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Poroshenko's incompetence played a critical role at Debaltsevo

Josh Cohen
Moscow Times
Sun, 08 Mar 2015 13:53 UTC
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© AP Photo/ Sergei Chuzavkov
As long lines of shell-shocked Ukrainian troops straggled out of Debaltseve last month after a stinging defeat to the Russian-backed separatists there, the focus was on how the separatists had used the support of Russian-supplied weaponry and support troops to inflict a stinging defeat on Kiev's forces in the key railroad junction town.

However by focusing on the role played by Russia in eastern Ukraine, many analysts have overlooked the extent to which the incompetence of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and the Ukrainian military high command caused Kiev's Debaltseve debacle. Both before the battle and subsequently, Kiev's political and military leadership seemed completely out touch with the reality of events on the battlefield.

The shape of the front lines after the first Minsk agreement left the Ukrainian military holding a little sliver of land stretching into rebel territory that was surrounded by separatists forces on three sides. Toward the bottom of this sliver of land lay Debaltseve.

Comment: Poroshenko's incompetence doesn't take place in a vacuum. He dances to the tune of the US State Department:
Last week, Washington suffered its greatest military defeat in more than a decade when Ukraine's US-backed army was soundly routed in the major railway hub of Debaltsevo. Roughly, 8,000 Ukrainian regulars along with untold numbers of tanks and armored units were surrounded in what-came-to-be-known-as "the cauldron." The army of the Donetsk Peoples Republic led by DPR commander Alexander Zakharchenko, encircled the invading army and gradually tightened the cordon, eventually killing or capturing most of the troops within the pocket. The Ukrainian Armed Forces suffered major casualties ranging between 3,000 to 3,500 while a vast amount of lethal military hardware was left behind.

The battle behind the fog of propaganda: The Exceptional US suffers crushing defeat in Debaltsevo
And he dances to the tune of oligarchs and Right Sector thugs, like 'I always bring a grenade with me to work' Dmitri Yarosh:
In reality President Poroshenko sacrificed his men because he did not want to incur the wrath of the war party in Kiev by ordering their retreat.

Poroshenk's cowardice betrayed the Ukrainian Army in Debaltseve
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Putin's 8 years of patience with the deaf, dumb, and blind West

Paul Craig Roberts
Institute for Political Economics
Fri, 06 Mar 2015 13:13 UTC

Comment: In his legendary speech in 2007 at the Munich Security conference, Putin outlined the principals by which Russia would conduct itself in the world. He outlined a world of fairness, trust between nations, and the goal of working together to benefit all countries in the world community by supporting the sovereignty of each. We have seen how the United States received that vision. The psychopathic elite not only could not comprehend it, but have been actively working against it.


As I often emphasize Washington warmongers are driving us to war with Russia, which means also with China.

Russian President Vladimir Putin pointed this out at the security conference in Munich in 2007. He put Washington and Washington's European vassal states on notice that the numerous hostile actions taken toward Russia and other countries were undermining international stability. He made it clear that Russia did not accept Washington's idea that Russia should conform to Washington's will.

Putin speaks in Russian, but translation is provided across the bottom of the video. It is worth your time:


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Penis Pump

Germany slams NATO's Breedlove for his dangerous lies - Breedlove still convinced he's right about everything


RT
Sat, 07 Mar 2015 23:22 UTC
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© Reuters/Valentyn OgirenkoU.S. General Philip Breed-no-love.
A top NATO European commander's exaggerated comments on the Ukrainian conflict are 'dangerous propaganda,' and put the West at risk of losing credibility, sources in the German Chancellor's Office told Der Spiegel.


Comment: That's putting it politely. They've already lost it.


General Philip Breedlove made harsh remarks on the situation in Ukraine on Wednesday, saying that the self-defense forces, with the assistance of Russia, have prepared "over a thousand combat vehicles" and "sophisticated air defense, battalions of artillery" in the south-east of the country.


Comment: Breedlove seems to be suffering from Dr. Strangelove syndrome.


Comment: Don't you see? The U.S. and NATO just want to 'de-escalate' the situation!



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Yet another color revolution! This time in Myanmar: Meet Aung San Suu Kyi's saffron mobs

Tony Cartalucci
New Eastern Outlook
Thu, 05 Mar 2015 00:00 UTC
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© UnknownMonks mingle in the background with protesters marching against attempts to recognize and empower stateless Rohingya refugees. Racism, bigotry, and savagery are hallmarks of this street mob which also so happens to be the same mob supporting “democracy icon,” Aung San Suu Kyi. Spiffy "revolutionary" T-shirts sponsored by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
Not unlike other US-backed "color revolutions" around the world, Myanmar's "Saffron Revolution" is sold as an ultra-liberal pro-democracy, progressive movement, with one of the West's most successful neo-colonial creations to date, Aung San Suu Kyi, portrayed and revered as a modern day, secular "saint" of neo-liberalism and Western democratic values.

Underneath the pageantry and spin, however, is harbored ultra-right racism and unhinged violence that if ever truthfully reported on, would end the "Saffron" wave, and spell the absolute end of both Suu Kyi's political career and her legacy.

Most recently Suu Kyi's "Saffron" movement took to the streets, not to call for greater "freedom" or to defend "human rights," but to condemn the government's move toward giving hundreds of thousands of stateless Rohingya refugees citizenship.

Australia's ABC News would report in an article titled, "Myanmar scraps temporary ID cards amid protests targeting ethnic minorities without citizenship," that:

Comment: "Another U.S.-backed and instigated color revolution?!" you may ask, or exclaim. "They're all over the friggin' place!" you might add. And you'd be correct in expressing shock, outrage, and anger over such a realization. But one should no longer be surprised. It seems that the U.S.'s number one export, besides arms, is the instigation and support of racist and fascistic governments that, under the banner of democracy and democratic values, reduce some segment of its citizenry to a 'sub-human' status, and that quite often adopts 'nationalistic' and economic plans that serve the interests of Imperial hegemony only; the 'color revolution' template being adapted to meet the particular country's and its people's worst predilections. Why send soldiers or stormtroopers when you can get the targeted country to act like Nazis themselves -- even if they're Buddhist monks.

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Spanish FM to visit Moscow Sunday to discuss Libya, Ukraine, anti-Russia sanctions


Sputnik
Sun, 08 Mar 2015 02:17 UTC
Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo
© REUTERS/ Muhammad Hamed
Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo is expected to arrive in Moscow on March 8 to discuss the Ukrainian crisis and anti-Russia sanctions imposed by the West with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Garcia-Margallo is also expected to meet with Russian Energy minister Alexander Novak and Spanish entrepreneurs working in Russia during his 2-day visit.

The Spanish side has repeatedly insisted on a peaceful settlement of the Ukrainian crisis, and spoke against arms supply to Kiev.

"The only solution to the crisis in Ukraine - is a political solution, in no event a military one," Garcia-Margallo said earlier this week.

Comment: Spain, like Italy, is worried about Libya and possible influx of IS militants. They both are running to Russia for help.

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Greek foreign minister threatens Europe with flood of jihadists and immigrants if Greece fails

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Sat, 07 Mar 2015 02:01 UTC
Nikos Kotzias
Nikos Kotzias
It wasn't even a full 24 hours after Greece raided at least some of the funds of its pension and other public entities in order to make a €310 payment to the IMF, the first of four this month (the balance is 350 million on March 13, 580 million on March 16 and another 350 million on March 20), that the insolvent country resumed doing what it does best: dispensing hollow threats. This time it was its foreign minister and leader of the Independent Greeks party - Syriza's junior coalition partner - Nikos Kotzias, who showed how to bluff like the best of them, when he threatened that "there will be tens of millions of immigrants and thousands of jihadists, if you take out Greece" the minister said before EU foreign ministers meeting in Riga.

As quoted by enikos, the foreign minister continued his blustery threats saying that "the Western Balkans is not stabilized. Then you have the Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, North Africa. This is a sickle."
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Proxy armies of the world, unite! Boko Haram 'pledges allegiance to' Islamic State


Sputnik
Sat, 07 Mar 2015 23:59 UTC
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The Nigerian fundamentalist Islamic Group has pledged their allegiance to the so-called Islamic State according to an audio message. The message was posted on Boko Haram's Twitter account and appeared to be created by the group's leader but remains unconfirmed.

The announcement comes on the heels of a devastating series of attacks in Nigeria that left 54 dead and nearly 200 injured.

During the 8-minute audio, the narrator says "We announce our allegiance to the Caliph of the Muslims Ibrahim ibn Awad ibn Ibrahim al-Husseini al-Qurashi and will hear and obey in times of difficulty and prosperity."

Comment: A concerted propaganda effort is underway to link 'the need for' Western military intervention in the Middle East to Western military intervention in North Africa ['ISIS takes over Libyan oilfields'] to Western military intervention in Central Africa ['Boko Haram pledges allegiance to Islamic State'] to Western military intervention in Central Asia ['ISIS looks for foothold in Central Asia'] to Western military intervention in [insert location of phony enemy here]...

The people running this show see the world as a chessboard and 'terrorists' as their pawns. Get it?

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Dollars

Six billion dollars went missing at the State Department while Hillary Clinton hid her emails

Aaron Dykes
Truthstream Media
Fri, 06 Mar 2015 22:52 UTC
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© unknown
The political world is swarming over revelations that Hillary Clinton hid her emails during her time as Secretary of State.

She apparently went so far in shielding her official correspondence from public scrutiny that her team set up the private domain @clintonemail.com, used cover names for family members and reportedly ran a server for the mail client out of her home. Hillary publicly tweeted to dispel concerns about secrecy, dubiously claiming 'I want the public to see my email.'

But serious concerns have been raised about her trail of secrecy, and the potential for classified information to have been exposed to foreign entities, spies, hackers and the like:

Comment: Fear of transparency? Why else would Hillary Clinton use a private email account for State Department business?

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Light Sabers

Best of the Web: The U.S. war on ISIS is a Trojan horse: This is what's really going on

Ulson Gunnar
New Eastern Outlook
Sat, 07 Mar 2015 21:58 UTC
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In August of 2013, even as the words came out of US President Barack Obama's mouth regarding an "impending" US military strike against the Syrian state, the impotence of American foreign policy loomed over him and those who wrote his speech for him like an insurmountable wall. So absurd was America's attempt to once again use the canard of "weapons of mass destruction" to justify yet another military intervention, that many believed America's proxy war in Syria had finally reached its end.

The counterstroke by Russia included Syria's immediate and unconditional surrendering of its chemical weapons arsenal, and with that, so evaporated America's casus belli.

Few would believe if one told them then, that in 2015, that same discredited US would be routinely bombing Syrian territory and poised to justify the raising of an entire army of terrorists to wage war within Syria's borders, yet that is precisely what is happening. President Obama has announced plans to formally increase military force in Iraq and Syria "against ISIS," but of course includes building up huge armies of "rebels" who by all other accounts are as bad as ISIS itself (not to mention prone to joining ISIS' ranks by the thousands).

Comment: Gunnar's conclusions match those of Alexander Prokhanov:
"ISIL is a tool at the hands of the United States. They tell the Europeans that if we (the Americans) do not intervene, ISIL will cause you harm," he said, adding that Iran and Russia are the prime targets of the ISIL.
Consider this: US/Israeli military advisers to ISIS arrested in Mosul, Iraq

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US/Israeli military advisers to ISIS arrested in Mosul, Iraq


FARS News Agency
Sat, 07 Mar 2015 21:28 UTC
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Iraqi Special Forces said they have arrested several ISIL's foreign military advisors, including American, Israeli and Arab nationals in an operation in Mosul in the Northern parts of the country.

The Iraqi forces said they have retrieved four foreign passports, including those that belonged to American and Israeli nationals and one that belonged to the national of a Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) member-state, from ISIL's military advisors.

The foreign advisors were arrested in a military operation in Tal Abta desert near Mosul city.

Last year, a senior aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Mossad of training ISIL terrorists operating in Iraq and Syria.

Alexander Prokhanov said that Mossad is also likely to have transferred some of its spying experiences to the ISIL leadership, adding that Israel's military advisors could be assisting the Takfiri terrorists.

Comment: It will be interesting to see if there is any follow-up to this story. But regardless, ISIS is a Trojan horse

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