Mid-Civil War and with a ceasefire that’s barely holding, about 300 US paratroopers arrived today in Lviv, Ukraine, planning a training operation which Russians warn could serious destabilize the situation.
The sudden US military presence “is a long way from helping toward a settlement of the conflict,” cautioned Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, while other officials said it risked making Ukraine’s forces more aggressive in the disputed east.
Lviv is in the far west, while the war itself is in the east, along the Russian frontier, so the US troops aren’t exactly in the middle of the conflict. That they’re training potential combatants in an unresolved war, however, certainly raises some eyebrows.
And indeed, the Pentagon previously delayed this training mission because the Obama Administration didn’t want to threaten the then-new ceasefire. It’s unclear what changed in their view, but the same concerns seem to apply now.
The understatement of the year.
NATO have been creeping up to Russias borders for well over 20 years and are now, with it´s hostile Russophobic allies they promised not to incorporate, closer to Moscow than Hitler was in his time. Sabre rattling, puerile military parades up and down the baltic, along with verbal threats, war games, bombs, guns, missiles and nukes.
To top it all, the Kagan,Nudelman, Pyatt/CIA coup in Kiev with a neo-Nazi junta that wouldn´t win an election otherwise and hence, the blood-feast on Russian speaking citizens (over 6000 so far) and threats to Russia proper.
Not to mention the US/saudi/israeli controlled wahhabi ISIS/Al-Qaeda freaks terrorizing southern Russia since the 80´s with a locust storm to be expected once they´r done in the middle east and the US zio-con freaks seriously contemplating a nuclear attack on Russia.
SHOULD RUSSIA BE CONCERNED?
Hitler actually got to the Volga, considerably east of Moscow, and even got down into the Caucasus (there's at least one German military cemetery in Georgia). As for the "blood-feast", I'd better tell my Russian-speaking friend from Kharkov! She has never heard of it! Russia concerned? Hopefully, yes. Putin could easily get them into a major war with consequences rather like the war Hitler got Germany into.
The idea of caution and considered reasoning has been thrown out the window and replaced by this insane concept that "we own the place and what we don't will be reduced to rubble so no one else can also. Diplomacy has been replaced by rabid racism and supreme infallibility – what their adherents call Exceptionalism. They do not understand that there will be a bill come due at some time in the future and it seems to be coming to a head sooner rather than later, to me at least.
This administration seems to be attempting to go in several disjointed directions at once and none of the choices have been thought out by adults. If I was an conspiracy theory advocate I'd swear that those religious nutcases who've been clamoring for years that the "end is near", the Dominionists and Reconstructionists for example, are in total control and guiding us to their form of "salvation."
"Diplomacy has been replaced by rabid racism and supreme infallibility – what their adherents call Exceptionalism"
Sounds exactly like a group of maniacs and thugs in Europe in the 1930's. Except this time the end result won't be the destruction of Europe, but the entire world.
Clearly, Putin fears US intervention more than anything else and see this as yet another small step in that direction. Equally, nobody really beleives that Putin will maintain the ceasefire indefinitely. There's no way he can just sit in that ridiculous sausage of land his mercenaries hold. Either he capitulates or he tries to steal more land. Thus, it is Putin who is destabilised, not Ukraine.
Poor Michael, you do not know that Kievskaya Rus was created by prince Vladimir around orthodoxy and not ukrainian nationalism which did not exist at that time.Present leaders in Kiev are very far from the ideas and ideals of prince Vladimir.For that reason Dombass is more ukrainian than the people of Kiev and in fact Kiev is the separatist region.
The fools in the Pentagon have gone this far because they BELIEVE that they have a WORKING anti Ballistic Missile System, they actually believe that they can win a Nuclear war!
Do you think our training of Ukrainians troops will be as effective as we were in training Iraq's soldiers?
Apr 17, 2015 Inspecting the Ceasefire in Shyrokyne: Russian Roulette
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s (OCSE) Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine has been in Shyrokyne, in the Donetsk region, observing the state of the current ceasefire between the government in Kiev and eastern separatists.
https://youtu.be/N_DlrQkINeo
USA fascist — Russia anti-fascist
If it is legal for USA to send 300 killer/trainers into a war zone called Ukraine, to train fascist sympathizers, then it is fair and just that Russia send to the new East Ukraine Republic an equal 300 troops to said war zone as an equalizer to prevent the creation of a rich mans fascist paradise.