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| − | ==Official Narrative==
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| − | This is still being written. The western {{ccm}} is full of 'the wrath of the righteous', pompous demonisation of Russia and little of substance - the usual establishment-loyal tub-thumping propaganda IOW. The leaked telephone call between [[Victoria Nuland]] and [[Geoffrey Pyatt]] has also complicated the construction of a half-way credible {{ON}} too so, along with the legal status of the new Kiev authorities being - at best - murky, it is simply ignored.
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| − | ==The reality==
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| − | A comprehensive run-down on events in the Ukraine
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| − | This video is a comprehensive exploration of what has been happening in the Ukraine both leading up to and since the violence in Kiev began in late November 2013. Following the violent ousting of the democratically elected government in Mid-February 2014 (an election certified as 'free and fair' by all international observers), the legal basis on which Russia rests its position and reaction to those events is threefold:
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| − | #Viktor Yanukovych remains the ''only'' constitutionally comstituted legal representative of the Ukraininan State
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| − | #The Kiev vote which claims to have deposed him was made by a rump of its 450 elected members (the remainder having fled to their Eastern constituencies in fear for their lives), acting outside its standing orders with no quorum and with those members who ''did'' vote doing so under threat of violence by armed men inside the parliament chamber - in other words under duress.
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| − | #Russian forces of up to 27,000 personnel are authorised, by treaty with the legal Ukrainian State, to be present in the Crimea and to conduct the operational maneuvers Russia deems necessary to protect the Black Sea Fleet naval base at Sevastopol.
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| − | As of 3 March 2014, Russia claims ''not'' to have imported any personnel not authorised under the treaty and, in the absence of a legal authority in Kiev, to have merely undertaken patrolling activities requested of it by the legally elected authorities in Crimea itself.
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| − | Russia also claims that it has been requested in writing by the Ukrainian President Yanukovych to use its military to restore legal authority to Ukraine <ref>[http://en.itar-tass.com/russia/721881 Churkin: Yanukovych requests Russia to use armed forces to restore order in Ukraine] - ITAR-TASS 4 March 2014</ref>.
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| − | As one of the contributors to the video says: an apt analogy for the respective Russian and US actions since the crisis began is that ''" Russia is playing chess while the US is playing poker and American football - bluffing brute force with a pair of sevens"''. President Putin is calling the US bluff and it is to be hoped that the West really IS bluffing because Putin certainly isn't.
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| − | It should also be clear to rational observers that, despite western faux-outrage at their claimed ''"Russian military invasion of a sovereign state"'', were it not for Russia's actions to date [4 March 2014] and the fact that Russia continues to recognise it as a Unitary State, the Ukraine would have fragmented into civil war. Were Russia to withdraw its recognition, there can be little doubt that open civil war would be the result.
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| − | ==Reports of Sponsorship==
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| − | In "[[US]] and [[EU]] Are Paying Ukrainian Rioters & Protesters", a [[Boiling Frogs Post]] article from February 2014, Dr [[Paul Craig Roberts]] alleged that "A number of confirmations have come in from readers that Washington is fueling the violent protests in Ukraine with [US] taxpayer dollars".<ref>http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2014/02/18/us-and-eu-are-paying-ukrainian-rioters-protesters/#sthash.ASrQOisX.dpuf</ref>
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| − | ==References==
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