Posted on 05/07/2015 2:45:10 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Russia is waging a hybrid war for which the West is not prepared.
All warning lights are red. All cross-checked information, all sources show that Russian Federation forces have massed troops on each foreseen penetration axis from Kursk to Kharkiv, Rostov to southeast Ukraine and from Crimea to the coastal area.
The estimation ranges from 65,000 to 95,000 soldiers.
The Russian supplied armor in the Donbas alone is estimated to 700 main battle tanks (with an increasing number of T-72 V3 only used by Russia) and 1,100 infantry fighting vehicles, BTR and BMP (with an increasing number of BTR 82). Photos brought back by drones sent by volunteers groups over the border with Russia show kilometers of Grad rockets crates prepositioned for feeding a huge number of rocket launchers during a high intensity artillery shelling of the positions of defenders inside Ukraine.
Russia is now sending the latest of the available military hardware to its proxies along with 40 identified regular units belonging to its forces as amply demonstrated by the open sources information collcted on social networks like VK, Russias Facebook where Russians show themselves shelling Ukrainians, bragging about it and geolocalisation indicate their position when posting.
Many Russian military identification cards and passports have been recovered on corpses.
The Russian Mothers Association has collected the names of thousands of Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine.
Parts of Grad rockets, anti-tank rockets and unexploded missiles, mortar rounds or artillery shells are recovered and show markings clearly pointing to Russia with lot numbers as recent as 2009. During combat, crates of small arms ammunition have been captured as well as anti-tank missiles in their crates with the slip indicating their latest storage location in Russian Federation units.
It is time for Western powers to abandon the politically correct stance and face the threat. Every day without action will make the conflict more costly for the whole of Europe.
Standing up against Vladimir Putin is the only way the war stops before the whole of Europe is set ablaze.
Ukraine is not a beggar. Ukraine fights!
From only 6,000 men with combat readiness one year ago that were not able to oppose the invaders without being quickly annihilated in case of major conflict, the armed forces of Ukraine have grown to a combat ready force that repulsed the so-called separatists in Donbas during June and July 2014, obliging Moscow to engage openly its best forces in August.
Every day that President Petro Poroshenko did not declare a state of war, volunteers and donors forged a battle-ready instrument that resisted the Russian invaders to the point that even Russian officers admit that they underestimated the capacity of Ukraine to defend itself.
Many small companies have produced what the fighters needed in various fields. volunteers have repaired vehicles, companies have offered gasoline, donors from the whole world sent money or equipment. But Ukraine has fallen victim twice of some ideology that without arms, the world will become peaceful.
It was deprived of the worlds third largest nuclear arsenal in exchange for a security guaranteed by those who signed the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, one of them being the aggressor and the others standing on the sideline because they are not willing to stand up to Russia and its imperialistic aggressive stance. Russia did not respect the Minsk agreement it signed and will never do. Arm Ukraine, now! Before it is too late !na_Kiev-550-550x330 This Op-ed was published by Kyiv Post on April, 29, 2015
Engineer by trade, with a career as executive export sales and armament expert often invited by French and Swiss medias, Edmond Huet helped identify units and armaments used by the government against Maidaners and later the invading Russians in Crimea. He lives in Kyiv.
I don’t care
Heck supposedly Israel is our greatest ally. I don’t see congress moving against zer0 with any speed to help them?
We have nukes. Russia has nukes China has nukes. All the rest who have nukes can’t deliver them with ease like these three. That is the triple threat. Right now we need to prevent Iran ( and the NORKS) from getting nukes and our POS regime is taking the WRONG SIDE.
We need to get rid of our current regime, then we can play world police again.
Is your sarcasm detector turned off. Geesh!
You are obviously descended from these Russians(all the same to me). Go fight the good fight and leave us out of it. We werent worried about Ukraine when it was soviet. Why now? You obviously have a personal axe to grind.
Russia is a one party state rogue regime killing thousands while rampaging across Europe, threatening nuclear war, flying military aircraft with transponders off, assassinating with nuclear material, claiming parts of the arctic, etc., etc.
If responding to these type of threats is not “our business” nothing is.
It’s early need more coffee
I agree to a point.
Still think Ukraine should pay for any arms we send them.
If you believe in logical fallacies, then you are a True Conservative!
Well I suggest you grab a gun and get on the front lines there Edmond. Maybe you should have considered the consequences of that Euromadian Coup when you were involved in it. You're lucky you not living West Russia now. Although who would want to takeover Ukraine.
Sure, though within reason, considering at the moment their economy is horrible. I don't think that's how most folks here would want to treat Israel.
Hey, guess who is supporting Iran and helping them with nuclear weapons? The Russkies.
I don't really understand the whole logic of "Our enemies are moving on THIS part of the board, so let's ignore their expansion and raping and pillaging elsewhere?"
Why? Cuz you'd demand they'd immediately be shot, comrade?
Here are some eeevil fascist non-Russian orthodox Christians being killed by your favored regime in East Ukraine. I’m sure they all had it coming:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3287209/posts
the enemy is currently in Washington DC.
we are not in any condition till after the 2016 elections, to do anything but hold on.... many fear that zer0 wont relinquish power. he has been firing the best of the general officers. the best we can hope for is this guy in the white hut, is to do the least.
Great! So there are no enemies outside of Washington DC. Nice to see how rational a conclusion you have come to.
Of course, if Edmond did just that, you’d call him a Nazi.
Although our long standing relationship with Israel can’t really be compared to anything we have with Ukraine, I see your point.
To me it just seems like we are pissing money away all to often when giving stuff to some of these places.
we do all this stuff for other countries and get nothing, or very little, back.
mellow out. you cant see the forest for the trees.
Washington is the problem and it colors what we do everwhere else.
I see you as having personal fish to fry in that region of the world. admit it, you or your family come from there.
in WW 2 my dad, 100% Italian heritage went to fight Hitler and Mussolini. his parents came from an enemy country. He was an American...he fought for America...not Italy.
My family are Spaniards from Spain, with one half immigrating to Mexico first, then coming into Texas where I was born.
They’re going to partition Ukraine....which goes completely unreported in MSM here in the US..... Romania, Belarus, and Hungary looking to take dibs on Ukraine as well as Poland....Ukraine
Nonsense. Poland is Ukraine’s biggest supporter in NATO & the EU along with Lithuania. They’ve even formed a joint military brigade. You repeat Putinist fantasies as if they are facts on a conservative website. Why?
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