IOUC – Full Ukraine Crisis Report (Dec 2013 – Jul 2014)

A full report on the situation in Ukraine, from the Euromaidan in December 2013, to the present situation today in July 2014. Footage from the most important moments during the crisis have been compiled into this full length documentary from a Politically Neutral Standpoint.

This movie was produced and edited by Maj. Alan Astudillo of the 1st Earth Battalion, 4th Delta Force.

Disclaimer: We are in no way associated with groups that go by the names of IOUCO or IOUCON, also identified as the International Observatory of Ukrainian Conflict, These are biased groups lead by people with an agenda who are not politically neutral and seek to provoke more conflict rather than defuse it. We are in no way associated with these above-mentioned groups or the leader which goes by the name of Mykolas Alutis, which we know for a fact and hold evidence and testimony from that person himself that Mykolas Alutis is not his real name. It is unsure which side he is working for, but it is clearly not the side of peace.

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West’s expansion to the east ruins historic chance at unification – Lavrov

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.(Reuters / Maxim Shemetov )

The Ukrainian crisis is a natural result of the West’s expansion of its influence eastwards at the expense of Russian interests, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. This stance ruins a historic chance for a unified continent.

The turbulence in Ukraine is reminiscent of the violence and bloodshed that Europe experienced in the 20th century, Lavrov told a security conference in Moscow.

“The European continent, which brought two global military catastrophes in the last century, is not demonstrating an example to the world of peaceful development and broad cooperation,” he said, adding that the situation wasn’t accidental, but rather “a natural result of the developments over the past quarter of a century.”

“Our Western partners rejected a truly historic chance to build a greater Europe in favor of border lines and the habitual logic of expanding the geopolitical space under their control to the East,” Lavrov stressed.“This is de facto a continuation of a policy of containing Russia in a softer wrapping.”

The West ignored Russia’s calls for cooperation and would not pursuit a challenge of bringing together different integration projects in Eurasia. Instead it was forcing nations historically close to Russia to choose between the East and the West.

Pro-Russian activists stand near an armoured fighting vehicle (AFV) that they said was captured from the Ukrainian army during a fight outside the eastern Ukrainian town of Lysychansk May 22, 2014.(Reuters / Valentyn Ogirenko)

Source: http://rt.com/news/160940-lavrov-security-west-expansion/

The Truthseeker: NATO false flags in Ukraine

US intel source claims Ukraine part of NATO secret campaign Gladio; psychopathy tests for our leaders; and a mainstream host storms out the studio after a vicious exchange on false flags.
Seek truth from facts with Questioning the War on Terror author Kevin Barrett, StopImperialism.org’s Eric Draitser, James Corbett of The Corbett Report, and possible 2016 presidential candidate Jesse Ventura.

Response to NATO & the EU will become Nuclear Iskanders

U.S. actions and their partners in the Black Sea , the Baltic states and Eastern Europe could lead to the implementation of the European Union and a bad dream ” amber edge ” – in the center of Europe, the sword of Damocles in this case stand ” Iskander ” , including – with tactical nuclear weapons.
“European tensions are rising in the waters of the Black Sea , not only , but also of the Baltic ” , – told the media , reminding – of the German Kiel came five NATO warships that , according to the Chief of Staff for Operations NATO Maritime Command ” to support the Baltic countries .” Their teachings are allegedly ” purely defensive ” and will drop ships ” in several Baltic ports .”
According to journalists , the relationship of these exercises with events around Ukraine ” no doubt ” and thus ” in the European part of the continent had a second international” hotbed of tension “associated with the direct confrontation between NATO and Russia .”

Why second ? Because the first – is NATO warships in the Black Sea Fleet with Turkey. Second are now NATO naval maneuvers in the Baltic Sea and the appearance of the first company of NATO soldiers in Poland. However, in the Baltic NATO soldiers already behave as invaders – such as mayors already complaining about the ” swinish ” behavior of the military , fighting, harassment and violence , and in Riga , NATO troops have taken ( and lost !) Fight with taxi drivers .

” And if it goes on , the” nightmare Europeans ” – the latest Russian missile complex” Iskander ” , will still be located in close proximity to the borders of some European countries ,” – says the press.

Recall that the operational- tactical complex ” Iskander-M ” is equipped with missiles capable of actively maneuver to break through defense and carrying conventional or nuclear warhead to destroy enemy artileriyu , aviation, command centers , missile systems , air defense and missile defense systems . ” Iskander-M ” also has a very high mobility and fast – start deployment . As for spetsBCh ( nuclear warheads for missiles ” Iskander ” ), then in December 2013 the Russian military unofficially reported that ” Kaliningrad defensive area of , of course, has .”

It should be noted that the Russian Tu -95 , according to the American press during exercises ‘ pretend ‘ bombed U.S. nuclear cruise missiles. In addition, in 2013 a Russian bomber strikes carried out simulations on the American missile defense system , and more recently Su-24 bomber flew several times in the vicinity of the U.S. Navy destroyer ” Donald Cook ” in the Black Sea – so much so that he quit with a third crew who does not want ” to die for some scary Ukraine.”

Source: http://www.politonline.ru/rssArticle/21431812.html

The honor of carrying the symbolic torch of universal freedom now passes from America’s hands to these East Ukrainians

Well, it is over. The people of East Ukraine have spoken and they have chosen freedom… freedom from being ruled over by a foreign-backed Western coup for its own selfish goals.

Read the full story at: http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/05/16/neo-we-are-all-east-ukrainians-now/

 

 

US Foreign Policy Fail: Legal Violence VS Illegal Votes

The Hour of Men

By: Cristian Lange

U.S. neocolonialism disguised as aid to countries in need, Alliance for Progress, (as Development Decade in the 60s, all this come from long long time ago) ONGs, NATO and other ‘green berets’ of same kind, is to me even more hateful because while it lies at every stage and then pretend democracy that routinely denies to its own citizens, spends billions in guns and wars and more billions to feed puppet regimes serving their geopolitical interests, and more millions in cultural and artistic policy that make a generous and paternal image in the imagination of the dispossessed and naïve masses. Not to talk about mercenaries that constantly infiltrate, colored revolutions, genocides and more and more capitalism. A sad paradise of a few at expense of a purgatory, of a hell for millions of dispossessed.

Till when we are going to spread and share videos, information with the hurry desperation in the chest as if the people of the world one day will wake up from the anesthetic that keep them indifferent or blind? Are the people anesthetized enough to be indifferent to the frightening murder of a pregnant woman as the images throughout the entire planet clearly shows? Or the civilians being shoot in front of the world? What is wrong that there is silence everywhere? it is only the mass media in hands of the governments the reason or there is something beyond that?  Is the world frightened? Frightened of what? To lose what?

The old Montesquieu’s division of Powers (le pouvoir arrête le pouvoir) Legislative, Executive and Judicial (counterbalance) is clear that today is not working because the elite took over all three powers and controls the three. The only separation of powers that currently exists is the elite and the people on the streets (protest). Which could only stop the elite is the people on the street, nothing else can stop it. It is perfectly installed, supported by the financial power which is part of, even is in control of the army forces, who do not give any coups already and so on, control all the big political parties, controls most of the media, controls the government (today this, tomorrow that, today this, tomorrow that…) What is left against the powers that the elite monopolizes right now: people on the street. No more.

There are many people doing what they can, along with true solidarity in each of our countries, the moral and mental infrastructure that one day will put an end to the war and to the prevailing sad lie that makes that evil force so powerful. One voice that will be the strength of it change, because there will be a change in the world when be the hour of men to say STOP!

Henry Kissinger: How the Ukraine crisis ends

By Henry A. Kissinger, Published: March 5 on the Washington Post

Henry Kissinger (Juergen Franck/Lionel Gelber Foundation)

Henry A. Kissinger was secretary of state from 1973 to 1977.

Public discussion on Ukraine is all about confrontation. But do we know where we are going? In my life, I have seen four wars begun with great enthusiasm and public support, all of which we did not know how to end and from three of which we withdrew unilaterally. The test of policy is how it ends, not how it begins.

Far too often the Ukrainian issue is posed as a showdown: whether Ukraine joins the East or the West. But if Ukraine is to survive and thrive, it must not be either side’s outpost against the other — it should function as a bridge between them.

Russia must accept that to try to force Ukraine into a satellite status, and thereby move Russia’s borders again, would doom Moscow to repeat its history of self-fulfilling cycles of reciprocal pressures with Europe and the United States.The West must understand that, to Russia, Ukraine can never be just a foreign country. Russian history began in what was called Kievan-Rus. The Russian religion spread from there. Ukraine has been part of Russia for centuries, and their histories were intertwined before then. Some of the most important battles for Russian freedom, starting with the Battle of Poltava in 1709 , were fought on Ukrainian soil. The Black Sea Fleet — Russia’s means of projecting power in the Mediterranean — is based by long-term lease in Sevastopol, in Crimea. Even such famed dissidents as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Joseph Brodsky insisted that Ukraine was an integral part of Russian history and, indeed, of Russia.

The European Union must recognize that its bureaucratic dilatoriness and subordination of the strategic element to domestic politics in negotiating Ukraine’s relationship to Europe contributed to turning a negotiation into a crisis. Foreign policy is the art of establishing priorities.

The Ukrainians are the decisive element.They live in a country with a complex history and a polyglot composition. The Western part was incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1939 , when Stalin andHitler divided up the spoils. Crimea, 60 percent of whose population is Russian , became part of Ukraine only in 1954 , when Nikita Khrushchev, a Ukrainian by birth, awarded it as part of the 300th-year celebration of a Russian agreement with the Cossacks. The west is largely Catholic; the east largely Russian Orthodox. The west speaks Ukrainian; the east speaks mostly Russian. Any attempt by one wing of Ukraine to dominate the other — as has been the pattern — would lead eventually to civil war or break up. To treat Ukraine as part of an East-West confrontation would scuttle for decades any prospect to bring Russia and the West — especially Russia and Europe — into a cooperative international system.

Ukraine has been independent for only 23 years; it had previously been under some kind of foreign rule since the 14th century. Not surprisingly, its leaders have not learned the art of compromise, even less of historical perspective. The politics of post-independence Ukraine clearly demonstrates that the root of the problem lies in efforts by Ukrainian politicians to impose their will on recalcitrant parts of the country, first by one faction, then by the other. That is the essence of the conflict between Viktor Yanu­kovych and his principal political rival, Yulia Tymo­shenko. They represent the two wings of Ukraine and have not been willing to share power. A wise U.S. policy toward Ukraine would seek a way for the two parts of the country to cooperate with each other. We should seek reconciliation, not the domination of a faction.

Russia and the West, and least of all the various factions in Ukraine, have not acted on this principle. Each has made the situation worse. Russia would not be able to impose a military solution without isolating itself at a time when many of its borders are already precarious. For the West, the demonization of Vladimir Putin is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one.

Putin should come to realize that, whatever his grievances, a policy of military impositions would produce another Cold War. For its part, the United States needs to avoid treating Russia as an aberrant to be patiently taught rules of conduct established by Washington. Putin is a serious strategist — on the premises of Russian history. Understanding U.S. values and psychology are not his strong suits. Nor has understanding Russian history and psychology been a strong point of U.S. policymakers.

Leaders of all sides should return to examining outcomes, not compete in posturing. Here is my notion of an outcome compatible with the values and security interests of all sides:

1. Ukraine should have the right to choose freely its economic and political associations, including with Europe.

2. Ukraine should not join NATO, a position I took seven years ago, when it last came up.

3. Ukraine should be free to create any government compatible with the expressed will of its people. Wise Ukrainian leaders would then opt for a policy of reconciliation between the various parts of their country. Internationally, they should pursue a posture comparable to that of Finland. That nation leaves no doubt about its fierce independence and cooperates with the West in most fields but carefully avoids institutional hostility toward Russia.

4. It is incompatible with the rules of the existing world order for Russia to annex Crimea. But it should be possible to put Crimea’s relationship to Ukraine on a less fraught basis. To that end, Russia would recognize Ukraine’s sovereignty over Crimea. Ukraine should reinforce Crimea’s autonomy in elections held in the presence of international observers. The process would include removing any ambiguities about the status of the Black Sea Fleet at Sevastopol.

These are principles, not prescriptions. People familiar with the region will know that not all of them will be palatable to all parties. The test is not absolute satisfaction but balanced dissatisfaction. If some solution based on these or comparable elements is not achieved, the drift toward confrontation will accelerate. The time for that will come soon enough.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/henry-kissinger-to-settle-the-ukraine-crisis-start-at-the-end/2014/03/05/46dad868-a496-11e3-8466-d34c451760b9_story.html