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Kremlin Saturating Crimea with Propaganda, Troops, and Shady FSB Agents in Run-up to Succession Vote
Reaganite Republican ^
| 11 March 2014
| Reaganite Republican
Posted on 03/11/2014 3:40:39 AM PDT by Reaganite Republican
It takes some serious gall for the Kremlin to portray the Ukrainian 'Revolution of Dignity' as some intolerant, divisive far-right fascist movement simply due to the presense of Banderan nationalists within it... almost element in the country not aligned with the Kremlin had a hand in the EuroMaidan protests that overthrew Viktor Yanukovych...
But that's the angle the Russians are going with in Crimea: the new Kiev government consists of 'Nazi bandits' out to supress Russian-speakers and round up dark-skinned Tartars in the east of the country- but it's clearly not the Ukrainians that Tartars live in fear of.
Propaganda pumped into the area has also been telling Crimean residents that the Russians are the only hope to avoid the 'chaos' they dubiously claim is engulfing the rest of Ukraine. Back in reality, things are quiet in the west, and the Kiev government had NO problem unifying all Ukrainians... except for in areas where the Russians inserted tens-of-thousands of unmarked troops, snaked some territory, and installed thuggish Kremlin tools, of course.
Students of history will tell you that Vladimir Putin is actually the one emulating Nazi Germany, at least in strategy: Hitler too was 'saving' and 'protecting' Sudeten Germans from the Czechs, establishing local militias, inserting Nazi agents- then sent his army in as 'liberators' and ran a pre-ordained plebescite once the spineless West had sealed Czechoslovakia's fate by refusing to challenge Hitler. Soon afterward, the Wehrmacht had occupied not only the Sudetanland but the entire country- sound familiar?
Meanwhile, an enviroment of fear has been established by the FSB -successor to the Soviet KGB- via intimidation and targeted abductions of Crimean Ukrainians not willing to lay-back-and-learn-to-enjoy-it.
Perhaps most of the Russian majority in Crimea do indeed lean towards independence and/or union with Russia- we have no way of really knowing. Even so, that's not legal grounds for succession, and not all on the penninsula favor ongoing separatist maneuvering orchestrated -indeed, planned for some time- by the Kremlin:
Some thought Hitler was satiated when they handed him the Sudetanland, but we learned (the hard way) he was just getting started. If Putin gets away with this, expect the Baltic states to be next.
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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: crimea; fsb; plebescite; propaganda
To: AdvisorB; ken5050; sten; paythefiddler; gattaca; bayliving; SeminoleCounty; chesley; Vendome; ...
To: Reaganite Republican
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posted on
03/11/2014 3:44:04 AM PDT
by
Truth29
To: Reaganite Republican
Hey - it’s the Chicago Way.
Ambush and use a blackjack on your opponents, drag their unconscious bodies to a dingy underground room, tie them up in a chair, keep a bright light shining into their eyes, put a gun to their heads, and tell them, “let’s negotiate”.
After a good solid agreement is worked out, seal the deal by lining them up against a wall in the back of a garage and machine-gun them down.
Fear and intimidation work every time they are applied with a firm hand and a specific objective. At least in the short term.
In the long term we are all dead.
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posted on
03/11/2014 3:53:36 AM PDT
by
alloysteel
(Obamacare - Death and Taxes now available online. One-stop shopping at its best!)
To: Reaganite Republican
Secession. "Secession vote."
Vim Toot!
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posted on
03/11/2014 4:14:54 AM PDT
by
Atomic Vomit
(http://www.cafepress.com/aroostookbeauty/358829)
To: Reaganite Republican
Not sure if I disagree with Putin on this Crimea Ukraine thing. Or on many other things. (Truth be known Im not sure I agree either)
His attitude on morality( hes a strict russian orthodox ). gay marriage and other issues is closer to mine than our own current regime.
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posted on
03/11/2014 4:45:44 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: Reaganite Republican
If they vote themselves to secede and become part of Russia, then so be it.
So far not a shot has been fired, and that is all that matters.
If the people want it...
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posted on
03/11/2014 6:08:06 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(If you like your constitution, you can keep it...Period.)
To: Reaganite Republican
This went up today in the Czech town of Liberec. Czechs get it.
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posted on
03/11/2014 6:20:02 AM PDT
by
AnAmericanAbroad
(It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
To: Truth29
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