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the senators proposed legislation that would call on President Obama to provide the Ukrainian military with “direct military assistance” — including anti-tank and anti-aircraft weaponry — while paving the way for more sanctions against Moscow.
Specifically, the “Russian Aggression Prevention Act of 2014” would push the administration to bite down with sanctions against Russia’s state-owned gas monopoly Gazprom, weapons exporter Rosoboronexport and oil giant Rosneft.
“Russia has resources to withstand sanctions for at least three-five years,” said Mikhail Khodorkovsky, former oil tycoon. “Europe should first ask itself whether it is prepared to keen penalising Russia over such a long time.”
Rebirth of Fascism. U.S. warmongers along with EU/NATO politicians have installed (through violent, artificial revolution) a pro-fascist government in Ukraine and are now trying to start a civil war within the country.
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Russians worry about the fate of the brotherly country and want to help, so the veterans' organizations in Russia receives hundreds of requests to send to New Russia.
Since it is reported that at an extraordinary congress ROOIVS "Rusichi" veterans gathered 1st and 2nd Chechen war. At the Congress it was decided to urgently mobilize volunteer corps in the South-East of Ukraine in the Russian population protection from the "right sector" and the National Guard of the junta which includes PMC.
Former special forces soldiers of the armed forces do not wish to see Russia as dying from lawlessness brotherly people. Ukraine joined many family ties, for someone it is a second homeland.
"At the moment Ukraine sent over 1,000 selected fighters - those soldiers who served in the special forces, intelligence and other special units," - said in a statement.
In one of the Russian cities going full battalion only former specialists. Veterans filed lists in recruitment.
According to reports this happens in all major cities of the country.
Worries about Ukrainian events expressed not only in the Russian Federation.
originally posted by: AnIntellectualRedneck
a reply to: cosmonova
So, basically, the Russian military seems to be holding off at the moment, but there are organizations of Russian citizens and veterans that are going to try to go help friends, family members, and ethnic Russians? That's what I got out of the article.
originally posted by: AnIntellectualRedneck
a reply to: cosmonova
I'm also seeing stories of pro-Maiden people starting to mobilize in the thousands and going to the south and east. These volunteers from Russia may be reacting to that, or perhaps the pro-Maiden people are reacting to the Russians. Perhaps it's one-upmanship.
Whatever else, it seems as though we have a very clear, very prolonged, very bloody civil war about to happen in the Ukraine.
The United Nations has exposed itself as an eager and unabashed tool of western supremacy and apologist for the crimes of empire. It will be discarded along with the other detritus of the old world as UNjust, UNequal and UNwilling to break the yoke of the western paradigm. I think the organization is much worse than useless.
I actually think this conflict in Ukraine is the death knell for the UN, along with the IMF/EU/NATO and all the other western organizations which act in concert to try to force billions of people to believe that 2 + 2 = 5. They are the problem, and they have no solutions. As it should be — for as Eduardo Galleano gently reminded us, “it would be strange if the remedy should come from the United States, the same place which brings us the disease.”
Amid the lies and distortions of a bought-and-sold press and a government propaganda machine, we can still cut through the bull# and see the hustlers for what they are: pitchmen of a war machine hell bent on selling us more death and destruction. We all have it within us to refuse the pitch.
originally posted by: angelchemuel
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