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Pro-Russian Forces Are Starting To Unravel In Ukraine
Agence France Presse ^ | 15 Aug 14 | Anna Malpas and Anais Llobet

Posted on 08/16/2014 11:30:52 PM PDT by elhombrelibre

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To: Berlin_Freeper

Nice. Very nice. Moralle plays a big part here, and bare minimum that’s going to be a nice moralle hit.


21 posted on 08/17/2014 7:15:39 AM PDT by OldGuard1
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To: tcrlaf

You mean the “demand” that’s already been retracted?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ukrainian/politics/2014/08/140817_yarosh_avakov_conflict_vc.shtml?ocid=socialflow_twitter

Seriously, you actually thought that there was a “coup”?


22 posted on 08/17/2014 7:32:46 AM PDT by OldGuard1
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To: OldGuard1

I said “Potential”, but you already know that.


23 posted on 08/17/2014 7:41:49 AM PDT by tcrlaf (Q)
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To: pepsionice

Will Russian Natural Gas be piped to Western Ukraine???

Winters Coming


24 posted on 08/17/2014 8:01:33 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks elhombrelibre.

Ukraine separatist leader says rebels getting tanks and reinforcements
Reuters | 16 Aug 14 | Thomas Grove
Posted on 8/16/2014 4:32:24 PM by elhombrelibre
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3193615/posts


25 posted on 08/17/2014 11:01:06 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: tcrlaf
Euromaidan Press is lying?

I didn't say anything about lying. I was talking about the level of derangement in your pro-Russkie posts. You're about a 10.2 in a scale of 10, which means you're one bad news away from commiting suicide in a bunker with your girlfriend.

26 posted on 08/17/2014 3:09:09 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: dmz

Sure, underdog as it pertains to the perspective the media portrays.


27 posted on 08/17/2014 3:25:48 PM PDT by DirtyPigpen (Semper Fi)
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To: DirtyPigpen
Being a fan of the underdog, I think I’m quietly pulling for the separatist. Both sides are corrupt so in the end it won’t matter much.

In what way is the Ukrainian side corrupt, or, in other words, on the same moral plane as the Russkies?

28 posted on 08/17/2014 3:53:02 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Just like in most countries. You can do more research, if you want to get a better picture.

http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21604234-fight-against-corruption-steep-uphill-battle-ostrich-zoo-and-vintage-cars


29 posted on 08/17/2014 4:14:59 PM PDT by DirtyPigpen (Semper Fi)
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To: DirtyPigpen
Just like in most countries. You can do more research, if you want to get a better picture.

The EuroMaidan was itself, not necessarily a Pro-EU movement (joining the EU is seen as being an economic issue, not one that divides ideologically, hence people from all spectrums of Ukraine, some better than others, protested) but was an anti-corruption phenomena, which did not kick off when Yanukovych refused to sign the EU treaty, but, rather, when Yanukovych sent people in to beat and torture the small number of young and old Ukrainians alike who were protesting at the Maidan. (In Ukraine, such protesting on Maidan is so common that, had the state not done anything, it would have been forgotten.)

While Ukraine has its problems, and they are conscious of them and are seeking to fix them, Russia is a Kleptocracy with no real freedom for anybody. It is a brutal tyranny where anyone who opposes the state is persecuted, beaten, tortured, imprisoned, and if they aren't lucky, murdered.

You cannot compare this to the Ukrainians who are fighting for freedom against decades of Soviet-imported Kleptocracy.

30 posted on 08/17/2014 4:28:18 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!

nice!


31 posted on 08/17/2014 5:18:55 PM PDT by KOZ.
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tcrlaf: UK surrounded or retreating on most fronts, and its the rebels unraveling???
Greetings_Puny_Humans: You're about a 10.2 in a scale of 10, which means you're one bad news away from commiting suicide in a bunker with your girlfriend.
Ukraine Says Army Controls Center of a Rebel City
The Ukrainian military on Sunday moved into the heart of the separatist hub of Luhansk for the first time, officials said, chipping at one of the cornerstones of the pro-Russia rebels’ disintegrating virtual state.

... Ukrainian police at a checkpoint on Sunday reported capturing four separatists dressed as Orthodox priests, making their way toward Russia.

32 posted on 08/17/2014 11:51:25 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Boomshakalaka!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper; tcrlaf

Belin Freeper, tcrlaf lives in a separate reality, an alternative universe where what Putin’s propagandist tell him is the truth. In that world, one believes what RT tells you regardless of other sources.


33 posted on 08/18/2014 12:52:45 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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