tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9230592.post8843305084847844728..comments2023-06-14T09:10:27.097-04:00Comments on Gray Falcon: Empire: It's Not Repression When We Do ItCubuCokohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14128683147101484237noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9230592.post-84000783025637724482014-04-15T06:38:14.625-04:002014-04-15T06:38:14.625-04:00Seems more like 1939 to me :-(Seems more like 1939 to me :-(Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9230592.post-62104069607026520702014-04-15T01:41:28.244-04:002014-04-15T01:41:28.244-04:00Here's a link to an interesting article on the...Here's a link to an interesting article on the current situation in Ukraine:<br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/15/world/europe/russia-east-ukraine.html?hpw&rref=world&_r=0<br /><br />The reporter has an obvious Pro-Nazi regime bias. However he does cite many grim realities/facts facing the Banderists. I really like these part:<br /><br />"Ukraine’s armed forces, demoralized and underequipped, are so short of funds that when the government ordered them on high alert last month as Russian forces seized Crimea, a Ukrainian billionaire had to buy the military fuel. The businessman, Ihor Kolomoysky, now the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region next to Donetsk, said he put up around $5 million of his own money to pay for gasoline and batteries so that Ukrainian military vehicles could leave their garages and helicopters could get off the ground.<br /><br />Ukraine’s intelligence agency, the State Security Service, known as the SBU, is so riddled with Russian informers that when John O. Brennan, the C.I.A. director, visited Kiev over the weekend on a supposedly secret trip, Russian state news media swiftly revealed his visit and declared it evidence that Washington was calling the shots in Ukraine and pushing for a crackdown in the east. We can’t change this overnight,” said the deputy defense minister, Leonid Polyakov. “The system was so deeply penetrated by the Russians. We have to operate in this environment.”<br /><br />This helps explain why Ukraine’s government has been caught flat-footed repeatedly by events in the east, where buildings that were obvious targets for attacks by pro-Russian militants were left guarded by just a handful of local police officers, who, outnumbered and outgunned, often ran away."<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Teddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07731913495080613195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9230592.post-47996404990404107422014-04-14T22:58:58.773-04:002014-04-14T22:58:58.773-04:00Sending weapons to the Nazis in Kiev won't do ...Sending weapons to the Nazis in Kiev won't do any good. They have weapons, tanks, artillery, helicopters, etc., Their problem is finding enough volunteers to fight in the South & East. The Army won't do it & many are defecting. They called up the reserves & practically no one showed up. That's why they are forming the "National Guard" made up of Brownshirts. On top of that they have some mercenaries that they brought in.Teddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07731913495080613195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9230592.post-14879718922080178912014-04-14T16:43:07.141-04:002014-04-14T16:43:07.141-04:00Well, yes. Except this isn't 1947...Well, yes. Except this isn't 1947...CubuCokohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14128683147101484237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9230592.post-39014615408752746512014-04-14T15:43:47.514-04:002014-04-14T15:43:47.514-04:00The US is not only blowing up the bridges between ...The US is not only blowing up the bridges between Russia and Ukraine but also between Europe and Russia. They want to push Russia out of Europe and destabilize the (German) European Union. Are the Americans hoping for a repetition of the Marshall Plan?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com