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The Cossacks Are Coming
Following the Ukraine government's most recent retaliatory escalation, which saw the death of some 50 people in Odessa on Friday, everyone has been waiting to see how the Kremlin would respond. For now while Putin appears to be merely biding his time until the various referendum votes take place in east Ukraine, quite confident they will have the same outcome as the Crimean vote to join Russia, thus giving him a legitimate basis to annex further Ukraine regions, some "independent" military units, according to local press, appear to be making their way into Ukraine: Cossacks, that roving group of militants (and sometimes mercenaries) who have been so instrumental in shaping the history of both Ukraine and Russia.
Several clips distributed earlier on social networks purport to show Russian Cossacks who have entered eastern Ukraine, specifically the town of Anthracite.
While one can't determine the validity of these reports (at least not yet), it is certain that both the Ukraine government and NATO will latch on to reports that Russian mercenaries are operating and supporting the eastern militias. However, what this will achieve aside from even more futile diplomatic bluster, is unclear.
And for those who are not familiar with the Cossack culture, here is a reminder from SkyNews:
Russian Cossack leaders have plans to cross into Ukraine to "rescue" Russian-speaking communities in the east of the country, after providing militias which helped Vladimir Putin's Crimean land grab.
Atamans, or headmen, of two Cossack communities, said they had traditional claims on the lands on both sides of the border, adding: "One day we will take them back."
But they warned they would expect rewards for acting as the Russian president's muscle.
Romanticised by the Tsars but crushed by the communists, Russia's Cossack communities are rapidly rebuilding themselves and have become a powerful symbol of nationalist fervour.
To many Russians, they have betrayed their martial roots to become henchmen for the worst aspects of Mr Putin's rule.
Most recently, they have been seen on the streets of Crimea, often heavily armed and sometimes drunk, blockading Ukrainian troops in their barracks and running road blocks.
They were also filmed whipping members of the band Pussy Riot when the all-female group attempted a street performance at the Winter Olympics in Sochi.
They also admit being close to other hard-line Slav nationalists, Serbs in particular.
Earlier this month, Alexei Sushkov was responsible for hosting a group of black-bearded Chetniks, Serb militia, in Sevastopol.
They serve under a death's head insignia and volunteered to help with Russia's invasion of Crimea.
"You have to have great personal discipline. You need to be religious and of good character to be a Cossack," he confided.
Mr Sushkov is not so much a bear of a man as a man who looks like he ate a bear, and the meal was a little wanting.
He says that when the Cossacks invaded Crimea, they brought their own weapons or picked them up from local authorities when they arrived. They also turned up with an armoured personnel carrier - or a "mini-tank", as they called it.
He spoke with passion about how he wished he had been able to help the Serbs fight in the former Yugoslavia and of how they were bilked of the province of Kosovo, which won its independence after a civil war with Serbia and Nato bombardment of Serb forces.
"Russia was weak back then," he growled.
On the outskirts of Taganrog, a few miles from the border with Ukraine, Cossacks demonstrated how they were reviving the tradition of horsemanship which was central to the Cossacks' culture.
Their warlike tendencies and citizen cavalry meant their regiments became a celebrated part of Tsarist imperial life.
The Don Cossacks ruled a vast Host on both sides of the River Don for centuries and were given a degree of autonomy from central government.
When many sided with the White Russians against the Bolsheviks in the early part of the last century, though, they were crushed by the Soviet rulers who snuffed out any potential threats to the Party's hegemony.
They are gentle with their horses, ride with light hands and are freely affectionate towards their mounts - kissing and cuddling them like beloved children.
Such tenderness is in sharp contrast to what they have planned, the details of which they won't share, in the neighbouring Ukrainian region of Donetsk.
"We are ready to go in whenever the time comes to protect our people," said Andrei Lovlenski, the ataman of the Taganrog Cossacks. "We are ready."
In Rostov-on-Don, a city of one million people and home to a vast helicopter factory, the Cossack revival is being driven by Timor Okkert, the local ataman.
He is a combat veteran of Russian conflicts in Georgia, Chechnya and Nagorno-Karabakh.
Close to the Patriots' Sports Club where his Cossack disciples work out and learn martial arts, his offices house an impressive collection of swords and automatic weapons.
He led Cossacks into Crimea and is convinced he will be asked to go into other parts of Ukraine too.
"We've been used like this for many centuries," he said.
But what does he expect from Mr Putin in return?
Mr Okkert allows a brief sneer to cross his face.
"That's a rhetorical question," he said. "We're still waiting for an adequate answer from our government."
That's a warning - it means once unleashed, the Cossacks may be hard to control.
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Cossacks may be an element, but hardly the organizing principle of what's happening in Ukraine.
No, it's these guys who are coming to the Ukraine!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DZP3fYurqU
Taras Bulba rides again.
"If loving a Pole is wrong, I don't want to right."
(That's what she said at the club the other night.)
Ronin for Russia?
Can we ship Victoria Nuland to these guys?
I don't know if she would qualify as a mount for them.
If I were a Cossack, I would prefer riding a filly versus a frumpy Nudelman JAP.
In historical times, Cossacks were granted border lands, and were free of tax obligation, in return they 'merely' had to defend the borderlands.
If only Texans had the same opportunity.
But, but, but....
Didn't Crimea vote to join the Russian Federation?
Same as here in the good ole USSA.
Cossacks are historically the good guys, which defended the citizens from tyranny of Mongols and Bolsheviks. They are akin to local militias in the States, although arguably better organized.
As for Pussy Riot, these small-minded attention whores deserve a bit more reality than what the Cossacks gave. The "band" is not popular among conservative Russians. These whores have sex in public, stuff chickens in their snatches and disrupt services of the Orthodox Christian Church. I'm not a religious man, but I am tolerant which is more than one can say for these double standard whores. I'd guess it is the influence of Zio-Nazi Western media that has turned these former girls into trash.
Pussy Riot (Soros financed) took good care not to 'protest' in a mosque. That would have had them sorted out pretty quickly and drawn strong protests from Obummer and other western 'leaders'. 'Offensive', you know.
yeah it's not a band. it's a clever propaganda stunt. Femen same deal.
makes me question the whole article.
there's other militaristic elements in Russia that can be called upon. Chechen veterans etc.
the russians logically feel threatened and are highly motivated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzHFAFB-WYs
best deal for everyone is to AVOID war obviously.
western main stream media very biased. very polarised way of thinking. not clearheaded.
globalist "thinkers" already carving up the spoils, fantasy constructs:
http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/ukraine-wants-to-become-the-silicon-...
but this is going to end the present system global world trade as Webster Tarpley pointed out.
eerie reminscent of the dream-like period befrore WW1.
I gotta dog in that fight over near Rostov so I guess I can jump in here.
Cossack/Kazak/Commissar - all those c's and k's have a relationship. Go figure.
Matt Bracken had a prescient take on those relationships.
http://enemiesforeignanddomestic.com/index.php?page=fesp
Another take on commissars in the U.S.: "Fried Frogs and Commissars" and a bit of Ukrainian history circa 1932-33. Same playbook for us in my view.
http://rockymountaincorn.com/blogs/the-rocky-mountain-corn-project/12863121-fried-frogs-and-commissars
The Mongol Hoards are also on the way to lend their suport:
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSHW3Eeh8S2mqku1Sm_...
I thought Cossacks were originally Khazars. Many of whom converted to judaism in the 8th century which led to modern Ashkenazis.
Mongol, Scythian, Tartar, Slav, Nord, Sarmatian. Basically synonyms. Some will disagree, but nationalism that we know today did not exist 500-1000 years ago. You had loyalty to a chieftain, or a tribe. Later, during the rise of city-states you had loyalty to your city
Order (as in Military Order), Horde, Host. Synonyms. Think of all the military orders from medieval times. Knights Templar, Knights of Rhodes, Teutonic Knights... Need I go on?
Shit, I forgot Goths!
I wonder if they remember "Decossackization" by the Bolshevics of the former Russian empire.
Of course. Putin needs to be, or at least appear to be, a strong supporter of the Russian Orthodox Church. There is clearly an expectation that their traditional lands will be restored, in exchange for their service.
Synonyms? What? What are you smoking?
Nationalism didn't exist, but intense and absolute tribalism along kin and ethnic lines was THE law.
Cossaks doing the Tsar's bidding, from Dr. Z.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ympPmSWYCE
Cossack, for a long time, was more of a way of life than a tribal specification. to a child, in hurry, I'd say "the Cowboys of the East"
so you'd find in all centuries new Cossacks of all tribal origins. horse-riding is not important anymore, while "doing the Cremlin's dirty work" has the same reasoning today as at the time of the Tsars
Must you be a prude and mischaracterize them? They are loyal to country. Seals and other special ops doing dirty work for the u.s., what say you of them? Its honorable because its for american interests, is that how you see it? Get real ghordo
read further down in this thread, I defend even mercenaries. I happen to know a few Ukrainian Cossacks, and those were the very words they used themselves
Of course its 'dirty work'. these guys have guns and shoot people
Between 1917 and 1933 Decossackization was aimed at the elimination of the Cossacks as a separate ethnic group. Whether it was an attempt at genocide or social engineering by the russians, they were certainly seen as seperate and different.
Well DUH, how do you fit a highly mobile society of pre-industrial mounted warrior bands with no concept of state or wage labor or socialism or even capitalism into an industrial-agricultural Marxist-Leninist proletarian absolute dictatorship with no freedom of movement whatsoever and a total ban on private firearms ownership?
PS: Genocide and social engineering usually go together. The former is the means to achieve the latter. Eliminate ALL peoples and persons not 100% compatible with Marxist-Leninist style communism, they didn't mix words about this, and they believed in class-heredity and familial guilt, so your whole family was implicated in all of your actions, down to children of age 12 and up (e.g., if you got sent to the Gulag, your whole family's future was literally over).
Cossacks weren't around at that time, but yes, Khazars did control Ukrainian territory. As time progressed and up until 1725 ish, the Mongols (Tartars) were still trying to invade and capture the Ukrainian people as slaves which they sold in an Ottoman Empire market to Jews, Arabs, Greeks, Turks, etc. The Cossacks organized to fight these terrorists.
The term slave is derived from the word Slav.
Because you failed to mention it, the Khazar empire disappeared around 1100, crushed by early viking Rus leaders in southeast Ukraine. Most remnants were absorbed into the Kievan Rus state.
Again because you failed to mention it, the slave trade in ancient Russian territory (eastern Europe and the steppe) goes back before recorded history. The biggest slavers were the Swedish vikings who literally walked in, built a fortress at Novgorod, and starting exporting Russian slaves to the Byzantine Empire and Islam. All of this happened in and around Ukraine, the birthplace of Russia.
Tell me more about pre-history. Salient to the topic as it is.
another aspect of the Khazar history: http://www.khazaria.com/
Shipping Nuland/Nudelman to the Cossacks would be an overt act of war. Better to send her back to Israel.
Im not defending her, and Im not defending Israel.
She is of Russian decent. Her grandparents were Russian/Jewish Orthodox immigrants to the USA.
funny!
here it gets even more complicated:
Putin and Israël
http://www.jta.org/2014/03/11/news-opinion/world/putins-jewish-embrace-i...
Even the Cossacks could not ravage that animal. Maybe their horses would ride that beast.
What, they still use (eh, ride) horses?
Fitting... Once she is completely used up, then send her hollow shell to Isreal.
Know your enemy
AD
Half hour after she fucked them all, she'd be horney again.
Cossacks look alot like Canadian Rangers.
Are you implying that Canadian PM will give Cossacks new rifles (sorry, no smartfones)?
He is an honorary member of the Canadian Ranger and took part in an artic drill and promptly promised them new rifles.
Good stuff. So we'll have Cossaks vs Blackrock, or Greywind, or whatevertheycallthemselvesnow
What, no Gurkhas?
There better be an "organizing principle" soon - today is the 6th - the Referendum is supposed to be the 11th - in 5 days!
If the government forces - right sector - is controlling the city centers with tanks and APC's - how does a vote take place?
seems to me they need to clear them out very very soon - or there will be no vote and will end up with phony election on the 25th which the US will assert as valid and their stooges won even before the polls close
Putin is waiting fro what?
Don't confuse tactics with strategy.
Give them McCain
Please.
Cossacks don't like Pussy Riot moving in on their dance routines...
a lot of conservative Russians don't like Pussy Riot since they entered a church and danced on the altar. just saying
A lot of conservative Americans feel the same way.
And the United States, with this week’s U.S. Supreme Court 5 to 4 ruling on prayer at local government meetings, is just one vote away from removing Christianity from America.
The anti-Christian culture justices? Ginsburg, Kagan, Breyer and Sotomayor.
"The anti-Christian culture justices? Ginsburg, Kagan, Breyer and Sotomayor."
Translation for those who've been addled with Stockholm Syndrome: JEW, JEW, JEW, AND CRYPTO JEW. Oy the fucking cohencidence.
Amazing that 1.7% of the population have been allowed to represent 44% of the deciders of what the government permits you to think and do and teach your children. Boiling frogs one and all.
Kristallnacht redux cannot come fast enough. Maybe the putative "good ones" will start dissociating theirselves from and stop profitting from "the bad ones". Yeah, right; don't hold your breath.
I don't like the word conservative in your comment.
It implies that many Russians are conservative, including the young ones, and that implies that they are against many things new.
Which I believe to be false.
I'm not Russian, I am Romanian. But I'm Orthodox.
The reason many Russians, not necessarily conservative, dislike the zionist propaganda bitches from PussyRiot is because of the love and respect for the Orthodox Church.
Orthodoxy is in our spirit, even if we don't go to church. For centuries, the Ottomans tried to conquer us and convert. They only succeded with the Bosnians.
The Catholics also tried but failed.
Catholics in many Orthodox nations, are not more than 5%.
And now, even the neo-protestants, the penticostals, adventists, baptists, 7 day saints, etc are wasting their time and money in Eastern Europe. In every country they are not more than 3%. And they, mostly from USA, lure people with money, gifts, US visas, etc. Few fall into their traps.
You have to be an Orthodox. To go to church with other Orthodox to understand why I say that Orthodoxy is in our spirit.
So even a young Russian, that doesn't go to church many times a year, would find that attempt to sing in the the Church as those whores did, as very disturbing and offensive.
You all worship a silly book and listen to holy men in dresses. You should all grow the fuck up and the world be a better place!
And you worship scientists as the new priests.
You have no fucking clue what it means to be a Christian Orthodox.
You probably are a Westerner, who thinks all of Christianity = Western Christianity, specifically Catholicism.
You assign the sins of Catholics to all of Christianity.
Just shows how ignorant you are. Your Militant Atheism is religious in itself, but you laugh and deride people that are religious.
I don't care which sect you worship, it's all silly to me. Doesn't make me right, but you religious types waste so much time and energy learning a ton of bullshit and attending weekly get togethers. As long as you don't kill each other over whose myth is better, I don't give two shits what you all do!
Looks like you just proved that it isn't the idealogy that begets zealots -some, just like you, are naturally predisposed toward zealotry.
I am not a zealot of any kind. I was commenting on the absurdity of an orthodox christian talking shit about other forms of christianity. You all believe in this peaceful man named Jesus and then fight wars in his name. Quite comical really.
"You all believe in this peaceful man named Jesus and then fight wars in his name."
You wouldn't be a good zealot if you thought of your belief as "excessive", but still your sweeping generalizations pretty much set the tone as to how serious people ought to take you.
Communists were Atheists.
In my country, Romania, in the 50's, immediately after WW2, they imprisoned many Orthodox priests, many never to be seen again.
Running and hiding in the mountains was the only partial remedy, because sometimes they would even send in the Army after the monks and priests.
Many churches were destroyed by Ceausescu, our dictator.
The most notorious being the destruction that took place in Bucharest to build Casa Poporului (The House of The People, which now houses The Parliament).
http://goo.gl/Jhj2Iq
About 30000 neo-classical styled private residences and over 50 churches, about one quarter of the former historic district, were razed to construct the palace and the so called Civic Center, all part of Ceausescu’s megalomaniac “systematization policy”, which changed the landscape of the city forever.
What made Bucharest really beautiful was the old historic district, with houses that were mostly inspired by Parisian (paris) architecture.
At the beginning of the 20th century Bucharest was knows as Little Paris.
Now, we have a shity, mostly stalinist architecture there.
All that was beautiful in downtown Bucharest is almost gone, thanks to a fucking Communist and Atheist.
This idea, that somehow if if are an Atheist, it makes you soo much better than Christians, and somehow you are this rationalistic ultra-moral entity, that knows best is absurd and false. The Communists proved this point during their fucking reign in Eastern Europe for 60 years.
This is called the fallacy of the single cause.
PS: All that wonderful Christian architecture was built by slave labor, using stolen funds extracted under threat of both death and damnation, by a bunch of arrogant thieves who lived in utter luxury while 90% of the population existed at a subsistence level as human chattel (sounds awfully similar to the Soviet Union, go figure). Wow, so sad to see it go - they merely replaced one false god with another.
WTF are you talking about?
What slave labour and what Christian architecture?
"You should all grow the fuck up and the world be a better place!" ...
..."I don't give two shits what you all do!"
You need to make your mind up. Additionally your vitriol (not to mention that you bothered yourself to reply) betrays your 2nd statement.
Your irrational emotion is no less irrational or emotional than those you decry.
Need more?
+1.
Thanks, very interesting comments.
+1 also and a very appropriate response to the heckler.
"since they entered a church and danced on the altar"
A tactical error of the first degree, which shows how little realism enters their thinking. They shot themselves in both feet with that one. Likewise their "manifesto" lacks any realistic sort of plan aimed at achievable results -basically nothing more than a wish-list of impossible ideals.
Frankly, if you want to undermine progress in the area of human rights, you couldn't ask for more useful idiots. I'm sure Putin was all like, damn, why didn't I think of that?
They may appreciate horse-face more as they love their horses. Give them both and give peace a chance.
Why stop with McShitstain? Turn them loose in Washington and let them clean house. we seem incapable of doing it.
It never had to come to this
Of course it did.
The where, and the when ,were the only unknowns.
Jump, Yats! Jump, Kiev!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqEtq34dSUo
Mercenaries are the worst kind of human. If you actually like violence and war, you should be put down like a sick dog. There is no place in society for psychos who enjoy killing and hurting other humans.
And here it is acknowledged by a former SAS man that it helps to be a psychopath:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2621102/Why-psychopath-secret-su...
Thats what makes Blackwater (or whatever bullshit name they use) so effective.
mercenaries - aka the Dogs of War - are easy to disparage. I'd bet you never met any of them
I reserve my denigration to those who pay mercenaries
" easy to disparage"
It's easy therefore it's wrong. Right. Nice logic.
"I'd bet you never met any of them"
in other words "my overtly biased anecdotal evidence allows me to sidestep the issue (hopefully no one will notice my rhetorical deceit!)" ... Oops! Looks like I let the cat out of the bag!
"I reserve my denigration to those who pay mercenaries"
Probably the most quintessentially European thing you've ever written here. Beautiful.
Your comments are great, as fish to the barrel into which I shoot.
+1 for analysis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8hQt_sOxaA
Here they come!
Bad boys, bad boys whatcha gonna do?
Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?
That Sky News article begins with this paragraph of utter slime, so typical of Sky nowadays since it began sucking at the teat of government:
Since when was Crimea a "land grab" by Putin??
It's agitprop 101, smacker!
Use pejoratives!
Annexation => "land grab"
Sky News is owned by Neocon Rupert Murdoch. Here is the truth of Odessa:
The following text and photos were sent to Global Research. They indicate a carefully planned agenda to incinerate people inside the Trade Unions building -- the images as well as reports suggest that the death toll was significantly higher than that published by the media.
Here is the reality; here is the horror in photographs of the dead and the mutilated. Here are the heinous acts that the Western governments have covered up and distorted, the atrocities in Odessa they have casually blamed on “pro-Russian paramilitaries,” on the dead...on the silent...
SEE:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/how-neo-nazi-thugs-supported-by-kiev-regime-killed-odessa-inhabitants-photographic-evidence/5380504
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.'
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The globalists are fascists and communists, global dictators, they are not "national" socialists.
Horrific.
Article could have been better, but at least it brings up another piece of the puzzle. Before this, about the only thing I knew of Cossacks came from Pavel Chekov of Star Trek.
The great problem with Sky nowadays is that it has become very difficult to believe/trust a word they say.
If it's not the hidden hand of Murdoch manipulating news coverage, it's Prime Minister Cameron or Minister Jeremy Hunt, both of whom have close business and personal relationships with Murdoch and several Murdoch newspaper Editors (Andy Coulson & Rebecca Brooks - both of whom are currently on trial charged with hacking into private cellphone message boxes, including members of The Royals and perverting the course of justice). Sky journalism standards are poor, "news show" presenters use a lot of wrong language leading to inaccurate reporting and always with a slant. Virtually zero coverage of huge ongoing demos across Spain and other EU countries involving millions of people.
Yet another quote from that Sky slime:
I wasn't aware that Russia invaded Crimea(!)
The Ukrainian/Russian Cossacks do not use any death head insignia. That is used by some Serbian Chetniks, who the article referred to, some of whom showed up in Crimea when it broke free from Ukraine.
The great problem with Sky nowadays is that it has become very difficult to believe/trust a word they say.
Yeah, that can be a drawback with a news agency!!
Star Trek is more dependable that Sky News. At least there's a force for good, rather than a force for evil.
"Star Trek is more dependable that Sky News. At least there's a force for good, rather than a force for evil."
And ironically Star Trek was replete with Cold War propaganda:
Episode ppositioning the good guy Yangs versus the bad guy Coms.
Klingons looked like stereotypical Russians. They were the bad guys vs the United Federation of Planet 'good guys'. "Curiously" (sarc), the Federation's ships were all named U.S.S. something or other (with nary a mention of how that acronym bore any relation to the Federation).
The Enterprise travelled the Universe freeing people: Free Enterprise.
Plenty of references to the glory of the historical Apollo missions.
As an aside, there was also an episode with Nazi bad guys in space. Nazi-like uniforms and apish persona are the stock go-to bad guys from Jewlywood...well, stock except when Arabs are more 'appropriate' from a jew propaganda perspective.
@socalbeach
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1242457/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
Taras Bulba 2009.
Not the greatest, but worth at least one watch.
the cossacks are comming?
what is this? 1918 again?
quick! get your dogs and daughters and wives to safety! the cossacks are comming!
i call stupid bullshit on this one.
what a turd!
What's:
I call .gov troll on you.
Anyone who fails to understand the significance of the Cossack arrival is either an idiot, or a troll.
Which are you?
-30-
"Since when was Crimea a "land grab" by Putin??"
smacker
you do have sharp eyes!
+10
Same talking points of a "land grab" were used this evening on CNN
I don't know much, but I do know one thing. There is no amount of people TPTB are willing to sacrifice in order to preserve the petro-dollar.
Putin doesn't want to own Ukraine, he took Crimea which should have been Russian anyway. All this talk about invading this and that country is western propaganda. The US is looking for a war as for as I am concerned. They wanted one in Syria now they want one in Ukraine and if this doesn't work they will try and start conflict with china.
Actually, it is important for Russia that the US NOT place missile defences on the eastern border of Ukraine. So that part of the country does still have strategic value for both sides.
Do you smell that?
Smells like Western justification for racheting this thing up?
Can't wait to hear the stories of Cossacks taking babies out of incubators, rape rooms, and eating hearts.
pods
Did somebody say rape rooms?
The ass clowns, a.k.a. military contractors, love a good rape party.
"Can't wait to hear the stories of Cossacks taking babies out of incubators"
Cue Hill and Knowlton and the well-rehearsed bullshit from the tearfilled eyes of what turns out to be the Ukranian Ambassador's daughter.
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/incubatorlie.html
cue the memory hole
"Those who don't remember history...were probably addlepated by Jew media."
"You have to have great personal discipline. You need to be religious and of good character to be a Cossack.
Oh SNAP! So, not everybody is "special" -- or "chosen", for that matter?
History's chosen pain in the asses.
Water in Anthracite produces Blackwater?
The Cold War was never over. Putin is just regrouping. With the slow collapse of America's economy he must be rubbing his hands in anticipation.
Putin is pleased that his allies in Congress and the Whitehouse are working so diligently to destroy the U.S.
they also plan to destroy Russia and China (through war) and install a global gov't. not sure if Putin is pleased about that.
It was never over because our MIC didn't want it to be over, so they went tear-assing throughout the world for the next monster to tell frightened Americans about. The MIC/bankster controlled government will do anything to make themselves feel needed, like starting a conflict that has the possibility to end all life on Earth.
Jewish Cossacks of Ukraine -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Cossacks
ZH doesn't spend too much on research, do they?
I do the best one can to fight ignorance.
Its a misnomer, it seems "Although the Cossacks were not known for religiosity before the 17th century it is presumed that conversion was a requirement for promotion in the Cossack ranks by early 17th century."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNpyia78Wlg
Has any healthy well-adjusted young man ever said it better?
Sure:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3u-6cwR3kw
Putin appears to be merely biding his time until the various referendum votes take place in east Ukraine, quite confident they will have the same outcome as the Crimean vote to join Russia -- ZH
Daniel McAdams, executive director of the Ron Paul Institute, today is on video on LewRockwell.com adding up the political situation in Ukraine, where 2 + 2 obviously won’t equal 4:
“I am on John Kerry’s least favorite television network today, explaining his State Department’s lies and hypocrisy about Ukraine on RT":
Video: Dozens Killed by Military in Ukraine, Washington Congratulates Kiev on ‘Restraint’
McAdams, asked if things won’t be better in Ukraine after the election, replies:
“How can you run a presidential election (to be held the end of this month in Ukraine) when the army is firing on its own people… I’ve been an election monitor many times in bad situations and it’s simply impossible. Likewise, I’m afraid to say these referendums in the east will simply be ignored by the US whereas if the result that’s desired comes out of the presidential elections the US and the OSCE will say it’s wonderfully democratic.”
With clips showing the tragedy as it continues unabated, the news host summarizes US hypocrisy: “We’re still hearing America calling on the people in the east to lay down their arms at the same time they’re backing the interim Kiev government going in and cracking down here. How does it add up, they’re calling for one thing, yet doing another?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/dozens-killed-by-military-in-ukraine-washington-congratulates-kiev-on-restraint/
"To many Russians, they have betrayed their martial roots to become henchmen for the worst aspects of Mr Putin's rule."...
Talk about the "pot calling the kettle black"... What makes that statement even worse is the fact that these "cossacks" are doing the noble duty of protecting there fellow neighbor when it's the "Greywater Clan" a.k.a. Blackwater/Xi/Academi/Graystone from a continent 5,000 miles from it's own home that is perpetrating the most heinous of war crimes.
Looking forward to seeing Erik Prince's boys impailed through a wooden pole by these Russian mercs like "shish kabob"...
Hopefully these guys will provide those pictures when they come out, including American Army and Marines if they decide to join this party!
Oy vey, never mess with Cossacks...
Oy vey, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
Cossacks, Nazis, Jesuits, etc.......
History's Cameleon is the Ass-can-nazi.
Zaparosti!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8G6S6fQQ4I
Epic 60's Saturday matinee stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lChJz2DSpsE
But for every one of those you got 20 of these:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mpyFEkzhoo
I loved those big-budget, costumed, period pieces - hokey as they look today I love them still. Who could forget Ernest Borgnine's portrail of Ragnar Lothbok, a surprisingly good cast choice, or Yul Bryner as Ramses, or Kirk Douglas as Sparticus? But I still had fun with the sort of thing only a kid could love, like Creature from the Black Lagoon on the Saturday afternoon creature feature.
Or Edward G Robinson (born Emmanuel Goldberg of course) in The Ten Commandment using the same gangster accent/patois as he did in Little Caesar: "Nyeah, see, where's your Moses now, see?"
John Wayne as Genghis Khan??? Suspension of disbelief was utterly impossible.
hippies...
"Crimean vote to join Russia" ... "legitimate basis" ... Oh please! Sham referendums are no more legitimate when the Russians arrange them than when the Americans do. Approximately 15 percent of Crimeans actually voted to join Russia. And this is according to Russian sources - the "President of Russia’s Council on Civil Society and Human Rights" website, no less.
You are right...we should totally get involved. I will get the nukes ready, you get the skin cream and bunker prepped for a nice 2-5 year stay. This is gonna be great! We can totally survive nuclear annhilation. We should push China into a corner too just to get everyone off the "Do what the fuck we say" list.
Website hacked?
YOU JUST MADE THE LIST, BUDDY.
Well, when you put it that way, it does sound kind of exciting.
even if thats true, and those numbers posted on the website could have been in error, look at the state of crimea right now vs ukraine. Where would you rather be living?
Börjesson, you have my support here. Crimea's referendum is an insult to all proper popular referendums
not that I would expect widely different results if repeated, but I do expect before a proper referendum proper preparation, a quite environment where opinion can be discussed and debated, and observers
oh, and there is this pesky detail about the Crimean Tatars who boycotted the referendum. what about them?
Why are we in this situation? Who made things hit critical mass? Things that are occuring now make little matter to why they got there in the first place. Who stoked the flames that will end in people becoming the casualties of war?
12% of the population were never going to change the outcome, boycott or not. Crimea is Russian and always will be. I imagine Tatars will come to accept this, otherwise maybe they can head back to Banderastan and the tender mercies of Right Sector and Svoboda supporters (big Muslim fans i'm sure, lol)
And yet, in that obviously biased Forbes article, Paul Roderick Gregory writes:
Am I to believe that the West would widely report these results if they had the slightest doubts about them??
I suggest that you are simply believing what you want to believe. No offence intended because that's what many people do.
Also, let me remind you that in my lifetime no British government has ever been elected with a numerical majority. 40-45% tends to be the norm. Election turnouts tend to be about 60-65%. I never hear any complaints from Paul Roderick Gregory about those. Why is that?
Here they are dancing. From what can tell they are from San Francisco.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKZPgGbUuX0
The music doesn't really start until about 1:30 in.
Papa Song plans for new source of inexpensive protein proceeding 'better than expected'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRTJKcIljzU
The lovely Asst Sec of State Victoria (F.U.) Nuland (nee:Nudleman) Kagan's tender heart swells with pride to see the indigenous peoples of Ukraine taking up arms against eachother to slaughter, hate and destroy!
I've always said that Satan doesn't care who wins; only that there is war and death. His minions know that aspect of the gameplan.
006's parents were Cossacks...
I'll say this - those guys are patriots for their country. you can see the pride in their eyes.
our special ops military are hollow bodies without a soul who fundmentally dont know what they fight for anymore
the veteran suicide numbers dont lie
Putin is probably awaiting the Ukraine elections on May 25 which will be postponed but surely be rigged by the West.
That will be the signal to further Russian military build up to re-vade the Ukraine.
I wonder how the national vote goes without Crimean voters?
Nuland with cookies against Cossacks.
Ukrainian wife: "Boris, you're late for dinner!"
Boris: "Natasha, I can eexplain. I was stuck in Cossack traffic. Zee roadblock were mess."
The words in The Cossacks Are Coming are the words that start wars; they play on slanted history: “the Tsars’ Cossacks,” the “invasion” of Crimea, “heavily armed and sometimes drunk” on the streets of Crimea, “claims on the lands”… coming to ’take them back.’
Well, I’ve news for Sky News. The Tsar’s Cossacks are gone, killed in the Zionist revolution.
In short this is the “fog of war”—the lies, the creation of enemies, the historical propaganda brought to present. And, in between, the lives of innocents are snuffed, cities burned, bodies incinerated.
Zero hedge needs to think twice before turning over its role to Sky News or, like the millions of American fools not realizing what their government is doing in this foreign land, they too will fall at the hand of the Empire.
This story is fact-less which is why many Americans are clue-less on their country’s push in Ukraine. And that’s the combination that turns innocent people into cannon fodder, for the builders of Empire.
Yes.
I want my news pre-chewed and spit in my mouth because I'm totally unable to discern for myself which side of propaganda is tastier.
As for the denizens of the other side of the bell curve...
Good luck. You're going to be very busy.
"And that’s the combination that turns innocent people into cannon fodder, for the builders of Empire."
What do you think they want all those Mexicans legalized for.
"For now while Putin appears to be merely biding his time until the various referendum votes take place in east Ukraine, quite confident they will have the same outcome as the Crimean vote to join Russia,..."
Yup. It's not like ballot stuffing and voter intimidation were strictly LBJ and Chicago phenomenon.
Oops, did I speak uncharitably of the resident "libertarians" latest hero, the KGB agent whose droppings don't stink?
With western currency wars, CIA-driven insurrections, military expeditions, etc. creating increasingly intolerable conditions all around the homefront, Putin's actions seem those of a rational man. But does anyone really believe that 95% of any group anywhere could come to the same conclusion as those in Crimea supposedly did? Well then, I've got a bridge to sell you.
Besides, the "dissolution" of the Soviet Union was a tactical retreat, and Uncle Sam and his puppets seem to be playing right into the bear's paws. God help us all.
You forgot to mention how western banks gutted Russia in the years 1991 through 1995.
You also forgot the part about the Grand Chessboard and that psychopath Brezinski and his many psychotic followers.
These are two factors that have things where they are today.
Russia has a long list of pretty legitimate greivances against "the West" going back to the days of the Mongols. I'm not suggesting that Putin is some kind of hero, he's no such thing, but one HAS to be fair when looking at these things. Because large, traumatic events have an effect on a nation's psyche in the same way individuals are affected by things that happen to THEM. And these effects cannot be ignored or brushed away.
So where are all those Crimean freedom fighters attempting to throw off Putin's oppression?