Towards Civil War in Ukraine

"The situation in Ukraine is evolving so quickly that if you look away for a day or two it becomes difficult to assemble an accurate picture of what is going on" Amen

Ukraine Sliding Towards Civil War as Kiev Desperately Clings to Power

As the Ukrainian military forces begin to defect, and several cities dig in after brushing off the first attempted crackdown, civil war is becoming a very real threat

SCG News,

16 April, 2014

The coup appointed government in Kiev is not in control of the Ukraine. At first it was just civilian uprisings in the East of the country, which officials in Ukraine vowed to quickly crush under anti-terrorism laws, but government forces have floundered in their attempts to bring the situation under control.

BBC's David Stern in Donetsk reported on Wednesday that "Ukraine's 'anti-terrorist' operation is looking more and more a non-event - or worse, an outright fiasco. Kiev officials have admitted they have no time to lose to extinguish the growing insurrection in the country's east."

Now as Ukrainian military forces begin to defect, and several cities dig in after brushing off the first attempted crackdown, civil war is becoming a very real threat.

The video below gives a glimpse of the situation on the ground, but the commentary should be taken with a grain of salt since Kiev has since confirmed that the column was indeed Ukrainian. However they have done their best to spin the story by saying that the column was seized. The BBC ran with the "seized" narrative without blinking in spite of the statements made by the soldiers themselves

In what can only be interpreted as an act of desperation, the provisional government recently announced the formation of a "people's volunteer corps", which are groups of untrained civilians which will be given fully automatic weapons and will patrol alongside Ukrainian police and military.

Yulia Timoshenko claimed that this was necessary because: "Law enforcement structures and the army are failing to cope with their tasks because they have been plundered".

It's worth noting that using untrained civilians as foot soldiers was Hitler's last tactic right before Berlin fell to the allies.

The situation in Ukraine is evolving so quickly that if you look away for a day or two it becomes difficult to assemble an accurate picture of what is going on. It doesn't help that corporate media is intentionally distorting the narrative. Every effort is being made to convince the public that this entire crisis is the result of Russia actively attempting to destabilize the region, and that those questioning the coup appointed government's claims to power have no legitimate grievances. To support this narrative they are being forced to stretch and massage the facts into elaborate shapes that border on the absurd.

This so called provisional government in Kiev, has no legitimate claim to authority. They took power using violence and coercion and the leaders were hand picked by American diplomats. The fact that they were willing to deploy military units to crush uprisings in Eastern Ukraine, shows their true colors. The fact that the military has refused to follow through with their orders demonstrates how fragile their rule really is.

According to the BBC, one Ukrainian officer said he had not "come to fight" and would never obey orders to shoot his "own people". Apparently this is a bad thing when the government in question is a NATO puppet.

Washington may still have a few more tricks up its sleeve though. According to Reuters the official White House spokesman confirmed that the director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, John Brennan, had been in Kiev over the weekend though he decried what he called "false claims" leveled at the CIA by Russian authorities. This response came after a Russian news outlet broke the story that Brennan had secretly visited Kiev using a false name.

"U.S. and Russian intelligence officials have met over the years. To imply that U.S. officials meeting with their counterparts (in Kiev) is anything other than in the same spirit is absurd,"

You know what's even more absurd? The idea that anyone would take anything the U.S. government says seriously at this point