Russia Accuses US Mercenaries Of Inciting Civil War In Ukraine

Zero Hedge ^ | 7 April 2014 | Tyler Durden

[Errant]

In response to claims by the Ukraine government (and the west) that Russia provoking trouble in Eastern Europe - with The White House's Jary Carney even suggesting that pro-Russia demonstrators were paid - Russia's foreign ministry has responded. Posting via their Facebook page, Russia urged Ukraine to halt any interior military preparations which could instigate a civil war. But the kicker, for which we anxiously await a rebuttal, is Russia's comment that they "are particularly concerned that the operation involves some 150 American mercenaries."

[Girlene]

I wouldn’t.

[Girlene]

The thing I’ve noticed about Putin is he can usually backup what he says with evidence. If he does so in this case, it’s not going to look too good for the west...

No, he doesn't. He uses his state TV to push his propaganda. He is a liar.

[Errant]

He is a liar.

I don't care for him either, but I don't recall him lying or at least getting caught doing so. Can't say the same for our illustrious leader. He has been caught lying so many times, it's ridiculous!

[Mariner]

Damn, don’t you miss the days when you could trust and believe the US PResident?

[dfwgator]

Damn, don’t you miss the days when you could trust and believe the US PResident?

Not since January 19, 1989.

[Errant]

O even makes me miss Slick Willy! And I’ve heard those who knew Clinton personally say he’d rather climb a tree and tell a lie than stand on the ground and tell the truth.

[Mariner]

It’s a damn sorry sight to see ourselves in this predicament.

[tcrlaf]

“Not only is his popularity in Russia in the 70-80”S and he is more trusted and respected in the world than our little punk”

“Putin is not trusted in the world.”

No, but that isn’t what he said.

He said that Putin is more trusted world-wide than Obama. And he is correct about that.

[dfwgator]

He said that Putin is more trusted world-wide than Obama.

Kim Jong-Eun is more trusted world-wide than Obama.

[tcrlaf]

“American operatives fomenting revolution ala Libya and Egypt???”

Putin wasn’t happy about being lied to by Obama about Libya.
When Obama threatened to do the same thing to Syria, Putin put a few ships on the line and said “NYET!”. Obama panicked and backed down.

Then the angry, embarrassed Obama and his drones saw destabilizing Ukraine as a way to “get at” Putin strategically, and now that too is back-firing.

That incompetence and foreign policy ideology is handing Putin opportunities to settle old scores, on a silver platter.

[tcrlaf]

“American operatives fomenting revolution ala Libya and Egypt???”

Putin wasn’t happy about being lied to by Obama about Libya.
When Obama threatened to do the same thing to Syria, Putin put a few ships on the line and said “NYET!”. Obama panicked and backed down.

Then the angry, embarrassed Obama and his drones saw destabilizing Ukraine as a way to “get at” Putin strategically, and now that too is back-firing.

That incompetence and foreign policy ideology is handing Putin opportunities to settle old scores, on a silver platter.

[Girlene]

He said that Putin is more trusted world-wide than Obama. And he is correct about that.

No he is not. Maybe it's a dead heat with Obama, but Putin is not trusted by anyone with half a brain.

[caww]

Soros has more than just paid activists in Ukraine.... this guy is one of Soro's men now with the new Ukraine Government..as follows:

Pavlo Sheremeta,....Ukraine’s new Minister of Economic Development and Trade.

from 1995 to 1997, was program director at the Open Society Institute in Budapes't,..... the famous 'George Soros Foundation'

[SeeSharp]

The White House's Jary Carney even suggesting that pro-Russia demonstrators were paid

They are Russians, not Democrats.

[Jim Robinson]

I thought Bummer banned Pooty from facebook.

[ncalburt]

Putin is a former KGB agent who oversaw the Most brutal monsters called Stasi who murdered and tortured German fleeing Communism !

He is a murdeous thug.

Who are you trying to fool here !

[UCANSEE2]

I don’t know what they are mad about. We are supporting and supplying both sides.

[Girlene]

I don't care for him either, but I don't recall him lying or at least getting caught doing so.

Then you haven't been paying attention. Plenty of lies tied up in the Crimea referendum vote: Reports of multiple voting, falsified turnout cast doubt on results of Crimea referendum

...... But until now no one has examined the conduct of the referendum or the accuracy of Putin’s claim that more than 82 percent of the electorate took part and that 96 percent of them favored joining Russia, a result some U.S. politicians seem to accept..........

.........But there are many reasons to doubt that the referendum was conducted fairly and that the result was what Putin announced.

A reporter for the local Tatar ATR television station said he was able to register and vote in four separate polling stations. In Sevastopol, the home of the Russian Black Sea fleet, initial results spoke of a 123 percent turnout. The ATR television station showed film of Russian “bikers” visiting one polling location and a man departing carrying a submachine gun.

Putin’s claim of a 96 percent margin out of an 82 percent turnout also appears to be mathematically impossible. Both the local Ukrainian community and the Tatars, who make up just under 30 percent of the 2.2 million residents of Crimea, organized a boycott. Even with defections, and there were some, both the alleged turnout and margin of victory would be impossible, without many pro-Russian voters casting ballots multiple times.

Putin “was using percentages out of North Korea,” said Vladimir Kazarin, a professor of journalism at Simferopol’s Russian language Vernadsky University and a former high official in the Crimean and Sevastopol government. “It’s not truthful.”

“I’ve been following Crimean politics for a long time,” he told McClatchy. “I know what an election is, and what voting is. And I know our people. Even if they are in favor of something, they never vote more than 65 to 70 per cent. Some go to drink vodka. Some go fishing. Some go out with women.”

Kazarin said he was also certain that while two thirds of Russian voters would have approved secession from Ukraine, at least one third of Crimea’s self-identified Russian speakers would have made the other choice _ to remain in Ukraine, where conditions are more advantageous for running small businesses.

While it is impossible to know from publicly available data, Kazarin estimated that at most 60 per cent of Crimeans took part in the referendum, but said it could be as low as 50 per cent.

Mustafa Dzhemilev, 70, a survivor of the Tatars deportation of 1944 and a member of the Ukrainian parliament, said last week that data sent by local officials to the Russian FSB intelligence agency showed that only 34.2 per cent of the Crimean population took part in the referendum. He didn’t say how he got the numbers, but Smedlyayev of the Tatars’ election commission endorsed the claim. “I always trust the information that Dzhemilev gets from his secret channels,” he said.

As for local pro-Russian officials’ claims that 40 per cent of the Tatars voted, Tatar leaders here reacted with disbelief. Nariman Dzhelyalov, deputy leader of the Tatar Mejlis, of the 185,000 Tatars eligible to vote, at most 1,000 took part. He said that estimate is based on reports from 300 observers deployed to watch the turnout in every town or village where Tatars comprise half or more of the population. ....................

Lie after lie after lie......and I only posted part of the article. No matter how much you despise Obama, it does not change the fact that Putin is a lying KGB thug.

[Errant]

And no matter how much you love Obama, it doesn’t change the fact that he has been caught lying more than a murderous KGB thug. That ought to tell you something...

[caww]

Further..and the plot does thicken....

The new Minister of Finance 'Aleksandr Shlapak' is a political crony of Viktor Yushchenko –a long-time protegé of the IMF who was spearheaded into the presidency following the 2004 “Colored Revolution”....Shlapak held key positions in the office of the presidency under Yushchenko as well as at the National Bank of Ukraine.

In 2010, upon Yushchenko’s defeat, Aleksandr Shlapak joined 'a shadowy' Bermuda based offshore financial outfit IMG International Ltd (IMG), holding the position of Vice President. Based in Hamilton, Bermuda, IMG specialises in “captive insurance management”, reinsurance and “risk transfer.”

Minister of Finance Aleksandr Shlapak works in close liaison with Pavlo Sheremeto, the newly appointed Minister of Economic Development and Trade, who upon his appointment called for “deregulation, fully fledged and across the board”, requiring –as demanded in previous negotiations by the IMF– the outright elimination of subsidies on fuel, energy and basic food staples.