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Postcards from the Ukraine

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Diane Gee


Of course, with a little humor, she also posted Russia's likely resolution to that problem, with a disclaimer.  Quite genius. 

"They could but wouldn't. Putin declared about ending up military actions against Ukraine. He took over Crimea as a strategic for Russia's security territory. He explained his doings by the historical reference - it has always been Russian land. Truth."




It gets more serious as the week unfolded though...

Yesterday 50 NATO militaries were seen in the supermarket in Donetsk, eastern hot spot of Ukraine.


This is not the only report I have had as such, as I will show with my 3rd and final vignette.
 


She added:

Diane, I don't know about this incident but the American militaries have been seen in my city - it's a real fact.


Mostly, she is a hard-working, married mom, who has to travel from Donetsk to Kiev to work.  She thinks the people are mostly good, and misses the Ukraine that was, for all its flaws... a place where ethnic differences mattered not, in a unified Ukraine.  We agreed all governments are corrupt at most levels, and that the rich, the "oligarchs" if you will, frequently if not always line their pockets more at the expense of the poor. 

Most of the people were happy that the EU agreement wasn't signed because that would only lead to MORE oligarchs stealing from them. But?  There were legitimate protests too, before the Nazis took over.  Between deals with the East and deals with the West, the people deserve more.  The West-backed fascist takeover by the Nazis, and the ensuing paramilitary state, will never do that for them, and they are well aware of it.

Picture David Duke overthrowing the US government.  The US government is corrupt, but a Nazi extremist is not the answer, and we on the left, and those not of white ethnicity, would be shaking in our boots.  That is how Ukrainians feel for the most part.  Tense, wary, afraid of their future... all while trying to go about the business of earning a wage, going to college, feeding their families, taking care of their kids and marriage.

And they have NO DOUBT that this is CIA backed.

There are pockets of resistance everywhere, at great risk to themselves.  Some are even guarding weapons caches against the new government accessing them.


Our activists are blocking the stores with arms in salt mines here in Artemovsk. They are taking risks [for themselves and their] families.  These arms are considered to use against population and to equip the new National Army made of neo nazi. As I know.

A lot, a lot of mines here, and miners are very serious people.


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Diane Gee is a writer, ranter, radio show host and scathing critic of the status quo. She is a Contributing Author at Cindy Sheehan's Soapblox, Senior Editor at The Greanville Post, and her own blog, The Wild Wild Left; as well as host of a Featured (more...)
 
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