WHILE IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THIS MAYBE RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA, MY MONEY is on this being an army sent by the US, not so much to protect the Ukrainians as to escalade the tension with Putin, in the hopes that they can draw him into a military clash. Obama has been wanting to engage Putin in military action, and cause a civil war within Ukraine. This sudden appearance of unlabeled soldiers is very similar to what was done in Iraq. The group known as Blackwater then was in the employment of the government of the US and I believe these men are too. Since the videos emerged, Twitter has been alive with speculation that mercenaries linked to Blackwater, now known as Academi, are active in Ukraine, helping to prop up the embattled new pro-western government. And a Russian diplomat in Kiev told the Interfax news agency on Wednesday that 300 employees of private security companies had arrived there. These are soldiers of fortune proficient in combat operations. Most of them had operated under private contracts in Iraq, Afghanistan and other states, the source said. Interfax reported that the diplomat did not disclose the nationalities of the mercenaries but said, Most of them come from the United States. Asked whether the soldiers seen in the videos could be from Academi, Dr Nafeez Ahmed, a security expert with the Institute for Policy Research & Development, said: ‘Difficult to say really. Its certainly not beyond the realm of possibility - Academi have been deployed in all sorts of theatres. I think the question is whether the evidence available warrants at least reasonable speculation. ‘On the face of it, the uniforms of the people in the videos are consistent with US mercs - they dont look like Russian soldiers mercs. On the other hand, why run around in public making a show of it?’ He added: ‘Of course the other possibility is its all Russian propaganda.’ Blackwater was founded in 1997 by former U.S. Navy SEAL Erik Prince and were one of several private security firms employed by the U.S. government to protect its diplomatic missions overseas. With the outbreak of the Iraq war in 2003 the companys operations expanded and its revenue mushroomed, but a string of controversial killings by its personnel led to a rebranding, first to Xe and then to Academi, its current name. As well as acting as security contractors, Blackwater are seen by some as a private army that can promote U.S. interests without official military involvement. Technically they are a multinational company and can by hired by anyone, but the board of directors includes a number of U.S. establishment figures including John Ashcroft, the former Attorney General, and former NSA chief Bobby Ray Inman. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2576490/Are-Blackwater-active-Ukraine-Videos-spark-talk-U-S-mercenary-outfit-deployed-Donetsk.html#ixzz3Pro4T5kh
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