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Ultra-nationalist Ukrainian bully shot dead in gunfight (Original Post) snappyturtle Mar 2014 OP
And this is the regime the US is supporting in Ukraine.... truth2power Mar 2014 #1
actually the U.S.-supported regime killed him Enrique Mar 2014 #3
Actually, i considered that scenario when I posted, truth2power Mar 2014 #6
Nuland's boys..... ballyhoo Mar 2014 #4
I wish people would stop believing and repeating that lie. Daemonaquila Mar 2014 #5
And it's not like the US hasn't done this before. When the CIA was still a snappyturtle Mar 2014 #9
Can't possibly be true - Its an RT report dipsydoodle Mar 2014 #2
TY dipsydoodle. I knew it had to be sarcasm. n/t truth2power Mar 2014 #7
Thanks dipsydoodle! nt snappyturtle Mar 2014 #8
It's actually "Reuters in Kiev" (at the top of the article), making it even more credible Catherina Mar 2014 #10

truth2power

(8,219 posts)
1. And this is the regime the US is supporting in Ukraine....
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 09:14 AM
Mar 2014

Anti-Semites fighting amongst themselves.

While the US claims the REFERENDUM in Crimea is illegal.

You can't make this stuff up.

Enrique

(27,461 posts)
3. actually the U.S.-supported regime killed him
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 09:28 AM
Mar 2014

and apparently the RW extremists are to some extent in conflict with the U.S.-supported regime, as well as with Russia:

Muzychko was a member of the hardline Right Sector and the group's co-ordinator for western Ukraine, the country's nationalist heartland bordering the EU. Police said he was wanted for hooliganism and an attack on a local prosecutor.

Russia, which cited the likes of Right Sector as justification for its move to annex Crimea and protect the peninsula's ethnic Russian majority from Ukrainian "fascists", said this month that Muzychko was under investigation for fighting alongside rebels in Chechnya in the 1990s.

truth2power

(8,219 posts)
6. Actually, i considered that scenario when I posted,
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 10:45 AM
Mar 2014

but that doesn't make our side the good guys, not by a long shot.

I would interpret that event as some sort of internecine warfare.

I stand by what I said about the US supporting anti-Semites.

 

Daemonaquila

(1,712 posts)
5. I wish people would stop believing and repeating that lie.
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 10:29 AM
Mar 2014

The extreme right wing is NOT the bulk of the parties and pols who engineered the takeover. I'll put money on seeing more of this in the coming weeks as the folks in control purge their more extreme and thuggish "partners." History repeats. If anything, the EU and US are the impetus for this and, I'm sure, a few other deaths past and future. They don't want to do business with politicians who have "henchmen." Looks bad.

snappyturtle

(14,656 posts)
9. And it's not like the US hasn't done this before. When the CIA was still a
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 12:39 PM
Mar 2014

toddler, it infiltrated Iranian society to put our man, the Shah, into power.

When I think about who is at the table of US foreign policy and international
cohorts, I envision having tea with Alice in Wonderland and the Mad Hatter.
imho

dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)
2. Can't possibly be true - Its an RT report
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 09:22 AM
Mar 2014

I also can't imagine what possessed the Guardian to report on the same lie :

Ukrainian far-right activist shot dead by police.

A prominent Ukrainian far-right activist, part of a hardline nationalist movement that played a leading role in the overthrow of President Viktor Yanukovych, has been shot dead by police.

The interior ministry said officers from the Sokol special unit had killed Oleksander Muzychko, also known as Sashko Bily, as he tried to escape from a cafe in the western Ukrainian region of Rivne on Monday night.

"At the moment of arrest, at shouts of 'Stop! Police!', Muzychko fled, jumping through a window and opened fire," the first deputy interior minister, Volodymyr Yevdokimov, told a news conference in Kiev. The officers returned fire, killing Muzychko, he said.

Muzychko was a member of the hardline Right Sector and the group's co-ordinator for western Ukraine, the country's nationalist heartland bordering the EU. Police said he was wanted for hooliganism and an attack on a local prosecutor.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/25/ukrainian-far-right-activist-shot-dead

Catherina

(35,568 posts)
10. It's actually "Reuters in Kiev" (at the top of the article), making it even more credible
Tue Mar 25, 2014, 02:50 PM
Mar 2014

I was surprised to see such an even-handed article from the Guardian, then I looked up and saw "Reuters in Kiev".
The Guardian's reporting on Ukraine has been dismal. I'm sure Luke Harding will have a follow-up tomorrow making Muzychko out to be a cuddly boy scout.

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