Another group that I don't make that separation with as foreigners
are the Don Cossacks( Kozaki). This is their traditional and historic
home and land. The Kozaki live on both sides of the border. Everyone
here has family on both sides also. If someone was shooting or
bombing your family- the question is would you help your own family
if you could?
To drive the point home about the fact there is no Russian military invasion or intervention, it helps that the Obama administration uses social media as an intelligence source. Contrary to the administration and media there never was a Russian military presence here.
America's most famous nazi, the Ukrainian-American nationalist Mark Paslawsky stated bluntly on Aug. 2nd that it looked like they would win soon as long as Putin stays away. Paslawsky was fighting with the murderous Donbass battalion and would have been in our area right along the Russian border at the time he was interviewed by Vice News and tweeted there was no Russian military presence in Ukraine.
The Russians he was quoted as hating are the people of Donbass. The Russians he said he was fighting are the people of Donbass. Lenin broke Donbass off of Russia and made it part of Ukraine because they were against his revolution too. Donbass Cossacks were the Tzar's personal bodyguards and against the 1917 revolution.
If you don't believe me- Believe the Nazi. Paslawski tweeted under "bruce springnote.
Weapons Inspections
Have you ever thought about going up to a soldier in a war zone to just take his weapon and inspect it? Yeah well, its not a recommended practice unless you are with an officer that has the clout to make it happen. I was allowed to inspect weapons at the checkpoints, barracks, and close to the front-line.
At first they weren't sure what I was doing. When I demanded to see the first weapon their eyes kind of got real wide and the soldier looked at the officer first terrified and then angrily.
Each AK has a manufacture date on the stock side, and/or back of the gun, or depending on year of manufacture. The Ukrainian and American news is full of reports about new high end Russian weapons crossing the border. The etched dates for all the weapons I saw ranged from 1948 to 1963. The newest one I saw belonged to the Commander "Sergei77"-1963.
Having written on this before and keeping abreast since the conflict started I wasn't surprised. I have reported regularly when Ukrainian armories have been taken over as well as tank and artillery repair yards. These have been the main source of arms in Donbass. How tank military storage, junkyards and repair yards containing hundreds of tanks each remained out of most western media is beyond me.
The inflow of large numbers of Russian tanks theory falls apart as soon as you look at it objectively. The Russians don't make these models. They were made in Ukraine and Russia hasn't used them since Soviet days. They are still made in Ukraine for export though. The newer models Novo Rus now has were collected in battle, stolen, or left behind by Kiev's forces when they ran out of fuel.
Some of The People I Met
Donetsk has a very familiar air to it. It reminds me a lot of Fayetteville, NC. Soldiers and people were all over the street. Soldiers were running in formation, marching, or just walking around. Like Fayetteville there were no off duty soldiers with weapons- not one. In fact there were no weapons on the streets at all.
No one looked threatened and it was a far cry from my own experience with the Ukrainians leveling weapons at every passerby in my own town when they were here.
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