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MrSpad
If the US was going to send in covert merceneries they would not be speaking english. In particular since mercs from Slavic countries are available in large numbers. This story has no logic to it.
bjarneorn
They're nazis ... nationaliists and socialists ... that's a nazi. Except in your teeny brain, the word is only associated with Germans.
paraphi
bjarneorn
They're nazis ... nationaliists and socialists ... that's a nazi. Except in your teeny brain, the word is only associated with Germans.
Clearly, English is not your first language.
A nationalist is someone who supports the nation. Scottish nationalists, who are also rather socialist, are not Nazis. Russian nationalists who cobbled up the vote in Crimea are also not Nazis. France could be described as being socialist, but they are not Nazis either.
The Nazis were fascist. Fascism is usually described as a form of extreme nationalism coupled with high levels of authoritarianism, that is blind obedience to authority.
You may see nationalists parading about in Ukraine, but they are not Nazis. They are people who believe in Ukrainian sovereignty.
You should temper your language, because calling Ukrainians Nazis at every turn is merely showing you up as a person who believe the propaganda from Russia and does not look beyond that.
Regards
NavyDoc
Danbones
TritonTaranis
And pitin isn't paying his terrorists in Eastern Ukraine ?
For every action there is an equally and opposite reaction
Let's be honest the activities of pro Russia activists I'm the East are that of brutal armed take overs and should not be tolerated
one wonders why you post your comment as a rhetorical question...?
but not with something substantial we can believe in
we do know the us is constantly causing sectarian violence through out the world through use of private mercenary contractors
talibans, alCIAduh!, blackwater /Xe...etc..often dressed as locals to incite sectarian violence
then you have the IDF and the nazis working together which is really a hoot
"brothers" the IDF zionist said about the nazis in Haaretz news paper
edit on Tuepm4b20144America/Chicago42 by Danbones because: (no reason given)
So you chastise someone for saying something outrageous without proof but then you post something outrageous without proof?
he ex-Israeli soldier who led a Kiev fighting unit...
...As platoon leader, Delta says he takes orders from activists connected to Svoboda, an ultra-nationalist party that has been frequently accused of anti-Semitism and whose members have been said to have had key positions in organizing the opposition protests.
“I don’t belong [to Svoboda], but I take orders from their team. They know I’m Israeli, Jewish and an ex-IDF soldier. They call me ‘brother,’” he said. “What they’re saying about Svoboda is exaggerated, I know this for a fact. I don’t like them because they’re inconsistent, not because of [any] anti-Semitism issue.”
The commanding position of Svoboda in the revolution is no secret, according to Ariel Cohen, a senior research fellow at the Washington D.C.-based Heritage Foundation think tank.
“The driving force among the so-called white sector in the Maidan are the nationalists, who went against the SWAT teams and snipers who were shooting at them,” Cohen told JTA.
“The driving force among the so-called white sector in the Maidan are the nationalists, who went against the SWAT teams and snipers who were shooting at them,” Cohen told JTA.
Oleksandr Yakymenko, the former head of Ukraine's Security Service, claimed this week in an interview with TV channel Rossiya that pro-Maidan (pro-Western) organizers were the ones behind the Feb. 20 shootings.
Yakymenko said the shots came from Kyiv's Philharmonic Hall. That particular building was overseen by the Fatherland Party's deputy Andriy Parubiy, known unofficially as the "commander of Maidan." After President Viktor Yanukovych fled Ukraine, Parubiy assumed the post of Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council for the interim Ukrainian government.
Yakymenko said snipers started shooting at local police forces but then directed their fire on the anti-government protesters fighting the police. After the shooting, some of the snipers moved on to Hotel Ukraine. He added that the Maiden fighters appeared "prepared," leaving the barricades at the first sniper shot.
Yakymenko said Ukrainian nationalist groups Pravij Udar and Svoboda requested his help in clearing out the snipers, but Parubiy wouldn't allow government forces into Maidan-controlled territory. Yakymenko went on to claim that among the snipers were foreign mercenaries. While not making a direct connection between the United States and the snipers, Yakymenko suggested that the US embassy was somehow using Poland to orchestrate the overthrow of (now ousted) Yanukovych.
Pro-Russian news networks were not the only ones that suggested pro-Maidan snipers may have taken part in the shootings.
"The majority of the gunfire seemed to be coming from police lines," said BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse. "But not all of it." Gatehouse said he saw one of the shooters "wearing one of the protesters' green helmets," and shooting from an open window in Hotel Ukraine.
cosmonova
He was probably talking about national socialism which is nazism. And that is what Right Sector is. Svoboda is not far from them and they are in Ukrainian parliament. Of course, if not for violent coup they would still be marginal players. But after taking a major part in the coup they became major players.
The Nazis were fascist. Fascism is usually described as a form of extreme nationalism coupled with high levels of authoritarianism, that is blind obedience to authority.
You may see nationalists parading about in Ukraine, but they are not Nazis. They are people who believe in Ukrainian sovereignty.
bjarneorn
I doubt it, as it would give the Russians an excuse to send a lot of western soldiers home in a body bag. Since they are mercenaries, and I doubt very much, any such company, blackwater or greystone, would put their soldiers up for a hunting license. I doubt that's good for business.
Vovin
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He wrote it in the 1990s and he clearly writes out how Russian economy would totally recover by taking the Russian resource industry from private owners and putting it back into state control (which is what happened) and that the Russian state can assert regional hegemony by exporting resources needed by neighbouring countries (which also Russia has done).
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strawburry
Same old story, nothing changes with the yanks, one can never trust them, that has proven time and time again historically.
Ukraine was actually econimcally BETTER off with economic ties with Russia than the US / EU.
Well, looks like Crimea is going to be living in Luxuary compared to the rest of what remains of Ukraine.
Crimea will become the Monaco of Ukraine lol. In fact I believe Putin may even do this just to rub their noses in it.
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