Amazingly this “Crimean independence movement” has all been led and directed from Moscow.
That would be 10 pm EST..................Film at 11...................
Maybe Obama can invite Putin over to smoke some Choom.
Start working on your protest signs:
"Obama lied, people died"
"No blood for gas!"
"Stop Obama's war!"
Obama will get right on this, right after a few rounds of golf.
Evidently Putin is not concerned in the least about the ‘cost’ of his incursion. He shredded the memo. Obama’s words carry no weight with anyone, be they foreign or domestic.
Worse, our adversaries are watching our ineptitude and weakness. And they are taking away lessons that they will use against us. We are in big trouble.
tell them to pix off
This is where the rest of the world finds out that the weakened United States of America they always wanted is NOT a good thing.
2010
2004
I expect them to surrender. Fighting with no hope of resupply and reinforcement is criminally senseless. There is no point in a fight you cannot win.
This splendid little war from Moscow’s point of view is all but over. Whether it expands depends on other developments in the days ahead.
Shades of 1939.
Congratulations, Obama.
Change.. Change back to the past.
History repeats itself.
When idiots and ideologues reign, innocent people suffer..
and die.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2fYcHLouXY
State department spent $5 billion to help move Ukraine into EU and IMF
Press conference video Dec 13, 2013
They've been around since 1700 or so. Have fought in all Russian Wars. Served with great honor/distinction.
Merely wanted to point out many Russian Marines (Naval Infantry) are presently onshore-Crimea. Others waiting for orders offshore. This fact is us course known by Ukrainians in Crimea and elsewhere...
Thank God - once Russia has brought stability to the region Russia will again protect the minorities who have lived there for ages...unlike the crazies in power in Ukraine now.
Crimea was part of Russia for over 200 years, until Nikita Khrushchev literally gifted it to Ukraine in 1954 in order to purchase the support of their party bosses during his accession after the death of Stalin.
Before Russia, it belonged to the Ottoman Empire, now defunct. Before that, it belonged to the city-state of Venice, going back to before Columbus discovered America. But the Crimea was NEVER part of Ukraine, until Khrushchev’s unilateral “gift."
Imagine if President Eisenhower, as a dictator on his own, gave Long Island and NYC to Connecticut as part of an internal United States political deal to secure CT’s critically needed support during a contested election or coup.
In 1954, the political gift of the Crimea was an internal USSR matter, not an international matter. Ukraine was then the Ukraine SSR, within the USSR. In 1991, the USSR broke apart, and Khrushchev’s gift suddenly mattered. But despite the gift and the fluke that led Crimea to become part of the modern sovereign nation of Ukraine, Crimea has always been 90%+ ethnic Russian, and it as always, it contains Russia’s most critical naval bases and sea ports.
In fact, Crimea is far more Russian than Hawaii is American. It’s foolish and naïve to believe that the Russian’s will risk losing the Crimea during a period of chaos in Ukraine.
If you want to see Russia's REAL "red line," threaten their control of the Crimea, and its naval bases and seaports.
BBC News - Russia’s military has given Ukrainian forces in Crimea until dawn on Tuesday to surrender or face an assault, Ukrainian defence sources have said.
The head of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet Aleksander Vitko set the deadline and threatened an attack “across Crimea”.
He also reportedly told two warships to surrender or be attacked at 17:00 GMT on Monday.
Moscow says it is protecting civilians from “ultra-nationalist threats”, but its actions have been widely condemned.
Russia is now said to be in de facto control of the Crimea region.