Re: Ukraine
Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2014 3:17 am
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Nowaysj will be pleased to know I'm now out of step with Western leaders on this. Voting good.The decision by the parliament in Simferopol that Crimea should join Russia - a proposition that will be put to a referendum in some 10 days' time - has escalated diplomatic tensions just as direct military confrontation on the ground in Crimea seemed, if not to be relaxing, to have reached an uneasy standoff.
The move was described by the UK Prime Minister David Cameron - in what yet may prove an understatement - as "a serious step in the wrong direction".
so yeah, could be Russian propaganda, but it's eerily reminiscent of the 2002 coup attempt against Chavez in Venezuela: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Venez ... frontation“There is now stronger and stronger understanding that behind the snipers, it was not Yanukovich, but it was somebody from the new coalition,” Urmas Paet said during the conversation. (...)
Paet also recalled his conversation with a doctor who treated those shot by snipers in Kiev. She said that both protesters and police were shot at by the same people.
“And second, what was quite disturbing, this same Olga [Bogomolets] told as well that all the evidence shows that the people who were killed by snipers from both sides, among policemen and then people from the streets, that they were the same snipers killing people from both sides,” the Estonian FM stressed.
"Martin’s denunciation of Russia for “invading” Ukraine is based on Western propaganda that Russia sent 16,000 troops to occupy Crimea. The fact of the matter is that those 16,000 Russian troops have been in Crimea since the 1990s. Under the Russian-Ukrainian agreement, Russia has the right to base 25,000 troops in Crimea.nowaysj wrote:
Nope, but just responding to people that don't follow the thread so keep bringing up the same stuff.nowaysj wrote:Are you copy and pasting yourself?
not sure it's aimed at me but yeah sorry i skipped through the magma/m8son drama part so might've missed stuff, this said, i don't think the stuff i posted above regarding the doubts over who the snipers that shot in the crowd in Kiev really were and the parallel with Venezuela 2002 had been mentioned before?garethom wrote:nowaysj wrote:people that don't follow the thread so keep bringing up the same stuff.
Not sure I said that. The confusion continuesdfaultuzr wrote:not sure it's aimed at me but yeah sorry i skipped through the magma/m8son drama part so might've missed stuff, this said, i don't think the stuff i posted above regarding the doubts over who the snipers that shot in the crowd in Kiev really were and the parallel with Venezuela 2002 had been mentioned before?garethom wrote:nowaysj wrote:people that don't follow the thread so keep bringing up the same stuff.
the government who set that up dont exist anymore lolgarethom wrote:That stat seems to be thrown around a lot, but it ignores the other part of it, that those 25,000 troops are required to remain on base, not locking down airports and surrounding Ukrainian military bases.
Neither do the government that set up the NHS; what's your point?bennyfroobs wrote:the government who set that up dont exist anymore lolgarethom wrote:That stat seems to be thrown around a lot, but it ignores the other part of it, that those 25,000 troops are required to remain on base, not locking down airports and surrounding Ukrainian military bases.