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Ukraine Requests Weapons From US, Is Rejected (For Now)

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Shortly after Ukraine found out that financial aid from the US will not be forthcoming (thanks to politicial gridlock); it appears they will be disappointed by the US once again:

  • *UKRAINE SAID TO ASK FOR ARMS FROM US, FLY SAYS CITING DJ
  • *U.S. SAID TO DENY UKRAINE REQUEST FOR ARMS, FLY SAYS CITING DJ

It would appear that what is good for US-assisted Syrian Al-Qaeda rebels is not good enough for the vastly outmatched and outnumbered Ukrainians.

The UN Security Council does not sound hopeful:

  • *DIPLOMATIC SOLUTION TO CRIMEA `ELUSIVE,' UN OFFICIAL SAYS

As clashes breakout in Dontesk (with a tleast 10 injured):

  • *DONETSK CLASHES BETWEEN PRO-RUSSIA, PRO-UKRAINE SIDES: INTERFAX
  • *DONETSK CLASHES IN UKRAINE INVOLVE 4,000 PEOPLE, INTERFAX SAYS
  • *DONETSK CLASHES IN UKRAINE INVOLVE 4,000 PEOPLE, INTERFAX SAYS

With tear gas and stun grenades being used.

 

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Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:26 | 4544452 fightthepower
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This nation needs an enema!

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:29 | 4544474 Boris Alatovkrap
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Everything Obama and USSA representative say is like enema except is less for antiseptic.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:34 | 4544508 BaBaBouy
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WEAPONS FOR UKr... Yup... Rusheans Would REALLY Appreciate That One...

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:39 | 4544526 Yoki
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Failed Vietnam war, Bosia was a farce, Failed Korea(still on going), Failed Iraq, Failed Afgan. Failed Syria, Failed Iran, Now Ukraine?

If I was a bettiing man, I'd bet on Aliens invading Earth first.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:41 | 4544536 Yoki
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Anyone want to take that bet?

 

Opps you lost already, according to this(Honorable Paul Hellyer) Aliens have already invaded:

http://removingtheshackles.blogspot.ca/2013/05/transcription-of-paul-hel...

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:47 | 4544557 TeamDepends
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See what happens when you sequester?!?!!!

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:50 | 4544581 pods
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Where is old Bandar the magnificent?  He seems pretty easy with weapons?

Did they ever get back the Benghazi arms?  

The only thing this means is that they have to supply some weapons on the DL, that's all.

pods

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 16:00 | 4544621 ZerOhead
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Bandar is busy gassing up the new AQIC (Al Qaeda In Crimea) Toyota pick-ups with the anti-aircraft guns mounted in the box that Obama ordered for him from a friend in Chicago...

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 17:03 | 4544934 Chuck Norris
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Dummies!  We sent all the weapons to Syria. 

 

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 21:05 | 4545981 BigJim
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Silly Ukrainians. Ask for weapons BEFORE handing over the gold.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 17:24 | 4545067 Mike in GA
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Yeah, the sequester is really gonna cut into the staff salaries and perks of each CONgressional fiefdom right?  The senators may even have their obamacare subsidy reduced!

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:46 | 4544561 Levadiakos
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First is in the 1960s, a flotilla of UFO's headed south into NATO territory, and the Commander in Chief of the Supreme Allied Orders(SHAPE) in Europe was naturally very shaken.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:50 | 4544586 Yoki
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"First is in the 1960s, a flotilla of UFO's headed south into NATO territory, and the Commander in Chief of the Supreme Allied Orders(SHAPE) in Europe was naturally very shaken."

Yeah about that... I have a tendency to fart alot while flying, we had open the windows. Sorry about that..

 

 

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 16:26 | 4544751 bigrooster
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Depends on how you clasify failure.  If you ask the militray industrial complex we are winning!

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 18:01 | 4545281 Vampyroteuthis ...
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If you ask the militray industrial complex we are winning!

Exactly! Those invasions were all about making big bucks for the MIC. No, Iraq was not about oil or Bush lied (well he did), but in the end arms sales won the day.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 18:44 | 4545455 Razor_Edge
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"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better" I'm sure my compatriot had exactly what you say in mind when he said the above.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:39 | 4544528 RevRex
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Obama's mom jeans are too tight, and have cut off all blood flow to his shrunken testicles......

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:53 | 4544606 Boris Alatovkrap
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You are assertion Barry is have testicle to shrinking?

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 16:15 | 4544706 bonderøven-farm ass
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Isn't it obvious that Dr Choom is Chewie's eunch?  

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:57 | 4544628 superflex
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No testicles on Obie.  Just a fat camel toe.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 16:36 | 4544808 naughtius maximus
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Obama mamma?

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:45 | 4544556 RaceToTheBottom
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I think that McStain would have an orgasm

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 16:18 | 4544712 Kirk2NCC1701
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"Weapons".  Ah, yes, "The Essence of the Banking and MIC industries", as finally explained in a movie (The Internationalist) of all things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B_SxGmSJP0b

FYI... The 5 largest Arms exporting nations - in order are:  USA, UK, France, Russia, China.

Got the JPG?  Good. 

Cause there are other JPGs -- for the Biggest Oil companies too.  Which support fiat-currencies, fiat-Debt and fiat-Taxes.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 17:28 | 4545107 Urban Redneck
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For laughs and irony look at the global position of Ukraine's arms exports in 2012... 

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:52 | 4544596 Canadian Dirtlump
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they are speaking out he wrong hole essentially.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:29 | 4544475 DoChenRollingBearing
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It´s a good thing we are not (openly anyway) sending more good money and weapons after bad.  Stay out of the Ukraine.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:42 | 4544539 williambanzai7
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Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:34 | 4544505 thunderchief
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Forget about just getting f&@ked by Russia Ukraine coup junta.
Think anal by Putin!

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:46 | 4544523 Pure Evil
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That's been Obama's feverish nightly sexual fantasy ever since Obama told Putin that he would have more flexibility after the erection, oops...I meant election.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:54 | 4544609 DoChenRollingBearing
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Oh, dat´s evil!

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:47 | 4544572 BillyTheBlade
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"there will be grave consequences"....for the Ukranians.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 17:24 | 4545068 Stuck on Zero
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"Grave" meaning planted six feet under?

 

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:52 | 4544598 negative rates
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And you're going to be just the one to give it to him too, huh?

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:54 | 4544611 skwid vacuous
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i would like to snap that little zio-puppet Yatsenyuk's neck in half, is he still in the US?

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 16:31 | 4544775 negative rates
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I think he is, and he must be workin on yours pretty good too, from the sound of it.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:26 | 4544454 Missiondweller
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Unbelieveable!

This is like telling Russian, "Go ahead and take Ukraine"!

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:30 | 4544477 El Vaquero
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And the only reason one could legitimately argue that it's our business is because we had a hand in creating the situation in the first place.  We should have stayed the fuck out in the beginning, but noooooooo.  It's still in our best interests to stay the fuck out, unless you happen to need some vitamin F*.

 

 

 

* F for Fallout

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:32 | 4544492 Boris Alatovkrap
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Perhaps maybe someone is informing of Barry what is "Red Line", or maybe remove color red from Barry box of crayola.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:40 | 4544530 Pure Evil
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Barry has only one color in his crayola box and that's the color of chicken shit.

 

As in, Barry's about as worthless as chicken shit on a pump handle.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:42 | 4544541 El Vaquero
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At least the chicken shit can be scraped off and put into the compost pile.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:55 | 4544618 negative rates
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Everything you say can and will be used against you in a, well you know where.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 16:00 | 4544635 El Vaquero
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NSA tribunal?

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:30 | 4544483 Boris Alatovkrap
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Impotency of large debtor nation full abandonment of constitutional principle manifest is full in glorious color.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:49 | 4544579 Uncle Remus
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Full Monty.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 16:03 | 4544653 Freddie
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Where has Boris been?  We were worried about you comrace.  We thought you were guarding the gate at a Ukraine army base.

Fri, 03/14/2014 - 01:19 | 4546712 Boris Alatovkrap
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Boris is busy clean up after Sochi Olympic Game, is much unuse copper to "mine".

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:51 | 4544591 Frank N. Beans
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The problem is that this request for arms was not done under the table.  You can't just ask out loud for everyone to hear.

Of course the US has to deny the request (for now).

 

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:57 | 4544627 Jack Burton
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Unelievable? Time to jet over and join the West Ukrainian fascist legions. If you care so much, put up!

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:27 | 4544456 El Vaquero
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Yup.  Go in there, stir shit up, and when the sheeple find out and aren't willing to back that play, leave them high and dry.  That's how the US rolls these days.  Why should anybody trust us again?

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:35 | 4544509 Boris Alatovkrap
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"These days"...!? You are so quickly forget Bay of Pigs, Prague, Budapest, Iran,... you are forget Poland and Sudetenland circa 1939...!? Blame on weather because USSA is epitome of fair weather friend.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 20:46 | 4545915 123dobryden
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dont forget Obama here deals with the handicap, as we dont have 1/3 of coutry's wealth in hands of 100 but 1000

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fri, 03/14/2014 - 01:22 | 4546717 Boris Alatovkrap
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Obama is handicap...? Is look normal expect lower body of soccer mom and maybe is testacle not yet to drop. Is mental handi... Oh, now Boris is understand stupid utterance of village idiot in chief.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:46 | 4544558 Winston Churchill
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That Kerry bolted the stable ten years ago.

I think DC got the message(I hope) that the whole world has had enough.

The choice was lose GRC now, or in the near future.So Obozo kicked the can,

and threw Ukraine under the bus.

.

Fri, 03/14/2014 - 01:25 | 4546722 Boris Alatovkrap
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LOL! Boris is read but is confuse... what is "Kerry bolt"...? But now Boris is understanding completely, Kerry is secretary of state who is long face like horse who is "bolt from stable"....! Maybe is like "Ed Talking Horse"! Mr. Churchill is very smart funny comment!

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:36 | 4544460 Pure Evil
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I guess the pacified and pussyfied Eurotrash is trying to avoid a nasty civil war on their back door stoop.

I guess its ok to do IMF nation building using bombs and troops in the ME, but not in my euro back yard.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:36 | 4544515 Joe A
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No, we just don't want another fucking world war being fought on our continent. If the Russians and the Americans want to fight each other, do it in Vladivostok and Alaska.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:42 | 4544543 Pure Evil
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Hey, what's the fun in that?

The military is used to break stuff, just as long as it's someone else's stuff.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:46 | 4544563 El Vaquero
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Yeah, and just think of all the broken windows!

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:49 | 4544578 Pure Evil
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Did you just hear the sound of a sonic boom?

That was Krugman going all orgasmic.

I guess if you can't have an alien invasion, then destroying Ukrainian infrastructure will have to make do.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:28 | 4544469 jubber
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This nation needs a President!

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:51 | 4544592 Uncle Remus
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Enema.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 16:06 | 4544670 Freddie
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The entire country is corrupt and it has been since the phony Civil War which killed 1.1 million American men.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:31 | 4544472 HardlyZero
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Senators Lugar and Obama removed the weapons in 2005, and others removed the bigun's in 1994.

NOW  they want them back at 11:59:59  ?   very impossible.

Yet here we are, no exit.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:29 | 4544473 ILikeBoats
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Clearly the Ukrainians need to specify that they intend to be dealing drugs and need to mix it up with the Russian drug cartel.  THEN Obama and Holder will get them the guns they need!

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:29 | 4544476 Sweet Chicken
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I'm not sure why but this scene keeps replaying in my head. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdcFYNe9U7A

 

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:30 | 4544481 fonzannoon
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If I was Obama I would launch an attack on Ukraine right now. that's the only thing that would give Putin pause.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:33 | 4544496 HardlyZero
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Maybe throw some flash bangs in the commode ?

Paintgun tag up ?

what a mess.

Dismal.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:33 | 4544497 Dr. Engali
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I'm thinking he should follow Bush's Iraq lead after 911 and invade Madagascar. That will really throw Putin off balance.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:51 | 4544594 shovelhead
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Dear God no...

Those poor cute penguins.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:34 | 4544503 El Vaquero
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Yeah, pause enough to ponder whether he should try to hold out until the Russian winter or just go straight for the nuclear option. 

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:40 | 4544486 Dr. Engali
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I'm sure Zero has a fast and furious project in the works here.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:44 | 4544549 Pure Evil
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Yeah, he's furious someone has actually stood up the little ass cheek spreader, and he's real fast about letting other's take the blame for his ass babies.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:31 | 4544487 Son of Captain Nemo
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Oh Yeah????

And while you're at John breath, take these fellas back home with you!

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:44 | 4544527 Bonapartist
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No mercy should be shown to these Blackwater motherfuckers- hanging upside down from bridges is too good of a death. If they are in the Ukraine the FSB or GRU probably knows their wereabouts at all times.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 16:01 | 4544639 Jack Burton
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Blackwater cunts were already seen and filmed on the streets of Karkov shadowing a Pro Russian rally. When people started shouting "Blackwater", "Blackwater", the fucker ran for it. Looked like these guys were Americans, dressed up just like a US Police Swat Team. So much body armor and helmets they could hardly walk.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 16:22 | 4544734 Son of Captain Nemo
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Trust me JB that you would have to be either "full retard" or completely out of your mind in taking that assignment no matter what you were promised for compensation.

I saw those videos and the people in the street who identified them getting into vehicles.  Needless to say they had to have been doing some major "Y-B's" getting out of that square!

I'll say it again to the Blackwater miscreants or whatever the fuck you call yourselves now... Wouldn't want to be you if you get caught in-Country cause your ass will be on a pike for display somewhere outside of Kiev as a discreet warning!

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 16:54 | 4544889 YHC-FTSE
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Absolutely right. Even the Daily Mail had a story about 300 US mercenaries arriving in the Ukraine to stomp on pro-Russia demonstrations in Donetsk. 

Http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2576490/Are-Blackwater-active-Uk...

I'm a bit hazy on international law, but aren't mercenaries in illegal? Isn't this an act of war? These mongrels have no legal rights, so any Ukrainean can take a pitchfork to them without any repercussions, although probably a good idea to drop them from a distance since they have a history of firing into crowds when cornered. Open season on Blackwater. Get them fast before they start causing civilian casualties. 

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 17:04 | 4544945 ThisIsBob
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These guys are supplemental security forces hired by those presently in charge.  From whence the payment guarantee is what I want to know, as they don't come cheap.  (Remember the $5,000 escorts to the Bagdad airport?)

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:33 | 4544499 Tracerfan
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Why should we give weapons to Nazis fighting Russians?  Because we want the whole planet to be turned into a burnt crisp?

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:34 | 4544506 Oldballplayer
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This is the US indicating that the war will be over by the time we could get them there, unpacked, and sent to the front.

In Ukraine, you don't go to front. Front comes to you.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:34 | 4544507 Ifigenia
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Those ukies are nuts, Just send someone to the supers

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:36 | 4544514 WTFUD
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Kerry in a G-String. Tickle my Ass with a blade of grass! Who's BAD?

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:37 | 4544516 Smuckers
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What, a jawbone is not good enough??

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:40 | 4544533 El Vaquero
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What, John Kerry's jawbone?

 

(Donkey, horse, they both have long faces.)

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:37 | 4544517 RevRex
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So America finances the uprising then says fuck you, once it succeeds.

 

This must be the flexibility that Obama promised Russia, for after he was re-injected, ......both by the Socialist Semite Democrat Media and LANCE bASS...... (and Reggie Love and Bobby Titcomb)

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:41 | 4544529 Tracerfan
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US encouraged Hungarians to revolt in 1956, too, with disastrous consequences. 

This time, US funded and maybe trained and armed neo-Nazi Banderists to seize power by force.  Most Ukrainians do not want to be under Banderists.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:38 | 4544520 Schmuck Raker
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Re: Donetsk

Any idea, this time, whose snipers are manning the rooftops?

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:39 | 4544531 WTFUD
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Freeze Porous Soros Assets and siphon them off to the Nazi junta beggars in Ukraine.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:43 | 4544546 Yoki
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That would make UKRAINE the rischest country EVER!

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:41 | 4544535 buzzsaw99
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How about a nice football? [/xmas story]

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:46 | 4544559 sixsigma cygnus...
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If Ukraine sets up a drug cartel, they could get as many weapons as they want from the DOJ.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:46 | 4544564 Caracalla
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.....Paging KEVIN HENRY, paging KEVIN HENRY, please pick up immediately.......

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:46 | 4544566 Byte Me
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I suppose letting them have some of their old nukes back is .. uh.. problematic?

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 22:44 | 4546313 StychoKiller
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Hmm, but WHY would Ukrainian nukes from the former USSR be targeted at anything in Russia?  Wouldn't it be completely apropos if those nukes end up at their original western targets?   Careful what you wish for...

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:47 | 4544567 Tracerfan
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Watching video from Donetsk.  Armed Right Sector Banderist neo-Nazis were sent from Kiev to Donetsk by bus.  Large battle.  Appears Banderists disarmed by local riot police.

Hope this stops.  If the Banderists kill people in Donetsk, Russian forces will probably go in.

Kiev hotheads trying to start a war, because the fragile regime there could collapse due to bad economic situation.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:48 | 4544575 tony wilson
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yesterday on the bbc the nazi head of some dept or other stated that the army needed to be reconstructed from scratch because kiev had only 6000 thousand combat ready soldiers.

weapons are already going in via you guessed it turkey.

centcom jordan and incirlik base turkey are in this big time.

libya - syria-turkey kiev these nazis do not like the old tired weapons.

they want stingers they want plasma they want depleted uranium munitions and the firing systems.

everything the ex brit  paras from britam defense and aegis and blackwater or whatever they are called now they will get.

they got plenty already via israel nice stuff not british or russian stuff from the 1950s

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 17:04 | 4544941 YHC-FTSE
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Kiev could  post a youtube video of one of their soldiers tucking into human liver to expedite the delivery of modern weapons. Fade the video to a giant nazi symbol at the end and you'll probably get McCain volunteering to carry them on his back, half of Congress clamouring to give them billions in aid and weapons,  you know, for the children of the Ukraine.  

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:48 | 4544576 SofaPapa
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Why is Russia acting as it is?  DEFENSE.  Russians view Ukraine as a buffer; they do not want to be invaded from that direction, as has happened too many times historically for their liking.

Why is the US / western Europe in Ukraine?  OFFENSE.  They are trying to encircle Russia.  

I'll bet on the people defending their home any day of the week.  They have the motivation here and the moral high ground.  If the western cabal pushes too hard here, we're going to see out the difference morale makes in a major war.  Christ, even in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, etc, the west can't get its way, and that's because they have forgotten that the people on the ground don't care about western strategies; locals just want people not from their home OUT.  

Eastern Ukraine is Russia's home, or close enough as makes no difference.  The hubris of the western elites is so far beyond control now that they are engaging a major military against the will of their own population (no population in the US or Europe wants this) and in the face of a potential nuclear showdown.  Insanity.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:53 | 4544599 zaphod
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For all the talk the US gives about nations rights to self government, if you look at the US's global military footprint it says a very different story. The US is the global invader covering pratically the entire globe at this point. 

And its all paid for by a FED dollar reserve system that is about as real as unicorns. 

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 16:02 | 4544643 Pure Evil
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Sadly or not, the west is out of bullets and large cohorts of men willing to die for mercenary causes. The Europeans have no fight in this bitch and the American's have had a belly full of fighting and dying in foreign wars. The military nearly mutinied when Obama wanted to use US forces in Syria.

The truth is Putin has outfoxed the idiots in D.C. and NATO. He has been preparing and waiting ever since the color revolution for his chance to take advantage of the West's folly. And Putin has so far managed to get his way without slaughtering thousands of people in Ukraine.

Nato thought it could capture Ukraine without going to war and did not prepare for the inevitable, namely that Russia would step in to protect its interests, by building up Nato forces along the Ukrainian frontiers to step in militarily.

By the time Nato cleans the crap out of its shorts the Russians will have drawn up new borders and unless Europe wants a new world war on its door step there won't be much that can be done about it.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:50 | 4544589 RevRex
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Obama is actively fucking American citizens (literally and figuratively) so why shouldn't he fuck the Ukranian Opposition Movement which he financed?

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 17:40 | 4545178 Mike in GA
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That's basically what political promises are, a promise to get fucked at some point in the future.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:56 | 4544600 10mm
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Not to sound nieve, but what could be tje interpretation of Obongo stating after election ill have more flexibility. 

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:53 | 4544604 Tracerfan
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The U.S. (through the Neo-Cons) has now broken Ukraine, intentionally.  After breaking Iraq, Libya, Syria and others.

 

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:54 | 4544610 WTFUD
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Give them the weapons and get Al Nusrah to train them on their use! s/

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:55 | 4544613 NDXTrader
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We'll give them no weapons.............publically

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 15:55 | 4544614 Itchy and Scratchy
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The NRA will fix u up!

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 16:02 | 4544642 Smiley
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Just agree to conduct all oil and gas business in Petro-Dollars for the next 50 years; 200 M1 tanks and a 150 F16's will be there next week.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 16:04 | 4544657 shovelhead
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Ukrainians should practice screaming "Allah hu Akbar" and tying some rags on their heads.

Panhandling without some theater is ineffective.

Why look like generic poor white trash instead of media approved 'freedom fighters'?

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 16:19 | 4544691 Jorgen
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They sure would like the 'Lord of War' (who was from Ukraine, btw) to be set free ... /s

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 16:30 | 4544770 Yoki
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OMFG - I'm sure Victor is now kicking himself silly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 16:30 | 4544772 Duc888
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"So America finances the uprising then says fuck you, once it succeeds."

 

Yes, that's what we do best, stir the fucking pot and set up others.

 

We did that to the Kurds.  Twice.

 

Hat's off to Putin, when you read the transcripts of his interviews he basically said "You (USA) started this shit, I'm gonna finish it"  paraphrasing here of course.

 

Of course you get a much different translation over here in USSA.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 16:37 | 4544812 papaswamp
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Somebody left their balls in the golf bag.....

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 16:57 | 4544896 ThisIsBob
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These new guys keep squealing like stuck pigs.  Getting quite old.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 17:19 | 4545031 Canucklehead
Thu, 03/13/2014 - 17:27 | 4545095 Took Red Pill
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BS! We had a 100 years of lies about wars. But I'm sure we're getting the truth now, right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZNXt_u7Cr0&list=TL2AqoT9gl5DTTKxQ_kX4nkC...

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 17:38 | 4545102 paint it red ca...
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Kerry just gave them a billion $'s. What the hell did anyone think they would spend it on, strippers and beer (well, that too)? Likely the only condition was which arms dealers they spend it with.

http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_03_04/US-to-extend-1-billion-loan-to-...

Anyone care to bet against Putin's buddy, saudi prince bandar bush getting the order???

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 17:34 | 4545137 The Wisp
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Can we postpone the do you want Putin as your Dictator Vote... Till after the Banks Crash   ?

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 17:34 | 4545145 Mediocritas
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Recall Nuland saying that Yatsenyuk needed to be talking with Tyahnybok four times a week, her intent being clear enough: keep the attack dog under close supervision lest he stray.

Tyahnybok, Hitler wannabe, never shy to miss a photo opportunity with the likes of McCain, whose fascist Svoroba party attracted 10% of the vote in the last legitimate election and whose members, with other aligned fascists, constituted up to 30%, and the most "motivated", of people in the maidan. The US, keen to make use of the leverage Svoroba offers, has aligned itself with a party which as recently as 2010 was perfectly happy to print the following on its official website:

“To create a truly Ukrainian Ukraine in the cities of the East and South, only one lustration will not be enough, we will need to cancel parliamentarism, ban all political parties, nationalize the entire industry, all media, prohibit the importation of any literature to Ukraine from Russia… completely replace the leaders of the civil service, education management, military (especially in the East), physically liquidate all Russian-speaking intellectuals and all Ukrainophobes (fast, without a trial shot. Registering Ukrainophobes can be done here by any member of Svoboda), execute all members of the anti-Ukrainian political parties…”

-- http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/10/ukraine-the-sovereignty-argument-...

These are the sorts of people that the US will be arming if it provides military aid. As a neutral on-looker, I'm finding it pretty hard to be outraged at Russia's actions. Seems to me that russian-speaking people in Ukraine have a legitimate fear of the West-supported government in Kyiv and a legitimate reason to call for protection.

The MSM keeps going on about "annexation" but this whole situation seems to rhyme remarkably with what happened in Georgia 2008 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_war ) which did not result in annexation.

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 17:42 | 4545186 paint it red ca...
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"These are the sorts of people that the US will be arming"

Seems the power brokers have found some kindred spirits, eh?

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 18:36 | 4545406 David Wooten
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'Ukraine' requesting arms?  'Ukraine' meaning whom?  The legitimate, elected President (Yanukovych)?  Or some western-sponsored impostor(s)?

Thu, 03/13/2014 - 19:11 | 4545587 kchrisc
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"No, but expect a shipment of something useful from Benghazi."

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