both sides," Paet said.
"So she also showed me some photos, she said that as medical doctor, she can say it is the same handwriting, the same type of bullets, and it's really disturbing that now the new coalition, that they don't want to investigate what exactly happened."
"So there is a stronger and stronger understanding that behind snipers it was not Yanukovych, it was somebody from the new coalition," Paet says.
Former Putin adviser Andrey Illarionov predicted that in addition to Crimea, his ex-boss intends to annex other major cities in Ukraine, including Kharkiv, Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye, Kherson and Odessa.
StealthWombat
Hi, I am a citizen of the European Union (non-native English, so bear with me on the language front) and I have been watching this whole thing develop. As a child I grew up with an immense fear of the Soviet Union, a terror which was constantly cultivated by television and newspapers.
I think the events in Ukraine are not to provoke WWIII, it is much more complicated.
The basis of the conflict goes back to 2013, when the then Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich was looking for financial aid in order to prevent his country from defaulting. The only parties who were willing to help were Russia and the IMF.
The IMF offered a loan of 15 billion dollars, but wanted to force Yanukovych to implement radical austerity measures that were going to cripple the economy and hit the citizens very hard. Elections were coming up and Yanukovych refused, because he feared this was going to cost him his seat in power.
www.bloomberg.com...
Yanukovich asked Putin for help. Putin offered him the same amount plus a 33 percent reduction in the price of gas (and an action plan to boost the Ukranian economy, a joint interest of the two countries as their economies are very closely connected). They sign the deal.
edition.cnn.com...
Then a leaked conversation surfaces in which the US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and the US Ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt discuss their preference for Yats (Yatsunyek) as the preferred guy in power.
‘I think Yats is the guy who's got the economic experience, the governing experience’.
www.bbc.com...
Nuland’s reaction to the leaked tape: ‘I am obviously not going to comment on private diplomatic conversations, other than to say it was pretty impressive trade craft (espionage). The audio was extremely clear.’
Yatsenyuk is a millionaire former banker who served as economy minister, foreign minister and parliamentary speaker before Yanukovych took office in 2010.
Then, the pro-EU demontrations in Kiev turned violent. Snipers shot protesters and riot police. About 100 people died, 1000 got injured. Yanukovych, the pro-Russian President got blamed for the shootings and fled / got ousted.
A pro-EU government takes over. Former banker Yatsenyuk gets put in place as the guy who has to implement the IMF agenda. Many believe he is setting the country up for ruin as he is determined to go the ‘Greek way’ (using people’s pension funds and private savings. lowering wages whilst upping taxes, which will only lead to increased poverty and more destabilization in a country that is already struggling with ethic tensions and fascism)
www.forbes.com...
Putin sends troops to Crimea to protect the only Russian harbour that does not get frozen over in winter. I think the US must have seen this coming, also given the history of Crimea, which has been Russian for ages.
WikiLeaks actually confirms this.
www.slate.com...
Then another leaked conversation appeared, this time between the EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton and Estonian foreign minister Urmas Paet.
During the conversation, Paet quoted a woman named Olga – who the Russian media identified her as Olga Bogomolets, a doctor – blaming snipers from the opposition shooting the protesters.
"What was quite disturbing, this same Olga told that, well, all the evidence shows that people who were killed by snipers from both sides, among policemen and people from the streets, that they were the same snipers killing people from both sides," Paet said.
"So she also showed me some photos, she said that as medical doctor, she can say it is the same handwriting, the same type of bullets, and it's really disturbing that now the new coalition, that they don't want to investigate what exactly happened."
"So there is a stronger and stronger understanding that behind snipers it was not Yanukovych, it was somebody from the new coalition," Paet says.
Here is a transcript and the actual audio of the bugged call
www.theguardian.com...
Estonia has confirmed the authenticity of the leaked phone call.
www.vm.ee.../node/19353
In my opinion, there was a coup d’etat in Ukraine. This of course gets denied by most Western main stream media, who call it a 'liberation' in true propaganda fashion. Follow the money and you will see that Western forces were behind this bloodshed and the bloodshed that will likely follow, with the IMF (in cohorts with the EU) as the main financial beneficiaries. Look at what is happening in Venezuela and you will see exactly the same fingerprints.
Putin will not let go of his geo-political interests. Moskou saw this coming (the two leaked conversations were very likely coming from Russian intelligence) and just grabbed their chance.
Putin won’t stop with Crimea, by the way.
Former Putin adviser Andrey Illarionov predicted that in addition to Crimea, his ex-boss intends to annex other major cities in Ukraine, including Kharkiv, Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye, Kherson and Odessa.
www.dailymail.co.uk... ps-run-three-hours.html#ixzz2vqIALWzR
I don’t think this is a false flag to provoke WWIII, if that happens it will just be a side effect of the greed of IMF and the EU.edit on 13-3-2014 by StealthWombat because: linkedit on 13-3-2014 by StealthWombat because: linkedit on 13-3-2014 by StealthWombat because: linkedit on 13-3-2014 by StealthWombat because: link