According to the Israeli website alyaexpress-news.com, a unit of 35 armed and masked men and women on Maidan square is commanded by four former Israeli Army officers, who wear a kippah under their helmets.
The site claims that these former officers, who live today in Ukraine, joined the movement since the beginning of the events alongside the Freedom Party (Svoboda), although the latter has a reputation for being virulently anti-Semitic.
With the help of the Israeli Embassy, this intervention force reportedly also handled the transfer of 17 seriously injured persons to Israel for treatment.
The presence of Israeli units had been reported in a similar scenario in Georgia, both in during the “Rose Revolution” (2003) that in the war against South Ossetia (2008).
Exactly, I have a lot of archived info on the start of the Ukrainian proxy war. It's just the US then attacked Yemen in 2015 to reinstall their puppet Hadi. That became my priority even though I continued to follow Ukraine. There were plenty of people that covered Ukraine but no one cared about Yemen.
I hope Voltaire comes back up. I do not know what happened with that site now.🤔
85 Days in Slovyansk is a good read of accounts of separatist and volunteers during the 2014 siege of Slovyansk. It's a good accounting while also an insight into Russian right wing perspectives towards the Donbas.
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Because the West wanted to provoke Russia into a conflict while making everyone believe it was Russia who started it, that it was all "unprovoked". This would then be used to justify a volley of economic sanctions, which (hopefully for the West) could spark a regime change in Moscow. A Yeltsin-style puppet could then enact policies that would cause internal tensions and eventual balkanization of the Russian Federation.
Getting back to your question... To achieve all of that the US and the West had to make sure information spaces are sanitized as much as possible, so that even mildly skeptical, not even Russian-friendly voices are silenced. Hence, if all that's hitting your eyeballs tells you it was a Russian force - you would indeed think Russia started it.
My answer would be that the separatist forces did ask Russia for help (at least materially), much like anyone would have done, after the UA paramilitary groups started killing them. This was used as justification that Russia was "meddling" in Ukraine and trying to get troops in. But without this help, the Donbas Republics would have never lasted. Crimea already had Russian soldiers on their soil due to earlier treaties and were mostly spared (they also blocked the roads and bridges into Crimea preemptively, which helped)
I feel however that Lenix's answer below gives a much stronger argument as it's not one of response (Russia responding to aggression) but one of clear malice (West doing everything to provoke a conflict). Lenix helped me with some info on this piece regarding the 2014 events, you can trust them easily!
i am all for assigning responsibility of provocation to the west but nobody is forcing Russians to murder Ukrainians, if Russia wanted war with America it is to the East not the West:
There is a contradiction in your comment; if you agree to assign responsibility for provoking Russia to the West then by definition they are the ones that forced it to "kill Ukrainians" as you put it. Hence the blame for the war rests on the West who made sure it would happen by any means necessary, including staging a false flag massacre about which you are curiously silent.
Russia doesn't want war, so why should they try to attack the US?
I don't see what your comparison has to do with the subject matter. Wives don't deserve to be hit and don't provoke their husbands into hitting them in the first place? It's a strange comparison to make.
Do you disagree then that a false flag massacre was committed in the Maidan Square, that Yanukovych was ousted unconstitutionally, and that a far-right government was put in place of which their first order of business was to stir up trouble in the Russian-speaking regions to lead to a civil war? After which thousands of Donbass civilians were killed at the coup government's order, leading to Minsk I and II with Russia and EU countries mediating, which both failed instantly, leading to Russia finally invading the Donbass to protect them?
I mean, I'm just repeating the entire article here. But you're essentially saying it's fine for the West to meddle in Ukraine and kill Ukrainians but not fine the moment Russia does it too.
Camouflaged Israeli soldiers on Maidan Square
VOLTAIRE NETWORK | 3 MARCH 2014
FRANÇAIS ESPAÑOL فارسى
According to the Israeli website alyaexpress-news.com, a unit of 35 armed and masked men and women on Maidan square is commanded by four former Israeli Army officers, who wear a kippah under their helmets.
The site claims that these former officers, who live today in Ukraine, joined the movement since the beginning of the events alongside the Freedom Party (Svoboda), although the latter has a reputation for being virulently anti-Semitic.
With the help of the Israeli Embassy, this intervention force reportedly also handled the transfer of 17 seriously injured persons to Israel for treatment.
The presence of Israeli units had been reported in a similar scenario in Georgia, both in during the “Rose Revolution” (2003) that in the war against South Ossetia (2008).
https://www.voltairenet.org/article182440.html
(I can not get Voltaire site to load at present but I saved the text)
And this was written in 2014...
Exactly, I have a lot of archived info on the start of the Ukrainian proxy war. It's just the US then attacked Yemen in 2015 to reinstall their puppet Hadi. That became my priority even though I continued to follow Ukraine. There were plenty of people that covered Ukraine but no one cared about Yemen.
I hope Voltaire comes back up. I do not know what happened with that site now.🤔
If you’re on Twitter, aldanmarki has a lot of information on Yemen!
Thank you! 🇾🇪
Awesome writing. Can you recommend a few resources for further reading on Ukraine, Yanukovich, IMF, Nazi groups and the eventual war?
Thanks for reading! I'll ask around as well but I can recommend this resource: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/2014_Ukrainian_coup_d%27etat to start with, following the blue links and the references listed.
85 Days in Slovyansk is a good read of accounts of separatist and volunteers during the 2014 siege of Slovyansk. It's a good accounting while also an insight into Russian right wing perspectives towards the Donbas.
Good material, maximally verified and without "water". Keep it up !
Thank you, and thank you for reading!
Why is all the stuff I'm reading claim that it was a Russian force who started the conflict in the Donbas?
Because the West wanted to provoke Russia into a conflict while making everyone believe it was Russia who started it, that it was all "unprovoked". This would then be used to justify a volley of economic sanctions, which (hopefully for the West) could spark a regime change in Moscow. A Yeltsin-style puppet could then enact policies that would cause internal tensions and eventual balkanization of the Russian Federation.
Getting back to your question... To achieve all of that the US and the West had to make sure information spaces are sanitized as much as possible, so that even mildly skeptical, not even Russian-friendly voices are silenced. Hence, if all that's hitting your eyeballs tells you it was a Russian force - you would indeed think Russia started it.
My answer would be that the separatist forces did ask Russia for help (at least materially), much like anyone would have done, after the UA paramilitary groups started killing them. This was used as justification that Russia was "meddling" in Ukraine and trying to get troops in. But without this help, the Donbas Republics would have never lasted. Crimea already had Russian soldiers on their soil due to earlier treaties and were mostly spared (they also blocked the roads and bridges into Crimea preemptively, which helped)
I feel however that Lenix's answer below gives a much stronger argument as it's not one of response (Russia responding to aggression) but one of clear malice (West doing everything to provoke a conflict). Lenix helped me with some info on this piece regarding the 2014 events, you can trust them easily!
i am all for assigning responsibility of provocation to the west but nobody is forcing Russians to murder Ukrainians, if Russia wanted war with America it is to the East not the West:
There is a contradiction in your comment; if you agree to assign responsibility for provoking Russia to the West then by definition they are the ones that forced it to "kill Ukrainians" as you put it. Hence the blame for the war rests on the West who made sure it would happen by any means necessary, including staging a false flag massacre about which you are curiously silent.
Russia doesn't want war, so why should they try to attack the US?
It is not a contradiction; provocation does NOT make response inevitable; nor does it determine the manner or timing of any response.
Otherwise you believe every husband who beats his wife that she provoked him so she deserved it!
I don't see what your comparison has to do with the subject matter. Wives don't deserve to be hit and don't provoke their husbands into hitting them in the first place? It's a strange comparison to make.
Do you disagree then that a false flag massacre was committed in the Maidan Square, that Yanukovych was ousted unconstitutionally, and that a far-right government was put in place of which their first order of business was to stir up trouble in the Russian-speaking regions to lead to a civil war? After which thousands of Donbass civilians were killed at the coup government's order, leading to Minsk I and II with Russia and EU countries mediating, which both failed instantly, leading to Russia finally invading the Donbass to protect them?
I mean, I'm just repeating the entire article here. But you're essentially saying it's fine for the West to meddle in Ukraine and kill Ukrainians but not fine the moment Russia does it too.
no, I don’t agree, invading hasn’t protected the Donbass its destroyed the Donbass.
You're littering, man.