Posted on 08/31/2014 1:51:47 AM PDT by blueplum
BRUSSELS, Belgium - Amid significant gains being made by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine and denies by Russia of a military intervention in the country, the European Union has issued a one week ultimatum for Moscow to remove its alleged forces from the country.
European Council President Herman Van Rompuy said that Russia had a week to withdraw its soldiers from eastern Ukraine or face further severe sanctions, while Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said his country was "close to a point of no return - full scale-war" with Russia.
The Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite went one step further, calling Russia's alleged invasion of eastern Ukraine a declaration of war with Europe. Calling Russia's support for pro-Russian separatists in the country "practically in a war against Europe", she said the EU needed to send military support to Kiev.
"We need to support Ukraine, and send military materials to help Ukraine defend itself. Today Ukraine is fighting a war on behalf of all Europe," said Grybauskaite.
...French President Francois Hollande called for urgent action to be taken by the EU to avoid all-out war with Russia. "Are we going to let the situation worsen, until it leads to war? Because that's the risk today. There is no time to waste," he said at a summit in Brussels....
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Bad idea for 300 years. Don’t forget that the Swedes invaded Russia and were promptly exterminated about 300 years ago. Field Marshal Montgomery said that the two lessons of World War II were do not invade China and do not invade Russia.
“Russia - get your forces out of Ukraine or... or... we’ll stamp our feet and pee ourselves!”
-EU and Obama
They pretend to give a darn but will do nothing to actually help Ukraine.
Are you paying attention? NATO won't lift a fingernail.
The one exception was the Germans fighting on the Eastern front in WWI (not WWII). They actually captured quite a bit of Russian territory, including the Baltic States. They lost it when they signed the Armistance, however.
While the West talks Russia takes territory. If the West ever acts with strength, it will be “ok we will stop and not take anymore territory.”
Obozo’s not playing on the world stage with a bunch of college frat boy’z, he is dealing with very skilled adversaries that are trained in the art of manipulation, deception and personality assessment.
They've got his ticket, he’z got weakness oozing out of his pores.
Agree. Our adversaries sized him up early on and concluded that he is the very personification of naivete and weakness. From their perspective, it isn’t often when an opportunity like this comes along to exploit great weakness in an opponent. Consequently, they see nothing but a big green light to carry out their aggressive acts against us, with impunity, for the next couple of years.
You bet’cha...be careful and God bless.
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