Scott
I was tangentially involved in a very (very) minor capacity and we couldn’t get help from Intel or State until just as Maydan started to pick up steam. Then the system shifted into gear. But everyone I knew considered everything a humanitarian mission to help the Ukrainian people get out from a corrupt government that was bought and paid for by Russia to make it easier for the capture of the country – against the will of the people.
Some NGOs whose names I won’t mention have been working in UA to help for decades. (Danes in particular). We weren’t alone. All those poor people wanted was to look easily east to poland and join the prosperity that they felt they could have and would fight for.
Ukrainians would have been happy if RU asked to ‘buy’ the eastern provinces in exchange for gas discounts – because they were the source of so much organized crime. But when RU invaded that turned the entire population at least, west of those provinces, into nationalists on a scale I haven’t seen in my lifetime.
It wasn’t hard to fill the ranks of Praavy Sektor or Azov. The biggest problem was equipping them. And most of it that I saw was via mail order from europe and the states. 😉 Night vision goggles were a status symbol. The rifles and ammunition where local and cheap.
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