Posted on 04/20/2014 5:40:11 AM PDT by kronos77
It has outraged Russia. This is exactly the kind of provocation that threatens to undermine the Geneva agreement.
It will only harden the rift between the East and West of Ukraine.
John Bolton has made similar comments about the need to avoid provoking Russia to action (Or giving them an excuse as the case may be)
1. Send NATO allies Bosniaks/Albanians/Ukrainians to commit small but outrageous attack, preferably during truce or Christian holiday.
2. DO NOT REPORT OF THAT ATTACK in any of Western media
3. When slightest response by Serbs occur, report it at once as Serb attack.
Since they became Independent, the Ukraine has failed to rise above their prejudices. Foolish.
For over 20 years they did nothing. Just ,maintained status-quo in every sphere of life.
And Russian special forces quietly taking over Ukrainian police stations, government buildings, and transport terminals ISN’T a provocation??
Russia has zero cause for outrage, they started this whole pseudo-invasion.
Like heck they did. It was the coup that started this...and it is the same folks responsible for the 2004 revolution. They’re all cruds.
So now “taking over Ukrainian police stations, government buildings, and transport terminals” is a bad thing but a month ago it was ok?
Three pro-Russian militants were reported killed, along with two of the assailants, whose identity has not been ascertained.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/20/ukraine-crisis-geneva-deal-slavyansk
The Ukrainian people had every right to get rid of a Russian toadie - Yanukovich - that refused to work for the better interests of his country, and traitorously tried to weld Ukraine to Russia.
But that foiled Putin’s plan to subsume Ukraine, so now he hyas to do it by naked military invasion, always with that weak pretext - “the Russian people in the Ukraine are being threatened”.
Yeah right. The only people doing threatening are the Russians.
“It was the coup that started this...”
There was no coup. The Ukrainian parliament clearly stated there was no coup. The president was formally removed from power by a unanimous vote - even from those in his own party. https://www.kyivpost.com/content/kyiv/euromaidan-rallies-in-ukraine-feb-21-live-updates-337287.html
Russians get the hell out
It wasn’t a coup
the dude quit
the parliament then voted him out
The Easter Truce is offered by the Ukrainian government.
These were not government forces.
In a prior agreement, Russians agreed to vacate all government buildings.
Might have been a good idea to do this.
“So now “taking over Ukrainian police stations, government buildings, and transport terminals” is a bad thing but a month ago it was ok?”
Yes. A month ago it was Ukrainians taking those “Ukrainian police stations, government buildings, and transport terminals”. Now it is Russians. There’s a difference.
Wouldn’t you see a difference between Americans seizing control of American facilities to thwart the tyranny of a pro-Mexican president as opposed to pro-Mexican Mexican-Americans seizing control of American facilities to thwart American control of America? I dare you to tell me there’s no difference between those two actions.
Amen.
Remember Bubba was impeached but never removed by the Senate.
oh...thought this was going to be a Chicago headline....
Obama in Europe just recently said that Kosovo left Serbia by popular referendum.
He just didn’t mention the fact that NATO bombing forced most Serbs out of Kosovo first.
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