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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
The blogger is exaggerating. He's referring to the photos of the bearded Spetznas, which in only some of the photos is "grainy." It is hard to say if it's the same Russkie photographed in Georgia, then Crimea, and then in Eastern Ukraine. It could just be some other guy with identical uniform, military patch, and long beard.

The other photos have no such ambiguities, albeit, the fellows are all masked. Though, they're in the same exact uniform, same ammo bags, same weapons, etc. The Russians used the same method in Chechnya, moving in Russian troops pretending to be Pro-Moscow Chechnyans, and they have forces who train to be "ambiguous" for these kinds of operations.

6 posted on 04/24/2014 4:43:36 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
The other photos have no such ambiguities, albeit, the fellows are all masked. Though, they're in the same exact uniform, same ammo bags, same weapons, etc. The Russians used the same method in Chechnya, moving in Russian troops pretending to be Pro-Moscow Chechnyans, and they have forces who train to be "ambiguous" for these kinds of operations.

Yup. The overarching point still stands. Same uniform, same weapons...etc.

7 posted on 04/24/2014 4:51:02 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
The other photos have no such ambiguities, albeit, the fellows are all masked. Though, they're in the same exact uniform, same ammo bags, same weapons, etc. The Russians used the same method in Chechnya, moving in Russian troops pretending to be Pro-Moscow Chechnyans, and they have forces who train to be "ambiguous" for these kinds of operations.

Uniforms would be made out of "whole cloth". Check for matching pieces of "camo" uniforms.

10 posted on 04/24/2014 7:38:38 PM PDT by Does so ("Miranda Warnings" and loss of "Common-Law Marriage" = 2 Big Mistakes...)
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