I was waiting for it. Notice the red-black flag of OUN (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists).
This is another picture from today's march:
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For those who are not aware:
OUN were Ukrainian fascists and German collaborators and the radical wing OUN-B modeled itself explicitly after Nazi ideology and was responsible for the genocide of Poles and Jews in Western Ukraine. They are a fringe in present day Ukrainian politics but they are not irrelevant in the broader political context. Stepan Bandera, the leader of OUN-B, was awarded posthumously with the title of Hero of Ukraine by Viktor Yushchenko. Bandera was also a likely British/American asset after WW2 and was assassinated by KGB in 1959. OUN has had extensive support among the Ukrainian diaspora in the west. The funding from North America that allowed for the establishment of volunteer units like Azov came through those connections and directly to nationalist organizations.
Both Yushchenko (Our Ukraine), Poroshenko (Solidarity/European Solidarity) and Timoshenko (Fatherland) were reaching for nationalist electorate. Yatsenuk, Turchynov and Avakov were directly connected to it through People's Front and the volunteer units. The nationalists are their fighting force and it is a deliberate choice because the nationalists see themselves as the only legitimate representation of the Ukrainian nation and therefore are willing to create conflict even at the cost of causing the breakup of the country. They are, like all nationalists, fundamentally irrational and perceive their country as an idealized mental image, rather than a reality around them that requires compromise. They are therefore ideal tools for anyone who is willing to use Ukraine as means of personal enrichment in service of a foreign power.
There are more pictures of the demonstration in this AP article:
Note how the demonstration is next to US embassy in Kiyv. Did it start there?
Meanwhile:
I'm standing by my hypothesis that in short term American and British actions in recent days/weeks were not about Russian invasion but an overthrow of Zelensky's government. The long-term goal is using Ukraine as pretext for more direct sanctions on Russia and indirect weakening of the Eurozone.
For more context - my post on the shifting of power between subsequent governments after 2014:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/sullivan-warns-china-could-face-153528464.html “If Russia does choose to move forward, not only will it come at a strategic cost to Russia, but if China is seen as having supported it, it will come at some costs to China as well in the eyes of the world, in the eyes...
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I'd like to add one more thing. It's always useful to know who you quote on Twitter. I will refer to one name in particular.
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Konrad Muzyka is a regular Polish collaborator of
Michael Kofman of Center for Naval Analyses (CNA).
CNA is a "
federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) for the United States Navy and Marine Corps. It also provides research and analysis services to other military and government agencies to help improve the efficiency and effectiveness of U.S. national defense efforts."(Wikipedia). It is in other words a military intelligence front and Michael Kofman is therefore a military intelligence asset.
Michael Kofman has a number of publications as well as a blog on Russian military:
In the last year he has published a number of articles and reports on Russian military buildup in Ukraine and some of those publications for legal reasons had to be supplemented with information about the source of funding which came from US Army Europe.
Konrad Muzyka has a company called Rochan Consulting which he uses to both process payment and to launder information that is further disseminated in American media as part of the "locally-sourced OSINT". Recently that caused Muzyka to be recycled back into Polish media since now his content is recognized as "international". It's an interesting lesson on how information is legitimized through this process of "source laundering".
What's even more interesting is that Konrad Muzyka has been described by Michael Kofman in one of his interviews as a "graphic artist" and not an analyst or someone working in a related field. He is best known for authoring a paper on Russian Western Military District order of battle but the paper while superficially competent goes little further than into combining available information about recent changes and presenting them in a coherent format.
Recently have listened to a discussion panel (in Polish) in which Muzyka participated and found him to be completely unreliable as an expert on Russian military and potentially even an outright fraud repeating whatever he is fed by his handlers. I'd like to emphasize that I'm referring here to his
technical competence, and not his stances or opinions. He simply was talking about things which could be easily verified on Wikipedia and made elementary errors. Such person simply can't be considered competent.
Know your sources and remember: Twitter is not a source. It's a psychological weapon.
