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At the beginning of the war, the Armed Forces of Ukraine simply could not successfully defend the south, and the foundations of this painful failure had been laid since 2014.
On the 5th anniversary of his death, we republish one of Parry's many prescient articles on Ukraine, this one on the risks of ignoring the 2014 coup, the neo-Nazis's role and the war against coup resisters in the east.
By Robert Parry
Special to Consortium News
April 16, 2014
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