Posted on 01/25/2015 10:32:57 AM PST by Former Proud Canadian
Amid the devastation of yesterday's Mariupol artillery strikes which killed or wounded dozens, which was promptly blamed by both sides on the "adversary" - and has been proclaimed by both 'sides' (more on that later) as more violent than before the truce - an 'odd' clip has emerged that appears to provide all the 'proof' a US intelligence officer would need to surmise that US military boots are on the ground in Ukraine. As the following clip shows, a Ukrainian journalist approaches what she thinks is a Ukrainian soldier (since he is wearing a Ukrainian military uniform and is carrying an AK) and asked him as they run through the battlezone, "tell me, what happened here?" His response, which requires no translation, speaks for itself.
Forward to 2:36 for the 'Ukrainian' soldier's response:
(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
“So the ball is in your court Vladimir, tell us why a RUSSIAN OR UKRANIAN speaking soldier or EXPAT would respond to a reporter speaking RUSSIAN OR UKRANIAN in PERFECT ENGLISH?”
Simple: to be dismissive. When in Italy, if I don’t want anyone to bother me on the street, I respond in German. When I run into street toughs in Germany - especially of the Turkish or Arabic kind - I always use Russian. They are leery of the Russians in Germany because they are all thought to be “connected”. They instantaneously leave you alone.
LOL!,,,,OK, rather than waste the time, I'll give you the argument. The guy captured in the screen shot video, who looked like neither a RUSSIAN OR A UKRANIAN and spoke perfect English was obviously a brown haired caucasian, born and raised in RUSSIA OR THE UKRAINE, and spoke perfect English because he grew up in either Canada or the United States, went to school there and decided to go back to the motherland and join the resistance........
Works for me........LOL!
If that's even the side he's fighting on. A Ukrainian military uniform and a Kalashnikov doesn't mean much in a civil war when Ukrainian military depots were raided and emptied by the rebels.
And I know plenty of Ukrainians (including the woman I am married to) who speak nothing but Russian. My Donbass-born wife views Ukrainian as a peasant "trailer trash" language, --a language spoke by uneducated villagers, and while she can understand it, she certainly wouldn't ever speak it.
For the record, the reported was speaking Russian -as were all the people she spoke with (except the soldier in question).
“was obviously a brown haired caucasian,”
You can’t see his hair. Seriously, quite while you’re behind.
Huh? I thought I was covering my butt when Vladimir implied that the reporter may not have been speaking Russian..........
go figure..........
I did......and he spoke perfect English, not Russian nor Ukranian.......
Just curious, what's your point here? Why are you arguing so vociferously against the possibility that there just might be a perfect English speaking foreigner of either Canadian, American or British nationality taking part in a war that does not concern them?
Maybe... if that guy really said that... adding voice to a video is not really a rocket science and looking how putinoids are trying to make it a sort of breaking news, I wouldn't be surprised If it is russian manufactured propaganda.
Yeah, I was just taking it at face value. There’s also nothing to say he isn’t a Russian intel/counterintel agent who was sent straight into the camera frame just so he could mumble a few words in English and run off.
Inquiring minds want to know........LOL!
He’s Canadian or maybe British. You can tell pretty easily. He said “please”.
“Why are you arguing so vociferously against the possibility that there just might be a perfect English speaking foreigner of either Canadian, American or British nationality taking part in a war that does not concern them?”
If you’re going to attack what I’ve said shouldn’t you actually pick something I actually said? I already said he might be a Canadian in post 25. Get a clue!
“As a side note Vladimir, since when have tan baseball caps been standard issue for either Russian or Ukranian soldiers who speak perfect English?”
About as long as AKs have been standard issue for Americans.
And the fact that you looked at his cap means you went back and looked at the video and now know for a fact that you can’t see his hair color. Thanks for proving me right.
There are some parts of the US he could be from. [Not the Northeast, for sure.]
I listened three times, and heard, "Get oudda ma face". New Jersey, but with a mumbled "please".
“He’s Canadian or maybe British.”
Who ? Watch the video again, it’s just some guy passing by, there’s actually no evidence he even said a single word. It’s is likely a KGB manufactured garbage.
Zerohedge seems to have a long standing practice of printing as truth, what propaganda they see in Russian or Muslim media sources.
That’s some smoking gun.
Thousands of Russians are crossing into Ukraine with tanks, here they found an English-speaking guy on the Ukrainian side. There are millions of Ukr. in the US&Canadian diaspora. For the record, there was an American already killed, a middle aged investor of a Ukrainian descent, who didn’t need that kind of headache at the end of his life, but nonetheless, answered the call of his parents’ country.
There are also plenty of E. Europeans foreigners fighting on Ukr. side - Georgians, Lithuanians, Poles, etc. - you can’t call them mercenaries either if they’re acting in their nation’s interests. Yet, the Ukrainian force remains overwhelmingly Ukrainian (95%+)
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