Posted on 08/13/2014 5:41:24 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
Ukraine accused Moscow of mounting a cynical attempt to incite a pro-Russian rebellion on Wednesday, as uncertainty surrounded a 262-truck "aid convoy" that appeared to grind to a halt before reaching the border.
The stand-off came as violence worsened in eastern Ukraine, with the United Nations announcing that the death toll in the four-month conflict had doubled in the past two weeks to more than 2,000.
Government forces are seeking to press their advantage against the pro-Russian rebels, which has stoked fears that the aid convoy is part of a Russian plan to fend off the rebels' seemingly inevitable defeat.
"The level of Russian cynicism knows no bounds," said Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the Ukrainian prime minister. "First they send tanks, Grad missiles and bandits who fire on Ukrainians – and then they send water and salt."
Arsen Avakov, Ukraine's interior minister, had said the "Putinist" convoy would not pass, calling it a "provocation by a cynical aggressor".
Russia responded by saying it had met Ukrainian demands for transparency and that Kiev was reneging on an agreement to deliver aid via the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
Spokesmen for the ICRC, which both Moscow and Kiev say must play a role in any aid delivery, said it was still waiting for a proper list of the convoy's cargo.
"We need much more specific information before we can begin to plan an operation like this," said Andre Loersch, an ICRC official based in Kiev.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Last seen in the city of Voronezh, 300 miles south of Moscow, on Tuesday, the convoy never reached the border near the Russian city of Belgorod that the Russian foreign ministry said it would use.
Does this make sense to anyone?
That truck convoy was comin’ back, from the island of Tinian to Laytee, just delivered the bomb. Didn’t see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. Thirteen footer. Y’know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men! I don’t know how many sharks, maybe a thousand! I don’t know how many men, they averaged six an hour. So, eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out, the sharks took the rest. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.
I’m scratchin’ my head...
Trojan horse gone wild..
When you don’t see Ivan, Ivan is already there.
Magicians like to distract the audience with something grandly obvious, but fake; and, the genuine deception occurs on a totally different plane.
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They must be really good. How does a huge convoy of large white trucks simply vanish? There must be satellite photos of what happened to them and where they went.
Quint was one hell of a character
That would be nice. Read it long ago.
I can just hear him say bomb in that od way and take wail of coffee
Yes. See the movie “Red October” where the US official says to the Russian Ambassador, “Don’t tell me, you’ve lost another submarine”.
Things in Russia always go “disappearski”.
New George Clooney movie coming out soon, based on the old Bob Hope “road movies”. It will be called “On the Road to Donestk”, staring George Clooney and Sean Penn, with Rosie O’Donnell playing the lead truck.
Theme song, Eddie Kendrick’s “Keep on Truckin’”. Alternative theme songs suggested:
“Truckin” - Greatful Dead?
“On the Road Again” Willie Nelson
“We Have Us a Convoy” JT? somebody
“500 Miles to Go”
Quint (Robert Shaw) tormented Richard Dreyfus relentlessly during the filming of Jaws.
My respect for Shaw grew tremendously after hearing about the daily ass kicking he inflicted on that little twit Drefus.
Style over substance.
Putin was part of formulating that losing strategy.
It plays well to a certain captive audience, but that audience has to be cowed and also willing to profess support in numbers large enough to cause a sense of general fear and reinforce it in their own local communities.
Russians can allign themselves with the criminal violent civilian element, or the criminal violent government element.
Often they are the same people.
But the only choice is which violent criminal group holds more sway on any given day.
It is a simple matter of survival for a people who have lived that way for many generations.
The rest of the former USSR/Warsaw Pact nations have broken away from that model.
Is it starting to make sense to you?
And he was a great actor.
We have some here who apparently feel the Ukrainians are more Russian than the Russians, and can never change. My take is that a modest majority of people there want to break with that model, and with help from the West (tough love from the EU?) and Russia sidelined, Ukraine could change, though it’ll be a tough struggle. What do you think?
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