{"id":13733,"date":"2014-04-15T12:33:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T12:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13733"},"modified":"2014-04-15T16:02:22","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T16:02:22","slug":"selling-war-with-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13733","title":{"rendered":"Selling war with Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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American senator, Republican John McCain, who is currently on a visit to Estonia, has urged to \u201cprovide weapons to Ukraine\u201d speaking at a live show of one of the local TV channels.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should provide weapons to Ukraine so that it could defend itself,\u201d the 77-year-old senator from Arizona said.<\/p>\n

John McCain, the ex-presidential candidate from the Republicans on 2008 elections, believes that Russia threatens its neighbor. \u201cRussia is provoking the West by staging actions in Ukraine\u2019s East. Maybe, it wants to increase its influence on the South as well,\u201d the senator suggested.<\/p>\n

An advisor to Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday that the United States may decide to send arms to eastern Ukraine as tensions continue to worsen there between pro-Russian protesters and supporters of the country\u2019s interim government.<\/p>\n

Reuters reported on Monday that US State Department Counselor Thomas Shannon \u2014 a senior diplomat and member of Sec. Kerry\u2019s inner circle \u2014 said the possibility of providing arms to Ukrainian forces is indeed currently on the table.<\/p>\n

Oleksandr Turchynov, the acting president of Ukraine, has since asked for the UN to conduct a joint “anti-terrorist operation” in that region as activity intensifies.<\/p>\n

Seven weeks after the right-wing coup in Ukraine, evidence is mounting that the Western-backed opposition at the time was responsible for the lethal shootings in Independence Square on February 20. This was suggested by a report on the German public television programme \u201cMonitor\u201d last Thursday evening, and which is available online <\/a>in German.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to research it appears unlikely that the shots on demonstrators came exclusively from the side of the old regime,\u201d stated a press release made available prior to the program. In its report, \u201cMonitor\u201d raised the question, \u201cDid radical oppositionists end up shooting in order to produce chaos and place the blame on Yanukovitch?\u201d The presented videos, interviews and sound recordings suggest precisely this!<\/p>\n

\u201cMonitor\u201d presented an extract of radio traffic from alleged sharp-shooters of the Yanukovitch regime, who were positioned on various rooftops in the centre of Kiev on February 20. The discussion was picked up by a Ukrainian radio amateur. One of the snipers can be heard asking his colleagues, \u201cHey guys, they are over there, on the right of the hotel Ukrayina. Who is shooting? Our people don\u2019t shoot at unarmed civilians.\u201d Then he calls, \u201cGuys, there is a sniper who is aiming at me. Who is he aiming at from the corner? Look out.\u201d A short time later someone else says, \u201cSomeone shot him. But not us. Are there more snipers over there? And who are they?\u201d<\/p>\n

On other videos, activists who marched along Institutska Street on February 20, can be seen being shot not only from the front, that is, from the direction of government buildings, but also from behind. Nikola, an eyewitness who is visible on several videos, confirmed, \u201cYes, on the 20th [February] we were shot from behind, from the Hotel Ukrayina, from the eighth or ninth floor. People were standing up there and shooting at us and we were also shot from the other direction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Responding to the question as to who had shot them from the Hotel Ukrayina, he answered, \u201cI don\u2019t know. They were soldiers, certainly professionals.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the day of the shootings, the Hotel Ukrayina was firmly under the control of the opposition and was heavily guarded. Numerous witnesses, journalists and oppositionists confirmed this to \u201cMonitor\u201d. On the morning of February 20, the opposition even introduced entry controls. Only those with a room key or identification were allowed into the hotel. The \u201cMonitor\u201d reporters come to the conclusion, \u201cTherefore it would have been very difficult for a sniper to sneak in.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition, the reporters reviewed pictures from Russian television, which allegedly show armed oppositionists firing at demonstrators. \u201cPrecisely who is shooting at whom is not possible to confirm,\u201d However, it was determined that \u201cthe recording was definitely made in the Hotel Ukrayina.\u201d It was also confirmed that \u201cnot only oppositionists, but also the government militias were shot at. And perhaps this was also by the same people.\u201d<\/p>\n

A doctor, who treated victims on both sides, confirmed this in an interview. \u201cThe injured who we treated had the same type of bullet wounds. I\u2019m speaking about the type of bullets we took out of the bodies in operations. They were identical. I can\u2019t say any more\u201d, he stated.<\/p>\n

The explosive report concurs with the intercepted telephone call between Estonian foreign minister Urmas Paet and the foreign policy head of the EU, Catherine Ashton, at the beginning of March. Paet also based himself on information from doctors and stated that \u201cthe same snipers shot people on both sides.\u201d He warned that \u201cthe conclusion that not Yanukovitch, but members of the new coalition were behind the shootings is increasingly reinforced.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since then, the transitional government in Kiev and its Western allies have desperately sought to cover up the true course of events. Only last week, Ukrainian general state prosecutor Oleg Machnizki of the fascist Svoboda, arrested 12 members of the now dissolved special Berkut unit and presented them as the main suspects in the shootings.<\/p>\n

\u201cMonitor\u201d cites a high-ranking member of the investigative committee, who calls the version of events from the state prosecutor into doubt. \u201cMy investigation results do not agree with those presented by the state prosecutor at the press conference,\u201d said the investigator, who wished to remain anonymous, in an interview.<\/p>\n

A lawyer for the victims suggested that the entire investigation was a deliberate ploy by the transitional government to bury their own crimes. \u201cNone of us are getting any information on the investigation\u201d, he complained. \u201cAnd if you ask me, there is one simple reason for this: it is not being investigated properly. As a lawyer of the victims I am saying to you that the state prosecutor is not investigating properly. They are covering for their own people. They are as partisan as before.\u201d<\/p>\n

NATO is creating a naval battle group outside Russian borders, a Russian military source told Interfax news agency.<\/p>\n

On April, 3, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused NATO of violating the Montreux Convention, which regulates the number ships that can enter the Black Sea, saying that \u201cUS warships have extended their deployment beyond the set terms a couple of times lately.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the treaty, warships from non-Black Sea states can only stay in the basin for up to 21 days consecutively. USS Taylor spent 11 more than that in the region in February and March.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s Foreign Ministry expressed \u201cbemusement\u201d over the move.<\/p>\n

\u201cTurkey [which administers the treaty] did not inform us about the overstay. We have expressed our concern to the Turkish and US side in a verbal note,\u201d said a statement on the ministry website.<\/p>\n

A Russian fighter jet made multiple, close-range passes near an American warship in the Black Sea for more than 90 minutes Saturday.<\/p>\n

Officials said the Russian Fencer made 12 passes, and flew within 1,000 yards of the USS Donald Cook, a Navy destroyer, at about 500 feet above sea level.<\/p>\n

The U.S. warship, equipped with the powerful Aegis missile defense system and\u00a0carrying helicopters, issued several radio queries using international emergency circuits. A\u00a0Russian Navy ship, a frigate, has been shadowing the U.S. warship, remaining within visual distance.<\/p>\n

U.S. military officials have said the deployment is part of an effort to “reassure” allies and partners in the region.\u00a0A second U.S. Navy warship – a frigate from the Navy’s Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea – is also heading to the Black Sea.<\/p>\n

It appears however that no official communication or protests by the U.S. to the Russians about incident have been made. It is also not clear how an American military build-up in the region could be\u00a0reassuring, as it increases the likelyhood of conflict.<\/p>\n

Paul Craig Roberts recently wrote that democracy and\u00a0freedom require an independent and aggressive media, an independent and aggressive judiciary, and an independent and aggressive Congress. He said the US had none of the above.<\/p>\n

The US media consistently lies for the government. Reuters continues to report, falsely, that Russia invaded and annexed Crimea. The Washington Post ran an obviously false story planted on the paper by the Obama regime that the massive protests in former Russian territories of Ukraine are \u201crent-a-mobs\u201d instigated by the Russian government.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The CIA director has been sent to Kiev to launch a military suppression of the Russian separatists in the eastern and southern portions of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Washington\u2019s plan to grab Ukraine overlooked that the Russian and Russian-speaking parts of Ukraine were not likely to go along with their insertion into the EU and NATO while submitting to the persecution of Russian speaking peoples, Roberts said.<\/p>\n

Self-determination will not be recognized by the UN as the UN is essentially a Washington-financed organization, and will follow Washington’s orders. Roberts warned that money is more important to European politicians than humanity\u2019s survival, and Washington pays them well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

American senator, Republican John McCain, who is currently on a visit to Estonia, has urged to \u201cprovide weapons to Ukraine\u201d speaking at a live show of one of the local TV channels. \u201cWe should provide weapons to Ukraine so that it could defend itself,\u201d the 77-year-old senator from Arizona said. John McCain, the ex-presidential candidate … Continue reading “Selling war with Russia”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[8472,2791,5890,66,7484,1638,8823],"class_list":["post-13733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-crimea","tag-john-kerry","tag-john-mccain","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-us","tag-warmonger"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/johnmccainjoker.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13733"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13739,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13733\/revisions\/13739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}