Posted on 03/01/2014 7:10:27 AM PST by maggief
Simferopol, Ukraine (CNN) -- [Breaking News Update, 10:02 a.m. ET] (CNN) -- Russia's upper house of parliament voted Saturday to approve the use of military force in Ukraine. The vote was unanimous.
[Original Story, published 9:23 a.m. ET]
(CNN) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has asked the upper house of parliament for approval to send Russian troops into Ukraine's Crimea region to normalize the political situation there, the Kremlin said Saturday.
Due to the "extraordinary situation in Ukraine," Putin said, there are threats to the lives of Russian citizens and Russian military personnel based in the southern Crimean region.
It comes on the same day that the new pro-Russian leader of Crimea, Sergey Aksyonov, asked Putin for help in maintaining peace in the Black Sea peninsula -- where Russia has a major naval base at Sevastopol.
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According to the BBC, Refat Chubarov, the head of the Crimean Tatar Majlis (assembly) says he is calling on Tatars to stay at home and not form resistance units. “Literally hours remain until catastrophe,” he said to the Gazprom-owned Russian radio station Ekho Moskvy. Tatars make up about 12 percent of Crimea’s population and have sided with the anti-Yanukovych protesters - now government - in Kiev.
North up on fox now.
Without its nukes, Russia would be just another developing country that hasn't figured out how to provide clean water to its citizens. Britain has a bigger economic output number than Russia, despite having less than half the population. Besides, Britain isn't just Britain - it's part of the ABCA group, which cumulatively has 11x Russia's GDP, despite only having 3x the population.
“We’ll meet again.....don’t know where....don’t know when....”
And one of those ships is out of commission due to having run aground and damaging it's propeller.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3127185/posts
The other ship is an amphibious command ship. How much damage do you think that one ship (or both, if the other one were in service) could do in the face of the Russian Army...or Navy?
You don't suppose Vlad has tasked a sub to keep an eye on them, do you? I'd be willing to bet he has.
Step out of line...fire one, fire two, and two ships go to Davy Jones' Locker.
Don't think he wouldn't authorize it.
Check this out:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c62_1393673617
Russian S-400 AIR DEFENCE heading to UKRAINE
This issue should have been addressed back in 1992, but Yeltsin punted.
Thanks, changed the channel when the Huckster was on.
Not too mention the aortic vein-like structure of natural gas lines running thru the Ukraine...flowing nat/gas out of Russia...and rubles back in. With an unfriendly fist strangling the flow of wealth producing gas out of Russia, their finances would crash.
Why would direct military intervention be necessary? Ukraine has a long common border with 5 NATO countries, through which an unlimited amount of supplies could be trucked. If they're prepared to fight, we should be prepared to supply them.
Supply the Ukrainians with equipment.
Did you just out yourself?
Wow great catch I will share this as this is big. Designed to hit our aircraft.
Base Statistics[edit]
Main characteristics of the «Triumph» [15]
Max target speed, km/s 4,8[8]
Target detection distance, km 600
The number of simultaneously engaged targets (full cast WRU) 36
The number of simultaneously guided missiles (full cast WRU) 72
Time of deployment from traveling to the state, min 5-10
Cast means of the system of combat readiness of the deployed state, min 3
Life means of the system to overhaul, h 10 000
Service life, years
ground facilities
anti-aircraft guided missiles
at least 20
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Types of target:[18]
Aircraft
Strategic bombers such as the B1 Lancer, FB-111 and B-52
Electronic warfare airplanes such as the EF-111A and EA-6
Reconnaissance airplanes such as the TR-1
Early-warning radar airplanes such as the E3-A and E2-C
Fighter airplanes such as the F-15, F-16 and F-22
Stealth airplanes such as the B-2 and F-117A
Strategic cruise missiles such as the Tomahawk
Ballistic missiles (range up to 3500km[19]).
Twitter:
MSNBC reports that Putin invading #Ukraine could someday be as big as Bridgegate
The concern here has nothing to do with communism or Putin. It wouldn't matter if a monarchy were re-established in Russia and the Tsar enthroned. The annexation of foreign territory is the very definition of imperialism and that is what Russia doing right now.
Nice to have a lot of citizens there so that you can invade once things get ugly, I suppose. In analogous situations, America would normally be asking its citizens to evacuate.
Blame Khrushchev for this.
Of course back then Khrushchev had no idea the Soviet Union would one day break up...But this issue should have been one of the very first things settled after the breakup of the Soviet Union, and Yeltsin was too drunk to deal with it.
The U.K. just issued a “GET THE HELL OUT NOW!” Travel Advisory for Crimea.
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/ukraine
It would be kind of like the Mexican army stepping into the US if things got hot for La Raza, if I understand this situation correctly.
The Ukraine has no love lost for Russia. The best we could hope is that Russians would leave the Ukraine behind. Doubt if Putin is just going to call them home though.
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