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Ukraine Unrest Escalates, Violence Spreads

UBS Wealth Management Regional CIO, Asia-Pacific Pu Yonghao discusses the latest violence in Ukraine, its impact on investors and Portugal’s exit from the EU bailout program with John Dawson, Andrew Davis, Mia Saini and Rishaad Salamat on Bloomberg Television’s “Asia Edge.”



22 Comments on "Ukraine Unrest Escalates, Violence Spreads"

  1. antiwarforever on Mon, 5th May 2014 8:31 am 

    The “Gwayst” (contraption of Gay + West) should stop pouring petrol on the flame. 46 Russian speaking Odessans fried to death by the West mavericks (the hooligans and fascists of Pravyu Sektor) and all the Gwaystern medias say is “the fire in Odessa has been engineered by Putin”. So Putin actually paid Pravyi Sektor militants and Ukrainian hooligans to burn to death his own partisans ? Laughable . The level of propaganda in Western countries now is at the same level as in the former Soviet Union….

  2. cottager on Mon, 5th May 2014 8:39 am 

    Looks like those gangs of armed men in Eastern Ukraine aren’t gay Western, rather gay Eastern 🙁

  3. antiwarforever on Mon, 5th May 2014 9:58 am 

    Here some Ukrainian “freedom fighters” in full action (probably “paid by Putin” if one believes the mainstream medias):
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAspe8EGOKg#t=240

  4. cottager on Mon, 5th May 2014 1:07 pm 

    Don’t fck with me putin zombie antiwarforever, I know the situation, my russian is good enough. All neighbourghs of this appocallyptic fuel station, which wanna be a country with thousands of nukes are suffering, check the map. Burn in hell 😉 And it is not Gaywest, it is russians, who are evil.

  5. Davey on Mon, 5th May 2014 1:48 pm 

    Anti, ever heard of reverse provocations. Puut is a master of snake-ness. I would not put it past him. But probably the inept west oligarch mafia lead by CIA. But don’t think for a moment the Puut cabal would not sacrifice the partisans as cannon fodder. Remember Russia in WWII. No regard for human life in the pursuit of an end. That tradition lives on in the Russian leadership psyche.

  6. dissident on Mon, 5th May 2014 1:54 pm 

    Compare all the phoney western outrage over the sniper attack on Maidan militants in late February to the total lack of concern and outright support for a regime that sent in officially sanctioned Right Sector goons to kill unarmed protestors by the dozen in Odessa.

    The west is a steaming pile of maggot ridden hypocritical sh*t.

  7. Davey on Mon, 5th May 2014 2:08 pm 

    I would have to agree dissident. You need to wear boots and breath through your mouth to deal with the wester hypocrites shit smell. Yet, you can’t tell me the Puut cabal are angles. We know this is a high stakes game between equally nasty regimes. This being on Russia’s doorstep gives them some legitimacy to play mean I will also agree to. Don’t mess with a man’s castle! This is were the west is really in the wrong. Yet, Russia has been a thorn on almost very western initiative so can you blame the west for wanting blood out of Puut?

  8. rockman on Mon, 5th May 2014 2:22 pm 

    Here’s a theoretical questions: the Crips and Bloods are engaged in some nasty little battles: which ones are the “good guys”? IOW which gang would you support?

  9. Makati1 on Mon, 5th May 2014 5:21 pm 

    And then there is this:
    “… The Times reporters cited one unit leader named Yuri as chuckling “at the claims by officials in Kiev and the West that his operations had been guided by Russian military intelligence officers. There is no Russian master, he said. ‘We have no Muscovites here,’ he said. ‘I have experience enough.’ That experience, he and his fighters say, includes four years as a Soviet small-unit commander in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in the 1980s.

    “The 119 fighters he said he leads, who appear to range in age from their 20s to their 50s, all speak of prior service in Soviet or Ukrainian infantry, airborne, special forces or air-defense units.”

    The reporters also discovered mostly well-worn and dated weaponry, not the newer and more sophisticated equipment that is available to Russian forces.

    “During the fighting on Friday, two of the fighters carried hunting shotguns, and the heaviest visible weapon was a sole rocket-propelled grenade,” Chivers and Sneider wrote. “Much of their stock was identical to the weapons seen in the hands of Ukrainian soldiers and Interior Ministry special forces troops at government positions outside the city. These included 9-millimeter Makarov pistols, Kalashnikov assault rifles and a few Dragunov sniper rifles, RPK light machine guns and portable antitank rockets, including some with production stamps from the 1980s and early 1990s.”

    Other Western journalists, who have bothered to report from eastern Ukraine rather than just accept handouts from the U.S. Embassy in Kiev or the State Department in Washington, discovered a similar reality….”

    http://www.globalresearch.ca/war-propaganda-another-new-york-times-sort-of-retraction-on-ukraine/5380506

    And the beat goes on…

  10. Davey on Mon, 5th May 2014 5:41 pm 

    Mak, ok but according to your logic this is MSM deception.

  11. Boat on Tue, 6th May 2014 8:04 am 

    http://news.yahoo.com/ap-enterprise-us-tax-law-russian-banks-070552553.html

    Another weapon of the US at play. Consider there are 450 billion uncollected taxes in the US every year.

  12. bobinget on Tue, 6th May 2014 10:01 am 

    Clearly, Putin’s Ukraine strategy of misdirection is going off exactly as planned.

    White, US and European centric News Organizations
    obscure daily atrocities in the Mideast and African continent in the name of ‘secure oil supplies’. There have been more innocent civilians murdered in Nigeria
    in one afternoon then the entire Ukrainian “war”. Until
    240 school girls were kidnapped, sold into slavery,
    did Boko Haram’s genuine thuggery get ink.

    Two million displaced Central African Republic persons destitute, driven off their lands.

    Four million Syrian Refugees starving to death.

    While eyes are on a Ukraine drama, Iran, Russia,
    Iraq, China consolidate future oil and gas trade agreements.

  13. Mark on Tue, 6th May 2014 10:30 am 

    Ukraine is in “Russias sphere of influence” that is Putins real argument for annexing as much of the Ukraine as he can. Russia wants buffer states around its territory that are unquestinably loyal to Russia. They want this because they fear that in the future another Napoleon or Hitler will come along and try to conquer them, so they are doing it for their security, and will come up with all kinds of B.S. propoganda to justify their land grab.

    This way of thinking is nonsense in the 21st century. Any Napoleon or Hitler that threatens the existence of the Russian state will get nuked before they get anywhere close to conquering Russia. A nuclear arsenal makes this way of thinking obsolete.

    why aren’t the rights of the Ukrainian people to security and self determination are as important as the rights of the Russian people. this kind of meddling is not that different from the U.S. meddling in the affairs in some Latin American country because it is in their “sphere of influence”. Actually it is worse because the Russians actually want to annex the Ukriane, not just make Ukraine a satellite country.
    Those of you who condem the U.S. for interfering in Latin America cannot turn around and say what Russia is doing is okay. That is one sided hypocracy.

  14. J-Gav on Tue, 6th May 2014 10:55 am 

    Exactly Davey, this IS MSM deception.

    Mark – Don’t drink that Kool-aid … 1 – the West backed the neo-fascists who now share power with Turchynov, the IMF stooge who wants to asset-strip the place under the guise of “freedom and democracy.” 2 – Putin has no interest in ‘annexing Ukraine,’ at least if he’s as smart as many people give him credit for. Crimea and the Donbas region would suffice. Attempting to take over and control that entire faux-country would bankrupt Russia just as it would bankrupt Europe. Meantime, read your history – those two regions SHOULD be part of Russia. No part of Mexico, Central or South America SHOULD be part of the U.S.

  15. Mark on Tue, 6th May 2014 12:20 pm 

    Okay, no part of Mexico, Central or South America should be part of the U.S. However, I think Canada should, since we speak the same language and are culturally similar. At least we should Annex British Columbia, maybe Alberta too since they have all that oil.

  16. Mark on Tue, 6th May 2014 12:24 pm 

    Oh, and I almost forgot, Ireland should be part of the UK too. After all, they speak the same language and they were historically part of the U.K.

  17. GregT on Tue, 6th May 2014 1:17 pm 

    Mark,

    We’ll trade you Quebec for Alaska. More people in the US speak French than in Canada. Oh yah, and having Alaska so far north of the 49th parallel, must be a huge expense, and a pain in the butt, for Alaskans that need to cross two international borders to get back to the homeland.

    We’ll take Hawaii too, you guys have plenty of places to spend away from cold northern winters. Us Canucks, not so much.

  18. Makati1 on Tue, 6th May 2014 2:19 pm 

    Mark, what do you think the US would do if Russia or China was annexing Mexico or Canada, and putting missiles close to the US border? The nukes would already be flying. Why is the US immune to the same shit that we have been dishing out to the rest of the world for 70 years? Answer: We are not and what goes around comes around.

  19. Davey on Tue, 6th May 2014 2:34 pm 

    Mak, a simpleton comparison that is not valid in the world we live in. It is fictional accounting of a geopolitical arrangement that is in your mind not a true to life comparison. The world does not work like that.

  20. Boat on Tue, 6th May 2014 2:49 pm 

    The Battle of San Jacinto, fought on April 21, 1836, in present-day Harris County, Texas, was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. Led by General Sam Houston, the Texian Army engaged and defeated General Antonio López de Santa Anna’s Mexican army in a fight that lasted just 18 minutes. About 630 of the Mexican soldiers were killed and 730 captured, while only nine Texans died

    The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (Tratado de Guadalupe Hidalgo in Spanish), officially entitled the Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic,[1] is the peace treaty signed in 1848 in the Villa de Guadalupe Hidalgo (now a neighborhood of Mexico City) between the U.S. and Mexico that ended the Mexican–American War (1846–48). With the defeat of its army and the fall of the capital, Mexico entered into negotiations to end the war. The treaty called for the United States to pay $15 million to Mexico and pay off the claims of American citizens against Mexico up to $3.25 million. It gave the United States the Rio Grande boundary for Texas, and gave the U.S. ownership of California, and a large area comprising New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Wyoming and Colorado. Mexicans in those annexed areas had the choice of relocating to Mexico or receiving American citizenship with full civil rights; over 90% remained. The U.S. Senate ratified the treaty by a vote of 38–14, against the Whigs who had opposed the war, rejected Manifest Destiny in general and rejected this expansion in particular.

    I added this because I live in Harris county. Just a little part of Texas history. This small battle led to one of the biggest land transfers in US history and world history. I bet Mexico wishes it would have fought harder.

  21. Davey on Tue, 6th May 2014 4:04 pm 

    Boat, Mexicans are reclaiming their former lands one immigrant at a time.

  22. J-Gav on Tue, 6th May 2014 4:38 pm 

    Mark – You may have a point there with Canada … I used to go back and forth across the border fairly often and, despite the Canuck this and Yankee that BS, the cultures looked very similar to me. Well, then there is Quebec, of course … but even there, I found it to be more North American than French (and I live in France!) And, despite the supposed ‘rivalries’, economically they’re pretty much in tune. Politically as well, unfortunately, right down to the crappy foreign policy they (we) both offically advocate.

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