{"id":179954,"date":"2018-12-04T07:26:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T07:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=179954"},"modified":"2018-12-06T04:39:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T04:39:08","slug":"kerch-incident-was-premeditated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=179954","title":{"rendered":"\u201cKerch Incident\u201d Was Premeditated?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">US Military Contractor Hiring Personnel to Support Classified \u2018Contingency Operations\u2019 in Ukraine<\/h2>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Global Research \u2013 Dec 2, 2018<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em>A US contractor accidentally revealed a US military specialist deployment in the combat zones in Ukraine via a Job Advertisement on <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/jobs\/view\/ukrainian-linguist-at-mission-essential-868182894\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>LinkedIn<\/strong><\/span>.<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/southfront.org\/did-ukraine-coordinate-its-provocation-in-black-sea-with-western-partners\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Similarly to the Atlantic Council\u2019s report on independence of Eastern European countries<\/strong><\/span>, <\/a>as well as the meeting between US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin, the posting comes days before the escalation in the Sea of Azov.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Mission Essential is a government contractor, which primarily serves intelligence and military clients. It began as the US government\u2019s leading provider of translation and interpretation services.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_179955\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/southfront.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2-5.png?x22999\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-179955\" class=\"wp-image-179955\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Linked-screenshot.png\" alt=\"Linked screenshot.\" width=\"500\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Linked-screenshot.png 706w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Linked-screenshot-249x300.png 249w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-179955\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Linked screenshot.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The preemptive job advert was posted on November 16<sup>th<\/sup> and seeks \u201clinguist candidates who speak Ukrainian to provide foreign language interpretation and translation services to support classified Contingency Operations in support of the U.S. Military in Ukraine.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The formal place of work is Mykolayiv, Ukraine. The port city is also significant, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.c6f.navy.mil\/tags\/mykolaiv\">because that is where the US \u201clogistical\u201d naval facility is currently under construction<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The advert also requires candidates to be able to fit in the local culture and customs, in addition to \u201cthe ability to deal inconspicuously with local populace if necessary.\u201d Which simply means that the interpreter needs to be able to hide the fact that he is not a Ukrainian citizen, at least partly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Unsurprisingly, <strong>the individual needs to be able to serve in a combat zone \u201cif necessary,\u201d in addition to being able to \u201clive, work, and travel in harsh environments, to include living and working in temporary facilities as mission dictates.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Considering repeated claims by the US leadership that the US is not involved in the Ukraine conflict, the vacancy posting is an operational security failure by Mission Essential. Most other vacancies posted by the company are for analysts and various linguistical and project management positions, almost predominantly in different military facilities in the US.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It is quite possible that these specialists would assist US military personnel deployed in or near the \u201ccombat zones\u201d in Ukraine \u2013 i.e. Eastern Ukraine, and as it was expected since as early as November 16<sup>th<\/sup> \u2013 the Sea of Azov.<\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/southfront.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/fwduvp\/content\/video.php?path=https%3A%2F%2Fsouthfront.org%2Frussia-ukraine-black-sea-military-crisis%2F&amp;pid=1485\" width=\"560\" height=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This is another piece that reinforces the notion that the \u201cprovocation by Russia\u201d in the Sea of Azov was somehow premeditated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">However, it also appears that, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko\u2019s plans appeared to, at least partially, backfire. \u201cPartially,\u201d because he managed to instate martial law and make another step in his attempts to postpone elections in 2019, thus \u201cdemocratically\u201d holding on to power and not allowing the Ukrainian citizens to vote and most likely elect his rival and favored presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The original source of this article is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/southfront.org\/us-military-contractor-is-hiring-personnel-to-support-classified-contingency-operations-in-ukraine\/\">South Front<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Private military contractor inadvertantly reveals covert U.S. involvement in the Kerch incident in an online recruitment advert  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":179650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Behind_The_News"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179957,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179954\/revisions\/179957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/179650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}