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Russia Has Operational Control of Crimea, U.S. Official Says
Wall Street Journal ^ | 2 Mar 14 | Streaming Coverage

Posted on 03/02/2014 2:59:03 PM PST by xzins

Russia Now Has More Than 6,000 Airborne, Naval Forces in Crimea, Official Says

(Excerpt) Read more at stream.wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: control; crime; crimea; kerry; official; operational; putin; russia; ukraine
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Russia has taken complete operational control over the Crimean peninsula in Ukraine and appears to be preparing to occupy the territory, a senior Obama administration official said Sunday. Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Kiev Tuesday in a show of support for the new Ukrainian government.
1 posted on 03/02/2014 2:59:03 PM PST by xzins
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Kerry plan Kiev Vacation


2 posted on 03/02/2014 2:59:45 PM PST by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: xzins

Headline: “Chicken Comes to Kiev.”


3 posted on 03/02/2014 3:00:26 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: xzins

day late and a dollar short as usual. From my understanding, Crimea wants mother Russia in charge? So, what’s the fuss?


4 posted on 03/02/2014 3:00:43 PM PST by Ghost of SVR4 (So many are so hopelessly dependent on the government that they will fight to protect it.)
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To: xzins

“John Kerry will travel to Kiev Tuesday in a show of support for the new Ukrainian government. “

No matter the issue, our government is probably on the wrong side.


5 posted on 03/02/2014 3:01:29 PM PST by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
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To: xzins

Simple. Putin good. Kerry bad.


6 posted on 03/02/2014 3:01:56 PM PST by eleni121 ("All Along the Watchtower" Book of Isaiah, Chapter 21, verses 5-9)
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To: xzins

Recent developments make the Winter Olympics in Sochi seem like ages ago.


7 posted on 03/02/2014 3:02:52 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: Ghost of SVR4

Think again.
Have you been reading the posts here.
Crimea has never been so,oey
Russian .
The peninsula is the melting pot of the world but the Russian have shipped settlers in and deported or exterminated millions in that region.
Where did you get your propaganda from !


8 posted on 03/02/2014 3:06:00 PM PST by ncalburt ( Amnesty-media out in full force)
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To: xzins

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/us-sees-russian-hand-envoys-bugged-call


9 posted on 03/02/2014 3:06:25 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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Kerry is showing support for which new Ukrainian government? The one that speaks Russian or the other one?


10 posted on 03/02/2014 3:07:01 PM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: ncalburt

“The peninsula is the melting pot of the world but the Russian have shipped settlers in and deported or exterminated millions in that region.”

Is there a link for the later part?


11 posted on 03/02/2014 3:07:58 PM PST by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
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To: dfwgator
Chicken Kiev....LOL

Russian President Putin has accepted Chancellor Merkel's proposal to set up a 'fact-finding mission to start political dialogue over Ukraine, German government spokesman, per @Reuters

It's almost funny watching Putin jerk these flaccids chains:

Reading into the Reuters note above:

He agreed

to a proposal

to set up

a fact-finding mission

to "start"

a "political" "dialogue (rotflol)

Sure, Angela. I agree to this idea that we should at some time or other set up a group of talking heads to talk about facts related to some of our other groups of talking heads getting together to shoot the bull over the politics of all this.

12 posted on 03/02/2014 3:09:09 PM PST by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: DonaldC

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregsatell/2014/03/01/5-things-you-should-know-about-putins-incursion-into-crimea/

The Crimean population voted in a referendum to stay with the Ukraine.

All this BS about wanting Russians back is pure Putin KGB propaganda.


13 posted on 03/02/2014 3:11:36 PM PST by ncalburt ( Amnesty-media out in full force)
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To: xzins

Who cares? Crimea is Russian, and has mucho naval assets. Is Putin supposed to just give them up like the impotent douche Obama gave up our most advanced drone to the Iranians/Chinese hackers who brought it down?


14 posted on 03/02/2014 3:13:02 PM PST by montag813
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Two senior American diplomats, thinking their conversation about the Ukraine was secure and private, were caught disparaging the European Union in a phone call that was apparently bugged, and U.S. officials say they strongly suspect Russia of leaking the conversation.

So, then, the side we say we're on -- the new Ukrainian government that wants to be part of the EU -- is also the side whose hoped for partner we were bad-mouthing to the fled-Ukrainian president?

Our response: those dastardly Russians were caught TAPING us (bad-mouthing our supposed friends). How DARE they leak that conversation (of us bad-mouthing our friends.)

Is it remotely possible for any administration to be more INEPT, INCOMPETENT, IRRELEVANT than this Obama Administration?

And this is the crew that Hillary set up and that Kerry is commanding!

The Three Stooges: Barry, Hillary & Kerry

15 posted on 03/02/2014 3:17:07 PM PST by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: DonaldC

You don’t know world history ?
Putin the former KGB head in the USSR.

Stalin intentionally starved to anywhere from 5,7 or 10 million Ukraines because they resisted Russian communist party .

After WW2, Stalin exterminated or deported estimated million Greeks,Turks, Germans Poles, etc... that lived in and around the Crimea and Black sea regions and shipped in Russians .
Just do a internet search on the topic.
Its a bloody history .


16 posted on 03/02/2014 3:18:25 PM PST by ncalburt ( Amnesty-media out in full force)
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To: montag813

It isn’t just Putin’s “favorite” warm water port. It’s Putin’s ONLY warm water port.

Anyone thinks he’s gonna give that up without a fight is a (high ranking member of Obama’s state department)


17 posted on 03/02/2014 3:18:52 PM PST by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: xzins

So, as I predicted, Putin and Merkel are talking.

Hmmm, let’s see. What is there for them to talk about?

Lwow? Grodno? Brest?

Breslau? Posen? Danzig?

Konigsberg?


18 posted on 03/02/2014 3:20:12 PM PST by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: xzins

It now enters into the realm of settled law,


19 posted on 03/02/2014 3:21:00 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: montag813
The threats of Ukraine with Nukes is not Russian Propaganda .
Whether it would ever really happen is debatable.
However, a member of the Svoboda party
pictured here at a march


promises to get them.
The man pictured here is a Deputy for the Person the State Department wants consulted multiple times a week..and F the EU (heard on the leaked call)
20 posted on 03/02/2014 3:21:33 PM PST by RummyChick
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