Posted on 08/06/2014 6:22:43 PM PDT by WhiskeyX
U kraine's Foreign Ministry says NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen will visit Kyiv, amid heightened tensions over allegations Moscow is massing troops along the Ukrainian border.
The ministry said in a statement that the August 7 visit, at the invitation of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, is intended to discuss an upcoming meeting on the NATO-Ukraine partnership.
Earlier on August 6, NATO said a Russian force buildup near the Ukrainian border amounted to some 20,000 troops.
In a statement, NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu said Moscow could use the excuse of a humanitarian or peacekeeping mission to send them into Ukraine.
Also on August 6, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said he had received information "in the last several hours" suggesting the threat of direct Russian military intervention in Ukraine is "higher than it was several days ago."
On August 4, Moscow announced what it said were military training exercises in central and western Russia, including all areas where Russia shares a border with Ukraine.
Those exercises include the mobilization of more than 100 warplanes and attack helicopters.
"We're not going to guess what's on Russia's mind, but we can see what Russia is doing on the ground -- and that is of great concern. Russia has amassed around 20,000 combat-ready troops on Ukraine's eastern border," NATO's Lungescu said.
WATCH: Former Polish dissident Adam Michnik has likened Russian President Vladimir Putin's actions regarding Ukraine to Adolf Hitler's annexation of the German-speaking part of Czechoslovakia in 1938. The veteran of Poland's anticommunist opposition told RFE/RL's Aleksei Dzikavitski in Warsaw that Europe should find ways to "stop Putin" despite potential economic costs.
That 20,000 is much less than the 50,000 that were on the border before, but they are equipped very differently, it seems. They are a lot lighter, and a lot more mobile than what was there before. Wesley Clark was noting this on CNN.
20K isn’t enough to hold anything large for any amount of time, but they could make a fast incursion quite easily.
Putin surely notices the irony, too.
He puts troops on his own border, gets threatened with sanctions if he doesn’t move them, then gets sanctions anyway.
I’m sure that is in the calculation, somewhere.
I wish my mother had been so defensive about me as you are of Putin, you are like his Jewish mother shadow, or his publicist, always spinning.
Lol..
So now I’m a jew, too?
You are one weird, projecting dude.
So tell me, how is repeating what Wesley Clark said on CNN today “Spinning for Putin”??
Is Wesley Clark a “Putinista” now, as well??
(This should be interesting, not to mention entertaining)
You think you are Putin’s mother?
You really do like to massage words like a phony.
He is getting hit with sanctions because he is stirring the pot in Ukraine, sending in the insurgents, providing the armaments, and supplying the BUKs that blow commercial jets out of the sky.
It's his show and he can stop it anytime.
You are dodging. Answer the question.
How does repeating what Gen. Wesley Clark said today on CNN make me “Putin’s Jewish Mother”.
I’m sure you can up with some hyperbolic answer, full of strawmen and half-truths, as usual.
I’m not dodging anything, I made my observation on you, you are a propagandist for Russia/Putin, no matter what, you can be expected to post the best spin for the man, as though you are his publicist.
You must have some connection to his regime and his goals, what is it?
After all of his calculations turn to caca, Putin will probably wind up as an underwear bomber.
You are nauseating.... you have gay dreams of Putin too?
“You are nauseating.... you have gay dreams of Putin too?”
Is that some kind of Ukrainian Nazi codeword?
Putin will set up an “Event” some women and children killed in a fire or shelling or whatever—maybe burn a Russian Church. Make sure Ukraine is to blame. When this happens he will put on his somber face—go on TV—and reluctantly send in the Red Army and “Establish Order” in the desputed provinces to protect ethic Russians. The Ukrainian Army will fall back—a new treaty will be hammered out—a “vote” and Russian Federation will become a bit bigger. Russia will forgive some Ukranian debt, and re-eatablish trade (and pay off some folks in Keiv) and the crisis will be over.
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