War

Ukrainian soldiers cross into Russia.

"A Russian border security official said today that more than 400 Ukrainian soldiers have crossed into Russia, although both sides gave conflicting accounts as to why they had decided to cross the border.
The Russian official said the soldiers deserted the Kiev government and the Russian side opened a safe corridor. A Ukrainian military official, who did not give a number for the soldiers involved, were forced into Russian territory by rebel fire after running out of ammunition."

That's a big difference.

Antiwar movement in Ukraine grows.

"Cash-strapped Ukraine is burning through $6 million per day as it enters its fifth month of attacks on separatist provinces. The government in Kiev announced late last month that it would allocate nearly one billion additional dollars for its military assault, while admitting that the treasury was totally empty. To make up some of the difference, the government announced that it was sharply reducing social services and would also introduce a 1.5 percent additional “war tax” on workers.
But bankruptcy, additional taxes, and the prospect of a very grim winter without Russian gas all paled in comparison to the explosion of anger among Ukrainian mothers who were told their sons would be sent off to fight in the east."

Good for them.

"Notoriously miserable conditions for the conscripts combined with poor military planning by newly-installed authorities in Kiev have led to hundreds of defections in the east, either to the side of the rebels or, as happened with nearly 500 Ukrainian troops yesterday, even to Russia.
Average Ukrainians clearly have little taste for fighting the battles of the Kiev post-coup regime or its backers in Washington. But with its recent reported deployment of 1,000 pound ballistic missiles in eastern Ukraine, the Kiev regime can do a great deal of damage. However, no one has calculated the raw power of thousands of furious mothers, determined to resist the state’s call for the blood of their children."

I guess that's why they need more conscripts.

Russia retaliates for sanctions by banning imports from US and allies. Now the US has started a trade war.

Lies behind the Kosovo war and US alliance with human organ thieves.

US intervention in Libya led to US evacuation in Libya.

Blaming Robert McNamara, not LBJ, for the Tonkin Gulf lie.

"McNamara’s deception is documented in the declassified files on the Tonkin Gulf episode in the Lyndon Johnson library, which this writer used to piece together the untold story of the Tonkin Gulf episode in a 2005 book on the U.S. entry into war in Vietnam. It is a key element of a wider story of how the national security state, including both military and civilian officials, tried repeatedly to pressure LBJ to commit the United States to a wider war in Vietnam."

And succeeded.

415 killed, 178 wounded in Iraq. 457 killed and 63 wounded.