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In reply to the discussion: Ukraine Cites 15,000 Russian Troops and Rebels Amid Putin's 'Take Kiev' Remark [View all]Tommy_Carcetti
(44,493 posts)38. And your proof of such a "coup"? nt
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Ukraine Cites 15,000 Russian Troops and Rebels Amid Putin's 'Take Kiev' Remark [View all]
Purveyor
Sep 2014
OP
Russia conquered Crimea, supports the rebels, sent tanks, jokes about invading Kiev...
DetlefK
Sep 2014
#1
The 15,000 figure seems to have come from a Russian NGO, Committee of Soldiers' Mothers.
pampango
Sep 2014
#13
The analogy is preposterous. But that aside, Ukraine's government is democratically elected.
Tommy_Carcetti
Sep 2014
#21
You said there wasn't a democratically elected government in Ukraine. That's just not true.
Tommy_Carcetti
Sep 2014
#32
No one was disenfranchised by the Ukrainian government in the May presidential election.
Tommy_Carcetti
Sep 2014
#67
Except those pictures of ballot boxes with trash in them were just western propaganda
davidpdx
Sep 2014
#80
So who was the small group? And how was Yanukovych forcibly removed from the country? nt
Tommy_Carcetti
Sep 2014
#52
But a large group of soldiers' mothers may be able to piece together information from
pampango
Sep 2014
#18
And any effort to determine that number without the consent of the 'top military leadership' is
pampango
Sep 2014
#25
And who says that this "Committee of Soldiers' Mothers" is a funded by Western interests?
pampango
Sep 2014
#30
"Like I said, you choose to believe things that you want to be true. I am a skeptic."
pampango
Sep 2014
#40
Again you accuse the Russian NGO of being "Western aid-dependent" without offering any proof. Just
pampango
Sep 2014
#45
If you presume that Russians concerned with peace and human rights must be foreign-funded
pampango
Sep 2014
#62
That type of audit cannot happen. It is prohibited under the 2012 NGO law Putin signed.
pampango
Sep 2014
#69
And yet you were willing to accept an audit done by an international accounting firm.
pampango
Sep 2014
#73
"The credibility of the NGO's shall remain suspect." There is no proof you would accept otherwise
pampango
Sep 2014
#75
Until July 2012 it was perfectly legal for NGO's in Russia (as in all but the most authoritarian
pampango
Sep 2014
#70
Aw, Pootie, sweet sweet Pootie, I knew you'd finally invade when your hired goons couldn't
TwilightGardener
Sep 2014
#22