Posted on 02/27/2014 10:41:38 PM PST by BurningOak
Dozens of armed men in military uniforms seized an airport in the capital of Ukraine's strategic Crimea region early Friday, a report said.
Witnesses told the Interfax news agency that the 50 or so men were wearing the same gear as the ones who seized government buildings in the city, Simferopol, on Thursday and raised the Russian flag.
The report said the men with "Russian Navy ensigns" first surrounded the Simferopol Airport's domestic flights terminal.
The report could not be immediately confirmed.
The events in the Crimea region have heightened tensions with neighboring Russia, which scrambled fighter jets to patrol borders in the first stirrings of a potentially dangerous confrontation reminiscent of Cold War brinksmanship.
Russia also has granted shelter to Ukraine's fugitive president, Viktor Yanukovych, after recent deadly protests in Kiev swept in a new government.
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It's another Georgian "Bear Trap," being engineered by Putin.
Except this time there is no George Bush to intervene for Ukraine like he did for Georgia...and Putin knows it.
The Ukraine has to stay calm and not respond hastily to these provocations. That is their intent. otherwise, the will definitely lose the entire south of their nation...if not it all.
The mysterious armed men look like Russian special forces. Of course operating with apparent deniability. Russia can claim they’re “volunteers” protecting Russian compatriots from Ukrainian fascists. And who is going to really check their credentials?
Really, where did you get that information, from the RT Russian Times?
“Point of No Return”
http://khpg.org/index.php?id=1393096910
http://futurechallenges.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Berkut.jpeg
The Russian equivalent is OMON - a paramilitary police unit. There is also the Internal Troops of the MVD, that are a military gendarmerie charged with protection of government institutions, public buildings and nuclear installations in Russia.
Happened during the Soviet era you say? Could you tell us who the British were fighting during the Crimean war of the 1850s please?
And the critical US interest for war with Russia, to evict them from Sevastopol,,,, is? Retaining access to the Holy lands?
Are you people insane? And to support McCains Ukrainian Nazi party?
>>Happened during the Soviet era you say? Could you tell us who the British were fighting during the Crimean war of the 1850s please?<<
Crimea was Turkish in 18th century. Russians took over to protect a Christian minorities from the Turks (at least officially). Britain and France intervened on part of Turkey to recapture it.
Svoboda is a neo-nazi party. They even called themselves a socialist-nationalist party. The new deputy-PM is from Svoboda and so are five other minsters according to several international news agencies. If you have different information, please, tell us.
If we are talking ethnic-Russian....it’s barely twenty percent of the far east of Ukraine....which fits into this statistic. Out of twenty-four Oblasts (counties)....there’s only around eight which might fit into this scheme. This comes out to roughly seventeen percent of the total population....which say they are more Russian than Ukrainian.
A split? No doubt. And there’s going to be German, Polish and various European troops standing by to ensure order (forget the Americans....they are paying the peace dividend back and don’t have the strength). Here’s the silly part of the story. These Russians stuck in their Russian Crimea...will be waiting on Russian aid to come and support them. It may be ten years before they admit there’s just no aid and this split was awful stupid for their own economy.
I was surprised to hear Sevastopol was not Russian. I need to do a little research on Russian history.
>>Crimea is an incredibly important industrial and geopolitical location, it makes perfect sense for the Russians to invade it and benefits Putin tremendously.<<
Industrial? It is mostly rocks and sand there. Plenty of snakes, spiders and scorpions too.
>>I was surprised to hear Sevastopol was not Russian. I need to do a little research on Russian history.<<<
If was Greek before medieval and then Turkish. Then Russian from 18th century until donated to Ukraine by Ukrainian commie in charge of USSR in 1954.
Yes, they learned that from Hitler, the hard way.
Apparently, Putin did not get the memo that Ozero would be upset.
The same, only he's focused on taking over America first.
Ozero will probably call it a coupe, and send in the Marine Corpse!
Exactly - the only difference is that their dictator is smart and savvy and bolstering his own country and ours is dense/inept and trying to ruin his claimed country.
Not really.
How could we project power there? Run a carrier group into the Black Sea (which we can’t due to treaties)?
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleksandr_Turchynov
Turchynyov is from the former Soviet Union, he’s the acting PM, he was in the Tymoshenko administration, he’s not a Neo-Nazi.
It’s pointless to argue. To a Russian, everyone looks like a Neo-Nazi. When you observe that the head of their state is a former KGB colonel, they tell you that the Cold War is over.
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