Whatever is shared with Ukraine will very soon be in the hands of the Russians and we don't want to divulge our full capabilities.
Perhaps we are all just finding out what Obama meant when he wanted his message relayed to Putin that he “could be more flexible after the election.”
Sounding like it’s about to get real. Assuming it’s true, I couldn’t imagine the Russians deploying military field hospitals for no good reason.
Ukraine invasion ping.
flexibility == duplicity
it’s a tax / it’s not a tax
says what people want to hear to prevent revolt/removal, but still does the opposite and nobody stops him
effing antichrist muslim bastard.
Zero is taking notes on how Putin goes about all this.
Watch out, Canada!
May history show that WWIII started in the Crimea because 0bama wasn't "flexible" enough according to Putin.
0bama is not a weak leader, he is not a leader, period.
5.56mm
As delivered by Ambassador Daniel B. Baer to the Joint Meeting of the Forum for Security Cooperation and the Permanent Council, Vienna
April 7, 2014
Mr. Chairperson:
On March 28th, we asked Russia for details regarding its ongoing military activities along its border with Ukraine. Specifically, we would like to know:
1) What is the purpose and anticipated duration of these activities?
2) What is the composition and strength of the Russian military forces involved in these activities?
3) To which units and formations do these deployed forces belong?
Based on the number, types of units, and deployed locations of the Russian forces in the southern and western military districts, which border eastern and northern Ukraine, this deployed force has a character that appears designed to intimidate and/or conduct short-notice, sustained, offensive military operations into Ukraine. More broadly, Russia's occupation of the Crimean region undermines the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine. We urge Russia to reduce its troops to pre-crisis numbers and positions.
The buildup in Russia's Rostov and Belgorod regions opposite the Ukrainian cities of Donetsk and Kharkiv, as well as the deployment of forces near Klimovo, barely 20 kilometers from the border with Ukraine, is substantial. The scope of the forces includes not only ground forces, but also forward-deployed air power, providing quick-strike capability and air support to potential ground operations.
Colleagues, maintaining a large concentration of troops in the field at a time when conscripts are normally scheduled to leave service further suggests that this is not an exercise. NATO military authorities have noted that the Russia force is “sized and outfitted and provisioned with everything that it needs to have an incursion into Ukraine.” We have consistently urged the Russian Federation to take steps to de-escalate. The number of Russian troops massed in this area close to the border with Ukraine is clearly aimed at threatening and intimidating, and is therefore an ongoing escalation.
SNIP
Pssst. Wait until after the election. Then I can do something.
so what? we shouldn’t share intelligence with anyone except long term allies and Ukraine doesn’t fall into that category.
He’s not doing anything less for Ukraine than he’d do for America were America similarly threatened.
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf ... Amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics
The Russian buildup speaks for itself
It’ll detract from his own failings so he’s all for it.