I bet Putin and the Chinese are laughing their asses off at our joke of a president telepromptering red lines across the globe, as his world crumbles around him. Fourth Turnings don’t give a shit about the words or opinions of a corrupt community organizer Kenyan from Chicago. I knew George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and FDR, and this guy ain’t them. This panty waist president is not the Fourth Turning leader this country needed.
Ukraine Military Transport Plane Shot Down, 49 Killed
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/14/2014 08:35 -0400
While the world’s short attention span may have been diverted to Iraq where the ISIS insurgents are now knocking on Baghdad’s door, and with it – Iraq’s vast southern oil fields and infrastructure (which if taken offline would send oil up to $200 according to T. Boone Pickens). the “out of sight, out of mind” conflict in Ukraine, which the western media dropped covering like a hot potato some time in early May for reasons not entirely known, continues to escalate and where the latest outbreak of violence took place overnight when a Ukraine military transport Il-76 was allegedly shot down by separatists in the city of Lugansk as it was about to land.
As a result of the crash all 49 Ukrainian service personnel on board were killed. The death toll would be the biggest suffered by government forces in a single incident since Ukraine’s government launched a military operation against pro-Russian separatists in the east.
We remind readers that Lugansk is the same city where in the beginning of June a Ukraine fighter jet was caught on tape wantonly bombing civilians in broad daylight resulting in numerous civilians.
As AFP reports, Pro-Russian separatists shot down a Ukrainian military transport plane overnight carrying troops and supplies in the eastern city of Luhansk, the defense ministry said on Saturday. This is the second major reported Ukraine airborne casualty following the downing of a military transport helicopter which took place at the end of May and killed a Ukraine army general.
“On the night of June 13-14, the terrorists…fired from an anti-aircraft weapon and a large calibre machine gun, shooting down military transport aircraft…IL-76 as it was about to land,” the ministry said in a statement, offering its condolences to the victims’ families.
Forty-nine military personnel were killed in the incident, according to military spokesman Vladislav Seleznov.
Luhansk lies near Ukraine’s border with Russia, an area where separatists have seized government buildings and declared independence after holding disputed referendums.
An estimated 270 people have been killed in the violence over the past two months.
In other news, Bloomberg reports that a guard found an explosive device near one of the main entrances of the president’s office overnight, Unian news service reports citing an unidentified official from State Guard Department. The device was made of several grenades and mobile phone. Conveniently the man who planted the device escaped, Unian says, so it is unclear if he was a Russian “separatist” or merely hired by the CIA.
That said, we expect the latest tragic development in the Ukraine civil war to get far more western media coverage than the wanton bombing of civilians in the same town by Ukraine forces two weeks ago.
Footage of the incident can be seen below.
This is approximately the size of a USAF C-17. Very big airplane! Is Ww3 just around the corner?
Obama and the CIA destabilized the sovereign government of Ukraine, and replaced elected officials with neo-nazis, sent in more CIA stooges, including the CIA director for a visit, and then sent in mercs. How this is not a war crime, I’ll never know. Obama and Kerry need to be tried at the Hague for war crimes. Hopefully they will some day, after Obama is tried and convicted of treason against the United States for supplying, funding and supporting Al Qaeda. The only red line Obama is going to need be concerned about is the one around his neck after he’s swinging in the gallows.
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Meanwhile, in Ukraine …
White Phosphorous artillery shells used to bombard several villages around Slavyansk day and night … fires everywhere …………….. reports (unconfirmed) of chemical weapons and/or biological weapons used against civilians by Kiev ………… armored column of tanks advancing on Lugansk ……… 12 civilian dead, including 2 children …………. refugees just at Rostov border approaching 25,000 ………….. small bus evacuating children from Slavyansk fired on by Right Sector, bus clearly marked with white flag and sign in windows ‘children’ … 2 dead kids, one adult wounded ……… fresh mass grave found near Krasni Lehmahn
And that’s just on June 13th
To be fair, the IIyushin 76 cargo plane is almost as likely to fall out of the sky all on it’s own as it is to land safely. There are multiple reports of these exploding in midair and raining down on the Earth. The pilots and aircrews are some of the craziest bastards to to ever take to the air as they are routinely pushing the limits of both man and machine.
There is a Russian company (using the term loosely) that bought up all of these old 70’s era planes and they will basically fly anything that will fit inside, legal or illegal, anywhere you want it to go if the price is right. They have flown equipment that is too large for the US military to handle into remote parts of Afghanistan and dropped crates of cash at specific GPS coordinates for Lloyds of London paying ransom to Somali pirates.
Their story reminds me of the clandestine airforce that the CIA operated in SE Asia during Vietnam. The crews were hard drinkin’ and druggin’, flying all sorts of planes into places that should not have worked.
While it is easy to misunderestimate the administration, they are in charge and have more weapons at their disposal. Putin moving on Ukraine? Time to foment a surge in illegal immigrants, heat up the fall of Iraq, drug some WC refs.
Their story reminds me of the clandestine airforce that the CIA operated in SE Asia during Vietnam. The crews were hard drinkin’ and druggin’, flying all sorts of planes into places that should not have worked.
It was called “Air America”. Bringing freedom & coke to places far & wide…
Thanks Econman, I was racking my brain trying to think of that name.