Obama orders Pentagon advisers to Ukraine to fend off Putin-backed rebels

[reorg]

Source: The Washington Times

By Maggie Ybarra-The Washington Times Tuesday, July 22, 2014

A team of Pentagon officials is heading to Ukraine to help the country rebuild its fractured military, a mission that lawmakers and analysts expect will result in recommendations for greater military assistance in the country’s fight against pro-Russia separatists amid international outrage over the downing of a commercial airplane.

Within the next few weeks, a group of Defense Department representatives who specialize in strategy and policy will head to Kiev to evaluate specific programs that the United States may want to help bolster, said Army Col. Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman.

Their objective is to work with Ukrainians to “shape and establish an enduring program for future U.S. efforts to support the Ukrainian military through subject-matter expert teams and long-term advisers,” he said.

Rep. Duncan Hunter, California Republican, offered qualified support for the plan.

Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/22/pentagon-team-dispatched-to-ukraine-amid-crisis-wi/

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I hope this is false news, since nobody seems to have picked it up except the Kyiv Post:

http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine-abroad/washington-times-obama-orders-pentagon-advisers-to-ukraine-to-fend-off-putin-backed-rebels-357573.html

[yurbud]

1. we can support rebels and coup governments wherever we like

but there's something nefarious about it if anyone else does it.

[Comrade Grumpy]

2. We're exceptional. n/t

[DeSwiss]

3. Gobbledygook!

Their objective is to work with Ukrainians to “shape and establish an enduring program for future U.S. efforts to support the Ukrainian military through subject-matter expert teams and long-term advisers,” he said.

Does anyone know what this means? I think this is English or some similar language, but I won't be held to that assessment. I mean the words are familiar and all. But the order in which they're put mean nothing since after you've finished reading them, it still has no meaning.

- I don't know who wrote this and released it, but I hope for their sake they did so anonymously.

[reorg]

5. Col. Steve Warren?

[DeSwiss]

6. AF?

- Hmmm. Glue-sniffer, or maybe high-altitude too many times without a mask?

[candelista]

13. That part about "long-term advisers" seems ominous.

But you're right. One can only guess at what this means. It's the kind of thing they say when they want to keep their options open.

[zeemike]

16. It's intended to be Gobbledygook

To make what they really intend to do appear noble.

Bottom line, we are going in there with money and bullets, and if that is not enough troupes or a nice Blackwater contract at least...and the downed airliner is the excuse...just as I thought it would be.

[GeorgeGist]

20. Dr. Strangelove.

[BootinUp]

4. Washington Times....Fart.

[totodeinhere]

7. For what it's worth RT has also reported this.

http://rt.com/usa/175048-pentagon-advisers-ukraine-military/

The RT story quotes both the Times and the Daily Beast.

[Iliyah]

8. Right wing so are the RT

I guess RT is trying to take fake new's place huh.

[conservaphobe]

9. Good. Thanks, Mr. President. nt

[jakeXT]

10. What happened to the ones last month ? Did they get lost ?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/06/05/us-sending-advisers-gear-to-ukraine-/10046845/

[reorg]

12. word for word the same passage, LOL

Lainez said that assessment is being viewed as a first step toward helping to "shape and establish an enduring program for future U.S. efforts to support the Ukrainian military through training, education, and assistance."

The Col. must have read it to the caller from the WT when she was eager to learn whether the US will finally DO SOMETHING to go against the evil Russians

Anyway, it is still interesting to see that the US is already "advising" the military of Ukraine (and presumably what kind of hardware they might need).

[GeorgeGist]

21. Apparently "training, education, and assistance."

Was too transparent.

[jakeXT]

22. I wonder if the Russian Aggression Prevention Act of 2014 can be passed

It has goodies like non-NATO ally status

“Provides major non-NATO ally status for Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova (during the period in which each of such countries meets specified criteria) for purposes of the transfer or possible transfer of defense articles or defense services,” and “Directs the President to increase: (1) U.S. Armed Forces interactions with the armed forces of Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia; and (2) U.S and NATO security assistance to such states.”

http://journal-neo.org/2014/07/19/legislating-the-way-to-world-war-3/

https://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/2277

[Ash_F]

11. This isn't good, that is how Vietnam escalated out of control.

Obama shouldn't be going for anything other than a cease-fire, truce or power sharing agreement at this time.

[lexx21]

17. I absolutely agree...

It started with "advisers" then some troops, then an ass load of troops.........

We really need to stay out of that crap completely.

[cosmicone]

14. Kyiv post is working for the Ukrainian puppet government

and ratcheting this up.

[herding cats]

19. They're quoting and linking back to the Moonie Times.

My guess is it's another Washington Times exaggeration.

[broiles]

15. What could possibly go wrong?

[herding cats]

18. I see Sun Myung Moon's legacy lives on. nt

[sulphurdunn]

23. These morons

are gonna keep fucking around until they start WWIII.