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adavid

(140 posts) Mon Mar 10, 2014, 03:16 PM Mar 2014

I have noticed .....

a lot of Liberal bloggers and sites that are claiming US contractors (Mercs) are in Ukraine. Anyone else notice?

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I have noticed ..... (Original Post) adavid Mar 2014 OP

The Nation has an article about this..... Little Star Mar 2014 #1

Little Star, You always post the most titillating little gems Autumn Mar 2014 #2

Hey.... Little Star Mar 2014 #3

Note that "The Nation" here is the English-language Pakistani newspaper... JHB Mar 2014 #4

Some bystanders seeing unmarked soldiers shouted "blackwater." Squinch Mar 2014 #5

Here's some insight from the article in The Nation: okaawhatever Mar 2014 #6

Little Star

(17,055 posts)

1. The Nation has an article about this.....

Reply to adavid (Original post)

Mon Mar 10, 2014, 03:21 PM

Mar 2014

http://www.nation.com.pk/international/10-Mar-2014/has-blackwater-been-deployed-to-ukraine

Autumn

(45,120 posts)

2. Little Star, You always post the most titillating little gems

Reply to Little Star (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 10, 2014, 03:24 PM

Mar 2014

Little Star

(17,055 posts)

3. Hey....

Reply to Autumn (Reply #2)

Mon Mar 10, 2014, 05:21 PM

Mar 2014

JHB

(37,163 posts)

4. Note that "The Nation" here is the English-language Pakistani newspaper...

Reply to Little Star (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 10, 2014, 05:56 PM

Mar 2014

...and not US-based "The Nation" magazine.

Not a comment on the source, just disambiguation of like-named media sources.

Squinch

(51,026 posts)

5. Some bystanders seeing unmarked soldiers shouted "blackwater."

Reply to adavid (Original post)

Mon Mar 10, 2014, 05:59 PM

Mar 2014

Russia is open about the fact that they sent in their own unmarked soldiers.

I don't find anything about this that makes me think it really IS Blackwater. Especially since Blackwater doesn't exist under that name any more.

okaawhatever

(9,469 posts)

6. Here's some insight from the article in The Nation:

Reply to adavid (Original post)

Mon Mar 10, 2014, 05:59 PM

Mar 2014

He added: ‘Of course the other possibility is it's all Russian propaganda.’ Any suggestion that a US mercenary outfit like Academi had begun operating in the country could give Russian president Vladimir Putin the pretext for a military invasion.

Last month a report in the Daily Beast claimed that 'informed sources' in Moscow had said the troops belong to Vnevedomstvenaya Okhrana, a private security contracting bureau similar to Academi that is close to the Kremlin

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