Posted on 04/24/2014 6:26:03 AM PDT by tcrlaf
Russia has begun extensive military exercises on its Ukrainian border following the escalation of violence in eastern Ukraine.
“The order to use force against civilians has already been given, and if this military machine is not stopped, the amount of casualties will only grow,” Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said during an official meeting in Moscow.
“We are forced to react to the situation.”
Shoigu said that the drills involve march and deployment exercises by forces in the southern and western military districts, and separate Air Force maneuvers.
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If you want to start picking it apart that would be great.
So far, I’ve only seen you dismiss it out of hand.
You’ve posted ad naseum that RT is propaganda and that’s about all you’ve said, that’s been the extent of your analysis that I found so far.
The post was meant for all. If you received it as a ping, I made a mistake. You were just the closest reply link on the page. I was not replying to your thoughts. As for the fable, I guess it can mean different things to different folks. Like for me it’s like greedy bears get stung. :-)
Openly dissing our POTUS!
Looking for allies among Americans but he is not our friend.
You don’t think they just despise POTUS?
That’s how it works.
Our US State Dept “Russia” page was all smiles and giggles for years.
When this situation heated up, they started putting out a stream of press releases openly calling Putin a liar.
The press release things are on the right of the US DOS main “Russia” page...
http://www.state.gov/p/eur/ci/rs/
You don’t think they consider him an ally?
To them he’s a useful idiot.
That’s an ally by their definition but I wouldn’t underrate either him or them if you want to defeat them.
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