Libya, Syria And Now Ukraine - Color Revolution By Force

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Postby tapitsbo » Tue Jul 19, 2016 12:49 pm

"The US-backed ‘moderate rebels’ from the Free Syrian Army captured a palestinian kid, accused him of being “pro-Assad” and beheaded him for this."

not a fun sentence to read, or video clip to see. sure, all sorts of groups commit atrocities in the world today - but I can't think of any that are done the service of the same sort of ecstatic, overbearing apologism from our intelligensia.
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Postby Morty » Wed Jul 27, 2016 2:17 am

Facebook post (July 26 2016):

For the past five years, the Christians of Syria and Iraq have been slaughtered and their sanctities have been destroyed by the very same inhuman, barbaric, French-armed terrorists who slit the throat of an 84-old priest in Normandy today. Hollande and his predecessor Sarkozy have not only provided unlimited support to Al-Qaeda groups wreaking havoc in Syria, but still maintain a cozy arms-for-oil relationship with the Saudi-Wahhabi regime. This is why terrorism has yet again struck the heart of France. And so long as French-Saudi and French-Takfiri strategic ties continue, these kinds of attacks will not stop. You simply cannot use terrorism as a "regime change" battering ram in Damascus and expect it not to eventually snap back in your face.

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Postby Nordic » Sat Jul 30, 2016 4:30 pm

It appears Aleppo has been retaken by the Syrians.
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Postby seemslikeadream » Thu Aug 11, 2016 11:18 pm

Austria ready to help Ukraine recover assets stolen by ex-president's allies


Top official of Yanukovych era is charged with embezzling and causing damage of some USD 160 million to Ukraine

Austrian Ambassador to Ukraine Hermine Poppeller proposed to deepen cooperation between the two countries on assets stolen by former members of the Ukrainian government under fugitive president Viktor Yanukovych*.

Hermine Poppeller met with Ukraine's Deputy Prosecutor General Yevhen Yenin, Ukraine's Prosecutor General reported on Tuesday, 12 July.

"The image of Austria and Ukraine is negatively affected by the fact that Yanukovych's allies possess assets in Austria they stole (from Ukraine). Therefore it is necessary to boost cooperation between our countries ", said Poppeller.

Read also Recovering stolen assets during Yanukovych regime is impossible without Ukrainian court decisions

She added at the meeting that Austria is ready to support Ukraine in reforming the Prosecutor agency and enhancing the bilateral cooperation in criminal justice to combat international crime.

* Viktor Yanukovych fled his opulent mansion outside Kyiv in February 2014 following mass protests against his decision to reject an E.U. Association Agreement and move the country towards Russia. The new Ukrainian government says Yanukovych and his associates stole tens of billions of dollars during his tenure. The top official of Yanukovych era is charged with embezzlement of state-owned assets and causing damage of some UAH 4 billion [USD 160 million] to Ukraine.

Read also Under The Umbrella: Russia 'covers' Ukraine's former President and PM

As of January 13, 2016, former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was on the top of the list of the world's most corrupt persons according to Transparency International's Unmask the Corrupt campaign.

http://uatoday.tv/politics/austria-read ... 94756.html
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Re: Libya, Syria And Now Ukraine - Color Revolution By Force

Postby Nordic » Tue Aug 16, 2016 2:37 am

This is a good primer to share with people as to how this whole disaster was deliberately created.

http://ahtribune.com/world/north-africa ... deraa.html

The day before Deraa: How the war broke out in Syria

AUGUST 10 ,2016
BY STEVEN SAHIOUNIE


The day before September 11, 2001 was like any normal day in New York City. September 10, 2001 was unaware of the earthshaking events which would happen the next day.

Similarly, one might think the day before the violence broke out in Deraa, Syria in March 2011 would have been an uneventful day, unaware of the uprising about to begin.

But, that was not the case. Deraa was teaming with activity and foreign visitors to Syria well before the staged uprising began its opening act.

The Omari Mosque was the scene of backstage preparations, costume changes and rehearsals. The Libyan terrorists, fresh from the battlefield of the US-NATO regime change attack on Libya, were in Deraa well ahead of the March 2011 uprising violence. The cleric of the Omari Mosque was Sheikh Ahmad al Sayasneh . He was an older man with a severe eye problem, which caused him to wear special dark glasses, and severely hampered his vision. He was not only visually impaired, but light sensitive as well, which caused him to be indoors as much as possible and often isolated. He was accustomed to judging the people he talked with by their accent and voice. The Deraa accent is distinctive. All of the men attending the Omari Mosque were local men, all with the common Deraa accent. However, the visitors from Libya did not make themselves known to the cleric, as that would blow their cover. Instead, they worked with local men; a few key players who they worked to make their partners and confidants. The participation of local Muslim Brotherhood followers, who would assist the foreign Libyan mercenaries/terrorists, was an essential part of the CIA plan, which was well scripted and directed from Jordan.

Enlisting the aid and cooperation of local followers of Salafism allowed the Libyans to move in Deraa without attracting any suspicion. The local men were the ‘front’ for the operation.

The CIA agents running the Deraa operation from their office in Jordan had already provided the weapons and cash needed to fuel the flames of revolution in Syria. With enough money and weapons, you can start a revolution anywhere in the world.

In reality, the uprising in Deraa in March 2011 was not fueled by graffiti written by teenagers, and there were no disgruntled parents demanding their children to be freed. This was part of the Hollywood style script written by skilled CIA agents, who had been given a mission: to destroy Syria for the purpose of regime change. Deraa was only Act 1: Scene 1.

The fact that those so-called teenaged graffiti artists and their parents have never been found, never named, and never pictured is the first clue that their identity is cloaked in darkness.

In any uprising there needs to be grassroots support. Usually, there is a situation which arises, and protesters take to the streets. The security teams step in to keep the peace and clear the streets and if there is a ‘brutal crackdown’ the otherwise ‘peaceful protesters’ will react with indignation, and feeling oppressed and wronged, the numbers in the streets will swell. This is the point where the street protests can take two directions: the protesters will back down and go home, or the protesters can react with violence, which then will be met with violence from the security teams, and this sets the stage for a full blown uprising.

The staged uprising in Deraa had some locals in the street who were unaware of their participation in a CIA-Hollywood production. They were the unpaid extras in the scene about to be shot. These unaware extras had grievances, perhaps lasting a generation or more, and perhaps rooted in Wahhabism, which is a political ideology exported globally by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Royal family and their paid officials.

The Libyans stockpiled weapons at the Omari Mosque well before any rumor spread about teenagers arrested for graffiti. The cleric, visually impaired and elderly, was unaware of the situation inside his Mosque, or of the foreign infiltrators in his midst.

The weapons came into Deraa from the CIA office in Jordan. The US government has close ties to the King of Jordan. Jordan is 98% Palestinian, and yet has a long lasting peace treaty with Israel, despite the fact that 5 million of the Jordanian citizen’s relatives next door in Occupied Palestine are denied any form of human rights. The King of Jordan has to do a daily high-wire balancing act between his citizens, the peace and safety in his country and America’s interests and projects in the Middle East. King Abdullah is not only a tight-rope walker, but a juggler at the same time, and all of this pressure on him must be enormous for him, and Queen Rania, who is herself Palestinian. These facts must be viewed in the forefront of the background painted scenery of The Syrian Arab Republic, which has for the last 40 years had a cornerstone of domestic and foreign policy carved and set in the principle of Palestinian human rights and Palestinian freedom and justice.

The US policy to attack Syria for the purpose of regime change was not just about the gas lines, the oil wells, the strategic location and the gold: but it was about crushing that cornerstone of Palestinian rights into dust. To get rid of President Bashar al Assad was to get rid of one of the few Arab leaders who are an unwavering voice of Palestinian rights.

Deraa’s location directly on the Jordanian border is the sole reason it was picked for the location-shoot of the opening act of the Syrian uprising. If you were to ask most Syrians, if they had ever been to Derra, or ever plan to go, they will answer, “No.” It is a small and insignificant agricultural town. It is a very unlikely place to begin a nationwide revolution. Deraa has a historical importance because of archeological ruins, but that is lost on anyone other than history professors or archeologists. The access to the weapons from Jordan made Deraa the perfect place to stage the uprising which has turned into an international war. Any person with common sense would assume an uprising or revolution in Syria would begin in Damascus or Aleppo, the two biggest cities. Even after 2 ½ years of violence around the country, Aleppo’s population never participated in the uprising, or call for regime change. Aleppo: the large industrial powerhouse of Syria wanted nothing to do with the CIA mission, and felt that by staying clear of any participation they could be spared and eventually the violence would die out, a natural death due to lack of participation of the civilians. However, this was not to play out for Aleppo. Instead, the US supported Free Syrian Army, who were mainly from Idlib and the surrounding areas, invited in their foreign partners, and they came pouring into Aleppo from Turkey, where they had taken Turkish Airlines flights from Afghanistan, Europe, Australia and North Africa landing in Istanbul, and then transported by buses owned by the Turkish government to the Turkey-Aleppo border. The airline tickets, buses, paychecks, supplies, food, and medical needs were all supplied in Turkey by an official from Saudi Arabia. The weapons were all supplied by the United States of America, from their warehouse at the dock of Benghazi, Libya. The US-NATO regime change mission had ended in success in Libya, with America having taken possession of all the weapons and stockpiles formerly the property of the Libyan government, including tons of gold bullion taken by the US government from the Central Bank of Libya.

Enter the Libyans stage right. Mehdi al Harati, the Libyan with an Irish passport, was put in charge of a Brigade of terrorists working under the pay and direction of the CIA in Libya. Once his fighting subsided there, he was moved to Northern Syria, in the Idlib area, which was the base of operation for the American backed Free Syrian Army, who Republican Senator John McCain lobbied for in the US Congress, and personally visited, illegally entering Syria without any passport or border controls. In Arizona, Sen. McCain is in favor of deporting any illegal alien entering USA, but he himself broke international law by entering Syria as an illegal and undocumented alien. However, he was in the company of trusted friends and associates, the Free Syrian Army: the same men who beheaded Christians and Muslims, raped females and children of both sexes, sold girls as sex slaves in Turkey, and ate the raw liver of a man, which they proudly videoed and uploaded.

Previously, Syria did not have any Al Qaeda terrorists, and had passed through the war in neighboring Iraq none the worse for wear, except having accepted 2 million Iraqis as refugee guests. Shortly before the Deraa staged uprising began, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were in Damascus and being driven around by the President and First Lady. Pitt and Jolie had come to visit and support the Iraqi war refugees in Damascus. Brad Pitt was amazed that the Syrian President would drive him around personally, and without any body guards or security detail. Pitt and Jolie were used to their own heavy security team in USA. Pres. Assad explained that he and his wife were comfortable in Damascus, knowing that it was a safe place. Indeed, the association of French travel agents had deemed Syria as the safest tourist destination in the entire Mediterranean region, meaning even safer than France itself.

However, the US strategy was to create a “New Middle East”, which would do away with safety in Syria; through the ensuing tornado, aka ‘winds of change’.

Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and then Syria were the stepping stones in the garden of the “Arab Spring”. But, the scenario in the Syrian mission did not stay on script. It went over deadline and over budget. The final credits have yet to be rolled, and the curtain has yet to fall on the stage.

We can’t under estimate the role that mainstream media had to play in the destruction of Syria. For example, Al Jazeera’s Rula Amin was in Deraa and personally interviewed the cleric Sayasneh at the Omari Mosque. Al Jazeera is the state owned and operated media for the Prince of Qatar. The Prince of Qatar was one of the key funders of the terrorists attacking Syria. The USA was sending the weapons, supplies and providing military satellite imagery, however the cash to make payroll, to pay out bribes in Turkey, and all other expenses which needed cold cash in hand was being paid out by the Prince of Qatar and the King of Saudi Arabia, who were playing their roles as closest Middle East allies of the United States of America. This was a production team between USA, EU, NATO, Turkey, Jordan, Israel and the Persian Gulf Arab monarchies of Saudi Arabia and Qatar primarily. The CIA has no problem with covert operations in foreign countries, and even full scale attacks, but the matter of funding needs to come from a foreign country, because the American voters don’t care about killing people in Syria, but they would never agree to pay for it. As long as the Arabs were paying for the project, that was OK by Mr. John Q. Public, who probably was not able to find Syria on a map anyway.

Rula Amin and others of the Al Jazeera staff, and including the American CNN, the British BBC and the French France24 all began deliberate political propaganda campaign against the Syrian government and the Syrian people who were suffering from the death and destruction brought on by the terrorists who were pretending to be players in a local uprising. Some days, the scripts were so similar that you would have guessed they were all written in the same hotel room in Beirut. Onto the stage stepped the online media personalities of Robert Fisk, from his vantage point in Beirut and Joshua Landis from his perch in Oklahoma. These 2 men, sitting so far removed from the actual events, pretended to know everything going on in Syria. British and American readers were swayed by their deliberate one-sided explanations, while the actual Syrians living inside Syria, who read in English online, were baffled. Syrians were wondering how Western writers could take the side of the terrorists who were foreigners, following Radical Islam and attacking any unarmed civilian who tried to defend their home and family. The media was portraying the terrorists as freedom fighters and heroes of democracy, while they were raping, looting, maiming, kidnapping for ransom and murdering unarmed civilians who had not read the script before the shooting began in Deraa. There was one global movie trailer, and it was a low budget cell phone video which went viral around the world, and it sold the viewers on the idea of Syria being in the beginning of a dramatic fight for freedom, justice and the American way. From the very beginning, Al Jazeera and all the rest of the media were paying $100.00 to any amateur video shot in Syria. A whole new cottage industry sprang up in Syria, with directors and actors all hungry for the spotlight and fame. Authenticity was not questioned; the media just wanted content which supported their propaganda campaign in Syria.

Deraa was the opening act of tragic epic which has yet to conclude. The cleric who was a key character in the beginning scenes, Sheikh Sayasneh, was first put under house arrest, and then he was smuggled out to Amman, Jordan in January 2012. He now gives lectures in America near Washington, DC. Just like aspiring actors usually find their way to Hollywood, which is the Mecca of the film industry, Sheikh Sayasneh found his way to the Mecca of all regime change projects.
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Postby American Dream » Sat Aug 20, 2016 12:22 pm

http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2016/08/b ... ed-in.html

Saturday, August 20, 2016
Both sides in Aleppo are engaged in killing civilians: this is from a Syrian opposition human rights organization

Maya Gebeily (@GebeilyM) tweeted at 4:55 AM on Sat, Aug 20, 2016:
#SYRIA: #Aleppo civilians killed since July 31 from SOHR:
165 in rebel fire on w. Aleppo
168 in air strikes, bombardment in e. Aleppo

PS Gebeily is AFP correspondent in Beirut.
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Postby American Dream » Sun Sep 25, 2016 1:27 pm

What's Jon Latvis Up To These Days?


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The portrait on the side of the banner closest
to the viewer is that of Stepan Bandera.


Yeah, those are members of the Canadian chapter of Right Sector.

And who are Right Sector?

Glad you asked:
Critics at home say the party's inflammatory rhetoric and violence is helping Russian media to depict Ukraine as overrun with "neo-Nazis" who threaten the Russian-speaking population.
....
Activists claiming to be Right Sector members were involved in Kiev's Maidan protests from late November, but the group did not attract much attention until violent clashes with police in central Kiev on 19 January, in which it played a leading role.
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A leading figure in the Right Sector, Andriy Tarasenko, says it aims not for closer ties with Europe but rather to "build a nationalist Ukrainian state and stage a nationalist revolution".
Dmytro Yarosh calls himself a follower of Stepan Bandera, a nationalist leader who fought Polish and Soviet rule in the 1930s and 1940s but is seen in Russia and eastern Ukraine as a Nazi collaborator.
....
Some far-right activists interviewed by the BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse in Kiev in early March made it clear that they wanted a Ukraine "just for Ukrainians".



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Postby American Dream » Sun Sep 25, 2016 2:31 pm

WAR IN UKRAINE

The View from the East Village

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Left-Right Convergence Against Ukraine

There is a strange convergence of right and left around the Trump-Putin axis. Bernie Sanders supporters cheered the hack of the Democratic National Committee, widely attributed to Russian intelligence. The Green Party's Jill Stein dined with Putin earlier this year, when she was in Moscow for a forum organized by Kremlin media mouthpiece RT. Her YouTube video, speaking from Red Square on an anti-war theme—without a syllable of criticism for her hosts—has gone viral.

Julian Kytasty is the neighborhood's foremost master of the bandura, the Ukrainian lute. Last year, he travelled to Ukraine with a group of musicians and artists to work with youth displaced by the war. He notes a "flip in the coverage" of Ukraine on left-wing websites. "Early reports made the connection between Maidan and Occupy," he said. "They recognized the Maidan movement as a people's uprising against a corrupt government."

Now, I pointed out, many stateside leftists call the Maidan revolution a "fascist coup." Jill Stein called it "a coup against a democratically-elected government, where ultra-nationalists and ex-Nazis came to power."

"That meme is certainly being perpetrated," Kytasty admitted sadly.

Kytasty says the role of the far right in Ukraine since the fall of Yanukovich has been exaggerated—or viewed with a double standard. He acknowledges the Azov Battalion, a neo-fascist militia fighting on Kiev's side—but also points to the Night Wolves biker-gang-turned-militia on the separatists' side. This similarly ugly formation has received far less media coverage.

Virlana Tkacz also sees skewed coverage on the question. "The ultra-right got like 2% of the vote in Ukraine's last election. In France they get 30%. This is so stupid."

"The real shocker is that the left would stick up for Putin," she amazed. "It's like voting for Trump. What kind of left have we got? In the Cold War, they gave a free pass to the Communists. But why a free pass for Putin?"

Tkacz is hardly uncritical of US imperialism. "I was very much involved in anti-war protests during Vietnam and Iraq," she said. She adds that her interest in indigenous peoples began with her theatrical work at the American Indian Community House in the '80s.

Noting grim possibilities in the near future of the United States, Tkacz flipped the usual notion of the US exporting democracy to places like Ukraine.

"Ukrainians have a lot to teach us," she said. "We may have to do it here. Are you going to be out there in Washington Square every day when we have to do it here under a President Trump?"


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Postby seemslikeadream » Thu Nov 24, 2016 1:19 pm

Oliver Stone’s Russian Documentary Blames CIA For Kremlin’s Invasion Of Ukraine

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Pentagon/Foreign Policy Reporter
2:28 PM 11/23/2016

An Oliver Stone documentary, produced as a part of agreements between Stone and the Russian government, frames Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a result of the CIA and other U.S institutions.

The film, called “Ukraine on Fire,” was featured on Russia’s REN TV Monday night, the second anniversary of the Maidan protests that sparked the Ukrainian revolution.

Stone interviews Russian President Vladimir Putin and ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in the documentary, which argues Yanukovych was the victim of a U.S.-inspired coup with the intent of pushing back against Russia.

“He was the legitimate president of Ukraine until he suddenly wasn’t on February 22 of this year,” said Stone in a Facebook post after his initial interview with Yanukovych in 2014. “Many witnesses, including Yanukovych and police officials, believe these foreign elements were introduced by pro-Western factions — with CIA fingerprints on it.”


The film argues that “well-armed, neo-Nazi radicals” forced Yanukovych to flee Ukraine after several failed assassination attempts. It also alleges that U.S. organizations ranging from the CIA to United States Agency for International Development were involved in the plot against the former leader.

“That whole process was headquartered in the U.S. embassy,” Yanukovych told Stone when asked if he noticed any U.S. presence during the initial overthrow in 2014.

“This is a very dangerous conversation, a conversation about war,” said Yanukovych. “Nobody should feel safe today.”

Putin told Stone he believes the U.S. needs an existential enemy, and that because Iran is not sufficient, U.S. leaders are now focused on Russia.

Stone, an Oscar-winning filmmaker and Vietnam war veteran, is well-known for his skepticism of U.S. foreign policy and has become increasingly interested in Russia. He has also produced a documentary about Putin (slated for release in 2017) and released another film earlier this year centered on NSA leaker Edward Snowden, who fled to Russia to avoid U.S. authorities.



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Postby Nordic » Thu Nov 24, 2016 10:24 pm

There was no "Kremlin invasion of Ukraine".
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Postby Searcher08 » Fri Nov 25, 2016 2:19 pm

American Dream » Sun Sep 25, 2016 6:31 pm wrote:
WAR IN UKRAINE

The View from the East Village

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Left-Right Convergence Against Ukraine

There is a strange convergence of right and left around the Trump-Putin axis. Bernie Sanders supporters cheered the hack of the Democratic National Committee, widely attributed to Russian intelligence. The Green Party's Jill Stein dined with Putin earlier this year, when she was in Moscow for a forum organized by Kremlin media mouthpiece RT. Her YouTube video, speaking from Red Square on an anti-war theme—without a syllable of criticism for her hosts—has gone viral.

Julian Kytasty is the neighborhood's foremost master of the bandura, the Ukrainian lute. Last year, he travelled to Ukraine with a group of musicians and artists to work with youth displaced by the war. He notes a "flip in the coverage" of Ukraine on left-wing websites. "Early reports made the connection between Maidan and Occupy," he said. "They recognized the Maidan movement as a people's uprising against a corrupt government."

Now, I pointed out, many stateside leftists call the Maidan revolution a "fascist coup." Jill Stein called it "a coup against a democratically-elected government, where ultra-nationalists and ex-Nazis came to power."

"That meme is certainly being perpetrated," Kytasty admitted sadly.

Kytasty says the role of the far right in Ukraine since the fall of Yanukovich has been exaggerated—or viewed with a double standard. He acknowledges the Azov Battalion, a neo-fascist militia fighting on Kiev's side—but also points to the Night Wolves biker-gang-turned-militia on the separatists' side. This similarly ugly formation has received far less media coverage.

Virlana Tkacz also sees skewed coverage on the question. "The ultra-right got like 2% of the vote in Ukraine's last election. In France they get 30%. This is so stupid."

"The real shocker is that the left would stick up for Putin," she amazed. "It's like voting for Trump. What kind of left have we got? In the Cold War, they gave a free pass to the Communists. But why a free pass for Putin?"

Tkacz is hardly uncritical of US imperialism. "I was very much involved in anti-war protests during Vietnam and Iraq," she said. She adds that her interest in indigenous peoples began with her theatrical work at the American Indian Community House in the '80s.

Noting grim possibilities in the near future of the United States, Tkacz flipped the usual notion of the US exporting democracy to places like Ukraine.

"Ukrainians have a lot to teach us," she said. "We may have to do it here. Are you going to be out there in Washington Square every day when we have to do it here under a President Trump?"


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Postby Morty » Tue Dec 06, 2016 6:32 pm

Syrian army is making big gains in Aleppo. Mass surrender of militants. Must have run out of go pills.

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Just now, mass surrenders to the Syrian army in Nusra areas north of the citadel. Only few southern neighborhoods remain in Qaeda hands.

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Postby Nordic » Tue Dec 06, 2016 9:00 pm

Yeah Vanessa Beally is reporting the same. I hope it sticks.
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Postby seemslikeadream » Sun Dec 11, 2016 11:49 pm

well this is going to get interesting

Senators Urge Trump to Provide Lethal Aid to Ukraine
McCain, Rubio Among Signatories of Bipartisan Letter to President-Elect

By FELICIA SCHWARTZ
Dec 8, 2016 5:07 pm ET

A bipartisan group of senators called on President-elect Donald Trump in a letter Thursday to increase U.S. support to Ukraine and stand up to Russia’s aggressive behavior.

The 12 Republicans and 15 Democrats urged Mr. Trump to provide lethal military aid to Ukraine and to continue sanctions on Russia for moving to annex Crimea as well as for its destabilizing actions in Eastern Ukraine.

“This conflict in the heart of Europe is far from over,” the senators wrote. “These actions in Crimea and other areas of eastern Ukraine dangerously upend well-established diplomatic, legal, and security norms.”

The Republicans who signed the letter include the influential chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz,), along with Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.), a former Republican presidential candidate, and Sen. Rob Portman (R., Ohio), who recently met with senior officials in Mr. Trump’s transition team. Mr. Portman and Sen. Dick Durbin (D., Ill.,) led the effort.

The presidential transition team didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment, but Mr. Trump while campaigning offered praise for Russian President Vladimir Putin and urged closer cooperation with Moscow, particularly in the Middle East.

The senators said in the letter that they wanted to ensure that U.S. allies don’t question Washington’s commitment to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the global security framework.

“We believe that Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea should never be accepted, nor should we lift sanctions imposed on Russia for its behavior in eastern Ukraine until key provisions of the Minsk Agreement are met,” they wrote, referring to a ceasefire agreement reached in 2015 that has yet to be fully implemented. “U.S. leadership on maintaining such transatlantic sanctions should remain a priority.”

The Obama administration has provided Ukraine with tens of millions of dollars of nonlethal aid but hasn’t given the country weapons or munitions.

Mr. Trump’s views toward Russia have rattled lawmakers, diplomats and Obama administration officials as relations between the former Cold War foes hit a low point after Russia’s actions in Ukraine, followed by failed efforts to cooperate in Syria and what U.S. officials charge were Russian attempts to interfere with U.S. elections.

“If we got along well, that would be good,” Mr. Trump said in the third presidential debate. “If Russia and the United States got along well and went after ISIS, that would be good,” he said, referring to Islamic State.

At one point on the campaign trail, Mr. Trump indicated he would consider recognizing Russia’s annexation of Crimea.

Mr. Trump’s pick for National Security Adviser, retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, has urged closer relations with Russia. One of Mr. Trump’s potential picks for secretary of state, Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson, has close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin and has spoken against U.S. sanctions on Russia.

Mr. Tillerson in 2011 struck a deal that granted Exxon access to prized Arctic resources in Russia, but the deal was later blocked by sanctions by the U.S. and its allies imposed on Russia after the start of the Ukraine conflict.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/12/0 ... o-ukraine/


that was a 500 billion dollar deal

Trump Will Face ‘Wall of Resistance’ in Congress If He Gives Putin a Pass on Ukraine
Democratic Sen. Chris Coons says both parties will fight any attempt by the next administration to cozy up to Putin.
BY DAN DE LUCEDECEMBER 9, 2016DAN.DELUCE@DANDELUCEfacebooktwittergoogle-plusredditLinkedIn email
Trump Will Face ‘Wall of Resistance’ in Congress If He Gives Putin a Pass on Ukraine
President-elect Donald Trump will encounter sharp opposition in Congress from both parties if he seeks to cut a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin that jeopardizes Ukraine’s sovereignty or the security of NATO allies in Eastern Europe, Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware told Foreign Policy on Friday.

Coons, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he and other lawmakers are concerned about hints from Trump and his advisors regarding a possible accommodation with Moscow, meant in theory to enable a joint U.S.-Russian campaign against Islamic State militants in Syria.

“I think the idea that Donald Trump the great deal maker could cut some deal with Putin that in any way involved Ukraine, and Ukraine’s territorial integrity, [or] the Baltic states and their status, would run into a wall of opposition in the Congress,” Coons said in an interview with FP.

As a candidate, Trump repeatedly spoke of his admiration for Putin as a “strong leader” and indicated he would be open to discussing an arrangement with Moscow that would enlist Russia’s assistance in the fight against Islamic State in Syria.

“When you think about it, wouldn’t it be nice if we got along with Russia?” Trump said on the campaign trail in July. “Wouldn’t it be nice if we got together with Russia and knocked the hell out of ISIS?” He has also repeatedly denied findings by U.S. intelligence officials that Russia was behind the hacks that meddled with the presidential election.

How the president-elect decides to approach Russia remains a question mark after a campaign in which Trump offered only the vaguest, and often contradictory, indications about how he would conduct the country’s foreign policy. And it will serve as a crucial test of his relations with Congress, including not just Democrats but fellow Republicans who have long harbored misgivings about Trump’s hints at a potential alliance with Russia.

Coons said bipartisan skepticism of Russia — and support for traditional allies — runs deep. At a recent meeting with political representatives and diplomats from the Baltic countries of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia, lawmakers from both parties — including Sen. John McCain (R.-Ariz.) — sent an “an unmistakable unified message to our NATO allies in the three Baltic states,” Coons said.

Some Republicans in Congress have already sent clear warnings that they will fight any attempt to accommodate Russia, or ease sanctions imposed on Moscow over its armed incursion into Ukraine. Days after the election, McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said that the United States should be wary of Putin’s offer to reset relations with Washington under a Trump presidency.

“We should place as much faith in such statements as any other made by a former KGB agent who has plunged his country into tyranny, murdered his political opponents, invaded his neighbors, threatened America’s allies and attempted to undermine America’s elections,” McCain said in a reference to Putin.

Trump has questioned the value and mission of the NATO alliance and in a July interview with the New York Times said he might not honor a U.S. commitment to back a transatlantic ally that came under attack. Trump’s supporters also watered down language in the Republican Party platform this summer that had called for arming Ukraine’s army fighting pro-Russian separatists.

Coons also predicted pushback from Congress if Trump fails to resolve conflicts of interest posed by his vast real estate holdings, which he called unprecedented and deeply worrying.

Trump needs to release his tax filings and place his global business empire in a blind trust — and not simply hand it over to his family — to avoid even the possibility that foreign governments could influence, or be seen to influence, U.S. government decision-making, the senator told FP.

“We have had wealthy and successful presidents before — everyone single one of whom, at least in the modern era, released their taxes so that the American people knew the scope of their conflicts. And they put their assets in blind trusts, so that there was no question whether they were principally committed to pursuing the interest of the United states or their own,” Coons said.

“President Trump should do the same.”

And if Trump fails to decisively defuse the issue before he is sworn in on Jan. 20, then “Congress should act,” Coons said.

In that case, lawmakers should adopt legislation requiring the president to release his taxes and to be subject to the same strict ethics rules that apply to employees of the federal government, he said. Trump’s byzantine corporate edifice, with assets scattered across more than a score of countries — from India to Uruguay — worries lawmakers who fear U.S. policymaking could be colored by his financial interests.

“For us to have a Congress that fails to act on complicating entanglements by a president in his dealings with foreign powers would be an abdication of responsibility of shocking proportions by the Congress,” Coons said.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/12/09/tru ... n-ukraine/
Mazars and Deutsche Bank could have ended this nightmare before it started.
They could still get him out of office.
But instead, they want mass death.
Don’t forget that.
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