Posted on 08/28/2014 8:20:33 PM PDT by Steelfish
Russia Sends Tanks And Troops Into Ukraine, Seizes A Strategic Town
By VICTORIA BUTENKO, CAROL J. WILLIAMS NATO confirms major incursion of Russian troops and armor into eastern Ukraine
Russia's goal is to permanently destabilize Ukraine, NATO official says Ukrainian president cancels trip abroad, convenes emergency security meeting on Russian incursion
Russian tanks and troops fired their way into eastern Ukraine on Thursday and seized a strategic gateway town on the road to the heavily militarized Crimean peninsula in a brazen display of support for pro-Russia separatists fighting Ukrainian government troops.
Defense officials in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, said two armored Russian columns burst across the border into southern Ukraine at midday and rolled over the town of Novoazovsk on the Sea of Azov, opening a new front in the 5-month-old separatist battle.
The government’s account was bolstered by satellite photos released by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization showing convoys of tanks and armored vehicles entering Ukraine from Russia's Rostov region over the last two weeks.
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That re-set button is pretty amazing.
Thanks, Hitlery.
Obama has ——Flex-a-bility,
Flex-a-bility, Flex-a-bility
Dah-dee-dah dee, dah, dah, dah.
Krauthammer had an interesting observation today on Special Report: Russia is attempting to secure a land bridge through Ukraine to the Crimea.
Of course Obama froze. He is purely focused on fundamentally changing (wrecking) the US. He has no clue about the geopolitical situation in Russia or Ukraine.
Problem is, neither do the race-obsessed idiots who elected him. We could have survived Obama. Surviving those fools? Unlikely.
Any one of us would freeze, too, if he or she was sitting on all the dirt about himself the Mahdi is, and knew Putin had it all and could release it whenever he wanted to.
having no plan leaves him EXTREMELY flexible!!
Putin, Obama, Isis.... they are all minions of Satan as far as I am concerned.
The pro-Russian separatists were losing badly until the Red Army showed up and it was the reason they showed up too.
re-set back to the cold war
Kruschev lives
“Can we wrap this up, I got some golfing to do”
So you’d rather Obama go to war over Ukraine?
Why do you care whether Russia runs Ukraine or not?
We’re 17 trillion in debt. How much do you want to spend ( or rather, borrow from China) on military action against Russia over Ukraine?
Liberals waste money we don’t have on domestic boondoggles. Neocon conservatives waste money we don’t have on tough-guy military boondoggles halfway around the globe. Actually, both sides are liberals when it comes to driving us deeper into debt for no good reason.
I've got Valerie Jarrett to lead you from my ass!
This makes sense. Strategically, Russia needs the Crimea for its warm-water port facilities, and a secure land access route from Russia to the Crimea.
In metro-sexual, urban, Obama-land, where our energy comes from pixy dust, a well spoken speech is the result, and everyone will like us when we decide to unilaterally disarm or disengage in fighting the bad guys, this is a hard reality to swallow.
Our words, our hollow threats, are 100% meaningless. All you have seen from the US side is an attempt to save face towards our own public, to call for sanctions, negotiations, appeal to international treaties and laws, to shame they other guy or exclude him from some club. Putin can give two shits about this. Putin won, we lost, and the rest is only there for Obama and some other Western leaders to appear relevant and engaged, as if they matter, have a plan, and are taking some sort of action. Obama’s security adviser should break the news to Obama like this, since he appears to know a little about basketball. Putin's score is 100, yours is 0.
I think this community organizer is way in over his head foe this job. We may as well have the President of ACORN, or SEIU or the President of People for the American Way or NARAL in the White House. This nation is now just as impotent as any third world country. Reagan’s 600 navy ship is now reduced to 250. America is a nation in decline and this time we won’t have a morning in America
What? I did not say anything that remotely relates to your screed. I just noted that Obama is clueless about this situation.
Do you disagree?
“having no plan leaves him EXTREMELY flexible!!”
having no plan leaves him EXTREMELY unaccountable!
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