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Ukraine's Bandera Propaganda: It's All Putin's Fault

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Mr. Tymchuk is the portal news stations in Ukraine go to for official information. On June 3 rd He called the victim of the Lugansk airstrike a victim of the Lugansk Militia. This "intelligence" made the rounds of every major publication. Look back at the White House statements:

May 15 th We are growing weary of these intimidation attempts. Putin has such a maniacal craving to instill fear in others that we're beginning to suspect that his complexes go far beyond harmless mental abnormalities.

The one nice thing about Mr. Tymchuk is that he is predictable. You can find a Russian soldier, tank, plane, or goat invading Ukraine on every social media page, under every bush, and in every report Kiev hands the US government thanks to his efforts. His no nonsense Bandera-inspired venom spewing anti-Putin rhetoric has made him a favorite of the intelligence services in Ukraine and a shoo-in for a BBQ invite in Arizona.

And yet, US officials are trying to convince the world that " Washington knows best what is happening in Ukraine." The problem is trying to prove Russia's interference. They've come to the point where even the State Department refers to social networking posts rather than the U.S.'s vast media resources.


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At the April 21, 2014 briefing, one question to Jen Psaki says it all.

QUESTION: But you're not -- are you saying that the United States Government, with its great tradition of intelligence gathering and sources and so on, is now dependent on publicly traded photographs on the internet and Twitter and so on?

On April 29 Psaki said: "Our intelligence community tells me that Russia's intelligence and military intelligence services and special operators are playing an active role in destabilizing eastern Ukraine with personnel, weapons, money, operational planning and coordination. The Ukrainians have intercepted and publicized command-and-control conversations from known Russian agents with their separatist clients in Ukraine."

So despite the breathless headline, apparently Jen's boss, Kerry, was referring, as he did in public comments the night before, to information the Ukrainians gathered themselves.

QUESTION: Oh, so when he says intel has recorded, he was not talking about U.S. intel, he was talking about Ukrainian intel?

Febuary 6, 2014 MS. PSAKI: Well, I think I was pretty clear in answering Matt's question that I don't have any independent information on the origin of the YouTube video, but obviously, they were the first ones to post on Twitter about it, which is an indication. But again, I don't know -- I don't have any independent --

Collate Tymchuk's rants with Psaki's assertions and the pattern syncs. Yet even a pro-Bandera outlet like the Kiev Post take precautions that John Kerry, Barack Obama, and the EU did not. They put a disclaimer on everything Tymchuk writes.

Ukraine Youthful Exuberance or Nazi Youth?


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Now, as promised, we come to Sviatoslav Yurash, a student at the University of Warsaw International Relations Program, whose true love was English. At the beginning of January, then 17 year old Sviatoslav walked onto the Maidan wanting to help. He managed to get an audience with the then three "opposition leaders" Klitschko, Tyhanybok, and Yatsenyuk and asked if he could run the international PR for Maidan. They agreed. Sviatoslav was immediately set up with an office, a staff, and went to work. Soon he became the Spokesperson for Maidan and "the" international media contact. The international press, from the Washington Post , NY Times , Daily Mail to Al Jazeera goes through him for interviews, stories, and translations. According to a 60 Minutes news feature, Yurash took charge of the entire media operation for the then opposition leaders, and ABC called him one of the leaders. Clearly, the media has been taken for a ride by an eighteen year-old!

This pro-Bandera youth has almost single-handedly worked to make Ultra Nationalist propaganda a Face Book "like" affair, his goal beubg to normalize it in the West. (He's decided to rewrite Bandera's genocidal history .) His office is located three floors down from Pravy Sektor, who don't let people they don't like up there. A Macleans reporter was able to go up to the 5 th floor escorted by young Yurash until they got to the NAZI ONLY sign"..

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George Eliason is an American journalist that lives and works in Donbass. He has been interviewed by and provided analysis for RT, the BBC, and Press-TV. His articles have been published in the Security Assistance Monitor, Washingtons Blog, (more...)
 

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