In addition to their plans to send “military advisers” to Ukraine, the Pentagon is said to be in the process of finalizing a plan to pick out targets for the Ukrainian military to attack, focusing on rebel missile batteries.
The plan has yet to be approved by the White House, but officials say they would be providing “precise information” on exactly what the Ukrainian military should attack, providing them intelligence in the ongoing civil war.
The US is keen to say the tide of war turned in favor of the Poroshenko government and against the mostly ethnic Russian separatists, and is said to already be providing satellite data on rebel troop movements to the nation’s military.
As for other nations getting involved in the conflict, Dutch Premier Mark Rutte termed such plans “not realistic,” while Australian officials familiar with their Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s plans called them “nuts,” saying he intends to send ground troops “unprepared into a volatile situation.”
The US government should think about that: this si NOT some war against Terror or a war between two Nations. This is the bloody killing of People who do not want to think like their own government!
Some corrupt and criminal government (elected only by a nonrepresentative part of the Population)
is killing their own People! Just imagine that would happen to the People in Barcelona or Glasgow!
How about "sanctions" against the US for DESTABILIZING Ukraine?
Surely the provision of arms to one of the warring sides is destabilzing the Country .
Whats good enough for the US should also be applied to the Russians.
The Russians have been supplying lots of heavy weapons to the rebels and it appears they also provided the SAMs that shot down the civilian passenger plane. The US State Department and Victoria Nuland was up to their eyeteeth in the coup that brought down Yanukovich and the Russkis caught her on tape conspiring. That she hasn't been fired and arrested indicates that it was official policy of the US. Was it all about trying to get Ukraine to join NATO? If so, heads should roll.
Russian no-fly zone any minute now.
So the US can arm war criminals but the Russians can't arm the resistance.
Sounds about usual.
Been there done that.
Syria springs to mind.
It didn't say anything about arms, but about information… telling someone where stuff is in their own country is significantly different than sending even a single bullet or gun.
Syria springs to mind…. as a completely different situation – where Iran is doing the arming in a religious civil war.
Do attack helicopters, like these flying over Dneperpetrovsk, count? How about Barrett anti-material sniper rifles? The guy by the rifle is Porshenko, the President of the US-backed Ukraine regime. The guys in the tan uniform and black baseball caps are his personal close-quarter protection PMC guys. The Ukraine is totally broke and cannot afford to pay its own troops, so the money for all this must be coming from a very generous Uncle.
It's nice to know that with the Australian Prime Minister's plan, all the nuts aren't located at the Pentagon.
Little by little, Ukraine is becoming a de facto member of NATO. Its military forces will get NATO equipment and will be trained up to NATO standard by NATO advisers. That is the inevitable, and entirely foreseeable, result of Putin's stupidity. He made his bed, now he has to lie in it. Tony Abbott's silly reaction simply reflects the fury which the shooting down of the airliner has generated in the world. I'm sure many governments would love to send in troops to clobber the rebel colonists (who look they stepped straight out of a TV documentary on American white supremacist militias!) once and for all but Mark Rutte's analysis is probably the majority view.
Why are we getting involved in this? Totally crazy.
About that satellite image released today – why a lame static image of a few craters but nothing from 17 July?
Wage a proxy war (and barely a proxy war at that) against nuclear-armed Russia—and right on her very doorstep? Sure! I mean, what could go wrong?
But seriously, there are insane, thanatotic monsters in Washington who seem determined not to rest until we're all dead. One is almost tempted to think that these powerful creeps hate everything and everyone—themselves included—so vehemently that they actually *want* to nuke the planet.
Politicians in Washington are drunk on money and power. They view the American public as a nuisance, or as peasants.
Some American military officers are Jesus freaks who want to nuke the planet to go to get raptured faster. Look at the insane mega-churches in Colorado near the Air Force Academy. Many of these same people want Israel to start nuking people for the same reason.
I wonder how the USG will spin their "assistance" as compared to the Russian "assistance" in the Ukrainian civil war?
It is NOT a civil war. It's Russia attacking week Ukraine to gain ground for a further advance. Ukraine is probably WILL end up in NATO after Russia's land grab in Crimea. There are russian songs about giving back Alaska exist there, think about that for a second. We don't get invoilved, result is Ukraine is grabbed by Russia, hello spending more money on defence! Russia will have free food and human resources to build soviet union #2!
Once again America sticks its nose where it has absolutely no business whatsoever. Imagine Russia sending troops to Mexico and helping one side there in a civil war.
btw re the Geoffrey Pyatt twitter evidence re the Buks –
RT: 'Fake': Russian Defence Min rebuffs US sat image claims
This scheme is called “an informational merry-go-round,”Konashenkov added, using an expression commonly uttered in Russia relating to feeding the information to the media.
“It’s no secret to anyone that fakes like this are made by a group of US counselors staying in the Kiev building of the Security Council, led by General Randy Kee,” he noted.
The general outlined the cycle as follows: the US counselors in the Kiev feed the disinformation to the Ukrainian media, with the news being taken by the Washington official representatives and presented as statements.
Afterwards, the Ukrainian media cite the US authorities and publish articles like as “objective.” http://rt.com/news/176120-fake-ukraine-images-def…
MAJOR GENERAL RANDY A. KEE
Maj. Gen. Randy A. Kee is the Director, Strategy and Policy, Headquarters U.S. European Command, Stuttgart-Vaihingen, Germany. http://www.af.mil/AboutUs/Biographies/Display/tab…