1. Sporadic and heavy at times fighting around Slavyansk and the outlying villages on 29 May with no notable successes for the Nats Army and national guard units. Some losses reported for the national guard units.
2. A half battery of Grad missile launchers, BM-21, is in position within range of Mariupol. As of this morning that unit has not fired. Range of Grad missile is up to 35 kilometers.
3. A half battery of Grad missile launchers is in position within range of Slavyansk.
4. I have no positive verification of a Grad missile attack on Slavyansk. This does not mean an attack did not occur. Something very large and multiple did hit the outskirts of an outlying village but I have no source at the impact spots to verify what the impacts were.
5. Sources report that the Donbas Army action at Donetsk Airport was a trap involving proposed negotiations with certain Ukraine Army units under the auspices of a western organization in Donetsk at that time. Sources report that shortly after the negotiations started the Ukraine Army sent in by air strong reinforcements to their unit in airport as the Ukraine Army units in airport attacked the Donbas Army unit.
6. The transport of the Donbas Army wounded in convoy out of the airport area late Monday evening was arranged as a truce to succor the wounded. The two Kamaz transport trucks were each flying a red cross flag and a white flag of truce. They drove in to an ambush set up by right sector/national guard units. The drivers of both trucks were killed. One truck overturned after striking a curb. The other truck was hit by an RPG round. The surviving wounded were killed by right sector on the spot. As the wounded were being killed the two flags were removed from each truck by right sector operatives.
7. Partisan activity has started 3 days ago in Kharkov Oblast around Kharkov City among other areas targeting national guard/right sector units. 29 May losses to two national guard/right sector units were heavy in ambushes.
8. Vostok Battalion 29 May started an operation around Donetsk Administration Building of the Donbas Republic to stop looting by certain Donbas Army members after strong complaints from citizens. Metro supermarket near the airport was heavily looted by Donbas Army members as were several other shops and stores and much of the loot was stored in 3 tents in the area of Donbas Administration Building, one tent having the contents and perpetrators shown on video. Reports are 7 looters were arrested and are awaiting trial. Reports from Ukraine and west media that the looters were shot are false.
9. After the anti looting operation was completed Vostok Battalion had the square in front of Donbas Administration Building cleared of the barricades to provide access for citizens to the facility and to facilitate easier defense of the area in the event of a Ukraine attack.
10. Civilian casualties in Donbas are mounting with the random artillery attacks by units of the Ukraine Army and national guard/right sector. 29 May saw 8 civilians killed in Donbas and a like number of wounded. Some of these casualties were caused by air burst antipersonnel rounds fired from howitzers of the Ukraine Army. Targets are living areas with flats buildings with no visible Donbas Army units in the areas.
12. Families of mobilized Ukraine Army reservists held a large demonstration in Kiev at the Ukraine Parliament Building demanding the return of their husbands and sons. By Ukraine law reservists can not be mobilized for more than 45 days without a declaration of war against another sovereign state by Ukraine. This declaration of war has not been made. Kiev has ordered the mobilization extended indefinitely.
13. One of the two Ukrainian helicopters shot down on 29 May was carrying the commanding general of the ‘national guard’ who was also ‘the commander of field operations for national guard units’.
14. Ukraine has rejected the offer of humanitarian aid from Russian Federation for the two Oblasti of Donetsk and Lugansk.
15. An attempt on 29 May to evacuate children from certain areas of Slavyansk was unsuccessful. Ukraine Army units blockading the city refused passage to the buses carrying the children.
16. A refugee processing center has been set up in the Federal City of Sevastopol of the Russian Federation to aid in the settlement of refugees arriving from areas of fighting in Ukraine. Several hundred refugees have arrived in Sevastopol as of 17:00 29 May and are being housed and fed in the city. A like number are being succored in Simferopol, the capitol of the Autonomous Republic of Krimea of the Russian Federation. A processing center is schedule to be set up 30 May in Simferopol to help the refugees. More refugees are expected in both cities. A like facility for refugees will be set up in the eastern Krimea city of Kerch if needed.
5. Sources report that the Donbas Army action at Donetsk Airport was a trap involving proposed negotiations with certain Ukraine Army units under the auspices of a western organization in Donetsk at that time. Sources report that shortly after the negotiations started the Ukraine Army sent in by air strong reinforcements to their unit in airport as the Ukraine Army units in airport attacked the Donbas Army unit.
Exactly what I was thinking.
Hope the double cross was worth it….but I don’t see what was gained….
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The Saker
Things must be going really bad for the Banderist regime when the MSM (AP) writes:
“Ukraine army deflated as guerrilla warfare unfolds”
“In one episode this week, reported by pro-Kremlin Russian channel NTV, the parents of conscripts serving at an Interior Ministry base in Luhansk region, where rebels have also declared independence, descended en masse to take their sons home.”
“And acting Defense Minister Mykhailo Koval likely further soured moods by announcing Thursday that no troops involved in operations in east Ukraine would be rotated out as there is not enough personnel.”
http://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-army-deflated-guerrilla-warfare-unfolds-170833583.html
Grad attack at Slavyansk is denied by the locals. Only one shot down helicopter is confirmed by Strelkov (the one with the commanding general of the ‘national guard’ on board).
http://summer56.livejournal.com/129578.html
The New World Order wants Putin’s head on a platter.
Does Putin intend to pull a Libya here? How did that work out for Russia? Or Libya?
To “go along to get along” with the New World Order and trust what they say? These people are literally psychopaths. Like any bully, they only understand a fist to the lips.
Does Putin intend to turn Donbas into the next Libya by trusting that anything negotiated with the New World Order will be honored?
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
From counterpunch.org
Obama’s new Ukraine
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/05/02/obamas-new-ukraine/
The DPR forces got themselves some Igla MANPADS
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bo0_uHzIgAAK8X4.jpg
http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/gwinplane/33556898/383826/383826_original.jpg
From counterpunch.org
Obama’s new Ukraine
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/05/02/obamas-new-ukraine/
It’s not Obama’s Ukraine. It’s the bankers’ (and their oligarchs) Ukraine
Whitney, in the article, refers constantly to Obama’s war, Obama’s plan etc. Obama is just a puppet and we all know this.
Whitney knows this! So why do you think he paints Obama as the villain, as the prime mover when everybody who has been paying attention knows he is not?
I suggest it is to take attention away from the real perps here; the bankers. And a certain tightly knit group of bankers at that.
If people don’t know who the real perpetrators of this war are, they can’t ask why these perps are waging it. They can’t understand it.
When reading articles from websites such as Counterpunch, it is wise to ask yourself, “What and who are not being mentioned?”
David Brooks/NYT advocating non-stop US “garden-tending” around the world:
“In the 1990s, for example, President George H.W. Bush and President Clinton took military action roughly every 17 months to restrain dictators, spread democracy and preserve international norms.
This sort of forward-leaning interventionist garden-tending will be even more necessary in an age of assertive autocracies. If the U.S. restricts intervention to “core interests,” as Obama suggests, if it neglects constant garden-tending, the thugs will grab and grab and eventually there will be horrendous conflagrations. “
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/30/opinion/brooks-the-autocracy-challenge.html?hp&rref=opinion
Good lord.
Could the Ukrainian strategy be to try to starve the rebels out?
http://everything-pr.com/israel-obamas-silent-partner-for-a-russian-spring/249184/
A trap based on a lie about negotiation and an ambush on ambulances. War crimes, on top of a criminal war. I’m SOOO happy my tax dollars are funding Nazi war criminals… NYET!!! That said, it’s repulsive to hear of looting by eastern forces, they really need to maintain the moral superiority in their actions, as that of their cause, so I hope its an isolated incident not to be repeated. I do think it’s important to note crimes by ANYONE to maintain integrity here, that’s paramount. Thanks Juan. He’s proving to be an invaluable source, so I can’t thank him enough. Prayers for the safety of civilians, victory over the Nazis, and an end to the hostilities with a settlement acceptable to everyone. Everyone except oligarchs and banksters and Banderistas, anyway, they can all take a long walk off a short pier for all I care, but of course their interests are US interests- or closely enough aligned as to be indistinguishable- so I guess they’ll need to be satisfied one way or the other before an end to the war. Predictably the answer to Russia was a big fat “no”, now what? Covert assistance, for sure I suppose and likely already happening, but how much can they help in that fashion? Any hope of a diplomatic solution in the near future? I haven’t heard much along those lines lately, not from any source beyond something here yesterday I think, concerning the official swearing in of the Chocolate King, can’t remember the details and can’t look lest I lose this whole comment since I’m on my phone. Anyways, I just continue to be horrified by the crimes committed by this junta and their right sector goons and Blackwater mercenaries and anyone else involved, I know it doesn’t add to the conversation but I really feel the need to express it. It hurts.
http://everything-pr.com/is-an-asia-spring-on-the-horizon/249082/
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-30/kostin-says-vtb-is-providing-loans-in-china-in-yuan-and-rubles.html
Indeed MSM silence on the atrocities now faces the reality of the fighting
From BBG
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-29/ukraine-rebels-outfox-army-to-dent-poroshenko-troop-goal.html
Poroshenko the chocolate rabbit?
Ukraine Rebels Outfox Army to Dent Poroshenko Troop Goal
“Ukraine’s president in waiting says he needs just hours to stem the unrest that’s terrorizing the nation’s easternmost regions. The separatists who’ve been giving government troops the runaround for weeks have other ideas.
“They’d need heavy weapons to dislodge us and they can’t use them without civilian casualties,” said Vadim Ilavaysky, a shaven-headed rebel commander with a graying beard dressed in camouflage fatigues. “This land will never welcome occupiers,” he said in his office in the seized Kramatorsk administration building, where sandbags obscure the windows.”
[.]‘Chocolate Rabbit’
Fighters from Russia’s Caucasus region are now among the rebel fighters, according to the Defense Ministry.
Poroshenko, a former economy and foreign minister who’s fortune is estimated at $1 billion by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, immediately expressed his discontent at the government’s eastern offensive.[.]
{.}“The efficiency of the anti-terrorist operation will be sharply increased,” he said the day after the vote. “It shouldn’t last for months — it should take a few hours.”{.}
Gayle 14:42 quotes David Brooks:
“This sort of forward-leaning interventionist garden-tending will be even more necessary in an age of assertive autocracies”
That is a very interesting metaphor Mr Brooks has chosen. It sounds very much like Israel’s use of the phrase ‘mowing the grass’ to describe its actions against the people in Gaza.
I and many of my friends and colleagues are horrified by the hypocrisy and dishonesty of our political ‘masters’ here in the UK. Most of us here support the East Ukrainians in their struggle against Anglo-American fascism; you can see this in the MSM websites where opinion is running about 4 or 5 to 1 against Kiev and its masters.
An excellent blog – thank you.
How can we be sure that Putin is not part of the NWO?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B2yKbdlVVM
Responding to James:
Not to distract from Saker’s message here, but I don’t find the counterpunch article to ignore your point that the oligarchs run the show- here’s a quote within the article, after an explanation on the IMF’s screw tightening:
“Banderastan, if that’s what Ukraine is fated to become, as designed by the puppet-masters across the ocean, is to be an oligarchic, terroristic, Russophobic state…An oligarchic Banderite…oligarchy is the ideal vehicle for external control. Clearly, this will suit both the oligarchs and the West.” (Battleground Ukraine: A Comprehensive Summary, Zero Hedge)”
I think we all know Obama has chosen to be an oligarch wannabee. I’m not sure puppets have a choice. Obama does. I’m happy putting the emphasis on him. The buck stops there, even if it travels through some powerful sticky fingers to get to him.
Youtube and Twitter are suspending many accounts that are pro-Russian/pro-Separatist/anti-Kiev.
One of the two Ukrainian helicopters shot down on 29 May was carrying the commanding general of the ‘national guard’ who was also ‘the commander of field operations for national guard units’.
That’s got to hurt
Mindfriedo
@Colinjames
Unfortunately, as always in such situations, weapons partially fall into the wrong hands and some of the people acting under the guise of militia are in fact criminal gangs. That is definitely not good PR for the Donbass forces, and quite dangerous for the society in general, but it will take some time to get it completely under control. Strelkov in Slavyank has taken a really hard line on this and executed two of the members of his unit for leaving their positions without permission, looting, armed robbery and kidnapping. In Donetsk the people are not members of militia and are accused only of looting, so obviously nobody is going to shoot them. We will see what will be done about this.
streP by Juan:
For those interested in the resource war angle
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/05/23/crimea-an-eu-us-exxon-screwup/
I feel an equal amount of sadness and anger. This insanity in Ukraine never should have happened. It was manufactured by a handful of greedy sociopaths, and now millions of people must endure this senseless suffering. If hell exists I hope these oligarchs and their zionist handlers are thrown into the darkest pits of it.
Gayle,
I can share your alarm about Brooks’ gardentending proclivities, but most of these editorials are just wish lists.
Brooks needed to write something so he did it.
Most formerly magnificent gardens overgrow with weeds not because of willful neglect, but because the owner is too frail and/or too poor.
That’s the case with neocons’ “gardens”. America has no resourses anymore to keep even Detroit (or Cleveland, or Gary, or countless other towns) from being turned into the fields of grass, let alone some far away lands.
USA is completely broke.
And the situation will be worsening with each passing year.
@Mindfriedo,
You mentioned:
“One of the two Ukrainian helicopters shot down on 29 May was carrying the commanding general of the ‘national guard’……”
“That’s got to hurt”
Quite an understatement.
I saw the raw video while it was still up on NSATube (Youtube), the missile hit the engine, which caught on fire but kept on working and fanning the jet of flames till they turned white-hot. Then, as the helicopter slowly spiraled downward (real slow), the whole helicopter got engulfed in the white hot flames.
Long and short: They got burned alive while being whipped around in a centrifuge. It was a really slow descent, so these guys didn’t get the mercy of being killed by ground impact, they were roasted alive in a kerosene oven.
I’d say that had to hurt a lot; Karmic debt. for Odessa.
Saw a picture of the self-appointed ‘banana-republic’ General, he had black the gestapo uniform of Right-Sector/Natz-Guard and not of the Ukrainian Army.
Looks a lot like treatment the Palistinians got in ’48 and continue to get, all-war-crimes-all-the-time strategy. “Ukraine for the Ukranians” sounds very Zionist like. This Chocolate guy is Jewish even. Befoe long, if not already, there will be Israel based “securuty specialist” involved. It has happened everywhere else.
herb
http://www.deliberation.info/bankers-want-putins-head/
http://reseauinternational.net/veulent-tete-poutine/
http://leschroniquesderorschach.blogspot.ca/2014/05/les-banksters-veulent-la-tete-de-poutine.html
How Russia won back its energy shares
Interestig… Russia’s Investigative Comittee opened criminal case against yet unindentified members of the Ukraininan Army, NatGuards and Right Sector members over use of prohibited methodsds of warfare in violation of Geneva Conventions on warfare.
Here’s the official statement from agency (in russian) on its own site
http://sledcom.ru/actual/403388/
Its pretty much political statement, just look for example, on these words
Виновные в гибели мирных граждан и детей по всем канонам международного права должны нести за это ответственность. И если сегодня в мире нет ни одного государства, которое способно признать очевидное, что действия властей Украины преступны, то Следственный комитет России, возбуждая уголовное дело, берет на себя такую ответственность. Таким образом, Следственный комитет не просто признает факт совершения преступлений против мирных граждан, но и приступает к сбору доказательств вины каждого причастного к преступлениям, совершаемым против мира и безопасности человечества.
Basically it says if nobody but us (IC) in the whole world is going to prosecute people who murder civilians and children, so be it. Pretty powerful.
At the same time Putin (who undoubtedly greenlighted that) managed to avoid maling politacl statements on which opponents could clutch for villification – yet again.
He can now say – @Why you’re asking me& Those people at IC have a duty to maintain law and order, including one estabilished by treaties – to the extent of their competence. They just did their duty. I can not and will not influence criminal proceedings.”
Part of this war is the information war, and I surmise, with no real knowledge, that Russia is acutely aware of this and spends a lot of time in strategic speculation over this.
We sometimes talk about how in the west we are going to bring down this empire. I wonder, how much of our feeling of powerlessness comes from the appalling propaganda saturation?
Andre Vltcheck has an article at Counterpunch today that I find amazingly powerful.
He begins to articulate our dilemma – how do we wake ourselves and our people up and fight this evil?
It’s a long piece, and he touches many open wounds. He ends with this:
“I want you to talk to me, my readers. I have written so much; you have read what I have written, patiently. Now write to me. I want to listen. How do we go forward? You and I, together… What touches you? What makes you cry? What would make you rise up and struggle for a better world? How do we coordinate our steps and walk forward, together?”
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/05/30/how-should-we-write-and-fight/
http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/160798/kicillof-says-argentina-paris-club-have-build-a-society
Argentina negotiates to pay off debt, bypasses IMF.
Surely other countries will do the same.
I hate to say this but I think the bad guys are winning. They want chaos and conflict. They got their latest man into office. He will continue to inflict casualties in the East to the point that either he wins (unlikely) or Russia simply has to step in, giving them pretext to go into war government mode and whip all of Europe into line with constant propaganda, new laws which nobody notices in the meantime, etc. etc.
And if Russia does not step in, then there is just more chaos and in any case in the West Russia will be blamed for any and all resistance meaning the war basis is being prepared.
Given that Russia is still part of the same financial order, despite reports of setting up an opposing bloc (BRIC etc.), I remain on the fence as to whether or not we are all being set up (just as with WW II which was clearly, in retrospect, a ginormous setup).
The comments about banksters above are appropos.
Meanwhile, as is always the case since the beginning of human time, the people on the ground, the local people whose productivity and compliance are a sine qua non of the Money Power base, are the ones who pay the price.
Welcome to the United States:
Obama refuses to meet Putin at Normandy anniversary, will meet Kiev coup leader instead
Where is the constituency for this grotesque behavior?
He is an immoral lunatic! Putin seems to have more morality than this circus act. His only desire is to be informed on the murders that are being credited to him by his masters. He is a disgrace to all humanity with every breath he takes….
http://translate.yandex.net/tr-url/ru-en.ru/rusvesna.su/news/1401367935
Urk mercenaries from Syrian flown back to Urk, most are from west Urk.
Right Sector executing Kadyrov soldiers? Nice plot for a movie.
@ Juan,
Q: The transport of the Donbas Army wounded in convoy out of the airport area late Monday evening was arranged as a truce to succor the wounded. The two Kamaz transport trucks were each flying a red cross flag and a white flag of truce. They drove in to an ambush set up by right sector/national guard units. The drivers of both trucks were killed. One truck overturned after striking a curb. The other truck was hit by an RPG round. The surviving wounded were killed by right sector on the spot. As the wounded were being killed the two flags were removed from each truck by right sector operatives.
R: When I first saw the images and read the news about this, it didn’t make any sense [a truck filled with corpses]. But this tidbit of info again exposes the evilness of the goons pretending to be like you and me…
Crap. I just had an in-mouth vomit accident…
How long can the Ukrainian Army continue to fire mortars and heavy artillery from a single, easily identified and highly public position at the Karachun hill? Granted the resistance doesn’t have its own artillery but it seems to me they could get at least one rocket launcher of their own across the border for counterbattery fire (preferably frag rounds to kill the gunners) or even improvise a drone bombing of Karachun Hill and take out those bastards firing on elementary schools and mental hospitals in Slavyiansk.
It’s not like they don’t know what their guns are doing and are just ordinary UKR grunt privates desperate to get back home knowing they’re stuck for the duration of hostilities. So I don’t feel any sympathy for them unlike the regular UKR grunts who have to beg steal or borrow food.
American Kulak
@ Grieved,
Q: What would make you rise up and struggle for a better world? How do we coordinate our steps and walk forward, together?”
R: The French revolution has painfully exposed why revolutions don’t work.
Joe & Mary 6-pack are too busy paying their bills and working their 3 different jobs to make ends meet to care about what’s going on beyond their personal struggle. I, for one, can’t blame them.
Off with their heads…!
Oops, wrong crowd… wrong venue…
@American Kulak: Yup, you are right. Comment removed along with yours since it quoted the offending comment.
Thanks!
The Saker
Saker, no prob. Just being vigilant — some would say paranoid — about Cass Sunstein paid fedtroll tactics. OTOH sometimes people just say stupid stuff they shouldn’t. It’s been done to Alex Jones and others even though the comment has absolutely nothing to do with him or his staff.
AK
russia will pay for this styupidity of waiting for civilians to take the brunt of damage whiel itis actually a war on russia.
being lazy and thinking too much with too much talk and no action is a very bad cahraterstic of russian psyche whoich causes russia to make reargaurd action rather than prev ent the calamity int he first place.
why was russia taken by surprise/
why has russia not a single paln A or B or C -nothing.? Russia jsut reacts never acts. russia never sets agenda -it just follows others agenda as a slave.
medvedev and lavrov singularly revitalised Nato in libya blunder -putin is doing same now.-procrastinator !.
Has putin been neutered now after anglosopnsored protest agasint his rightful convincing win int eh election?
Seems so.
26th October 2012- he thinks that giving board membership to his british enemy will bring transparency ?
The same bp of gulf of mexico fame which is a by word for loies. Deceit and conspiracy incl;udign agasint russia !
BP representatives on Rosneft board will provide extra transparency – Putin
The presence of BP representatives on the board of directors of Rosneft will provide extra transparency for the Russian oil company, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. “If there is a representative of a major shareholder there on the board of directors, that will provide additional transparency to the activities of our largest oil company,” Interfax quoted him as saying. He made the statement at a meeting with members of the Valday international discussion club.
6th November 2012—
this lavrov in foreign ministry is an useless man who should be kicked out by Putin and Sergei Ivanov -former defense misnter in 2006- be made foreign minister or prime minister by kicking out traitor medvedev too.
Thanks “Juan” for clearing up several mysteries, especially the info about the Donbas airport fighting and the waylaid trucks carrying wounded. What info I had seen of these before had not made much sense at all.
Thanks also to those commenting for providing quite a number of links to informative data.
This from South Front FB
A group of Polish volunteers Eurasians arrived to Donetsk to participate in the defense of Donbass. Polish troops led by a student of political science Bartosz Becker.
During a meeting with the head of the Supreme Council of the DNI Dennis Pushilin Bartosz Becker said that does not represent the Polish Atlanticist government. “I represent the free Polish people,” – said the coordinator of Polish volunteers.
Similar info at this Pak military discussion site:
http://defence.pk/threads/civil-unrest-in-ukraine-news-discussions.300981/page-92#post-5725006
added that Becker publishes at Xportal.pl
Bekier has published a May 27 interview with Denis Pushilin. :
From editors of Xportal.pl: On May 27th, during visit in Donetsk, editors of the Xportal.pl obtained an exclusive opportunity to interview the Prime Minister of the People’s Republic of Donetsk, Denis Pushilin. During our conversation the attack on the city have begun. It was carried mainly from the air by troops loyal to Kyiv, and was repulsed by the insurgents, despite many losses in their ranks.
Bartosz Bekier: Will the declaration of cooperation between Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics be step towards forming independent Novorossiya?
Denis Pushilin: It is possible that it will be Novorossiya, but it is just one of the possible endings. We do not rule out that we will go further, even much further. …
Here is full interview (scroll to middle of page for English version): http://xportal.pl/?p=14370
Also please check link near top left of page marked Fotoreportaż: Doniecka Republika Ludowa for photos from inside Admin building etc.
Xportal is site for Polish Falanga with revolution (and nationalism) in the air.
Bartosz was in Syria in March:
As he spoke the last chairman of the Falange , Bartosz Bekier , which provided for the unconditional support of the Syrian national by the Polish national revolutionaries because of the common strategic objectives : the end of U.S. global hegemony . Everyone gathered expressed the hope that next year will be a similar meeting could be held in rebuilding after the war nightmare Syria.
Brian
Grieved said…
. . . . We sometimes talk about how in the west we are going to bring down this empire. I wonder, how much of our feeling of powerlessness comes from the appalling propaganda saturation?
Andre Vltcheck has an article at Counterpunch today that I find amazingly powerful.
He begins to articulate our dilemma – how do we wake ourselves and our people up and fight this evil? . . . .
How Should We Write and Fight?
Thanks for linking this Grieved. It is powerful as you say.
But again the real perps are not identified and some ‘blaming the victim’ is involved here. The victim being the general public.
Of course, there are many who are simply apathetic but there are many (and I think Andre Vltchek is one of them) who do not understand the evil responsible. It’s hard to fight something you can’t really see for what it is or to understand it.
We are in a battlefield, too, in a way. We have economic bombs exploding around us and assaulted by crims and cops with bad attitudes. But making sense of it to the extent that you know what exactly to do about it is the real challenge.
Change will flow naturally from understanding who is responsible, why they do it and how they do it. Till then, everyone is confused and abused and it will continue.
People need to understand the central role of psychopathy and what it is. They also need to then understand how banking really works and how economics really works.
Finally people (and we really only need 15-20%) need to thoroughly understand that our culture supports this world-wide evil through self-destructively enshrining the erroneous paradigm of the effectiveness of righteous violence/punishment and coercion.
hi saker , first time poster from asia that was and still is following the ukraine crisis since maidan ,while getting more and more bewildered reading the western media.. this is the first time in my life i seek information from non western media and it was a real eye opener..
your blog came up and the information from it are great, im not necessarily agree with you on all point but on ukraine i agree completely.
by the way do you know niqnaq blog created by a guy named rowen b ? that blog seem to refer a lot to your blog , even copying some content from your blog nowadays. i used to read niqnaq but lately all the post is meaningless drivel against other blogger that said the truth about putin. nowadays i just read saker and moon of alabama.
Thanks for clear out some issues. Now it all make sense.
Besides counterpunch, there is another very informative site you can find very good independent analysis. I have been reading it since Iraq war: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
@Anon (15:31] “Chocolate Rabbit”
Re: “Fighters from Russia’s Caucasus region are now among the rebel fighters, according to the Defense Ministry.
Poroshenko, …”
Exactly. Putin has pulled back the Russian military from the border regions and gone off to do business on the world stage — ergo, leaving open borders (and plausible deniability of responsibility) as ‘average-joe’ Russian citizens, all the way to Vladivostok, may or may not decide to take a summer ‘hunting’ holiday in SE Ukraine.
Brilliant. Who needs day-time TV with this show going on?
Anonymous@12-42 30 May 2014
The massacre increased the reticence for dialogue between the combatants, minimised possible effects of propaganda efforts/opportunities targetted at the combatant from their opposition, and was also designed to minimise changing of sides in various ways including convincing combatants of the resolve of their officers and possible consequences flowing therefrom.
It also motivated fighting as there is none so obedient as he who is usefully compromised.
The fighting also gave the opportunity for more killing which can be quite invigorating as well as motivating – some enjoy killing – a kind of catharsis or orgasm if you prefer.
It also increased levels of stress in civilians.
In any interactive system the outcomes are never determined by one component in the system.
If it was a meeting of oligarchs hostages would have been taken beforehand by both sides as a precaution.
The particular formation of federalists showed they were naive, but in war you either learn quickly or not- because you are dead, and I suppoose save for the religious, you no longer are.
As the English saying goes the road to hell is often paved with good intentions.
James @00-42 31 May 2014
Opponents tend to map their own vulnerabilities onto their opponent when designing “punishment” for their opponents.
Action can seem daunting so why not start with inaction?
Why not start by not using any credit cards affiliated to VISA and Mastercard then move onto not using credit at all?
To cite an old hippy question – What if they gave a party and nobody came?
Anonymous @ 13:06
Yes, indeed. Good points!
The psychopaths need not only the active participation of the managerial class but also the passive participation and support of the rest of the population.
When ‘the rest’ turn off their teevees because they are disgusted and stop buying crud on credit because they are looking for something more satisfying, its over. Its just a matter of time. And its happening!
You cant fight a war without willing recruits. Viet Nam proved that.
So to paraphrase you, “what if they held a war and no one showed?”
james @ 14-31.
We want some to show the easier to destroy them – self selected for the childrens crusade.
Remember Patten – “You don’t win a war by dying for your country but by making the other dumb bastard die for his.”
They will likely gain a monument somewhere, but monuments are usually erected to maintain their power by the “elites” through the obfuscation of war to the others.
The Soviet notion of proletarian solidarity with German workers was buried in July 1941.
Sources report that the Donbas Army action at Donetsk Airport was a trap involving proposed negotiations with certain Ukraine Army units under the auspices of a western organization in Donetsk at that time.
The OSCE?