This is so absurd I’d be inclined to think it was a US tactic to undermine the Russian takeover in Ukraine, or conversely a Russian tactic designed to look like US involvement in making them look bad that could be discredited by the Russians thus making the US look like they are involved.
But then I think about the kind of person Putin is, the shit he’s pulled up to this point, and the realization that there are still very seriously screwed up parts of the world and I have to conclude that it’s probably legit.
You’d think the Russians never fought the Germans in WWII. The Russians are denying any involvement, but the Russians are also denying they are invading another country so their denial is to be expected.
Well, this would be incredibly stupid for Putin, Russia, or the people hoping to join Russia. But it would absolutely ideal for someone trying to force US/NATO involvement by triggering the post-WWII “Jews are in trouble!” political reflex. And nothing is too cynical or shady for either side. The Ukrainian anti-Russian side, which desperately wants our help, includes a significant number of genuine, real, grandpa-fought-for-Hitler Nazis, so I think this is a far more likely tactic for that side than for Putin/pro-Russia.
Anti-semitism was a staple of both the Soviet Union and Imperial Russia - the past whose glory Putin seeks to recapture.
And most of those Ukrainians who fought for Hitler weren’t fighting for fascism or Naziism as much as they were fighting against Uncle Jo (Stalin, not Biden) and communism - remember that less than a decade before the start of the ‘Great Patriotic War’ Uncle Jo intentionally starved some 3.3 million Ukrainians to death.
If that is indeed the case then who knows. Maybe they are trying to pull something like this.
My main thing is that the agency supposedly putting out the pamphlet doesn’t know about it. If they indeed did do that then they would probably own up to it. But hey, that would assume that they are acting logically. Not something I am inclined to put money on.
It struck me as odd, The biggest jew haters are the muslim brother hood and what would they be doing in Ukraine? Did the billions of aid the American taxpayers send over there fund the Muslim brotherhoods to subvert Ukraine?
Seems the Jews have it bad everywhere, soon the Christians will be treated like the Jews.
I must say I am a bit confused here. For years, no, decades, we gun owners have been told that registration is nothing to fear, that only criminals and crazies have anything to worry about, and that there is “NO” plan to take anyone’s guns away. It’s just crazy talk. So, with that as our factual basis, why would Jews in Ukraine have anything to worry about with being asked to register as Jews? Maybe the provisional new government (or fascist old government) is simply trying to figure out what the best days are for national holidays, and how much Kosher food needs to be imported.
Well local Jewish groups who investigated the flyers were told they did not need to register and there was no provision to register anyone. But that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a clear message to the Jewish community by the local pro Russian contingent. It is logical that any “registration” would come AFTER a successful occupation, but you still have to wonder WTF is going on over there exactly.
Or made to look like one. Has anything similar happened in Russia lately? Or in Crimea after the Russians took over?
To me, this absolutely reeks of a false flag to get the west involved. If the pro-Russians really intended to do harm to Jews after a Russian takeover, they would probably be smart enough to hide their plans until the area was firmly and irretrievably in Russian control. Extremists may be ___ (it’s hard to come up with an insult for someone who seems to be a Nazi!) but they usually aren’t retarded. Remember the supposed poison gas attack by Assad in Syria, when he was pretty well winning the counterinsurgency with conventional weapons? Again, tactics that would be ridiculously stupid, used by someone not otherwise stupid, involving something specific that is a huge political provocation in the west.
Could be, the problem is right now with the people involved anything is possible on both sides. The only thing nagging the back of my mind is remembering things like “The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion” first surfaced in Russia. Additionally Helena Blavatsky was also from Ukraine. And they really haven’t progressed dramatically since then.
Odd because as the same USA Today further reported, “Olga Reznikova, 32, a Jewish resident of Donetsk, told Ynet she never experienced anti-Semitism in the city until she saw this leaflet.”
Perversely, even the local Jewish community issued a statement saying the leaflet distribution “smells like a provocation.” The chief rabbi of nearby Dnipropetrovsk, Shmuel Kaminezki said, “Everything must be done to catch them.”
So the bottom line, namely that this was merely a provocation designed to generate a kneejerk emotional response from the west and paint the pro-Russia militia as neo-nazis and generally, as fascists (even though it was the ultra nationalist Right Sector that was instrumental in the overthrow of the Yanukovich government) was clear to most - even the population that was seemingly being targeted.
I hope they each have an Uzi and/or a Tavor handy. It’s just not safe to be in that part of the world right now regardless of whether they’re specifically targeted or not.