Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
kaur---a good find---the use of reservists is the Russian way of plausible deniability ---meaning hey we have no active duty personnel or the ground because you have not asked about nor mentioned reservists. The US does not seem to get the current Russia word usage meaning if they say red then they really mean yellow if they say green then they really mean pink---really does goes back to the Communist term dialectic materialism.

Secondly, watch the tactics actively shifting now as the population has not been pulled along with the buildings being taken over as in the Crimea so now they are trying to build a center of gravity around how many buildings equals the inability to hold the 25th of May elections so they can argue hey see we did not vote for the illegitimate government so we want Russia to step in and protect us.

Interesting is the fact that the local population while proRussian still does not want to de facto shift to Russia even with the massive agitation going on by the KGB/FSB/GRU and the Russian TV/radio media reports.

Like these two quotes on dialectic materialism from the past:

"Motion is the mode of existence of matter. Never anywhere has there been matter without motion, or motion without matter, nor can there be."

"Change of form of motion is always a process that takes place between at least two bodies, of which one loses a definite quantity of motion of one quality (e.g. heat), while the other gains a corresponding quantity of motion of another quality (mechanical motion, electricity, chemical decomposition).

"Dialectics, so-called objective dialectics, prevails throughout nature, and so-called subjective dialectics (dialectical thought), is only the reflection of the motion through opposites which asserts itself everywhere in nature, and which by the continual conflict of the opposites and their final passage into one another, or into higher forms, determines the life of nature."

Fredrick Engels
Dialectics of Nature

But dialectical materialism insists on the approximate relative character of every scientific theory of the structure of matter and its properties; it insists on the absence of absolute boundaries in nature, on the transformation of moving matter from one state into another, that from our point of view [may be] apparently irreconcilable with it, and so forth.

Vladimir Lenin
Materialism and Empirio-criticism
kaur---when one looks at how the self defense leaders all of a sudden assumed leadership check the Russian term "samoswanzy" from the 1584 period---it goes along way in explaining how they think and act.