Ukrainian interim President Oleksandr Turchinov delivered a nationwide television address to prepare his nation for what amounts to a full-scale war being launched against secessionists in eastern Ukrainian provinces, dubbed the offensive an “anti-terrorist” operation.
Turchinov declared it a “war which the Russian Federation is waging against Ukraine,” continuing the claims that the protests are entirely manufactured by Russia and not representative of real opposition among the locals to the new pro-West government.
So far the fighting has been limited, with some clashes over a police station in Slovyansk. One Ukrainian soldier was confirmed killed so far, and reports have also suggested deaths among the protesters, who have been transitioned from “demonstrators” to “militants” to “terrorists” in media reports in just a few hours.
Russian officials have condemned the offensive as a violation of international law, saying it would push the incident at the UN Security Council, and warning the West better rein in Turchinov’s government before the incident spirals into a civil war.
US officials have backed the claimed that the whole thing is Russia’s fault, saying they see the “telltale signs” of Russian intervention in the east. The protesters have sought autonomy, or failing that secession from Ukraine and accession into the Russian Federation, as the Crimean Peninsula did last month.
Russian officials have warned that they reserve the right to use military force to protect ethnic Russians elsewhere in the world, and with ethnic Russians dominating the East Ukraine protests, the crackdown seems to be testing that threat, and pushing Russia in a direction of intervention.
Few weeks go we mentioned that: if things develop as they are then you have a full scale civil war in Ukraine. Ukraine is not about Kiev, but rather Kiev is about Ukraine. The self proclaimed government in Kiev and their Neo fascism allies control 1/3 of Ukraine, a full military operation against people of Ukraine will bring down this “government” where the hooligans and Neo fascist will start terrorizing the people in Kiev, they will control the streets and they don’t mind to kill the “government” either. It would be the most foolish and stupid act if its down. In the other hand, this “government” heavily relies on its thugs, these social worms-imbeciles, after all it was them who brought this “government” into power.
Of course when the current self-appointed government of Ukraine was doing the same thing these easterners were doing, in Kiev, responding with military force was absolutely horrifying. These were democratic protesters, after all! The people in the east are of course nothing of the kind. Although they have evidently learned everything they know from the authors of the coup on the Maidan.
When you tear up a constitution for your faction, what is to prevent the other side from doing the same thing?
And, its a fact long since buried under propaganda, but the Yanukovych (spelled wrong I'm sure/sorry) government in Kiev let the protesters gather without sending in the police. The protesters were in Maiden Square for months, and it was notable that the elected government of the Ukraine did not send in the police on its own citizens. A restraint Obama has been unable to muster in the past.
All the propaganda about the elected Ukraine government 'killing protesters' stems from the final days when the government was actually being violently overthrown. And about that there's a great deal of propaganda on each side about who was shooting, so its rather hard to tell what actually happened.
The elected government of the Ukraine showed much more restraint than this self-appointed government is showing in very similar circumstances.
The weekend has seen building occupations, violent protests and reports of disturbances right across eastern Ukraine, including in Sloviansk, Kramatorsk, Druzhkivka, Yenakiyevo, Mariupol, Kharkiv, Zaporizhya, Makiyivka, Donetsk, Mariupol, Luhansk, Kostriantynivka, Ilovaysk, Horlivka, Dobropillya, Artemivsk, and elsewhere. The Kiev govenment may have the military assets to attack Sloviansk with armor, but I question their ability to mount a sustained and coordinated attack in all of these towns and cities.
Another way to look at this would be to say that the Ukraine is massing troops within a 100 miles of Russia's border.
just imagine, those sneaky Russians up to no good, just like DC was doing all though last….
The Ukraine junta must have been coached by the USG provocateurs to use the term "terrorists" – I mean, it works on the US citizens, doesn't it? You start throwing around "terrorists" and the money starts to flow and the rules all get tossed allowing all types of illegal and immoral things to happen, in the name of "fighting terrorists" – makes it all nice and sellable, doesn't it.
How come no one asked "tell-tale signs" Powers to comment on the similarities of what the US did during the coup in Kiev and what SHE claims Putin is doing in eastern Ukraine?
More importantly, how did this person rise to the top of qualified people to represent the US at the UN? Oh, wait, never mind…
Do anyone notice that they don't even seem to bother offering proof or evidence anymore?
A violation of international law? That's a good one! Since when was it a violation of international law for a sovereign state to enforce its laws on its own territory? In other words, if a group of Latinos occupied by force several Texas border counties and demanded their secession from the US and attachment to Mexico, it would be a "violation of international law" for the state of Texas to use its law enforcement agencies to disloge them by force! Such a silly argument shows just how week the Russian position is. Putin has painted himself into a corner and the Ukrainians have now called his bluff.
The Bureau of Land Management needs you in Nevada, so hurry on out there.
Early in the crisis, comparisons were made to the start of WWI a hundred years ago. Somehow, that never sounded correct to me. But today, I'm getting a strong feeling of what at least some people in Berlin must have felt in 1939. This isn't a war caused by militaries launching out-of-control mobilization plans like in 1914.
But its starting to look like the start of WWII, which was an outright fake provocation to create an excuse to start a war. And it must be an even stranger feeling to be in Moscow now and do see it happening again, knowing the last time 20 to 30 million Russians died.
Its not a new thing for the US government under Dubya/Obama to equate 'demonstrators' with 'terrorists'.
Read:
USA told it s UKRAINE mercenaries and agents to Vow ‘Full-Scale Military Operation’ Against Eastern Ukraine
CIA Director Brennan was just in Kiev.
It wold be appropriate if the checks bounced…insufficient funds…credit denied.
I strongly suspect that Brennan brought suitcases full of monopoly money.
and if they change the petrodollar to say, the Euro, just as an example, that's exactly to what the US dollar would equate.
There is no "Ukrainian interim President" !
Nobody is elected except the democratically elected President Yanukovic which has been drieven out by force of US trained NAZI-killers (trained for weeks by NATO in an Baltic state) which also urged the parlamentarians on gun Point to resign.
more: http://enk894.wix.com/us-wars
What an amazing coincidence that exactly when the Director of the CIA shows up in Kiev, the Ukrainian government announces that it will launch a military offensive against the Russian areas!
A missile should be sent to all the NATO countries to let the world know how much the none NATO countries have appreciated being bombed by NATO Just enough so they can see themselves all the pain and suffering NATO bombs has spread around the world . The Baltic countries should not be allowed to feel so safe hiding behind a NATO shield . Why the United States would join this band of NATO Nazi criminals is something we need hold a referendum on . We need not have fought Hitler if we are going to follow his policies on borders and politics anyway . Russia was really the main force defeating the Nazis last time And it looks like they maybe considering stopping them again . The United States and its leaders seem to be more supportive of not realizing what is going on or if they do they wish to support the Nazis this time , If the United States had minded its own business Yugoslavia probably would be one country today .