Brian4Liberty
07-07-2014, 12:57 PM
The New York Times is celebrating the success of the US-sponsored Ukrainian central government in it's goal of conquering the eastern cities that have been so, uh, noisy and uncooperative. The greatest achievement of the Ukrainian military seems to be overcoming that annoying "reluctance to open fire on their own countrymen".
No doubt they will be successful in driving large numbers of residents out of the Ukraine entirely. No blood or expense will be spared in ridding the Ukraine of "dirt and parasites" (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?455106-Ridding-Ukraine-of-quot-dirt-and-parasites-quot). Ethnic cleansing is tough work, but someone has to do it.
Ukraine Military Finds Its Footing...
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In the past week, however, after President Petro O. Poroshenko called off a cease-fire and ordered his troops to end the rebellion by force, an entirely different Ukrainian military appeared to arrive at the front.
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Still, the recent success, however tentative, reflects what officials and analysts described as a remarkable, urgent transformation of the military and security apparatus in recent months.
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There has also been aid from abroad. The United States has sent $23 million in security assistance since March, including $5 million for night-vision goggles, body armor, communications equipment and food.
But even more important, experts said, was a reorganization of the chain of command and a crucial psychological shift: Soldiers surmounted a reluctance to open fire on their own countrymen, a serious issue after riot police officers killed about 100 protesters last winter during civil unrest centered on Maidan, the main square in Kiev.
“They have overcome that psychological barrier in which the military were afraid to shoot living people,” Mr. Sungurovskyi said. “They had this barrier after Maidan, after the death of that hundred — not simply to shoot living people, but their own people. After the forces were restructured a bit, and it became clear who were our people, who were foes, the operations became more effective.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/07/world/europe/ukraine-military-finds-its-footing-against-pro-russian-rebels.html
No doubt they will be successful in driving large numbers of residents out of the Ukraine entirely. No blood or expense will be spared in ridding the Ukraine of "dirt and parasites" (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?455106-Ridding-Ukraine-of-quot-dirt-and-parasites-quot). Ethnic cleansing is tough work, but someone has to do it.
Ukraine Military Finds Its Footing...
...
In the past week, however, after President Petro O. Poroshenko called off a cease-fire and ordered his troops to end the rebellion by force, an entirely different Ukrainian military appeared to arrive at the front.
...
Still, the recent success, however tentative, reflects what officials and analysts described as a remarkable, urgent transformation of the military and security apparatus in recent months.
...
There has also been aid from abroad. The United States has sent $23 million in security assistance since March, including $5 million for night-vision goggles, body armor, communications equipment and food.
But even more important, experts said, was a reorganization of the chain of command and a crucial psychological shift: Soldiers surmounted a reluctance to open fire on their own countrymen, a serious issue after riot police officers killed about 100 protesters last winter during civil unrest centered on Maidan, the main square in Kiev.
“They have overcome that psychological barrier in which the military were afraid to shoot living people,” Mr. Sungurovskyi said. “They had this barrier after Maidan, after the death of that hundred — not simply to shoot living people, but their own people. After the forces were restructured a bit, and it became clear who were our people, who were foes, the operations became more effective.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/07/world/europe/ukraine-military-finds-its-footing-against-pro-russian-rebels.html