Uncle Satan's USG ignites fire for WW3

[midnight rambler]

http://rt.com/news/154544-slavyansk-fighting-east-ukraine/

[midnight rambler]

Offensive action reportedly being carried out by the Right Sector extremists using NATO intel (like that would surprise anyone) -

http://voiceofrussia.com/2014_04_24/Kiev-resumes-special-operation-in-Slavyank-deaths-reported-LIVE-UPDATES-9798/

http://rt.com/news/eastern-ukraine-army-operation-680/ (http://voiceofrussia.com/2014_04_24/Kiev-resumes-special-operation-in-Slavyank-deaths-reported-LIVE-UPDATES-9798/)

[madfranks]

It's not offensive action if it's called defense though, right? As in, "in order to defend X, Y, and Z, we are initiating action against...". Presto! We're now the good guys!!

[Libertytree]

They need/want another threat/warfront. The terror thing is getting stale, we need a new enemy!

[Horn]

You still can't call them fake Nazi's, just for working to empower Jew Zionists.

[Norweger]

I'd love to see the leaders of the social-democratic parties, their children and the so called journalists in the mainstream media form the front.

[Horn]

Eastern Ukraine: A new pawn in Putin's dangerous game








By issuing ultimatums and then failing to follow up, Kiev has further emboldened the rabble-rousers.


A city mayor is placed under house arrest and held incommunicado, a local and then a foreign journalist get kidnapped, and three bodies are pulled out of a river, one of them apparently belonging to the president's political party. Meanwhile, just across the border, less than 100km to the east, looms a 40,000-strong Russian army, ready to pounce at a moment's notice.

This is the reality of life in Ukraine's eastern provinces, where cities and towns have been taken hostage by mysterious bands of pro-Russian "people's defenders". Many of these "defenders" appear to be well-armed, wear a green camouflage and balaclavas (earning them the moniker "green men") and have an unmistakable Russian accent. Just as unmistakable is the resemblance of the scenario being played out in eastern Ukraine to that in Crimea on the eve of the Russian invasion: As in Crimea, Moscow has strenuously denied any involvement in eastern Ukraine, despite mounting evidence to the contrary.

With their calls for Russian President Vladimir Putin to send tanks to "defend" the people from the "fascist" government in Kiev, the pro-Russia protesters do not seem to represent the majority of the population in the east, which, though not enthusiastically pro-Kiev, would be content to be allowed to use Russian at work and to have their children taught in the language, to enjoy an increased regional autonomy, and simply to live in peace. Yet, despite their obvious minority status, the pro-Russian thugs have been able to take advantage of the power vacuum, relying on the apparently Moscow-supplied weaponry and logistical support to keep whole cities in terror and to have brought the entire region to the precipice of a civil war.

A student of Political Economy 101 might recognise the developments in Ukraine's east as following the logic of "concentrated benefits and diffuse costs", whereby a particular group will pull out all stops to achieve its goals, while the majority is too apathetic to take action to counter the active minority because it does not necessarily perceive the outcome as detrimental to its well-being. So, while the majority would prefer to continue carrying Ukrainian passports, they are too disenchanted, after two decades of lawlessness, corruption, kleptocracy by the few and the attendant impoverishment of the many, to make a stand for Ukraine's statehood.


Pro-Moscow agitators

In contrast, the pro-Moscow agitators are well-coordinated, well-compensated and within reach of the miraculous promise of spoils to be had in a new power configuration, just as it currently seems to be happening in Crimea. Eastern Ukrainian oligarchs, meanwhile, like the country's richest man Rinat Akhmetov, are biding their time and wetting their finger to see which way the wind blows before casting their lot with either side.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/04/eastern-ukraine-russia-new-pawn-201442445516564664.html