'What exactly are they trying to hide?' Obama says of Russia, Ukrainian rebels

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24. I personally think that they are trying to hide something.

On the other hand, they are also paranoid and sharply ethnocentric. "Trying to hide something" and "outrageously paranoid" have the same behavior in this context.

I mean, when one of their leaders heads a commission to outline their Donbas history textbook to make the Donbas the star of historically Slavic civilization, showing that the Ukrainians have never been "true" East Slavs based on skull shapes and the like and "Kievan Rus'" was really "Donbas Rus'", you know you have serious problems. It's a massive conspiracy to keep the East Slavs down, after all. Everything. From the Huns to NATO. It's all about keeping the East Slavs in submission. They're the Ones.

They're fighting the West, NATO, Europe, and the Ukrainians--decadent liberal pro-homosexual Jewish fascists all of them. So they arrested a Swedish senior citizen today on suspicions of being a spy. Because he's a citizen of the Kingdom of Sweden (their terms, not mine--shades of Karl the whatever and wars with Peter the Great). And because reports were of Swedish snipers brought in by NATO. Yeah, we need us some Swedish snipers born in 1950. Sweden cooperates with but isn't part of NATO.

They see anti-Communist anti-Russian fascists, gays, Jews, Americans, NATO members everywhere. They're holding something like 400 hostages in their little bit of territory, mayors and assistants, reporters, businessmen. A fair number of Nigerian students (they're black and stand out), and a couple of days ago arrested a white Nigerian for spying (there are such, but not many--it was a British colony, after all, and not all Brits and their genes for light skin went home).

Rascists.