Official publication of the Kremlin’s press service: (red color added to the funniest parts by me, the Saker)
Meeting with Security Council members
April 11, 2014, 17:00
Novo-Ogaryovo, Moscow Region
Vladimir Putin held a briefing session with permanent members of the Security Council.
Taking part in the meeting were Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko, State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin, Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Sergei Ivanov, Secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, Director of the Federal Security Service Alexander Bortnikov, Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service Mikhail Fradkov, and permanent member of the Security Council Boris Gryzlov.
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PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA VLADIMIR PUTIN: Good afternoon, colleagues,
We will discuss routine matters today. I wanted to start though with a question for the Foreign Minister. What is happening with my request to get to our European partners and gas customers the information that I set out in a letter following the meeting with Government members on the situation with our cooperation with Ukraine?
FOREIGN MINISTER SERGEI LAVROV: We have carried out your instruction to send the letter to the leaders of European countries that receive Russian gas via Ukrainian territory. Our ambassadors in the countries concerned delivered the letters to their intended recipients yesterday. Everyone has given the letter their serious attention and promised to promptly give it their consideration and draft their response. We hope the response will be constructive. We have received only a preliminary reaction from Europe so far, but we have already heard from Washington, where an official State Department spokesperson said that Russia should not politicise gas affairs with Ukraine, should let the market decide prices, and called the arguments that we set out for our European partners “gas blackmail.”
VLADIMIR PUTIN: This is somewhat curious. I say this first of all because it is not the proper thing to read others’ letters. I did not write to Washington after all, but to our gas customers in Europe. We are already used to the fact that our American friends eavesdrop on everyone, but it is really not the done thing to sneak a look at others’ correspondence.
Seriously though, I’m obviously going to have to remind everyone that the formula we use to calculate the gas price was agreed in the official contract the Russia’s Gazprom signed with Ukraine’s Naftogaz in 2009. The people currently responsible for the energy sector in today’s government in Kiev held the same office back then too and took part in signing that contract. No changes have been made to the formula since that moment.
Yes, it is true that we offered various discounts for various reasons at different times. In December 2013, as you know, we offered Ukraine a loan of $3 billion and discounted the gas price under condition that debts for 2013 be settled and that current payments be made on time. Neither of those conditions was met. What’s more, the lowest prices were in effect over the first quarter of this year, but even at this very lowest price our Ukrainian partners stopped making their payments.
The latest deadline in the gas contract’s schedule – payment for March 2014 – fell on April 7. Of a total expected payment of more than $500 million – $540 million, I think the figure comes to – we received not a single dollar or ruble. We received nothing at all. There is simply no way that we can tolerate this situation. Faced with these circumstances, Gazprom rescinded the discounts, in accordance with the earlier agreement.
If we want to be clear about the root of these recent problems, the fact of the matter is that Russia cannot continue to bear such a burden all on its own. It was for this reason that we appealed to our partners and friends in Europe in the hope that we can organise a meeting as soon as possible to work out ways of helping and supporting Ukraine’s economy.
Whoever really does care about Ukraine and the Ukrainian people should make their contribution to preventing the country’s economy from going bankrupt.
This will take more than handing out pies at the Maidan. That’s all not enough to keep the Ukrainian economy from slipping into total chaos. Our American partners have responded so negatively to our proposal, which is very strange to see. We know that they have declared their willingness to make a $1-billion loan available, not in the form of credits and assistance, but in the form of guarantees. What does this mean? It means guarantees for banks that would be ready to lend to Ukraine, but there are no such banks and thus this amounts to no assistance at all. This really is a very strange situation and we have every reason to be concerned about it.
Let me say once again too that we have no plans or intention to cut off gas supplies to Ukraine. But in accordance with the contract that was signed and has been in effect since 2009, and which no one has cancelled, Gazprom has the right to ask for advance payment, and this is what the Russian Government is proposing. What this means is that next month, Ukraine will receive only as much gas as it pays for this month.
The contract gives us this right. I ask the Russian Government and Gazprom to show our European partners the relevant terms in the contract. Incidentally, in my letter I made reference to these same terms. You could take the relevant sections from the contract and send them to the European capitals as an appendix to my letter, all the more so as the contract long ago got ‘leaked’ anyway onto the Internet during all the political battles in Ukraine.
I ask the Foreign Ministry to deliver this additional information to our partners and remind them that Gazprom is not just a Russian commercial company but is a joint-stock company with almost 50 percent of shares in it being held by private companies, including foreign ones. Even as big a company as Gazprom cannot bear the entire burden of subsidising Ukraine’s economy. This is simply not possible and everyone needs to understand this.
Russia is being very careful in its action and is taking a very balanced and respectful line towards all of our partners. We most certainly guarantee that we will fulfill in full our obligations to our European gas customers. It is not Russia that is the issue. The problem is one of ensuring gas transit via Ukraine. I ask the Foreign Ministry to carry out this instruction as rapidly as possible.
Whatever else you can say about this mess, Vicky the cookie queen of Kiev and patron saint of the Khaganate of Nulands (HT Pepe Escobar) certainly has given the Europeans a hell of a good f**king. Too bad there is only ass kissing involved.
Saker:
There is a movie, “The Hunt for Red October” (en: The Hunt for Red / en October: The Hunt for Red October) that shows interesting way Russians think.
Weigh because few people know.
Another thing, you are watching the revolution in the U.S. because of some turtles in the desert?
Have a look on “Bundy family.” That’s interesting.
Alexandre.
:-)
Actually, it’s a desert tortoise, the environmentalists are applauding the government for finally takin action to “protect” said creature.
But the case is complex, the farmer in question didn’t pay his fees and was grazing cattle on federal property. He says his family’s been rasing cattle on that land since 1878 if I remember correctly.
As to an American spring resulting from this, who is to tell. Tunisia is said to have been ignited by the self imolation of a shop owner, so I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.
Turns out that the aforementioned case, is much more interesting: http://www.abeldanger.net/2014/04/abel-danger-to-nevada-stand-down.html?m=1
Putin is a genius.
Upon hearing that the Ukrainian peasants were freezing and her cookies could not prevent impending starvation in a bankrupt nation, Queen Victoria Nuland said: let them eat cake! Let them drink coffee! Pity the innocent millions who thought revolution would usher an age of democratic plenty. reality will be hard and brutal.and their “liberators”care not for them, but only to gain power
It reads as quite strange to see the Russian side of this tragedy. It appears, who would have believed it possible, that Putin is just a rational human being who speaks in sentences that make sense. If, however, you have been fed a steady diet of Western MSM pulp fiction, you would instead believe that Putin is the whole of Russia, that he is mad, probably a repressed gay, that he stole Crimea at gunpoint and he is the new Hitler, about to take over eastern Europe. This hallucinatory narrative is pretty near uniform, save for one or two commentators who make their colleagues’ madness even more apparent. Just how we are going to face the great global disasters now unfolding, when the West is ruled and propagandised by creatures who are either stark raving mad, or malignant liars, or a bit of each, is a truly troubling conundrum.
It reads as quite strange to see the Russian side of this tragedy. It appears, who would have believed it possible, that Putin is just a rational human being who speaks in sentences that make sense. If, however, you have been fed a steady diet of Western MSM pulp fiction, you would instead believe that Putin is the whole of Russia, that he is mad, probably a repressed gay, that he stole Crimea at gunpoint and he is the new Hitler, about to take over eastern Europe. This hallucinatory narrative is pretty near uniform, save for one or two commentators who make their colleagues’ madness even more apparent. Just how we are going to face the great global disasters now unfolding, when the West is ruled and propagandised by creatures who are either stark raving mad, or malignant liars, or a bit of each, is a truly troubling conundrum.
President Puitn and the other Russian executive need to be vigilant with their own safety and security.
While it may be that this is all part of some grander plan by the US secret government to provoke a response from Russia and China for their own twisted reasons, total vigilance by the Russian personal protection agencies are critical.
The western elite that operates through the US secret government will absolutely target President Putin and the other executive if the elite cabal deem it to be in their interests of preservation.
Beware Russia also of the US undermining the Russian system from within – see here for some of the latest subterfuge by the disgraceful US:
http://scgnews.com/how-washington-and-its-allies-use-social-media-to-topple-governments-manipulate-public-opinion
I pray that these are not the words of a man who wants to go to war, and I believe they are not.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and those troops massed on the Ukrainian border certainly do serve one purpose: an attack on Russian soil will be repelled. Such as an attack on Crimea.
So, if I get it right from US establishment mouthpiece, Foreign Policy, with the following links, before the so called Maidan revolution Russia politically discounted wholesale gas to Ukr and Ukr in turn discounted gas prices to domestic consumers; Russia decided to apply full market price (a price doublespoken as uneconomic and political by Yats). Now, to get its IMF ‘aid’, Ukr must stop discounts on domestic gas bills. Although it’s not stated in so many words, the EU will discount the wholesale gas presumably by paying the difference between what Ukr will pay and what the Russians will get, which means the burden shall no longer be on Russian gas consumers and/or taxpayers but on their EU counterparts. Mediated by Western gas companies.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/11/us-ukraine-crisis-gas-idUSBREA3A0NF20140411?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=%2AMorning%20Brief&utm_campaign=MB.04.11.2014
The good news is that the Yats gov appears to be amenable to some kind of federalization deal and some kind of recognition that Russian-speakers/ethics may actually have some rights despite the fact they’re Russian-speakers/ethics. I personally don’t like federalization, but here it’s a choice between federalization and zilch (or worse).
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/11/ukraine-pm-power-regions-donetsk-referendum?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=%2AMorning%20Brief&utm_campaign=MB.04.11.2014
Greetings from Singapore:
Ukraine: Lies and Realities
by ANDRE VLTCHEK
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/04/11/ukraine-lies-and-realities/
Oh, wow.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/12/world/europe/mystery-surrounds-death-of-fiery-ukrainian-activist.html?hp
Whitewashing this sociopath cretin? The New York Times? They are truly desperate. They truly want war.
Thank you Saker,here´s an interesting analysis from our Armenian friends over at “The rise of Russia”:
http://theriseofrussia.blogspot.se/
and a request for a little side track if you got the time:
Any new on the Dieudosphere lately?
Mikhas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxfMbi0aCvM
New video footage of “Polite Men in Green” operations in Crimea. For military enthusiasts.
Reading the truely pathetic Guardian Russophobia this morning I though they might ponder this.
“And all historians would agree that the Third Reich was defeated by the effective co-operation of East and West. Yet nobody shows much enthusiasm to quantify relative contributions or anything more precise than ‘Soviet forces inflicted more German losses than the western armies combined.’
“German sources, however, are more forthcoming. They state unequivocally that 75-80% of Germany’s losses were incurred on the eastern front. The implication is that all other contributions added up to a maximum of 20-25%…
“Yet the fact remains: fighting is the essential activity in war. And as an adversary the Red Army greatly excelled all its western counterparts. Suffice it to say that in one single operation in 1944, when demolishing the Army Group Mitte in Byelorussia, Marshal Rokossovsky destroyed a collection of Wehrmacht divisions equivalent to the entire German deployment on the western front.
“In fact the D-Day landings would be the sole operation fought by western armies that might scrape into the war’s top 10 battles. Not surprisingly, both military and civilian casualties in eastern Europe reached a similar titanic scale.”
Who not to mess with?
anonymous 7:33,
Well you know Putin killed him. With his bare hands, probably.
Also, related to Petri’s reference a few threads back to Pushkov doubting a Russian-PACE dialogue anytime soon, I’m thinking this was the Western plan all along: who’d want an honest monitor of those upcoming elections? Certainly. Not. US.
The Time for Negotiations between Russia and the West on Ukraine Has Not Come
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2014/04/11/the-time-for-negotiations-between-russia-and-the-west-on-ukraine-has-not-come.html
“…In reality, participation in the negotiations so confidently promised by Jen Psaki would mean not only legitimizing the coup d’état and the unlawful government which arose from it, but preparing the way for Ukraine to join NATO. As a result of such negotiations, Ukraine stands only to gain the status of a territory controlled by Western states in which NATO will have the right to deploy its troops at the border with the Russian Federation. The West cannot have any trust in the Ukrainian army; few Ukrainians are prepared to march on Moscow. The “military reform” of the Kiev regime is mainly aimed at creating punitive forces who are prepared to fight with their own people. The name of this force is borrowed, of course, from the U.S. – the “national guard”. It was planned to mobilize up to 15,000 people in the ranks of this punitive guard by the end of March, but this was not successful. In most cases “volunteers” do not even make it to the medical commission; they decline themselves or are unsuitable for service. The unemployed apply, but many of them are older than the age limit for recruiting of forty. Fairly often people with several convictions on their records applied. Out of 122 volunteers in the Donetsk region, so far they have not found even one person who meets all the requirements for service as a “guardsman”. The situation in the west of the country is no better. In the six western regions of Ukraine only 700 volunteers have applied, and only 43 have been accepted. There is no longer any doubt that the national guard has been reanimated only in order to legalize the squadrons of fascist fighters from the Right Sector, who are the only ones prepared to defend American democracy in Ukraine.
The high point of Washington’s folly has been sending employees of American private military companies to Donetsk. This is the beginning of an intervention; the Americans risk getting mired down in the Ukrainian crisis. The U.S. had no practical military options for the Crimea, as they had none for Georgia in 2008. The Americans have no military chances in Eastern Ukraine, either. They will have to retreat, and only Russia can pull them out of their latest failure. The time for negotiations, however, has not come. Moscow will be working out the terms for America’s retreat, and not playing up to Washington in its scheme.”
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Good article in RT demonstrating yet again that Russia is the only adult in the room.
http://rt.com/news/ukraine-should-recognize-crimea-068/
The four conditions set by finance minister Anton Siluanov for Ukraine to receive financial help and resolve gas issues are: recognizing Crimea’s independence, reforming the constitution, regulating the crisis in eastern Ukraine and guaranteeing the rights of Russian speakers. Also worth noting: “Sanctions hurt all countries. We do not intend to introduce reciprocal sanctions,” Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov told reporters during the International Eastern Forum in Berlin.
Check this out!
http://lifenews.ru/news/131075 Помощник Астахова просит Поклонскую расследовать дело депутата Ляшко
Assistant Astakhov requests Poklonskaya investigate deputy Ljashko
“Anna Levchenko asks to check famous for its extravagant behavior of the Verkhovna Rada deputy Oleg Lyashko, who is suspected of pedophilia.
Assistant Public Astakhov and the chairman of the monitoring center to detect inappropriate content Anna Levchenko wrote an open letter to the Acting Attorney Natalia Poklonskaya in Crimea. In her address, she asked to start investigation against the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Oleg Lyashko, who is suspected of pedophilia.
The letter listed a few facts acts known for this gay MP’s extravagant behavior.
Thus, according to the data indicated in a letter in July 2012 Oleg Lyashko was spotted at the Yalta airport boarding with two pupils aged 12 and 14, which allegedly wanted to go “on vacation” in Turkey. Airport staff did not allow him to take the children.
– The Russian public, including our organization, concerned that the criminal case against Oleg Lyashko was lodged and criminals remain at large – says Anna Levchenko in circulation. – We believe that the investigation is not possible to establish all the facts Ljashko crimes. We ask you to verify the activity of the deputy in the Republic of Crimea from 2012 to 2014.
Lawmaker Oleh Lyashko was not Seen in relations with young boys.
In 2002 Ljashko, at that time candidate for the by-elections to the Ukrainian parliament, received injuries of moderate severity (bruised genitals) from cadet Kiev Military Institute of Communications, who did not share his craving for non-traditional relationships. :D Then the deputy, without thinking twice, said the student was trying to rob him, and two meters from the [command center? administration offices?] of his institute. About scandal newspapers, but hushed Ljashko this ugly history.
In the spring of 2012 at the deputy broke charity tour of orphanages and boarding Crimea together with accordionist Igor Zawadzki “Warm love their children.” Then Ljashko with the support of the Crimean deputy Leo Mirimskaya wanted to organize concerts in orphanages for the selection of candidates for the fake adoption. But the arrest Zavadsky [child molestation] prevented these plans from coming true.
Because of parliamentary immunity against Oleg Lyashko could not open a criminal case.”
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I have not looked at the Russian language media yet, I nicked those last 2 articles from the comments at MoA. I noticed in another comment there, from another article, that Oleg Tsarev had warned the banderivtsy would assault the antimaydana in Donetsk and Lugansk on saturday.
Царев заявил, что штурм захваченных зданий пройдет в ночь на 12 апреля (Tsarev said that the storming of occupied buildings held on the night of April 12)
http://lifenews.ru/news/131072
“Ukrainian presidential candidate told about it, citing its own sources in the illegitimate government.
– From serious enough sources, I learned that today will be taken straight armed assault our Donetsk and Lugansk activists. I do not know, if I go to Lugansk or stay with the Donetsk – said Ukrainian presidential candidate Oleg Tsarev.”
Looking at RT it looks like the assaults have not begun yet, but instead, the antimaydana didn’t sit around waiting, but went on the offensive themselves.
Ukraine turmoil LIVE UPDATES
http://rt.com/news/kiev-clashes-rioters-police-571/
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@ Mulga Mumblebrain
> Just how we are going to face the great global disasters now unfolding, when the West
> is ruled and propagandised by creatures who are either stark raving mad, or malignant
> liars, or a bit of each, is a truly troubling conundrum.
You’re wondering what is behind this? You’re wondering what is the point in such obvious spin, manipulation, agitation, innuendo, half-truths and outright falsehoods? You’re wondering what is the point in repeating this stuff over and over again? I believe it’s all part of a well thought out steady drumbeat for further aggression and new wars by cold-blooded propagandists and warmongers in the western media … BBC, N.Y.Times, The Guardian etc. etc. Should there ever be a day of reckoning, I do hope that not only the directly responsible members of governments, corporations and the military establishment will face justice but also their accomplices in the media who prepared the ground for aggressions and wars. Alfred Rosenberg and Julius Streicher, two of the chief ideologues and propagandists of the Nazi regime, were found guilty on similar charges by the Nuremberg tribunal. They were both executed in 1946.
P.S.: I posted this short text a few years ago on The Guardian’s “comment is free” pages in reply to another poster’s comment. It was instantly removed by the ever vigilant Guardian censors and I was put under permanent pre-moderation, which meant that practically none of my subsequent comments ever made it to their pages, no matter how harmless and non-political. To me, the phrase “comment is free” has since had something sinister and Orwellian about it … :-)
Alexandre 12 April, 2014 00:56
One desert tortoise is worth more than a 100 Bundy parasites. Ever been to Nevada for an extended stay? One of the American versions (of many) of western Ukraine. Bundy is a Nevada rancher. Ranchers are among the worst of the worst of the American “banderivtsy”, especially the ones in places like Nevada. Total sodding scum. These parasites using public lands have serious damaged much of the fragile ecosystems in the western USA.
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Донецкий “Беркут” перешел на сторону митингующих (Donetsk “Berkut” defected to the protesters)
http://lifenews.ru/news/131113
(auto trans) “Special Forces Soldiers arrived in Donetsk and supported the pro-Russian activists and residents.
On spontaneous news conference, which was organized at the entrance to the police department, the fighters “Berkut” answered the questions of thousands of citizens who gathered here early in the morning on April 12.
– Guys, we all came here for one purpose: to defend Donetsk. We are all people, and have never been against the people, and do not listen to the misinformation that goes in the “Berkut”. We never raise a hand to his people to demonstrate peacefully, ever. Whatever orders we have received, will not be executed, – said one of the commanders of the special division. – The authorities in Kiev would dissolve our division, but we decided to come here and support you. We displeasing the new government, we have merged in Kiev, and you know very well about this. Guys, we will be with you…”
Also:
“Беркут” вышел на баррикады поддержать жителей Славянска (“Berkut” went to the barricades to support residents Sloviansk)
http://lifenews.ru/news/131112
(auto trans) “Special Forces Soldiers in support of the city’s population took off all the decorations and put George’s ribbons.
In Slovyansk members of Special Forces “Berkut” took to the streets to support the residents.
Soldiers are now together with all its inhabitants have captured militias Donbass police building.
Morning of April 12 federalization supporters seized the building of the city administration and police Sloviansk.
Mayor Sloviansk Nelia Shtepa told that these people call themselves supporters of the regional people’s militia and “people’s governor” Paul Gubaryov.
Immediately after the capture of the city administration and police Slovyansk pro activists erected around the district police department barricades , fearing assault by the Kiev authorities…”
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Мэр Славянска: Местная милиция с народом, и не пойдет против жителей (Mayor Sloviansk: Local police and the people, and will not go against the people)
http://lifenews.ru/news/131100
(auto trans) “Nelia Shtepa told that all residents Sloviansk defended the pro-Russian activists who seized the building of the city administration and the police.
Mayor Sloviansk Nelia Shtepa told LifeNews live capture of pro-Russian activists buildings of the city administration and the police.
– We learned about the seizure at 8 am, I called back and told people about it. The building is more than 1,000 people. I asked them who they are. They said that militias are the Donetsk. I know many, is our people, and they expose the requirement to hold a referendum. We all agree, I can not contradict them – said the mayor Sloviansk. – Three days ago, I wrote to the Prime Minister of Ukraine appeal, which stated that it is necessary to sit at the negotiating table. All Slovyansk today took to the streets of the city and support activists. Now with the city administration removed the Ukrainian flag and hoisted him Russian.
Nelia Shtepa said that it opposes the repression of acts of armed activists by the Ukrainian authorities.
– The city got a shield, protecting children, seized the building. And if the Ukrainian authorities to try to quell the uprising, dies huge number of civilians. This can not be tolerated. If someone goes against the people, then there will be blood and they do not wash off – says Nelia Shtepa. – Personally, I will not allow it, I stand guard over the city. These people came to us with the world, they have no aggression towards us. Donetsk police today – with the people who took to the streets of the city. We are a peaceful people, the police would not oppose the townspeople against his brother will not go.
Sloviansk Mayor also said that the whole city was in favor of holding a referendum.
– We will hold a referendum. What is happening here, says that the Ukrainian authorities need to think. I am sure that tomorrow they will announce the decision of the referendum in the regions of Ukraine. However, I wonder why they have not asked the people what they want? – Asks Mayor Sloviansk. – In the city 92 percent of enterprises are working with Russia, and we value partnerships with the country. Slovyansk Russia believes his older brother, we – Donbass and Russians – relatives by blood, and we will not fight with Russia. You hear the citizens on the street shouting “Well done,” the Kiev authorities must hear what the people want dialogue, wants stability, peace and order.
Morning of April 12 federalization supporters seized the building of the city administration and police Sloviansk.
Mayor Sloviansk Nelia Shtepa, said the people, who had seized the city administration building, called themselves supporters of the regional people’s militia and “people’s governor” Paul Gubaryov.”
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В Краматорске милиция надела Георгиевские ленточки (In Kramatorsk police wearing St. George ribbons)
http://www.politnavigator.net/v-kramatorske-miliciya-nadela-georgievskie-lentochki.html
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A nice map, showing how well the opposition in Donetsk Region is organized:
http://cs620830.vk.me/v620830118/306c/cyPMygdJXCQ.jpg
It happens that the towns, occupied by the opposition today, form an armed barrier of the Donetsk Region, protecting the Region from Kiev.
Thanks to the site:
http://aftershock.su/?q=node/223072#comment-913661
shed
Have to laugh at the Jewish owned/run western media. This is a good example how these zionazis misrepresent things. I’ll post a RT and Fox article on the same subject. First, the RT article:
Pentagon ponders ‘logistical nightmare’ of Afghan withdraw
http://rt.com/news/us-afghanistan-withdrawal-russia-880/
Now the Fox article:
Scrap Heap of War: Billions in equipment being left behind in Afghanistan
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/04/04/billions-in-equipment-supplies-being-left-behind-in-afghanistan/
These are worlds apart, one would hardly recognise they are about the same subject. Here is a few of the obvious differences.
The Fox article under reports the amount of material by a considerable amount.
Fox never mentions the political dimensions that led to USA/NATO having to leave so much equipment behind. This situation was caused entirely by USA/NATO themselves by their own abusive and hostile actions.
Fox doesn’t that the main supply was through Russia, which USA/NATO caused Russia shut down due to USA/NATO outrageous behaviour towards Russia after Israel/USA/NATO coup’d the Ukraine. It doesn’t mention Russia at all.
Fox doesn’t mention it was also USA/NATO abusive behaviour that caused the use Pakistani territory to be likely unusable for USA/NATO transport. It mentions Pakistan, once to only say that route is “dangerous”.
Any reader of the Fox story would be left completely clueless about why USA/NATO has to abandon so much material and the vast amount of it that will probably have to be left.
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stop fascism
http://rt.com/files/news/25/26/00/00/rtr3kwqq.jpg
Kiev’s use force in south-eastern Ukraine will foil four-party meeting plan – FM Lavrov
http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_04_13/Kievs-use-force-in-south-eastern-Ukraine-will-foil-four-party-meeting-plan-FM-Lavrov-9668/
“If Kiev uses force in the southeast of Ukraine, a four-party meeting on the resolution of the Ukrainian crisis will be foiled, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told US Secretary of State John Kerry by telephone on Saturday, April 12, Itar-Tass reports.
Lavrov warned Kerry that “if Kiev’s threats to use force against people driven to despair in the southeast are carried out, prospects for further cooperation on the Ukrainian issue, including a planned four-party meeting in Geneva, will be foiled,” he said…”
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