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Russian Troops Unload In Crimea As Russian Minister Rules Out Dialogue
Toronto Star ^ | March 8, 2014

Posted on 03/08/2014 12:05:27 PM PST by Fennie

SEVASTOPOL, UKRAINE - Dozens of military trucks transporting heavily armed soldiers rumbled over Crimea's rutted roads Saturday as Russia reinforced its armed presence on the disputed peninsula in the Black Sea. Moscow's foreign minister ruled out any dialogue with Ukraine's new authorities, whom he dismissed as the puppets of extremists.

The Russians have denied their armed forces are active in Crimea, but an Associated Press reporter trailed one military convoy Saturday afternoon from 40 kilometres west of Feodosia to a military airfield at Gvardeiskoe north of Simferopol, over which a Russian flag flew.

Some of the army green vehicles had Russian license plates and numbers indicating that they were from the Moscow region. Some towed mobile kitchens and what appeared to be mobile medical equipment.

(Excerpt) Read more at thestar.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Russia
KEYWORDS: crimea; crimeacrisis; obama; putin; russia; russiantroops; ukraine; ukrainecrisis; viktoryanukovich; yuliatymoshenko
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1 posted on 03/08/2014 12:05:27 PM PST by Fennie
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To: Fennie

Again, time for some Ukrainians to blow some of the pipeline as a message for Russia to leave or loose your oil money.


2 posted on 03/08/2014 12:07:20 PM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: A CA Guy

That would give Russia the excuse to annex the entire country. (Not saying I have a solution).


3 posted on 03/08/2014 12:09:58 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: Fennie
No activity seen in Key Largo.

4 posted on 03/08/2014 12:10:55 PM PST by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: Fennie

Well as long as they don’t disrupt the tee times at the Key Largo Grande, I’m sure it will be fine. /SARC

Darn that George Bush...


5 posted on 03/08/2014 12:13:25 PM PST by DanielRedfoot (Creepy Ass Cracker)
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To: Genoa

And conveniently for Moscow, they don’t exist.


6 posted on 03/08/2014 12:16:24 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: 1rudeboy

why can’t they be told leave or we remove your pipeline?

People sure are not getting help from Europe who get the Russian oil, so if they need to stand by then blow the pipeline in part then in whole if need be and get Europe, America involved by force if Russia keeps this up.

PLUS, if the pipeline gets blown, there goes Russia’s income to support their population and military.
Blowing the pipeline IMO if Russia doesn’t leave is happening in this modern age no matter what. Not that hard to do and it will make Russia regret it’s old ways IMO.


7 posted on 03/08/2014 12:18:39 PM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: A CA Guy
time for some Ukranians to blow up some of the pipeline

And who's going to provide them with oil and gas? Besides which Russia would then be justified to move in to protect its pipelines.

Everyone makes the "chess player" analogy for Putin. He seems to besides that be a guy with a flow chart. Whatever happens, he has a plan for what to do next.

8 posted on 03/08/2014 12:20:24 PM PST by grania
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To: grania

That pipeline is blood to Russia’s economy, so blow some of it up and economically offer them a chance to leave or blow the rest and destroy everything so Russia starves if need be. Do it before you have no country left.
Best thing to do is to blow it all up. Russia sucks at fixing or building things and the result would be due to this invasion anyway.
No one is stopping Russia, so blow up their little money maker and bleed them to death.
Leave them there and they will be a new spreading cancer to the area.


9 posted on 03/08/2014 12:27:09 PM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: grania

Much of his response to the evolving crisis has been improvised. If the Russians have an end game in mind, its not clear to them or to their foes how it will play out.


10 posted on 03/08/2014 12:27:36 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Fennie

Am still curious about you. Your English on your one post has improved.


11 posted on 03/08/2014 12:30:45 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: 1rudeboy

I think this was a checkmate since Russia sent in the troops. The best thing to do is give up Crimea.


12 posted on 03/08/2014 12:31:17 PM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: demshateGod
Not at all, the best thing to do would be for a small group of anyone to blow up pipelines.
Russia needs to have a Ukrainian version of a don't mess with Texas moment.
13 posted on 03/08/2014 12:34:00 PM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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You’d be creating catastrophe in Europe which is dependent on Russian gas. Its not easy to find a replacement.

Russia and Europe are each other’s largest trading partners, in particular Germany.

Putin has an acute sense of his limits. War would simply drive Europe into the arms of America. And rich countries don’t go to war because they have too much to lose.

Russia and Europe may be mad at each other but realistically, they have to resume doing business together. That’s the way it is in that part of the world.


14 posted on 03/08/2014 12:35:20 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop
Really, Europe would have it bad?

If I were the Ukrainians I would say F them all. Do you see Europe who is so worried about having it bad send in their troops against Russia to protect the Ukrainians?
No, so good reddens to bad garbage and you will IMO see the blowing up of pipelines unless so called interested parties fight Russia off.

15 posted on 03/08/2014 12:38:52 PM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: A CA Guy

Russia would be hurt economically, but Ukraine would be devastated and Western Europe would have it as bad or worse than Russia. There needs to be a better solution than blowing up the pipelines.


16 posted on 03/08/2014 12:57:10 PM PST by Truth29
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Like maybe Europe going there with their military to free the Ukraine?

unless that kind of thing happens there soon will be pipelines blowing.

If I were them, why would I give two f’s for Europe if they won't defend me?
Also, if you are going to invade me with your drunken military who are world rebound for being unable to repair anything, why not blow some stuff they want to billed them dry and make them suffer if they want to make you suffer?

So IMO, there she blows. Watch for it.

17 posted on 03/08/2014 1:03:25 PM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: A CA Guy

Excuse the typos, typing with an IPad and their keyboards just suck.


18 posted on 03/08/2014 1:05:03 PM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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The European military isn’t going to go into Ukraine to fight the Russians, and so far, note that the Russians aren’t killing anyone either. The Europeans might try and talk the Russians to death. Russia doesn’t recognize the legitimacy of the current interim Ukraine government and a sizable portion of the Ukranian population would side with the Russians. What you propose would give the rationale to move against “terrorists” and a lot of Ukranians would die while the West and the UN talked and talked.


19 posted on 03/08/2014 1:10:26 PM PST by Truth29
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Temporary outages of pipelines will not “hurt” Russia enough to make them give up their key naval base.

The Russian national debt has been paid down to about 8% of GDP.

America’s is over 100% of GDP.

Ukraine does business with Russia, Europe and the US.

Billions of business with all three.

Those pushing for Ukraine to join the EU just went into a tizzy when the Ukrainian President did not want to go that far.

Joining the EU comes with a lot of requirements.

Would America want to join the EU ?


20 posted on 03/08/2014 1:15:10 PM PST by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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