{"id":5526,"date":"2015-02-10T12:38:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T17:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5526"},"modified":"2015-02-10T12:38:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T17:38:43","slug":"kievs-bloody-war-is-backfiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5526","title":{"rendered":"Kiev\u2019s Bloody War Is Backfiring"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kiev\u2019s Bloody War Is Backfiring<\/a><\/h3>\n

And the War Party is pushing to prop up their Ukrainian sock puppets<\/strong><\/p>\n

When Ukrainian army officers came to the Ukrainian village of Velikaya Znamenka to tell the men to prepare to be drafted, they weren\u2019t prepared for\u00a0what happened next<\/a>. As the commanding officer was speaking, a woman seized the microphone and proceeded to tell him off: “We\u2019re sick of this war! Our husbands and sons aren\u2019t going anywhere!” She then launched into a passionate speech, denouncing the war, and the coup leaders in Kiev, to the cheers of the crowd.<\/span><\/p>\n

What she did is now a crime in Ukraine: the only reason she wasn\u2019t arrested on the spot is that the villagers wouldn\u2019t have permitted it. But in Ukrainian Transcarpathia, well-known journalist for Ukrainian Channel 112\u00a0Ruslan Kotsaba<\/a>\u00a0has been\u00a0arrested<\/a>and charged with “treason” and “espionage” for making a video in which he\u00a0declared<\/a>: “I would rather sit in jail for three to five years than go to the east to kill my Ukrainian brothers. This fear-mongering must be stopped.” Kotsaba may sit in jail for\u00a0twenty-three<\/i>\u00a0years, the prescribed term for the charges filed against him.<\/p>\n

Kotsaba\u2019s arrest is part of a desperate effort by the Ukrainian government to intimidate the growing antiwar and anti-draft movement, which threatens to upend Kiev\u2019s dreams of conquering the rebellious eastern provinces. Kotsaba\u2019s particular crime,\u00a0according to prosecutors<\/a>, was in describing the conflict as a civil war rather than a Russian “invasion.” This is a point the authorities cannot tolerate: the same meme being relentlessly broadcast by the Western media \u2013 that an indigenous rebellion with substantial support is really a\u00a0Russian plot<\/a>\u00a0to “subvert” Ukraine and reestablish the Warsaw Pact \u2013 now has the force of law in Ukraine. Anyone who contradicts it is subject to arrest.<\/p>\n

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Kiev\u2019s Bloody War Is Backfiring And the War Party is pushing to prop up their Ukrainian sock puppets When Ukrainian army officers came to the Ukrainian village of Velikaya Znamenka to tell the men to prepare to be drafted, they weren\u2019t prepared for\u00a0what happened next. As the commanding officer was speaking, a woman seized the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3404,1610,821,862],"class_list":["post-5526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-draft","tag-kiev","tag-ukraine","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5527,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5526\/revisions\/5527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}