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2014-08-28 Europe

U.S. Says Russia May Be Directing Ukraine Rebel Offensive

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Posted by Fred 2014-08-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 And Russia says USA engineered violent overthrow of democratically elected government of Ukraine and replaced it with a coalition whose mainstay are Neo-Nazis. A government trying to ethnically cleanse Russians & Russian Orthodox Ukrainians from Ukraine. Both are right.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-08-28 02:12|| 2014-08-28 02:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Putin is a slippery bastard

Posted by Galactic Coordinator Jinemble5612 2014-08-28 02:37|| 2014-08-28 02:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Jen Psaki, the U.S. State Department spokeswoman

Mind like a steel trap. Little escapes her.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-08-28 03:59|| 2014-08-28 03:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Don't know why Putin is bothering with the slow burn in Ukraine. It's a war Russia can win any time it likes.

Maybe he is waiting for the colder weather, and some photo ops of Putin with his hands on a gas pipeline tap. Just to remind the Euros of the realities.

Posted by phil_b 2014-08-28 05:27|| 2014-08-28 05:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Don't know why Putin is bothering with the slow burn in Ukraine

Why chase the Banderistas all through Galicia (it took Stalin a decade) when you can make them came to you?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-08-28 05:38|| 2014-08-28 05:38|| Front Page Top

#6 the Russian puppets were losing, time to drop all facades

Posted by Frank G 2014-08-28 10:00|| 2014-08-28 10:00|| Front Page Top

#7 For 600 years Europe wanted nothing to do with Russia. As the old saying goes, scratch a Tatar and a Russian bleeds. It was left to suckers like FDR and Pootie-Poot Bush to believe that Russia could be civilized. Now, it is Obama and Hillary Clinto who have learned the hard way.

Posted by Beldar Sloque3832 2014-08-28 10:27|| 2014-08-28 10:27|| Front Page Top

#8 Now, it is Obama and Hillary Clinton who have learned the hard way.

They have learned nothing. They are only interested in useless 'negotiations' and deals that buy them momentary political cover and inflate their egos just a bit more. They will never learn, even if they find themselves staring down Putin's gunbarrels...for at that point, they will consider it a 'political and moral victory' that they died last.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2014-08-28 10:54|| 2014-08-28 10:54|| Front Page Top

#9 Beladra Sloque. Actually the Russians are decent, nice and compassionate people. Consider what the US did to the Japanese for having attacked a militaryobjective whatever sneaky the attack and think in what they would have done to the Germans had they killed more then twenty five million Americans and raped more than ten million American women. I doubt there would have been many Germans left alive.

Posted by JFM 2014-08-28 10:54|| 2014-08-28 10:54|| Front Page Top

#10 We would have felt bad about it 30 years later JFM, gotta give us that.

Posted by Shipman 2014-08-28 11:40|| 2014-08-28 11:40|| Front Page Top

#11 Give Putin credit for his slow-motion invasion, slowly taking the covers off even as the Ukes ramp up their opposition and require him to go with armor to push past main force army units of Ukraine. Not only has he kept world media flummoxed wit the paper thin disguise of "local insurgent" forces draped over Russian Spec Ops and paras, but he has had the whole world watch his land grab, knowing the clear truth, and see OBumble mouth more meaningless BS and see that the US is gutless while this clueless child is at the helm.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2014-08-28 12:10|| 2014-08-28 12:10|| Front Page Top

#12 JFM: The Russians killed multiple millions of Ukranians in the couple of decades _before_ WW2. IF they'd done that to France would you think of them as Wonderful Compassionate People?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-08-28 12:43|| 2014-08-28 12:43|| Front Page Top

#13 Let's be clear, Putin is an enemy of America

Posted by Galactic Coordinator Jinemble5612 2014-08-28 13:54|| 2014-08-28 13:54|| Front Page Top

#14 Thing from Snow: Actually I have heard there were some Georgians too and Jews (Iagoda, Frenkel), Siberians, people from the Caucasus end even Ukranains. Ther common point was not being Russians but being Communists.

Posted by JFM 2014-08-28 15:36|| 2014-08-28 15:36|| Front Page Top

#15 Didn't the Russians actually rape/kill hundreds of thousands of innocent germans? And there weren't more because of the fact they fled West, towards the US and British armies? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I distinctly remember reading about thousands of German women committing suicide after being raped.

That's not to say the Germans were any better, I'm not making that claim. I'm just saying that when faced with Communists or NAZIs, there isn't really much difference except EVERYONE suffered in the end.

Posted by Charles 2014-08-28 18:57|| 2014-08-28 18:57|| Front Page Top

#16 Nazi story line is bullshit. Only an idiot believes that Putin Propaganda.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-08-28 20:39|| 2014-08-28 20:39|| Front Page Top

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