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This is inspiring. Love the poetry.
This is inspiring. Love the poetry.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...location-the-more-they-want-u-s-to-intervene/
"The less Americans know about Ukraine’s location, the more they want U.S. to intervene"
We found that only one out of six Americans can find Ukraine on a map, and that this lack of knowledge is related to preferences: The farther their guesses were from Ukraine’s actual location, the more they wanted the U.S. to intervene with military force.
A 3 month after update on this text:
When we wrote some months ago in our text, “War preparations between Ukraine and Russia – Show or Reality?”i that the conditions for a new war ripen in Ukraine, many comrades expressed doubts or even disagreements with such a categorical statement. Now we can say that the conflict in Ukraine has clearly switched from the “cold” phase to the “hot” one and that what we are currently witnessing in the east of the country is the war by all definitions. From Lugansk on the border with Russia to Mariupol on the Black Sea coast two military forces compete in daily clashes when trying to enlarge the area under their control, they fight on the ground as well as in the air, in countryside as well as in industrial centers, artilleries shell villages, air forces bomb cities (under the pretext that their enemy uses the inhabitants as living shields), men, women, children die under the bombs and missiles… In four months of armed conflict more than 2,000 civilians and militaries have been killed and 6,000 others injured; 117,000 proletarians have been internally displaced and 730,000 others found refuge in Russia. Just as we were on the point of finishing this article dead bodies are strewn over the streets of Donetsk, caught in a government’s offensive stranglehold.
It be that.It just a Wordpress blog?
The Cold War, the Cuban crisis etc still resonates in the west.It is really disappointing there has not been any noticeable 'third party' in this conflict. Even in the UK, the issue seems to be, "Support the Ukrainian hardliners, no inch to the Russian menace!"
But it faced a new challenge on Sunday as the leader of the ultra-nationalist Right Sector threatened to withdraw volunteers fighting on the government side.
Dmytro Yarosh said Right Sector would launch a "campaign in Kiev" if its demands, including the release of detained members, were not met within 48 hours.
He called on President Petro Poroshenko to "immediately bring order" to the Interior Ministry, which he accused of harbouring "revanchist forces".
Analysis: David Stern, BBC News, Kiev
Ukraine's government seems to have made a devil's bargain, by allowing the formation of loosely-controlled paramilitary groups to fight in the country's east.
That some of these volunteers are ultranationalists, far-right extremists and sometimes even neo-Nazis seemed to be worth the gamble. Anyone who was willing to risk his life to defend Ukraine at this critical juncture was welcome.
Also figuring into their logic was the fact that the insurgency itself is a more pressing threat than far-right fighters, that these individuals are a minority among the Ukrainian forces and that Nazis and extremists are heavily represented among the pro-Russian militants.
Still, there has been virtually no public debate about whether it was a good idea to give guns to people and groups with extremist views. Now, with Right Sector threatening to march on the capital to enforce their demands, maybe this very overdue discussion will begin.
Oh now that threats are being made the BBC notice Right Sector....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28825307
Well thats one way of putting it I suppose! Laughable in places.
Oh now that threats are being made the BBC notice Right Sector....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28825307
Just give Russia the bits it wants, the EU has form in this department
- German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier says a new political impetus is needed to resolve the crisis and to avoids further escalation
- The Russian, Ukrainian, German and French foreign ministers are scheduled to hold talks on the eastern Ukraine crisis in Berlin later on Sunday
Oh now that threats are being made the BBC notice Right Sector....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28825307
Well thats one way of putting it I suppose! Laughable in places.
Also figuring into their logic was the fact that the insurgency itself is a more pressing threat than far-right fighters, that these individuals are a minority among the Ukrainian forces and that Nazis and extremists are heavily represented among the pro-Russian militants.
Are you serious? 8 months later and we still get this ffs.What's this bit about? I was under the impression the rebels were mainly anti-facist, and one of their main complaints about the government was that it had been taken over by nazis.
Has this changed or is this a smear from the bbc?
sorry oh all knowing one, been busy with life, work and stuff, hence the question.Are you serious? 8 months later and we still get this ffs.
Don't be under impressions then ffs.sorry oh all knowing one, been busy with life, work and stuff, hence the question.
What's this bit about? I was under the impression the rebels were mainly anti-facist, and one of their main complaints about the government was that it had been taken over by nazis.
Has this changed or is this a smear from the bbc?
Don't be under impressions then ffs.
They would be crushed. I doubt they will be allowed to associate. A march on the kremlin - they're be lucky to get out alive.During this time, the TV channels subject to the Russian regime keep silent about Strelkov. Why? Because Putin is afraid of his return to Russia after the military campaign in Ukraine. So says Boris Nemtsov, one of the most prominent leaders of the opposition to Putin. Nemtsov has no doubtthat Strelkov and his “volunteer militia” will lose.
“Sooner or later, this war will end, and Strelkov with his comrades-in-arms will be obliged to return to Russia. Of course, the fighters of his ‘militia’ are aware that Putin has betrayed them, and it is quite understandable that they will return to Russia very angry. Because not only did the Kremlin not annex Donbass to Russia, but it did not even send its army there”, Nemtsov writes. “Putin is a traitor, a rascal and a scoundrel”; in Nemtsov’s opinion, “this is exactly how Putin is seen by the people fighting in the Donbass”. Upon their return, “the people could precisely support these ‘heroic militiamen’ about whom the Russian media have spoken so much”. Meanwhile, “they will certainly not take kid gloves to the Muscovite traitors”. 29 June, 2014.
So, there is a glimmer of hope that this 'adventurism' could come back and savage Putins arse?
But given the encouragement they have received, wouldn't their defeat reflect badly on Putin?russias a big place with a big military. They'd be eaten.
But given the encouragement they have received, wouldn't their defeat reflect badly on Putin?
Bit of a shit journo this Mark Franchetti if he went to donabass and manged to miss all this. Unless the decades long far-right record of Strelov and kamerads was invented,.
its the sheer arrogance of the toynbee kind 'little has been said of' etc
yeah, it has, you are just too up your own bbc/media bubble arses to notice anything that hasn't crossed an editors desk
As has been said, we have lives to lead and while being deeply interested in the subject, most rely on people who have time/ facilities to research the subject in depth, now if some reject/dispute the information provided, then let the 'bun fight' ensue
BA,s 7664' 1030, very interesting readingPutin has been defeated? Where did you read that?