{"id":181494,"date":"2016-06-09T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/06\/09\/nulands-folly\/"},"modified":"2016-06-09T18:35:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T23:35:00","slug":"nulands-folly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/06\/09\/nulands-folly\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuland’s Folly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following the US supported coup, The Ukraine has turned into an open air arms bazaar for criminals and terrorists<\/a>:<\/p>\n

When the the Ukrainian Security Service<\/a>, the SBU, announced recently that it had detained a 25-year-old French citizen, Gr\u00e9goire Moutaux<\/a>, who was trying to cross the country\u2019s border into Poland in a vehicle full of explosives and weapons, that sounded like a major blow against terrorism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

SBU spokesman Vasyl Hrytsak declared that after two weeks of investigation, which is to say of interrogation, \u201cThe Ukrainian Security Service managed to prevent 15 terrorist attacks targeting the territory of France.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the SBU this alleged French criminal attempted to smuggle five Kalashnikov assault rifles, more than 50,000 bullets, two RPG-7 anti-tank grenade-launchers, 100 electronic detonators, and 125 kilograms of TNT across Ukraine\u2019s frontier.<\/p>\n

Perhaps. But in Kiev, the announcement was greeted with deep skepticism. Neither local journalists nor independent observers place much trust in SBU reports these days, and with good reason.<\/span>
<\/span>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span>

<\/span>\u201cUnfortunately, when both Ukraine and Europe are endangered by terrorism and need professional security services more than ever, there is not much confidence in what the SBU tells us,\u201d independent journalist Saken Aymurzaev told The Daily Beast.<\/span>

<\/span>The ideological and ethnic conflict that has torn Ukraine apart over the last two hears has attracted radical nationalists from different countries, some of them involved in weapon smuggling. Among these, notably, were a few French volunteers, ideological supporters of pro-Russian forces who were fighting in eastern Ukraine two years ago<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Poland had to increase security measures last year to try to prevent criminals attempting to transport weapons from Ukraine into its territory. If in 2013 Polish police seized only three firearms smuggled from Ukraine, last year law enforcement arrested smugglers with 53 guns, and there are many, many more where those came from.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Between right wing Neocons, and Liberal Interventionists, our foreign policy establishment is going to destroy us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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