Ukranian Forces on High Alert????? What does that mean in the face of the Russian Army?
War? According to CNN, this is just an uncontested arrival.
Strange days....
John Fn Kerry just said on meet the press, “ Putin has nothing to gain in all of this, and will make the g8 mad if he doesn’t back off”
I’m feelin all warm and fuzzy now, thank goodness.
Putin better be careful of he’s going to suffer the wrath of the IRS!......oh wait
In the meantime, the Sultan of Sodom on the Potomac has a tee time for 9:00 a.m. this morning, right after morning prayers at the local murdering thug mosque.
My apology ... my error.
“spurning Western pleas not intervene.”
For the Obama and Kerry, that meant
PIMP SLAP. Slapped down like a dog.
Sounds like Putin's version of the "Sudetenland". But it's not as if the free world is weak and indecisive or that US armed forces are at their lowest level since before WWII or that we are on the brink of a global financial collapse and worldwide depression or that we don't have an expansionist totalitarian oriental nation chomping at the bit to kick our butts or that Jews are facing genocide...is it?!
Maybe it's time to watch for Poland being invaded!
Ukraine defense minister just said they cannot defeat russian army.
THE QUESTION SHOULD BE: CAN THE RUSSIAN ARMY MOBILIZE AND STRIKE DEEP INTO THE HEART OF EUROPE BEFORE ANYONE CAN PUT UP A DEFENSE?
What’s left out of most Western analyses of Putin’s brazen military intervention is the Crimea’s complete economic dependence on the mainland, which provides nearly all of its electricity and water and about 70 percent of its food.
Most of the Crimea is basically a desert, with less annual rainfall than Los Angeles. It is impossible to sustain its 2 million people—including agriculture and the substantial tourist industry—without Ukrainian water. Current supplies aren’t even enough.
In Sevastopol, home of the Black Sea Fleet, households get water only on certain days. In fact, on Feb. 19, when snipers were shooting protesters on the streets of Kiev, Sevastopol applied for $34 million in Western
aid (note the irony) to improve its water and sewer systems.
Crimean Tatars. Some 300,000 have returned from exile and their numbers are growing, with continued migration and birth rates higher than either Russians or Ukrainians. They strongly oppose any separatism, and they will not go peacefully into a Russian-controlled, authoritarian
“Yanukistan” along the lines of Transdnistria. Not only are they extremely well organized, they are Muslims with friends. Representatives from Russia’s Tatarstan region are already supporting them. Turkey, which controlled the Crimea for much longer than Russia ever did and has close ties with the Crimean Tatars, is watching. So are Chechen rebels.
The Crimea could explode into bloodshed. To prevent if from happening, maybe turning off the power for 15 minutes will force a reboot in Putin’s aggressive, misguided, and ultimately doomed scheme.