Posted on 02/28/2014 5:30:29 PM PST by BurningOak
Tension in the Crimea grew tonight as the Russian government finally confirmed it had sent soldiers into the troubled region.
Ukraine’s interim leadership denounced the “armed intervention” on its southern territory – a key strategic area where Russia’s Black Sea naval fleet is still based.
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Reports claimed 2,000 Russian soldiers had landed in the region, while armed militia carrying Russian flags earlier seized the international airport near the Crimean capital Simferopol and a military base close to Sevastopol.
Unconfirmed reports emerged suggesting that a convoy of armoured vehicles was moving towards Simferopol.
Roads to the airport were also blocked by unidentified troops.
Ukraine’s acting president Oleksandr Turchynov accused Russia of trying to provoke Kiev into “armed conflict”.
(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
It’s just like old times, innit?
“They have essentially ceded the territory with this statement. Calling it an ‘intervention’ is the clue”
Big words like “war” or “invasion” are used by nations with power to resist, Ukraine is in no position to talk tough, the talk could be interpreted as an actual declaration of war.
I am computer illiterate, how do you post links?
Partly.
The Serbs of the Krajina seem to share some similarities with the Russians of the Ukraine.
So do both with the Sudeten Germans, or a lot of the Austrians during the Anschluss.
More like the 1930’s I think. In the Crimea a Russian takeover cannot be opposed because there is a very limited anti-Russian population and the territory is extremely discrete and well defined. Geography is everything.
In the Sudetenland the Germans seized the defensible terrain around Bohemia, and I believe you will soon hear that the Russians have seized Perekop.
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It's a good thing it's after 5:00 on a Friday, since he's off until Monday morning. That'll give him a chance to recharge and tackle the issue and focus like a laser.
if the russians are sending in troops to defend their bases in crimea it isn’t an “invasion”. all the major NATO countries border western russia. this is what NATO is for, not sudan or iraq or afghanastan.
and no i don’t support russia but i also believe very little from the OMG. better news from uk.
Ukraine though is not a member of NATO. And the government’s writ does not run in half the country. Its has no army to speak of, which is friendly to Russia and does not want to get involved in fighting its own people. Due to geography, none of Russia’s neighbors are going to put up up a fight with it.
The Crimea is already lost! Man up and move on.
Putin isn’t a Soviet despot—he’s worse—he’s a Czarist Imperialist who wants to reform the old Czars Empire. This man is cold as ice—he doesn’t bluff—he doesn’t screw around. He has the support of a majority of his people—most people in Crimea support such moves—violence might not be a wise policy here.
Putin doesn't do red stars anymore, but Romanov double-headed eagles.
Yep, a lot of folks on here don’t understand Russia or Putin very well these days.
So what would you have us do? Attack Russia with our severely weakened military?
You have to understand that while the Soviet Union started communist, it quickly degenerated to basically a much more oppressive version of the old Czarist order. Stalin could care less about liberating the proletariat from the oppressing capitalists, he was basically just a modern Ivan the Terrible.
The key with Russia is that regardless if it currently calles itself a monarchy, a communist dictatorship, or a pseudo-democratic cleptocracy; it is still Russia. Their default government is a strongman who suppresses individual liberties, centralizes economic power, and expands the empire by military force. All Russian regimes look the same regardless of what they call themselves.
Oh, come on. If you say that then you really don't understand what Communism was!
We needs to defend our own borders, and get our finances in order. Until then it is time to end foreign aid and those entangling alliances that our founding father warned us about. Those entangling deals are highly susceptible to the devious guile of others who suck us into their web of war that is not in our interest.
There was a German in the WW1 era that played the USA like a fiddle to involve us in WW1 because of a supposed plan to bring Mexico into Germany’s side. http://europeanhistory.about.com/cs/worldwar1/p/prazimmermanbio.htm
He also was involved in the overthrow of Russian czars for the Commies. An Irish Revolution. etc.
Very interesting. Thanks for posting.
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