Latest on the fighting in Ukraine. Kiev takes heavy losses from Donbass militia…

Sure, if you choose to look at it that way.

I would not look at it that way.

I would look at the fact that the citizens of Slavyansk have been cut off from their tap water, due to the shelling for several days.

I would look at the citizens fleeing for their lives, because their houses are being shelled at random from the hillsides.

I would stipulate these are crimes against humanity, by the corrupt Maidan gangsters. These types of crimes against civilians have been outlawed in several international treaties over many, many years. Because everybody agrees using the military in this fashion against their own civilians is disgusting.

I don't give much of a rat's ass if they only have 46 or 48 percent of the provinces voting to secede, as opposed to say 51%. Kiev would ignore it anyway, apparently.

The people in eastern Ukraine had legitimate grievances after the coup, they legally protested, and because of this they were beaten, shot, burned alive, then shelled in their homes, now their water has been turned off. To get them to submit to the new Maidan junta gang.

Oh go ahead, find another reason to excuse this barbaric behavior

Much of Ukraine sticks way into the southern section of Russia.

In terms of longitude.......the city of Donetsk is farther east than even Moscow itself.

Regarding Syria, this appears to me to be the exact opposite. In the case of Syria, the EU first tried a Coup d'état, but couldn't get one to work. Assad had a solid 85% of the whole nation behind him, unlike the situation in Ukraine.

So then, in Syrian, as Plan B, foreign fighters and Al Queda linked fighters were transported in, then given arms and heavy equipment in order to shell the civilian population into submission.

But in the case of Ukraine, Plan A worked, and the Coup d'état was successful right away. So now, it is a simple matter for stolen government military to shell the civilian population into submission, until they agree with the EU point of view.

You see the difference? And the similarity?

The only problem is that Kiev is violating all kinds of international laws, and the EU backs them anyway.

In Syria, the EU would just blame the Assad government for the shelling, which the mercenaries were actually behind, and claim Assad is a war criminal.

In Ukraine, everybody knows clear as day who is shelling who, so there is no easy way to lie about it.

It is criminal in-your-face activity this time. So, quite a difference.

The only thing the same is the civilians keep getting terrorized and mistreated until the desired result occurs.

So that part always seems to be the same, unfortunately.