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400 Blackwater Mercs Deployed In Ukraine Against Separatists, German Press Reports

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In what is becoming a weekly ritual, the German press continues to demolish the US case of "idealistic humaniatrian" Ukraine intervention. Recall, that it was a week ago that German tabloid Bild am Sonntag, hardly the most reputable source but certainly one which reaches the broadest audience, reported that dozens of CIA and FBI agents were "advising the Ukraine government." This conclusion is hardly a stretch and certainly based on facts considering the recent semi-secret jaunt by CIA head Brennan to Kiev. Fast forward one week when overnight the same Bild reported that about 400 elite mercenary commandos of the private US security firm, Academi, f/k/a Xe Services, f/k/a Blackwater "are involved in a punitive operation mounted by Ukraine's new government" against east Ukraine separatists.

Bild cites sources who report that on April 29, Germany's Federal Intelligence Service (BND) informed the Angela Merkel government about Academi commandos' involvement in Kiev's military operations in eastern Ukraine. Spiegel adds that "the information originates from U.S. intelligence services and was presented during a meeting chaired by the Chancellor's Office chief Peter Altmaier (CDU). At the meeting were present the president of the intelligence agencies and the Federal Criminal Office, as well as the intelligence coordinator of the Chancellor's Office and senior Ministry officials."

Bild am Sontag did not have information about who was paying the Blackwater commandos: it is well-known they do not come cheap.

RT has more:

In March, media reports appeared suggesting that the coup-imposed government in Kiev could have employed up to 300 mercenaries.That was before the new government launched a military operation against anti-Maidan activists, or “terrorists” as Kiev put it, in southeast Ukraine.

 

At the time, the Russian Foreign Ministry said then that reports claiming Kiev was planning to involve “involve staff from foreign military companies to ‘ensure the rule of law,’” could suggest that it wanted “to suppress civil protests and dissatisfaction.”

 

In particular, Greystone Limited, which is currently registered in Barbados and is a part of Academi Corporation, is a candidate for such a gendarme role. It is a similar and probably an affiliated structure of the Blackwater private army, whose staff have been accused of cruel and systematic violations of human rights in various trouble spots on many occasions.

 

“Among the candidates for the role of gendarme is the Barbados-registered company Greystone Limited, which is integrated with the Academi corporation,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. “It is an analogue, and, probably and affiliated body of the Blackwater private army, whose employees have repeatedly been accused of committing grievous and systematic human rights abuses in different troubled regions.”

As this is not the first time Academi has been implicated in the Ukraine, its canned response is already prepared. This is what it said back on March 17:

Some irresponsible bloggers and an online reporter have recently posted rumors that ACADEMI employees (operating under the name of Blackwater) are present in Ukraine. They are not and ACADEMI has no relationship with any entity named Blackwater or with the former owner of Blackwater, Erik Prince. Such unfounded statements combined with the lack of factual reporting to support them and the lack of context about the company, are nothing more than sensationalistic efforts to create hysteria and headlines in times of genuine crisis.

The basics: Those who understand the facts know that Erik Prince sold the company (which he had renamed 'Xe') in 2010 and retained the rights to the 'Blackwater' name. The new management of ACADEMI has made tremendous efforts to build a responsible, transparent company ethos, evidenced by the numerous awards ACADEMI has received for being among the most compliant companies in our industry. More information can be found here.

Sure enough, moments ago the soldier for hire company followed up with a second denial, when as German Zeit reported, "the U.S. security services denied a ZEIT ONLINE  report, that it has put mercenaries in Ukraine."

Of course, since no western entity, and certainly not the company itself, would ever admit its involvement in the Ukraine as it would promptly crash the official US foreign policy track claiming US non-involvement in Ukraine, none of this is surprising.

Readers may have greater luck inquiring Blackwater directly via their Twitter account. After all #AskJPM was such a smashing success we don't see a reason why #AskBlackwater wouldn't work just as well.

Finally, in this proxy war between west and east, to believe that the US won't throw everything it can at Putin is naive, and as such the involvement of trained US mercenaries in Ukraine is beyond debate.

However what is certainly surprising and far more interesting, is the persistent attempts by the German press to discredit none other than their biggest "Developed world" ally, the US. It is almost as if someone (a quite wealthy and powerful someone) has material interests that diverge with those of the Obama administration, and hence converge with those of Putin. Alongside the emerging China-Russia axis, keeping tabs on just how close to Russia Germany is willing to get, is easily the most notable story in the entire Ukraine conflict.

 

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Sun, 05/11/2014 - 15:43 | 4748607 Radical Marijuana
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Well, NoDebt, to respond to your joke, one can speculate about the apparently infinite degrees to which human beings do not understand, while still being able to pretend that they do:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ6Gb3iZ1Lo

NOVA: The Fabric of the Cosmos - The illusion of Time

Personally, I can find nothing else than those consolidations of philosophy to cope with the facts that well-paid murderers are being set loose again, in situations where one expects that, as usual, women and children will end up suffering the most from the consequences of having done that.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:48 | 4748343 sessinpo
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 disabledvet      I've got Derek Jeter have a career year with one more ring.

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You can keep Jeter. Holding on to what was and what you would like to be if fatal and not realistic.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:56 | 4748364 CultiVader
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Your bus is here vet. Dont forget your helmet.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:06 | 4748242 TahoeBilly2012
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Professional soldiers who can't find any other work...all by design. Good luck guys.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:14 | 4748261 LetThemEatRand
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And who says the U.S. government brought them in.  They are private contractors.  Probably hired directly by Jamie and Lloyd etc.  They hardly even pretend anymore, so why not go full retard and just start directly hiring soldiers to do your work.  Yellen will make good on the cost.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:54 | 4748362 sessinpo
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LetThemEatRand    And who says the U.S. government brought them in.  They are private contractors.  Probably hired directly by Jamie and Lloyd etc.  They hardly even pretend anymore, so why not go full retard and just start directly hiring soldiers to do your work.  Yellen will make good on the cost.

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While your comment is amusing, it isn't plausible that the US intelligence doesn't know of such contractors you describe. And tthus, by allowing it, they are endorsing it, if the US gov isn't doing the mercenary action itself.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 14:11 | 4748407 Winston Churchill
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US citizens still require individual state dept. permission to fight in any overseas conflict, for another country.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 16:13 | 4748700 FreedomGuy
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That is if you tell them and try to travel armed.

I believe if you own yourself you go where you want...not that we actually own ourselves any more. Americans fought in the RAF in WWII before we entered and a bunch of other places. If you are Ukrainian-American and want to go back and fight that is your choice. Hell, if you are Syrian-American and want to pick one of the dysfunctional sides in that conflict, go for it.

While I believe the government of the U.S. is (supposed to be) constrained by the Constitution and Congress in the use of force I do not believe individuals are under such constraints. I also don't believe contractors are under those constraints, either.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 16:46 | 4748771 Winston Churchill
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The yanks in the RAF first got permission.
Under the Sedition Act I believe, not getting prior permission,at the very least loses your citizenship.
Moot point nowadays, as no laws apply anymore except that jungle one.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 21:25 | 4749522 chemystical
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"The yanks in the RAF first got permission."

Yes sir they did.  The Flying Tigers were a similar situation but with a much thinner veneer. 

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 20:33 | 4749387 Clycntct
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I kinda sorta almost or maybe think I know what is telling.

"While I believe the government of the U.S. is (supposed to be) constrained by the Constitution and Congress in the use of force"

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 14:17 | 4748427 DaddyO
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But if history is any help, the US State Dept is the biggest user of private muscle, period!

Be it Blackwater, Xe or Academi, just follow the money and I'll bet it leads back to John Kohn/Kerry and his coffers.

DaddyO

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 15:29 | 4748584 MillionDollarBoner_
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"directly hiring soldiers to do your work."

You mean "to do God's work", surely?

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:14 | 4748263 Sabibaby
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Just wait until photos and videos of these guys killing and raping Ukrainians (regardless of their allegiance) make it out.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 14:10 | 4748403 New Ordnance
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Unarmed, east Ukrainians with hands raised walk up to national guard /Blackwater?/Xe? troops and take the first shots.

Youtube now requiring login but it still plays here: 

http://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2014/05/10/grigg-only-extremists-believe-they-have-a-right-to-be-left-alone/#comments

Scroll down to American Kulak's comments.

 

This could have happened at Bunday's. Just a matter of time until it plays out here.

Who will walk up and take the first shots?

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:57 | 4748368 holmes
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If these Blackwater pricks are ex-military, if they get injured I hope they get sent to the Phoenix VA hospital.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 14:09 | 4748401 DeadFred
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I'm thinking Acadami wins this one. They got paid upfront and once Putin's troops bury the mercs the company will have a much smaller payroll. If this goes to open conflict the Russians won't stop at with the eastern part of the country.  Kyiv and Lviv will be back in Greater Russia as well. The Kenyan guy will be strutting around on the chessboard like he's really put the Russians in a bad spot.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 23:48 | 4749147 August
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>>>Kyiv and Lviv will be back in Greater Russia as well.

It is indeed difficult to make predictions, especially about the future, but it remains entertaining.  My quasi-informed opinion is that Russia will try very hard NOT to cross the Ukraine border in force, but if sufficiently provoked (possibly by artillary/rocket bombardment of civilians) they may do so.  And if they do so, they will certainly take Odessa and Kiev; the far West is more debatable, but I doubt the Russians have any desire to hold onto areas that can't be reasonably pacified, and reconciled with Mother Russia.  The West can just be flipped off into the not-so-eager arms of its neighbors.

Mon, 05/12/2014 - 01:19 | 4749924 Overfed
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The western part of Ukraine can just as easily go back to Poland. The eastern part goes back to Russia. I don't see an issue. Of course, I'm not a debt or death peddler, so what the hell do I know?

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 14:26 | 4748451 Berspankme
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I remember reading Stratfor's Friedman book "The next 100 Years". In it he talks about Germany getting close to Russia.

Mon, 05/12/2014 - 01:21 | 4749926 Overfed
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It would be a smart move on Germay's behalf. Kick out the occupying force that has been there for 70 years.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:11 | 4748232 q99x2
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Its official. Washington D.C. has invaded Ukraine.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:17 | 4748268 BlindMonkey
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Last month there was a video of what was supposed to be an American that was captured by pro-Russians. Does anybody know of a follow-up?

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:40 | 4748325 sushi
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Blind -

I just posted on that upstream.

When captured the man stated in English "I am a US citizen." and that was the send of the video. The other voices were speaking some Slavik language.

If it is still online I presume it is a fake. If it was true then I am sure TPTB have armies of nerds working to "dissappear" uncomfortable evidence.

 

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:47 | 4748340 Flagit
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WTF, are you blind?

Oh.

The yoytube account it was posted to has been deleted. They make an intresting observation in the comments, and ive not heard anything about this since. Hard to say if it was/is propaganda.

http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1384180

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:53 | 4748356 sushi
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Flagit -

That is the same vid that was floating around earlier. You can clearly heat the captured man state "I am an American citizen."

 

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 14:03 | 4748388 Flagit
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I could hear it. But like some of the comments in that link suggest, its sketchy. Where was the follow up? Not a peep about this. I just cant see holding that wildcard back for a month. Why not show his face, name, rank, and serial number?

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:18 | 4748274 Keyser
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While applying sanctions on Russia for doing the same thing... Quite hypocritical, but alas, this is war... 

 

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:53 | 4748353 kchrisc
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I give them about another 5 minutes before the DC US criminals resort to their favorite line: "Al Qaeda is now in the Ukraine."

Or is that really "Al CIAda?!"

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:57 | 4748372 sessinpo
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kchrisc       I give them about another 5 minutes before the DC US criminals resort to their favorite line: "Al Qaeda is now in the Ukraine."

Or is that really "Al CIAda?!"

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Unfortunately, Russia has also battled with Muslim separtists. So Russis can claim the same.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:03 | 4748233 maskone909
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By definition, shouldnt Blackwater be on some sort of terror list?

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:05 | 4748236 Smegley Wanxalot
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By definition, it's only terrorism when the other guys do it.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:07 | 4748245 TahoeBilly2012
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One man's "freedom fighter" is another man's "terrorist". Most everyone is a terrorist though who doesn't have a US puppet government. 

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:31 | 4748297 Pure Evil
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And, one NFL team's recently drafted gay player is Obama's next love conquest.

Come here little Sam and let Obama Oblast yer terroristic little bung hole.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:54 | 4748359 I am Jobe
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Many Amerikan guys wear their fav NFL names as Jerseys and walk around. So are Amerikan guys are now fags? 

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 14:14 | 4748413 kchrisc
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And who would have thought that my government school instruction in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and Bill of Rights would one day make me a suspected terrorist.

Orwell is laughing his dead ass off.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 19:17 | 4749154 August
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"Terrorist" = any combatant who lacks an Air Force.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:59 | 4748376 sessinpo
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 maskone909      By definition, shouldnt Blackwater be on some sort of terror list?

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By definition, it depends on who wins. Winners write history.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 15:37 | 4748599 markar
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They are--Putin's

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:04 | 4748237 Jack Sheet
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Doesn't alter the fact that Murkle is Obuma's lapdog.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:06 | 4748241 NoDebt
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A proxy war waged by private armies.  Yeah, I guess that sounds about right these days.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:08 | 4748248 I am Jobe
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Send in every congressmen and women along with their families to Somalia , Syria , Nigeria and call it quits. Let the fuckers who are making decisions die for the cause they believe in. Dip shit nation

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:18 | 4748275 Pure Evil
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I wouldn't send Maxine Waters to Somalia. She might end up running the place since she's so used to reigning supreme over comparable hellholes in Californicatia.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 15:00 | 4748517 kchrisc
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Yup,

You want war, no problem, pols, crats, the banksters and their families first.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:10 | 4748254 Son of Captain Nemo
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Good for the Germans! Now they need to follow it up by throwing our military bases out of their country after 69 years of American occupation for good!
Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:42 | 4748331 sushi
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after 69 years of American occupation for evil!

Fixed it for ya.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:49 | 4748347 MrPalladium
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I will never understand why Germany tolerates being an occupied country with a U.S. imposed constitution.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 15:46 | 4748623 supermaxedout
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In the beginning the Germans were happy that they were aloud to continue to live.

Later they followed the old German words: Whose bread I eat, those song I sing.

Today the Germans know a lot about the US crimes around the world, it started for them with the Vietnam war, which was sending shudders down their spine when hearing the news, that on the tiny Vietnam there were more bombs falling than in whole WWII combined on all sides. They knew very well that this was a war crime of the worst kind.

Germany is under very strict control and supervision and there are secret contracts between the occupiers and Germany. Since these contracts are secret there is nothing one can fight against. Officially these contracts do  not exist.  Its impossible to fight something what does not exist. The average German does not feel  much from the US presence/ Its only in the news and the news are US controlled, totally.

There is no way, that Germany as well as Italy is getting rid of the US troops. This happens only in case there is a change in the US policy. So its up to the US population to bring political freedom to Germany and the rest of Europe.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 16:25 | 4748721 FreedomGuy
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You are a moron. They like the American bases and money. They historically like the security as well. If you look at the size of the German military it is pitiful. They are probably fairly good but are even too small for a home defense force in the event of a large scale invasion. You should have studied the Fulda Gap invasion plans from the Soviet era as I did.

Any of these countries can get rid of American troops if they like or raise the lease fees. However, you cannot do it in isolation. Italy is virtually bankrupt like most of southern Europe. You need funds to keep the overspending collectivist state going which means you need to play nice. BTW, this is where you banking conspiracy types need to jump in.

You are a complete idiot on Vietnam, as well. While you (and I) might talk about the problem of undeclared wars it does not make the N. Vietnamese commies the good guys. If you had friends as I do from that era we might spend a whole night talking about communist attrocites. Ever had your civilian friends gunned down in the water as they fled? I did not think so.

Many of you might really enjoy making America the bad guys in everything in the world. Perhaps it is great fun. However, you show me the angelic major countries in the historical struggles of world powers and ideologies. Tell me, Putin-KGB and Russia has some saintly history and they are involved for the "good" of the Ukrainian people and freedom with a straight face. No angels, there.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 17:54 | 4748947 blentus
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What kind of answer can one give, when presented with contents of a septic tank?

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 18:08 | 4748987 supermaxedout
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Any of these countries can get rid of American troops if they like or raise the lease fees.

Ha, Ha, What fees for wha?  The land the US troops do use is not leased to them. Its simply occupied without compensation since the end of WWII. The Germans do even pay the US every year huge amounts for their civil employees in Germany. The " Amt fuer Verteidigungslasten" (Office for Defense Expenses)  pays the salaries for many civilian employes working for the US forces in Germany, be it for a  private security company at the gate of a barrack or an office employee in the medical service inside the barracks. No matter if the employees are German or not.

The Germans still liked the US troops also after Vietnam but their illusions faded  concerning the US government and the political system of the US. The Germans can well distinguish between the duties of a "small" soldier or officer and the criminal system behind.  And this is what happened then while the people saw all night in TV the bombing campaigns over North Vietnam trying to bomb Vietnam back to the Stone Age as Nixon once famously said.

And now appx 75 % of the Germans according to a poll from N-TV do have sympathy for Putin and his policy. NTV was randomly interviewing more than 8000 persons on the telephone.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/ukraine-crisis-300-german-intellectuals-sup...

 

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 18:12 | 4748998 supermaxedout
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Here the link for the N TV poll.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDkyu3HkhFU

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 19:35 | 4749194 FreedomGuy
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Part of the problem is that if the German public wants the Americans and all others gone then they have to deal with their own parliament. I personally think a whole bunch of Americans would be happy to see all the bases closed and Americans return home. Let Europe defend itself. I would say the same of Japan. It does not eliminate the ability to have alliances, as necessary.

The other side of it is that to some degree this is what happens when you lose not one, but two World Wars regardless of who you think the bad guys were. Victors make the rules.

The Germans receive lots of compensation for everything from damage to usage rights. However, the big part of the economic sides has been tens of thousands of soldiers stationed their paid by the USA. Even in the USA no Congressman wants his/her local base closed for the very same reason. Think of it as a permanent tourist industry. The military side is that they were staring at the largest military forces ever assembled in history on the right side of their old country who had an open mission of world collectivist domination.

 

Mon, 05/12/2014 - 01:10 | 4749905 MrPalladium
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Yea, right! The Germans benefittied from my paychecks while I was stationed there 43 years ago!! What crap!

Although none of us knew it at the time, we were there to control Germany. The Cold War was just cover. The NPD youths had it right even back then.

We didn't need to be in Germany to deter the USSR. As I recall, at the start of the Czech invasion (two two years before I arrived there) the Bundeswehr immediately moved to the Czech border while our U.S. Army dithered for three days before making a decision on how to respond.

Even though I have no German ancestry whatever, I felt like my primary role was to remind Germans of their degraded and subordinate condition. It did not feel like a particularly honorable role for a U.S. soldier to play.   

Mon, 05/12/2014 - 01:27 | 4749932 Volkodav
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"you are a moron"

useless takings

others downvote you seem to agree who is moron in real..

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 17:02 | 4748823 yochananmichael
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because had the US pulled out, the Soviets ( who actually won the war) would have marched in.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:10 | 4748255 Colonel Klink
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I'd love to see every one of those 400 KIA.  Mercenaries are the worst of human kind.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:31 | 4748307 Tasty Sandwich
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Instead of fighting because of blind nationalism or patriotism, they fight for personal gain.  It actually seems kind of rational in comparison.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 14:00 | 4748380 Volkodav
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correction...they kill for two forms of greed: personal gain and satiate sickness of power over others

then call them what they are murdering psychopaths

two bad examples with your low level reasoning applied...

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 14:57 | 4748509 SimplePrinciple
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Violating "Thou shalt not kill" does not lead to "personal gain" in the longer term, thank God.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 14:01 | 4748381 hobopants
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The rational thing to do would be not to kill other people for gain, either ideologically or personal.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 14:21 | 4748436 Tasty Sandwich
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Human nature is something that's not going to change.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 19:31 | 4749037 Seek_Truth
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Human nature will most definitely change.

That change will not come from a "human" source, however.

That change will come from God alone (Presented as proof A and proof B):

A

B

 

 

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 16:29 | 4748735 FreedomGuy
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That is rational and what 99% of the human population believes...okay, about 80%.

However, when others are absolutely going to kill YOU and use force for gain...money, empire, control, racial hatred, religious conversion, etc. what do you suggest in response? Do you think you can hug and sing Kum Bai Ya to a good old SS trooper, KGB officer, or Al Qaeda member? Good luck with that.

Give me a weapon and if I can hire some "decent" veteran mercenaries, then I'd do it.

Does anyone remember who Washington's first major victory was against? Hint, "Crossing the Delaware".

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 15:58 | 4748659 patb
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"Debi Newberry: You're a psychopath!

 Martin Blank: No, no, no, a psychopath kills for no reason. I kill for money. It's a job. That didn't come out right"



Sun, 05/11/2014 - 14:00 | 4748374 Kirk2NCC1701
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Mercs were Human Garbage before they joined whatever military of their native country.  There they simply picked up the technical skills and were allowed to "go psycho" under 'controlled' conditions. 

When they finished their military stints, and because they were too nuts for a desk job, they simply chased the money for the highest bidder that paid them to live out their psycho fantasies.  These days they are useful to corrupt regimes (especially the US), where normal soldiers cannot be convinced to behave that way, and where these regimes has an arms-length (pun intended) relationship and plausible deniability.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 14:10 | 4748402 Flagit
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Being a Merc could be considered the second oldest profession.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldier_of_Fortune_%28magazine%29

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 16:34 | 4748742 FreedomGuy
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There is a difference in mercenaries and what that reference essentially says about hired hit men. Mercenaries are in essence similar to any soldier. Whether you are good or bad depends on who you are fighting for, who is commenting on you, and the methods you use.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 19:24 | 4749175 ILLILLILLI
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So, your morality is based on whose flag you're waving.

Gotcha...

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 19:42 | 4749222 FreedomGuy
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No, you simpleton dumbass. It does not make the Mei Lai massacre moral. However, flags generally mean something. If you were Chinese in 1939 and a flag with the rising sun was moving across your area it meant something really bad. If you were a Ukrainian in 1941 and a banner with a swastika was moving across your land ended up being something bad. Then the sickle and hammer coming back was also bad. You got concentration and work camps with one and gulags and reeducation camps with the other.

If you are in non-Muslim lands and a flag with a crescent and scimitar come rolling through that is probably bad, too.

If you were in France in 1944 and two sets of red, white and blue flags came rolling through it was a good thing. In 1815, not so much.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 14:16 | 4748418 Volkodav
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Very much accurate description...

"Too nuts for a deskjob"

also too nuts for most everthing else except gubermint work

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 17:58 | 4748956 hobopants
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I'm too nuts for a deskjob (I hate being stuck in an office).

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 15:59 | 4748661 patb
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I've met a few Mercs, some just turned off the human in them, some never had it.

 

They aren't psychopaths, but there are a lot of sociopaths there

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 16:51 | 4748788 Freddie
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These guys are less polished and less sane version of Captain Willard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjB8z0Bvi14

Just paid killers and thugs. Just like bouncers at a bar who get off on beating on people.

Coppola and John Milius actually portrayed people like Colonel Lucas as someone with some form of a conscience still intact.  In real life, these poeple have no conscience.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 18:36 | 4749054 Seek_Truth
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Some serial killers get life in prison- and they keep it secret until they are caught.

Other serial killers get paid very well for doing the same thing- and they make it public.

How sick is society to not see the dichotomy?

 

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:11 | 4748256 RealityCheque
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Blackwater/Academi, or whatever the fuck they are called these days, will be handsomely paid for a losing job. Thanks taxpayers.

The whole operation has a decidedly JSOC feel to it.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:17 | 4748259 q99x2
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Woden awakens

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:17 | 4748270 rtalcott
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400...so what does this cost per day? 1 million usd?  more?

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 14:32 | 4748456 DaddyO
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The going rate is ~$700/day/body + expenses. Travel + equipment(kit) + training is an additional cost borne by the hiring entity.

DaddyO

edit: Judging by the timeline of their apperance in the Ukraine, this team has been training for ~2-3 weeks at some private range in NC or NM, if they are indeed US State Dept sponsored.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:18 | 4748273 gatorengineer
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anyone have any idea what one of these guys costs a month?  20k?more.....  wondering if this is a unit from Academi, or just job shoppers?

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:34 | 4748310 Doña K
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Salary expenses and perks $1500-$2000 per day each just as much as the guys that put out fires of oil wells.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:38 | 4748323 Doña K
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The company however gets a x2.5 override. Standard for meat for hire

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:44 | 4748333 ThisIsBob
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When my daughter was assigned to Bagdad, it used to cost $5,000, per trip for them to take you "securely" to the airport.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 14:12 | 4748410 Flagit
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so...you are.....Baghdad Bob?

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 16:00 | 4748665 patb
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spend maybe $50K per week hiring someone to shoot a rocket at a caravan,  and that will

generate a ton of revenue.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:22 | 4748283 FieldingMellish
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So the real enemy here is... the German press. Das terrorists!

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 14:20 | 4748434 Jack Sheet
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"die Terroristen"

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:22 | 4748284 Dorelei
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Meanwhile Michelle is not happy !!!

http://uppix.net/IX23XO.jpg

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:27 | 4748296 Jack Sheet
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You must mean Michel

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 22:40 | 4749692 Deathrips
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Michael Jackson didnt die...? He got some face surgery and black face paint, then married a Manchurian candidate?

 

Please tell me more.

 

This is way more important than Germany leaving NATO.

Way more important than the fact that Germany gets 60% + of its oil from Russia.

Way Way more important than the squid grilling up kids from both sides ...to "eat".

 

Did Michael sleep with children too... do tell.

 

RIPS

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:28 | 4748300 LongOfTooth
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And here I thought it was going to be because her brother got fired.  

 

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:46 | 4748337 nosoeawe
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i stepped in dog shit once and it looked just like that

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:23 | 4748286 Infinite QE
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US taxpayer funds being used by the FUCKING JEWS once again to subvert mankind.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:36 | 4748315 Doom and Dust
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Antisemitic nonsense, to be sure, but still I wonder why the bestest country in the history of universes allows itself to be ruled almost exclusively by this 'tribe'.

Can't remember the last time a goy was in charge of the dollar (not sure if Volcker counts), and those tiny 2% jewish Americans massively dominate US finance, news media, entertainment, politics (mostly as puppeteers), military (current head of NATO), intelligence services, etc. etc.

With a runaway jewry like yours, I'm almost relieved Everyone's Favorite Psychopath rid us Europeans of most of them.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:40 | 4748326 Infinite QE
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Not just America. There was the recent comments by an ex-Australian PM that the jews run their foreign policy as well.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:45 | 4748334 Doom and Dust
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Which former PM?

It's true America is exporting its tribal puppeteers - if I remember correctly, Obama's handler Axelrod is now off to the UK to help Brother Milliband.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 14:11 | 4748408 sessinpo
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Doom and Dust         Antisemitic nonsense, to be sure, but still I wonder why the bestest country in the history of universes allows itself to be ruled almost exclusively by this 'tribe'.

Can't remember the last time a goy was in charge of the dollar (not sure if Volcker counts), and those tiny 2% jewish Americans massively dominate US finance, news media, entertainment, politics (mostly as puppeteers), military (current head of NATO), intelligence services, etc. etc.

With a runaway jewry like yours, I'm almost relieved Everyone's Favorite Psychopath rid us Europeans of most of them.

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Infinite QE   Not just America. There was the recent comments by an ex-Australian PM that the jews run their foreign policy as well.

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Blaming others for your problems is a very liberal fascist attitude. One even admits to the weakness of their argument by admitting that Jews are such a small part of the world population, yet we all have no power to change that?

It's also like those that blame the Rothchidls for every currency problem ever, yet currency crisis have existed way before the Rothchilds.

One is looking for scape goats. Those goats are symptoms of the problem, not the root. If the Rothchilds didn't exist today, it would be someone else doing it. What if Al Sharpton was running it all? Would you then say that Blacks are the problem?

The problem is moral character and corruption with a system and culture that allows and encourages such behavior. But we can't legislate morality. We must live it and try to root it out. It isn't perfect, but nothing is that is made by man.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 14:22 | 4748439 Doom and Dust
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I don't have any problems that can realistically be blamed on any ethnic, socio-economic or cultural groups. Whether that's fortunate or not is a matter of opinion, but it does mean your default defense of antisemitic scape-goating doesn't apply to my viewpoint.

It's true that we can't legislate morality. But since we find such an extremely disproportionate number of American jews on the wrong side of morality, is it really age-old antisemitic scapegoating to point that out, or does the world and in particular America have a relatively well-defined problem of a certain ethnic group monopolizing power and public opinion, to the detriment of its host society and often to the exclusive benefit of its members, particularly their ethnically defined nation-state?

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 14:56 | 4748507 Infinite QE
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The problem is when you have group of psychopaths who's religion teaches them that they are superior and that all people outside of said group are to be used like donkeys for the pleasure of said group. Then you cook up some stories about how said group has been persecuted and murdered all the while it's the said group doing what they accuse others of. Then you systemically have your tribe infiltrate every place of power within the modern world and within 100 years time we have reached the point where we are at now and it's blatantly obvious to the fluoride-free what is occurring.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 17:00 | 4748816 yochananmichael
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i can see why jesus referred to your ilk as dogs

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 17:20 | 4748871 Infinite QE
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Why's that donkey?

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:25 | 4748291 rodonmeguro
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Mercenaries, good, get the employment numbers up. And stop the Russian confiscation at the same time.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:27 | 4748294 SDRII
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Claims that Putin initiated conflict in Ukraine after Sochi Olympics make no sense - Kissinger
Read more: http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_05_11/Claims-that-Putin-initiated-conflict-in-Ukraine-after-Sochi-Olympics-make-no-sense-Kissinger-8792/

 

As a US policy maker, this is when you know its off the rails...

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:37 | 4748318 luckystars
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Never trust this war criminal.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 21:37 | 4749215 blindman
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modified comment ;
".."The demonization of Putin is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one," Kissinger wrote."
from link above.
hard for me to agree with anything from this guy
but he nailed this and the entire lack of any coherent
usa foreign policy, but hell, when you have been
delegated by the international banksters to the
status of "policeman of the world" you don't need a frikin'
policy. you just need your marchin' orders and
fed money. (the country was gutted by conmen and
treasonous internationalist puppets long ago).
henry's comment , besides being true, may be early
campaigning for jeb bush, coating a greater lie with
some glaring and desperately needed truth?
so which international "financier", oligarch, just
woke up and realised they stand to lose it all
if they don't hedge their bets on this potential
global conflict, that would be henry's boss.
it is funny how fear can almost make a statesman out of
a cold blooded killer, right before your eyes.
you remember the meeting between nutty-yahoo and
putin last week and the shocking statement from the israeli
ambassador? even the neocons are or will be distancing themselves
from the elements running amok in kiev, they are frightened
to see the manifestation of their own dream in the flesh
and they should be because they are no safer from it than
anyone else. imho
(sane) fear is a man's best friend. john cale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iAAe_7_HOw
.
" The real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, state and nation. Like the octopus of real life, it operates under cover of a self created screen....At the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as international bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both political parties."
-- New York City Mayor John F. Hylan, 1922

"Fifty men have run America, and that's a high figure."
-- Joseph Kennedy, father of JFK, in the July 26th, l936 issue of The New York Times.
. note; the republic was recognised and used by the global fascists
as was hitler's germany and stalin's soviet union for a time and as
fronts to bring about the ultimate one world control money mechanism,
there an interesting lens by which to view the butchery of the 20th century.
.for anyone who may have missed it, there has been and still remains
a desire on the part of many very "well off" people in the world to
create a world currency that will be lent out at interest to be paid
back to that issuing entity, bank, and for that entity to also be
intimately and necessarily empowered with the status of "government"
to enforce financial law and monetary adherence, of course with ultimate
authority regarding access to essential resources which would necessarily
be all the resources, post nationalism and national or individual sovereignty.
for all the successes the failure of the pound,
dollar and the euro have emboldened the one world cartel and been
instructive. my guess is they have seen the future and shit themselves,
seeing for the first time what is out there in the world that they are
intending to confront, head on. i think they caught themselves by surprise.
if they haven't they soon will and then they will be entirely lost.
that is where you come in. you will have to save the world, your world
from the insanity they unleash. good luck!
.
oh and ... it is the "money system from hell and 1913",
the structure of the "money" system that is the root of
all evil today and, likely, tomorrow.
now watch the rats jump from the sinking ship.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 20:03 | 4749304 blindman
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"The real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, state and nation. Like the octopus of real life, it operates under cover of a self created screen....At the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as international bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both political parties."
-- New York City Mayor John F. Hylan, 1922

"Fifty men have run America, and that's a high figure."
-- Joseph Kennedy, father of JFK, in the July 26th, l936 issue of The New York Times.
.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 21:14 | 4749475 Raging Debate
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SDR2- Thank you for the link. The games are supposed to be sacrocynt. It is a symbol of channing our competitive human nature into entertainment instead of robbery and murder.

When I saw what CNN was doing demonizing Russia about the olympics it ended any illusion that the ending of this cycle will be anything but very violent and nasty.

Also, the Russians wanted a "don't ask don't tell" policy regarding gay olympians no different then our military policy of the 90's but no! They have to all be metrosexuals all instantly overnight or we shouldnt watch them in America right?

I read your comment Blindman you are correct. If WW3 goes nuclear the Rothschild's die like everyone else even if they initially survive. Creating crisis and exploiting them as a model may have conquered the globe but it is a model the entire world is onto and sick of and reality check - inequality is global now not just the USA. Where there is little inequality is where the bankers live. They don't shit where they eat and sleep.

I don't care about blaming nationalities. I don't care Obama is black, a banker is a jew or any of that horseshit. Exploitation and murder always has an ending and it is almost always without exception ends when the purpotrators personally suffer. What these have unleashed cannot be undone now. Perhaps mankind will only lose 20% of the global population before a semblence of balance is reached that is my hope instead of 50% or higher casualty rate.

After, we are going to make banking and government peer-to-peer utilities. These sociopaths are drastically overpaid and unqualified to rule. Bankers make loans they do not do well running countries. They want the gains but no responsibility. The world is fucked and will take a massive collective fall because of this main primary reason. We're all going to learn the hard way this time. ALL

Nice try Kissinger, but the damage is done and your directly culpable for the result. The wrinkled old bag will probably croak soon and he wont be missed. Neither will his bosses of nine. Dickwads.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:29 | 4748302 Lin S
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Hoping they get captured and receive the same treatment the last mercenaries on Russian soil received (Wallonien, 5th SS Wiking, et al)...

Mon, 05/12/2014 - 01:14 | 4749917 patb
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I'm not hoping it, but, it's dangerous to be on someone elses turf, messing with them.

 

The Russians don't play.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:30 | 4748303 NoWayJose
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Hey, the 'new' Ukraine government has to put all that new IMF loan money to use somewhere, right?

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:33 | 4748308 Pure Evil
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With over 5 billion.

That could certainly build a lot of flying bathhouses for Obama

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 14:17 | 4748422 Atticus Finch
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Nazis - 5 billion to Detroit - 0

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:42 | 4748313 teslaberry
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the federal reserve holds the trump card on the ecb. 

if and when germany is pulled 'east' towards sino- rus

the u.s. tanks european liquidity.

 

germanys will NOT abidicate leadership over europe and must inflate its citizens wealth away to the rest of europe by way of printing.

 

this final kneecapping of germany builds rural conservative resentment in the south (where u.s. troops are stationed) against liberal northern pan europeanist nato support cities ---berlin and northern european scando cities.) 

 

finally a political showdown arises with neo-nationalist socialist germans versus imperial pan-european globalist germans.

 

the real political battles finally begin when major german corporate billlionaires are split down the middle with some who sell the bulk of exports to sino-ruso politically diverging from those who export to the united states japan and france.

the future schism(s) between currently alligned major corporate empires of the west is the starting line for world war 3.the big banks would like to control the status quo as long as possible. they dont need to push for ww3 but will fund it when the time comes. sino ruso axis has time on their side. the corporatists will eventually get squeezed when hundreds of millions can no longer buy their products due to margin compression (inflation) a shrinkimg middle class ( defjned by those who can afford makeup and fragrant shamppooo) will be the remaining scraps for corporatists increasingly at odds with each others  territories. a series of mergers sets up a few big dogs left for a schism or two. 

 

the empires will divude over their target export markets...and slowly build the case of war. could take 30 ...40 years. but its coming. globalists nwo fantasies about the 'end of major conflicts' is a dream. 

 

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 18:56 | 4749105 Seek_Truth
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WW III in 30 to 40 years?

It's coming a lot sooner than that- 1 to 4 years maximum.

Hedge accordingly.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:36 | 4748317 NOZZLE
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I'll pay 10, 00US to the first Russian to display the severed head of an American Blackwater fuck on a pike.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:47 | 4748338 taraxias
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I'll chip in $5,000 towards that. And I'm being serious. 

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 14:19 | 4748432 Flagit
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10, 00US

What is this, Common Core math?

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 15:27 | 4748577 mt paul
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corn cob counting ...

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 17:23 | 4748882 NOZZLE
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Typing while driving

Mon, 05/12/2014 - 02:17 | 4750001 bunnyswanson
Sun, 05/11/2014 - 16:25 | 4748725 Peter Pan
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Only $10?

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 16:37 | 4748753 Joenobody12
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That is how much those assholes are worth a piece.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 17:32 | 4748906 fxrxexexdxoxmx
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You know what would be really funny if some of those mercs are ex Russian military. 

 

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 21:07 | 4749473 August
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FWIW I'd speculate that many mercs operating in Ukraine will be natives of Ukraine or, for that matter, Russia itself.

So, it may be better to say American-funded Blackwater/Academi, since I'd guess many are not holders of US passports.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:38 | 4748321 Jano
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Exceptional and indispensable.
In other words, you , Americans, you are Übermenschen.
I hope, that the whole world will pay to US exceptional people everything back within a life span.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:56 | 4748335 John McCloy
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So for the first time in human history American soldier ground troops ( Tax payer funded foreign aid rigamaroo cash to XE mercs) are engaging Eastern Ukranian citizens and Russian Soldiers wearing masks?

Forward. They are right the Cold War is over..we have our first hot war with Russia discounting them shooting down our U2 planes. I suppose this is worse than our cash to the Mujahdeed in Afghan and maybe a few isolated WW2 incidents when enclosing on Berlin but I could be wrong...anyone know?

I do know those XE animals are gonna be having a great time coking up and trying to ravage those Ukrainian beauties..much better picking for them than in the Middle East.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/09/23/rampant-drug-random-gunfire-blackw...

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 19:26 | 4749179 Cathartes Aura
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This Is My Rifle, This Is My Gun.

no, it's not the film clip, it's a well-thought out essay.

you probably won't like/read it, but maybe someone else salivating at the thought of war-rapes might.  it's about weapons, and a certain mentality cultivated by the media, globally.  a conquered mind is a great weapon.

it's one story about where "we" are, and how "we" got here. . .

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:47 | 4748339 ThisIsBob
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I suspect one of those guys captured alive is probably worth some dough.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:47 | 4748341 Seize Mars
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My God, what kind of monstrous shithole America is.

Jesus, how can this stand? What exactly do we need to do in order to eject the Zionists from their hostile domination of my country?

Absolutely shocking and disgusting.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 20:42 | 4749409 yochananmichael
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jesus was a zionist

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 23:52 | 4749689 Seize Mars
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yochananmichael

Sorry, you either don't know much about Jesus, or you don't know much about Zionism.

 

Mon, 05/12/2014 - 03:02 | 4750035 bunnyswanson
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Jesus chased the money makers out of town.  He was a carpenter, homeless basically, and well, I am just not sure.  But, here is a good clip:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T76ZkcB3wyI  Bankers being arrested under the radar.  Karen Hudes (WorldBank) is debunked after a robust campaign to annouce malfaesance and blame homo capsisens (sp?) for all of our troubles.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRSDTvqbmRg  Feud "Vlast"  (say no to fascism)  Song is for you.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:48 | 4748342 Martin W
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Nothing special - US just the same as Russia send to Ukraine their own "volunteers"...

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:48 | 4748344 Joe A
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Zee Germans are really, really pissed off because of the eavesdropping scandal and zee German industry does not want any sanctions against Russia. Zee Germans understand very well what is going on in Ukraine.

Oh and regarding 'lack of context about the company'...here is some context for you: a bunch of sadistic, psychopathic and bloodthirsty murderers, rapists and torturers. That enough context for you?

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 13:51 | 4748352 Monoki
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Xe is not in Ukraine.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 14:04 | 4748369 John McCloy
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Double post.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 14:40 | 4748479 Volkodav
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no problem...I upvoted you twice

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 14:06 | 4748370 John McCloy
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Thanks for clearing that up.

And so you know they are not in Ukraine..they are in Eastern Ukraine or as we should say Russia within the next 48 hours.

Mon, 05/12/2014 - 02:44 | 4750024 Monoki
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I say again: Xe is not in Ukraine.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 14:00 | 4748377 bankonzhongguo
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The fact that the MTV-CIA and CFR/NED could not hold Odesa in the first few days really speak to how few boots would ever be on the ground.

This is like "shock & awe" except it is pronounced "????? ? ???." (I guess it does not Cyrillic.)

For the fighters on both sides; what/who are you fighting for again?

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 14:04 | 4748386 Jack Burton
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No time now to read the article, but will get to it soon. What has grabbed my special interest is that German Media seems to have found a real story and are prepared to investigate and report on it. This flys in the face of almost all Western Coverage of Ukraine, which has been in lock step with the US State Department offical press releases. I have noted that German media is totally behind the US actions in Ukraine, but this is not what the German public is in lock step with. Some polls and just general social media discussion in Germany points to a big gulf between official media and public opinion. Many, at least a significant number, of Germans are aware of the real story in Ukraine, and are totally aware that western media is running a US State Department information campaign. In short, some Germans are very openly saying that the real story is not so favorable to the official media stories. That a German paper is openly reporting these facts, that US Special Forces are on the ground in Ukraine and acting with force against East Ukrainian people, points to a less than united front in the news business.

I call these men US special forces, because that is what they are. US taxpayers trained them and deployed them, now just because they took off the uniform and put on a private uniform does not change what they are. Plus, we American taxpayers are STILL paying them.

If one of these clowns ever gets caught by the Armed Resistance in East Ukraine, that clown is going to be taken apart piece by piece. They are playing with people who don't play games, they play for keeps.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 14:23 | 4748442 Jack Sheet
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encouraging as the report might be, 99% of German media are still under the Washington propaganda umbrella

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 14:52 | 4748499 813kml
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The German populace will make the right decision to not support NATO military intervention.  The current generation still sees the scars of two world wars on a daily basis, US propaganda can't fool Germans into seeing their country destroyed yet again.  If push comes to shove the US will be fighting Germany.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 21:12 | 4749489 August
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Germany is the prize that Putin wants to win.  Any Russian interventions in Ukraine are made with that long-term goal in mind.

Mon, 05/12/2014 - 01:44 | 4749961 Mine Is Bigger
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Yes, but sadly, that's still 98.9999% better than mainstream U.S. news media.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 15:34 | 4748595 loonyleft
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I call these men US special forces, because that is what they are. US taxpayers trained them and deployed them, now just because they took off the uniform and put on a private uniform does not change what they are. Plus, we American taxpayers are STILL paying them.

Kind of like amateur athletes and the olympics used to be. Not trying to make light of it, but it's amazing how we are so willing to believe the lies. Anybody can see that Academi is just another branch of the government. 

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 16:19 | 4748715 tsuki
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A merc is a merc.  Doesn't matter if the Brits, French, Chinese or US trained them.  They are loyal to their paycheck only.

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 17:34 | 4748914 fxrxexexdxoxmx
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You forgot the Russians. They produce great soldiers. I wonder how many of the mercs are Russian?

Sun, 05/11/2014 - 14:02 | 4748387 Ungaro
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Amerika. Making friends all over the world. Foreign policy is truly foreign to Merkins.

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