Russian troops: No where near a naval base
Posted on 02/28/2014 8:34:17 AM PST by kristinn
16.25 Our correspondent in Simferopol, Roland Oliphant, says Russian troops have moved into Crimea in what Moscow is calling a mission to “protect Black Sea Fleet’s positions”
15.50 BREAKING: The Russian foreign ministry has admitted that armoured units from the Black Sea Fleet base near Sevastopol had entered Crimea in order to protect fleet positions.
The Ukrainian side was also passed a note regarding the movement of armoured vehicles of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Crimea, which is happening in full accordance with the foundation Russian-Ukrainian agreements on the Black Sea Fleet,” the ministry said in a statement posted on its website on Friday afternoon.
In the same note the Russian foreign ministry said it had declined a Ukrainian request for “bilateral consultations” on events in Crimea because they are “the result of recent internal political processes in Ukraine.”
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We all knew this was coming.
Ukraine threw off the shackles and the Russians will bring them right back.
Yanukovyich is probably going to be installed as head of “Russian Crimea”
The US say anything about this yet? Does it matter?
Obama might personally rebuild the wall
would that make him any worse than FDR?
Unfortunately, Russia has no intention of letting the Ukraine go - too important and too close.
I hardly think this is as big an issue as the news is making it. Joining the EU doesn’t mean prosperity for all the people in the country. More likely prosperity for a few wealthy while the farming class which is significant in that part of the world gets the shaft ultimately and the wealthy from the west get to come in and buy up the land and wealth. (The situation for many in Romania)
With Soros involved in this up to his eyeballs who can trust the outcome? Soros does the NWO bankers business and chaos as does Putin to an extant. The revolutions 2 decades ago in most of these countries were manipulated and contrived by Russia. That even includes Romania if one looks deep enough. (the military and police acting strangely and in attics and rooftops taking shots at civilians - this is acknowledged by the people in the country and a number of books - and similar behavior in the Ukraine) Not saying there isn’t a real desire by people for independence or change, but that at higher levels among the powers that be these things are usually predetermined and played out for the Wests consumption for an endgame that further weakens real freedom and enables corruption and world socialism or the NWO.
America has more than enough issues to deal with than assuring Ukrainian independence. And if we do get involved who knows if that that wasn’t the gambit all along to further stretch our resources and get us into more ridiculous situations - what all for the cause of democracy? (whatever that fr-kin means?)
MFA in Russia ordered it's consulate in Simferopol to give Russian passports to Berkut. Putin needs ppl who will do what they are told.
From the pro-Russia population of Crimea?
No...from the puppet fascists in Kiev.
The agreement was that Greater Russia be allowed to happen, and as a result we get concessions on Natural Gas.
You really think this about their naval base?
Yup, that’s our Vladi . . . standing-up for human rights, the rule of law, and free will. Where do we find such brave men? [swoon]
Russian troops: No where near a naval base
If I were a betting man, I would bet that it wasn't Vlad who started this latest little "revolution". I would bet that the pro-EU west was behind this one (just like the ones in Egypt, Libya, and elsewhere).
Quite frankly, I can understand why people don't want to be part of the EU... the EU isn't exactly doing all that great for it's people... it's just another layer of corrupt government sapping the fruits out of people's labors.
Bingo.
I went to yahoo News and did the side scroll for a bit and saw nothing about this
Take Venezuela, for example, who is pulling the strings there?
Absolutely AND the 60% of the Crimean population who are Russian.
The Soviet Union and Russians colonized lots of the countries absorbed by the USSR and sent massive numbers of people to Siberia
It makes me wonder why a poor country would want to align itself with the EU. Who is behind those protestors?
yes, we knew, we predicted it days ago
I suppose we should also give parts of the US back to Mexico because they speak Spanish??
It is still short of troops and armor crossing from Russia proper into Ukraine. I think Putin will continue to nibble and use the local forces and population as cover and not openly invade. He may move for a de facto partition of the Crimea and maybe some of the East from the rest of Ukraine rather than a full annexation IMO.
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