Posted on 02/28/2014 8:34:17 AM PST by kristinn
16.25 Our correspondent in Simferopol, Roland Oliphant, says Russian troops have moved into Crimea in what Moscow is calling a mission to protect Black Sea Fleets positions
15.50 BREAKING: The Russian foreign ministry has admitted that armoured units from the Black Sea Fleet base near Sevastopol had entered Crimea in order to protect fleet positions.
The Ukrainian side was also passed a note regarding the movement of armoured vehicles of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Crimea, which is happening in full accordance with the foundation Russian-Ukrainian agreements on the Black Sea Fleet, the ministry said in a statement posted on its website on Friday afternoon.
In the same note the Russian foreign ministry said it had declined a Ukrainian request for bilateral consultations on events in Crimea because they are the result of recent internal political processes in Ukraine.
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Obama is going to be making a statement about Ukraine in 15 minutes..he is finally going to admit that he’s an idiot or is that wishful thinking on my part
Heads up!!
Ed Henry @edhenryTV 3m
President speaking on #ukraine 445pm ET in WH briefing room
Obama should be arming and training the Ukrainian freedom fighters like the Reds are doing with the Assad regime in Syria. Tit for tat.
>>Russian troops: No where near a naval base<<
APCs are certainly a naval version BTRs. Note built-in snorkels for amphibious landing. BTW, Ukrainian navy has similar BTRs, thus they don’t have trucks like the one in this pic in their inventory.
What, exactly, do you think he should do?
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Its what OBAMA should HAVE been doing. When Russia sailed its fleet into the Carribean to cruise there several years ago, Obama should have put a US Carrier Task force into the Black Sea. That would have allowed him to have dispatched such a task force 3 weeks ago in support of the Olympics in Sochi AND in support of Ukriane.Obama knew the Ukraine situation was coming months ago from CIA intel. Yet he did nothing but PUNT.
Bad news for order in the world. The sheriff is no longer in town, and the Islamic and Commie bad boys will enslave free people around the world.Look at Africa, huge incursions by jihadists into Nigeria and other places thanks to Obamas slime work in Libya. The Crimea is about to become an ethnic battle ground because Obama is a coward, a promotor of “ post Imperialist America, “ when America actually has never been Imperialist. America has been simply an exporter of freedom from want, and freedom from tyranny.Obama is committing suicide and wants America to go with him.
Let Obama hang on the gallows of history.A pox on him.
That went well.
Obama, and half the Country favor “American Isolationism” and are fostering “appeasement” as a foreign policy. America has tried this policy before. “Ok Mr. Hitler you can keep Poland, just don’t go any further”. It took a “Pearl harbour” event to awaken the sleeping giant from it’s “safety in Isolationism” dreams last time.
Plenty of ethnic Ukrainians speak Russian mostly. Only about 20% of Ukrainians are ethnic Russians.
“Plenty of ethnic Ukrainians speak Russian mostly. Only about 20% of Ukrainians are ethnic Russians.”
Thank for the input.
“Plenty of ethnic Ukrainians speak Russian mostly. Only about 20% of Ukrainians are ethnic Russians.”
Thank for the input.
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