Foreign Troops in Ukraine?
You Bet!
By Daniel McAdams
January 28, 2015 "ICH"
- "RPI"
- US-backed president of Ukraine,
Petro Poroshenko, was among the elites
gathering in Davos, Switzerland this week to
attend the 2015 World Economic Forum. During
his speech he made the remarkable claim that
9,000 Russian troops were currently fighting
in Ukraine on behalf of the
independence-seeking areas of the country.
These 9,000 troops have brought with them
tanks, heavy artillery, and armored
vehicles, he claimed. "Is this not
aggression?" he asked the gathered elites.
The US was quick to amplify Poroshenko's
claims, with US Ambassador to the UN
Samantha Power
Tweeting today:
State Department
Spokesperson Jen Psaki was asked whether the
US might at least admit that the missiles
fired by the Kiev authorities into
residential areas in eastern Ukraine this
week were a violation of the September
ceasefire agreed upon in Minsk, Belarus. She
refused to admit as much, and in fact she
refused to even admit that the shells
killing scores of civilians this past week
were fired by the US-backed regime in Kiev.
"Russia is not complying" with the agreement
was all she would say.
NATO agreed with the US government
assessment, adding that the movement of
heavy equipment from Russia into Ukraine had
increased in pace recently.
There appears to be a problem, however. The
9,000 troops and heavy weapons and equipment
that purportedly accompanies them have been
seen by no one. There are no satellite
photos of what would certainly be a plainly
visible incursion. We know from incredibly
detailed
satellite photos of Boko Haram's recent
massacre in Nigeria that producing evidence
of such large scale movement is entirely
within the realm of US and NATO
technological capabilities. Still there
remains a lack of evidence.
Moreover, the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe, which is on the
ground monitoring the border crossings
between Ukraine and Russia,
reported just this week that, "At the
two BCPs (border crossing points) the OM
(observer mission) did not observe military
movement, apart from vehicles of the Russian
Federation border guard service." If there
has been an increase of Russian heavy
weapons into Ukraine, why are the satellites
in the skies and the eyes on the ground
blind to them?
Poroshenko, who last week
vowed to re-take eastern Ukraine by
force, this week offered a different
solution to the ongoing conflict:
The solution is very
simple -- stop supplying weapons ...
withdraw the troops and close the
border. If you want to discuss something
different, it means you are not for
peace, you are for war.
That is probably good advice,
but how ironic that it comes the very same
week the Pentagon announced that US soldiers
would be
deployed to Ukraine this spring to begin
training that country's national guard. US
military on the ground in Ukraine is a
significant escalation, far beyond the
previous deployment of additional US and
NATO troops in neighboring Poland and the
Baltics.
Additionally, the US announced it was
transferring heavy military equipment to the
Ukrainian armed forces, including the Kozak
mine-resistant personnel carrier and some 35
other armored trucks.
The US government has reportedly set aside
several million dollars to help train the
Ukrainian national guard. Considering the
fact that the national guard was only
re-formed after last year's US-backed coup
and is made up in large part of neo-Nazis
from the extremist Right Sector, one would
hope some of the money is spent dissuading
members from such an odious ideology.
So there may well be Russian troops and
equipment on the ground in Ukraine -- though
so far no proof exists and the Russians deny
it. But we know very well that there are US
troops and heavy military equipment on the
ground in Ukraine because the US openly
admits it! So Russia has no business
claiming interest in unrest on its doorstep,
but the US has every right to become
militarily involved in a conflict which has
nothing to do with us nearly 5,000 miles
away? Interventionist illogic.
Copyright © 2014 by RonPaul Institute.
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