Posted on 08/29/2014 7:53:22 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Vladimir Putin's expansionist urges
Yesterday, Ukrainian President Petro O. Poroshenko declared that Russia had invaded his nation. Col. Andriy Lysenko, spokesman for the Ukrainian military, confirmed that two armored columns of Russian forces, replete with tanks and armored fighting vehicles, captured the town of Novoazovsk on the Sea of Azov near the Russian border. Ukrainian troops were forced to retreat in the face of superior fighting power that included Grad missiles launched from Russian territory. “Our border servicemen and guardsmen retreated as they did not have heavy equipment,” Lysenko said in a statement.
NATO released a series of satellite images further confirming that at least 1,000 soldiers and Russian artillery units were operating in Ukraine. Captured in late August, the images show the artillery units moving through the Ukrainian countryside and establishing firing positions near Krasnodon, Ukraine. “Over the past two weeks we have noted a significant escalation in both the level and sophistication of Russia’s military interference in Ukraine,” said Dutch Brigadier General Nico Tak, director of the Comprehensive Crisis and Operations Management Centre (CCOMC), Allied Command Operations. “The satellite images released today provide additional evidence that Russian combat soldiers, equipped with sophisticated heavy weaponry, are operating inside Ukraine’s sovereign territory.”
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What a lot of people don’t know about the relationship between the USSR and Ukraine:
During WWII the relationship was so bad that when the Nazi’s marched into the Ukraine, they were first greeted as liberators.
And here we are, ~75 years later.
And on another note, when folks from the old USSR started immigrating to my area at the time (Seattle), I learned REALLY fast that if someone spoke with a “Russian” accent, you don’t ask them if they are Russian. Ukrainians were VERY insulted when I did that...
Sometimes a picture, (or in this case, a map) is worth many words. Ya’ll might find this helpful.
http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/maydan/updateaugust25.html
I found the direct link to the map and the map is much easier to read.
http://mediarnbo.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/16-08_eng.jpg
Under the Russian Czars, on the other hand, Ukraine was the richest and most stable it has ever been and was the breadbasket of Europe and beyond.
More rich and peaceful then when the Ukraine was ruled by barbarian Scythes, Mongols, Muslim Tartars and Lithuanian-Poles or Germans (twice).
So as long as we keep Georgrians out of the Kremlin, the Ukraine has nothing to worry about.
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