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Chaos in southern Ukraine: Deadly fire, choppers down and street fighting
CNN World ^ | updated 9:23 PM EDT, Fri May 2, 2014 | By Nick Paton Walsh, Chelsea J. Carter and Victoria Butenko, CNN

Posted on 05/02/2014 8:28:00 PM PDT by Mariner

Slavyansk, Ukraine (CNN) -- Deadly street fighting, helicopters shot down and civilians being used as human shields.

That was the picture that emerged Friday in southern Ukraine as violence escalated amid reports that dozens of people were killed in a fire and still more were shot dead or wounded in street fighting, raising the question of whether the country can stave off a possible civil war.

The violence -- pitting pro-Russian separatists against Ukrainian forces and those who support the government in Kiev -- prompted an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council, with Russia demanding an end to what it called Ukrainian aggression and Western powers accusing Moscow of funding the violence.

Russia and the West have squared off diplomatically over the fate of Ukraine, after Moscow annexed Crimea in March following the ouster of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. He was pushed from office after months of protests by people upset that he had turned away from Europe in favor of Russia.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Russia
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To: Tailgunner Joe
"If you are against NATO, including the USA and the west which you consider "fascist," then you are a traitor to the USA and you should probably go to Russia where you belong.

If you for Russia and against the USA, please leave the USA and go to Russia, you are not welcome here.

That is silly and irrelevant to the issues under discussion.

Gee, I remember guys talking like that when I was 11.

Argue your points on facts in evidence.

81 posted on 05/02/2014 11:02:07 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: More Objective than Subjective
"And your black and white winner/loser, when has that happened in recent history?"

I concede your point and agree.

It will suck to be there for a very long time.

82 posted on 05/02/2014 11:04:12 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: More Objective than Subjective

So you’re telling me they didn’t outright execute several hundred thousand Jews?


84 posted on 05/02/2014 11:08:28 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Wanna know who’s a traitor to the USA sport? It’s idiots who are stuck in 1955, and are pretending that Europe stands for anything REMOTELY like the constitutional principles America was founded on.

Its hard to imagine how Europe could be more Anti-American. If you are loyal to them you are a damned traitor.
Being an American means you are allowed to use your mind. You can have opinions.
Who else is a traitor? Idiots accusing others of treason over differences of opinion. That’s downright un-American.

And you’d do well too remember something. Lots of people here have their bona-fide combat time. Lots of them have formed opinions that you may or may not agree with. REMFs like you are barely fit to shine their shoes, much less call them traitors. You need to think before you vomit your venom. Most people are sick of it and see your screed as comic relief.

Adios


85 posted on 05/02/2014 11:09:15 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Pogue,,,


86 posted on 05/02/2014 11:13:40 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: DesertRhino

Nothing in the world is more Anti-American than KGB Putin’s genocidal terrorist regime. Putin supports every one of America’s enemies in the world. Putin has the blood of American’s on his hands. He is America’s terrorist enemy and he must die.


87 posted on 05/02/2014 11:13:53 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Um, I’d think the Norkies are worse, but with less power.


88 posted on 05/02/2014 11:15:57 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Like I sez, I see you weren’t no grunt. I can tell. Shirked your duty back then, and now trying to make up for it by being a bloodthirsty cheerleader.


89 posted on 05/02/2014 11:18:00 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: DesertRhino

Great analysis Dr. Freud.


90 posted on 05/02/2014 11:19:55 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe

No charge. Now get out there and act like a real American next time. Drop the silly rah rah crap. Just make your points without insulting people.

Use your words.


91 posted on 05/02/2014 11:22:54 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: DesertRhino

Putin’s father was NKVD and his grandfather was Lenin’s cook.


92 posted on 05/02/2014 11:23:40 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe

You’re so willfully blind, so persistent. There’s something almost fine about it. (but not quite)

Later on ,,


93 posted on 05/02/2014 11:36:01 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: DesertRhino
"Got that Mariner? If you do not support NATO, the military wing of the EU, it appears that you are a traitor somehow, to America."

It' s the damnedest thing I ever saw.

I've served my country, well.

But to deny reality and accuse folks who see it as traitors is beyond belief.

Like somehow, someway, the folks running the show in Berlin or Brussels...even Kiev...are our friends is as delusional as thinking the Russians are our Friends.

94 posted on 05/02/2014 11:38:07 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
"The USA is going to help Ukraine slaughter you goddamned Russky scum! "

That's as likely as your winning the Miss Congeniality award.

95 posted on 05/02/2014 11:41:52 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

Basing my opinion on history...Europe will do nothing.

Somewhere down the road...when things are out of control there maybe another war.


96 posted on 05/02/2014 11:43:43 PM PDT by berdie
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To: Tailgunner Joe
"Putin’s genocidal terrorist regime"

Genocide?

Where?

97 posted on 05/02/2014 11:44:24 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner
I've been drinkin' and am losing my energy for the night. It's late.

I'll respond to my ass whoopin's in the AM.

98 posted on 05/02/2014 11:48:12 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

The mass-murderer and war criminal Putin helped ethnic separatists wage a terrorist campaign of ethnic cleansing against thousands of innocent Christian civilians in Georgia in 2008.


99 posted on 05/02/2014 11:52:03 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Oh, didn't that happen right after Georgia started shelling Ossettia with 155mm artillery?

Right after they were burning homes and farms?

And last I heard most Russians are Christians.

The only mass slaughter in that event was Georgians killing Ossettians.

100 posted on 05/02/2014 11:56:58 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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