Supposedly, this train’s next stop was to be in the Czech Republic.<\/span><\/p>\n Below is my earlier report on this, which was based on the alarms that were raised by Austria’s conservatives against this move by Obama:<\/span><\/p>\n Apparently, Obama, though he says he hasn\u2019t made up his mind about whether to send weapons to Ukraine, actually has and is. He now seems to be quietly trashing the spirit though no provision in the\u00a0Minsk II truce<\/span><\/a>\u00a0that was arranged by Merkel, Hollande, Putin, and Poroshenko, and signed by the OSCE, Russia, Ukraine, and both of the rebelling former parts of Ukraine, the Donetsk People\u2019s Republic and the Lugansk People\u2019s Republic. Obama now appears to be sending heavy weapons to Ukraine, and thus assisting Ukraine to resume attacking the DPR & LPR.<\/p>\n Even conservative Europeans are expressing outrage (as shown below). Followers of Italy\u2019s Sylvio Berlusconi, and even the leader of Austria\u2019s anti-immigrant \u201cFreedom Party,\u201d are shocked and appalled by this Obama action.<\/span><\/p>\n Heinz-Christian Strache<\/a>,<\/span>\u00a0leader of Austria\u2019s Freedom Party, posted online a photo alleged to be of Bradley tanks now on rail-cars in Linz Austria en-route to Ukraine; he estimated 50 of them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Then, Berlusconi\u2019s Milan newspaper Il Giornale<\/i>\u00a0posted<\/span><\/a>\u00a0this article on Wednesday March 25th:<\/span><\/p>\n —-<\/span><\/p>\n Sighted in Austria, American tanks: “I direct in Ukraine”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Here are the photos that show the first American tanks traveling to Ukraine<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n Andrea Riva<\/a><\/span>\u00a0–\u00a0Wed, 25\/03\/2015 – 14:52<\/span><\/p>\n comments<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Since the time when America first mentioned the possibility of sending armored vehicles to Ukraine, now seems to be the time passing from words to deeds.<\/span><\/p>\n The leader of the Austrian Freedom Party, Heinz-Christian Strache, has posted on Facebook photos showing the first\u00a0American tanks\u00a0(approximately 50) traveling to Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n Strache thinks these are Bradley tanks\u00a0<\/span>[NOTE from Eric Zuesse: Actually, these look to me more like\u00a0Abrams<\/span><\/a>\u00a0tanks], entering Austria [from Germany] through Linz.\u00a0If this interpretation is true, then America would be starting to break, at least formally, the agreements signed by Ukraine and Russia in Minsk.<\/p>\n \u2013\u2013<\/span><\/p>\n Here are typical comments at that conservative Italian newspaper online:<\/span><\/p>\n COMMENTS<\/span><\/p>\n —Pelmo76<\/span><\/p>\n Wed, 25\/03\/2015 – 14:47<\/span><\/p>\n If it is the beginning of the end ..<\/span><\/p>\n —peter46<\/span><\/p>\n Wed, 25\/03\/2015 – 14:47<\/span><\/p>\n Europe still America … who the hell do they think is\u00a0Russia? A South American dictatorship (although in\u00a0some parts of the ‘sticks’ to have also received) or any\u00a0Saddam or Gaddafi any? Sure to leave rot ‘atomic’ after\u00a0all the \u2018investments’ for them?<\/span><\/p>\n —Kosimo<\/span><\/p>\n Wed, 25\/03\/2015 – 15:22<\/span><\/p>\n On which side is the European ruling class?<\/span><\/p>\n —El_kun<\/span><\/p>\n Wed, 25\/03\/2015 – 15:34<\/span><\/p>\n Americans have not lost time … only two days ago, the\u00a0Congress approved the sending of personnel and\u00a0equipment in Ukraine.\u00a0Sooner or later Putin will react in\u00a0front of yet another massacre of pro-Russians (it will be closely\u00a0hidden by the European media).\u00a0Damn Americans, are\u00a0taking us to war without europe saying a single word.\u00a0damn Italy\u2019s government stooges.<\/span><\/p>\n —mister_B<\/span><\/p>\n Wed, 25\/03\/2015 – 15:46<\/span><\/p>\n Ukraine has the right to defend its sovereignty and\u00a0freedom against the Russian invasion.\u00a0For this it asked\u00a0for help from Europe and the US.<\/span><\/p>\n —paco51<\/span><\/p>\n Wed, 25\/03\/2015 – 15:47<\/span><\/p>\n American politicians are a plague!\u00a0obama especially!<\/span><\/p>\n \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n —Svevus<\/span><\/p>\n Wed, 25\/03\/2015 – 16:05<\/span><\/p>\n The US and its servants of the ‘eurozone have failed\u00a0after 15 years to tame a country primitive gardeners\u00a0(opium) and shepherds of the mountain as the’\u00a0Afghanistan.\u00a0Do they think they have the upper hand\u00a0over those who have three thousand intercontinental\u00a0missiles with atomic bombs, an ‘army of two million\u00a0combatants determined, and millions of people in\u00a0Europe are ready to boycott anyway everything stinks\u00a0of American rule?<\/span><\/p>\n —giovaneitalia<\/span><\/p>\n Wed, 25\/03\/2015 – 16:24<\/span><\/p>\n After all the c @ zz @ te that America has done over the\u00a0years and attacking without cause different nations, now\u00a0meddles in other affairs that do not concern them.\u00a0Sooner or\u00a0later these arrogant ones will take beatings on the ears.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n —tormalinaner<\/span><\/p>\n Wed, 25\/03\/2015 – 16:33<\/span><\/p>\n Obama is the devil and wants to destroy everything in a third world war. Political Europe assists passively to the end.<\/span><\/p>\n —mariolino50<\/span><\/p>\n Wed, 25\/03\/2015 – 16:56<\/span><\/p>\n libert\u00c3\u00a073 Too bad he is at 10000km and instead we are\u00a0here, they think that Russia is Libya or Iraq.<\/span><\/p>\n —Alsikar.il.Maledetto<\/span><\/p>\n Wed, 25\/03\/2015 – 16:57<\/span><\/p>\n If so, only armored vehicles (even if some of the best\u00a0armor in the world) are not enough for Ukraine groped to\u00a0stop an invasion of the second strongest army in the\u00a0world.\u00a0But Americans know what they do.\u00a0Definitely will\u00a0send soon in Ukraine even missiles and fighter-bombers\u00a0(in addition to the aircraft carrier in the Black Sea).\u00a0Obviously, this attitude will be interpreted by the\u00a0Russians as an attempt at aggression against them.\u00a0At\u00a0that point there will have little importance for reason and\u00a0will start the Third World War.\u00a0Five hundred million lives\u00a0gone will make survivors think.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n ———-<\/span><\/p>\n Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of\u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>, and\u00a0of\u00a0Feudalism, Fascism, Libertarianism and Economics<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eric Zuesse Alarms are being raised both on the right and the left in Austria against what appears to be a stealth move by Obama to send what are clearly attack-weapons (called “Bradley Tanks” but actually they look like Abrams tanks) to what appears to be a likely destination in Ukraine, for what seems to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":145152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,1622],"tags":[115,30,32,96,535,59,527,524,523,49,76,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-145151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"category-featured","9":"tag-barack-obama","10":"tag-big-brother","11":"tag-cia","12":"tag-cover-up","13":"tag-global-news","14":"tag-military","15":"tag-nuclear-war","16":"tag-russia","17":"tag-ukraine","18":"tag-usa-news","19":"tag-warfare","20":"tag-white-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Screen](\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-27-at-2.01.31-PM.png\")
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