Hmm... why would Ukraine be involved in something like this,
something certain to bring bad press?
Are they desperate for extra revenue, so that even while
they're in the midst of a low-grade conflict, which at any time could
escalate... they sell off parts of their arsenal?
Are they doing it even while expecting US diplomatic cover
within the UN?
Or more likely they are operating as a fence, a funnel for
weapons into a US sponsored proxy war. South Sudan has been a US project since
the beginning. Washington has largely turned against Salva Kiir and these
weapons were going to the Riek Machar faction opposing him. The fact that the
arms dealer was Polish is also noteworthy considering Warsaw's cozying up to
Washington in recent years.
Kiev, seat of a volatile country with a government installed
by and dependent upon the West would not risk the ire of Washington. If the US was
really concerned about calming the situation in South Sudan there would have
been a diplomatic row over this. But instead, the story has gotten very little
play.
It's hard not to be suspicious. This interesting side story
is likely part of a larger and much more complex web of Western machinations
and proxy wars within Africa and Eurasia. The money trail and operations find
their nexus in Langley, the Pentagon, Wall Street and elements within the White
House.
One should always hold fast to the sage advice offered by President Abraham Lincoln (which some sources atttribute to an occcasion in Memphis, TN in 1864)
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