Political Murders in Kiev, US Troops to Ukraine

undefinedLast week two prominent Ukrainian opposition figures were gunned down in broad daylight. They join as many as ten others who have been killed or committed suicide under suspicious circumstances just this year. These individuals have one important thing in common: they were either part of or friendly with the Yanukovych government, which a US-backed coup overthrew last year. They include members of the Ukrainian parliament and former chief editors of major opposition newspapers.

While some journalists here in the US have started to notice the strange series of opposition killings in Ukraine, the US government has yet to say a word.

Compare this to the US reaction when a single opposition figure was killed in Russia earlier this year. Boris Nemtsov was a member of a minor political party that was not even represented in the Russian parliament. Nevertheless the US government immediately demanded that Russia conduct a thorough investigation of his murder, suggesting the killers had a political motive.

As news of the Russian killing broke, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Ed Royce (R-CA) did not wait for evidence to blame the killing on Russian president Vladimir Putin. On the very day of Nemtsov’s murder, Royce told the US media that, “this shocking murder is the latest assault on those who dare to oppose the Putin regime.”

Neither Royce, nor Secretary of State John Kerry, nor President Obama, nor any US government figure has said a word about the series of apparently political murders in Ukraine.

On the contrary, instead of questioning the state of democracy in what looks like a lawless Ukraine, the Administration is sending in the US military to help train Ukrainian troops!

Last week, just as the two political murders were taking place, the US 173rd Airborne Brigade landed in Ukraine to begin training Ukrainian national guard forces – and to leave behind some useful military equipment. Though the civil unrest continues in Ukraine, the US military is assisting one side in the conflict – even as the US slaps sanctions on Russia over accusations it is helping out the other side!

As the ceasefire continues to hold, though shakily, what kind of message does it send to the US-backed government in Kiev to have US troops arrive with training and equipment and an authorization to gift Kiev with some $350 million in weapons? Might they not take this as a green light to begin new hostilities against the breakaway regions in the east?

The Obama administration is so inconsistent in its foreign policy. In some places, particularly Cuba and Iran, the administration is pursuing a policy that looks to diplomacy and compromise to help improve decades of bad relations. In these two cases the administration realizes that the path of confrontation has led nowhere. When the president announced his desire to see the end of Cuba sanctions, he stated very correctly that, “…we are ending a policy that was long past its expiration date. When what you’re doing doesn’t work for fifty years, it’s time to try something new.”

So while Obama is correctly talking about sanctions relief for Iran and Cuba, he is adding more sanctions on Russia, backing Saudi Arabia’s brutal attack on Yemen, and pushing ever harder for regime change in Syria. Does he really believe the rest of the world does not see these double standards? A wise consistency of non-interventionism in all foreign affairs would be the correct course for this and future US administrations. Let us hope they will eventually follow Obama’s observation that, “it’s time to try something new.”

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Stucky

ZARA !!!!

Saturday marked the Army Day In Iran. It featured a display of new weapons and a truck carrying a massive banner reading “Death to Israel.”

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/OXTS2rr_w3B6oxCPBjTa-E0G76zSzqD5-jVL_kTPlBP5SjLTrtl6wFrPZm4wvBE6-OcnUsnLBtetZrcLVeN6VVLebWWQt3fu2_ggWA7P4KvF6QP4w6UErqxTQgG-fUPJKTsYih4=w426-h237

Iran celebrates its Army Day with calls for death to Israel, USA

Now, in times past you, Zara, have explained that when Imadinnerjacket said “Death to Israel”, that he didn’t mean it, or that he was mistranslated. Is the verbiage painted on the above truck also mistranslated? Does it say “We love Joos!”?

Inquiring minds want to know.

yahsure
yahsure

I remember the media kept saying how crazy RP,s thinking was on foreign policy.

Zara, you pussy
Zara, you pussy

Answer the damn question!!

Zarathustra

Stucky says:

ZARA !!!!

Saturday marked the Army Day In Iran. It featured a display of new weapons and a truck carrying a massive banner reading “Death to Israel.”

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Iran celebrates its Army Day with calls for death to Israel, USA

Now, in times past you, Zara, have explained that when Imadinnerjacket said “Death to Israel”, that he didn’t mean it, or that he was mistranslated. Is the verbiage painted on the above truck also mistranslated? Does it say “We love Joos!”?

Inquiring minds want to know.
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Death to Israel is a good idea. You act like this is a gotcha question. WTF?

Now listen closely. Iran’s official position (and it should be ours as well) is that there should be a referendum that includes the Palestianian dispora on what country it would be. Due to demographics, the Palis would win and Israel would become Palestine. Buh Bye Jewish state and good riddance. Iran does not and never has threatened Israel with military assault, unlike Israel which threatens Iran daily.

Capisce?

Zarathustra

Zara, you pussy says:

Answer the damn question!!
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Stucky has a poor memory. I never said that Ahmedinejad never said “death to israel.” Fuck, they say it all the time. They say “death to”…anything that pisses them off and is beyond their control.
What Ahmedinejad never said was to “wipe Israel of the map.” It never happened. This is well known to everyone who doesn’t believe the shit that Fox News vomits.

PS, Iran is the only remaining country in the middle east anymore that stands up for the rights of Palestinians and they should be applauded for it.

Stucky

Shit. You are correct …. it was “wipe Israel off the map” that I was thinking about. Sorry. Death to Stucky!!!

Still, I think the Iranians are dumbfuks in a sense. They know Israel is itching to bomb their nuke sites, the negotiations are on the world stage in open, people and governments are watching them ………… and they drive around a truck in a military parade with a sign “Death to Israel’? WTF? Dumbshits!

Zarathustra

Stucky says:

Still, I think the Iranians are dumbfuks in a sense. They know Israel is itching to bomb their nuke sites, the negotiations are on the world stage in open, people and governments are watching them ………… and they drive around a truck in a military parade with a sign “Death to Israel’? WTF? Dumbshits!
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I agree. In terms of inflammatory rhetoric they are often their own worst enemy, especially as some of their slogans are misunderstood in the US, and they easily twisted out of context by the zionist controlled media that wants to demonize them.

However the iranians are doing it for domestic consumption only. The Iranians really don’t give a fuck what foreigners think of them.

Zarathustra

Speaking phonetically, it is, “Marg Bar Israeli” Say it loud and proud!!

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