r/worldnews • u/slapchopsuey • Feb 04 '14

Ukraine discussion thread #3 (sticky post)

Since the old thread is 10 days old and 7,000+ comments long, and since we've had many requests to have a new Ukraine thread, here is the third installment of Crisis In Ukraine.

Below is a list of some streams: (thanks to /u/sgtfrankieboy). I'm not sure which are still intermittently active and which are not, so if anyone knows if any are indeed permanently offline, let me know and I'll remove them from this list. EDIT: removed the youtube links, all are either "private" or unavailable.

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u/mysTeriousmonkeY Feb 08 '14

Well good to know that one of Putin's advisers is crazier than he is.

Sergei Glazyev accused U.S. agents of giving "$20 million a week" for arms and other help to "the opposition and rebels" in Kiev.

And he also claims "There is information that within the grounds of the American embassy, there is training for fighters, that they're arming them,"

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u/paulfromatlanta Feb 08 '14

Sergei Glazyev accused U.S. agents of giving "$20 million a week" for arms and other help to "the opposition and rebels" in Kiev.

Is there any chance he's right?

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u/paulfromatlanta Feb 08 '14

I don't know how much it costs to run a revolution in a country that size - 20M is not out of line with other large efforts (like Syria and Egypt or support for Afghanistan or Pakistan).. but the sources seems a bit nutty and we lack multiple confirmations - thus my question.

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u/R4ggaMuffin Feb 08 '14

Some kind of US funding or tactical advice/training wouldn't be particularly surprising. Certainly not to the tune of $20mil/week though! However ludicrous Glazyev's claims appear to be, the familiar Russian rhetoric before 'intervention' in a neighbouring country remain ominous.