The Ukraine Fights Back

JEFFHEAD.COM ^ | May 2, 2014 | Jeff Head

[Jeff Head]

Very dangerous times.

[Jeff Head]

FYI...documentation of ongoing events in the Ukraine.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Are they fighting back against “The Russia”?

[ScaniaBoy]

The photo of the downed helicopter, was that from today? No evidence of fire so hardly caused by a SAM.

[reefdiver]

My guess is that Putin will be pounding these people soon. Lots of people will be killed

[jmacusa]

Finland, 1939/40.

[dalereed]

Russia can win this one by shutting off all gas supplies to the EU.

I personally would like to see the EU destroyed, it's nothing but a planned stepping stone to a One World Socialist government.

Historically Ukraine is Russian anyway.

[Fractal Trader]

Thanks for the first integrated report on the Ukrainian crisis that I have seen, Too many bits and pieces, strewn apart, in most stories. Way too many articles posted from Russia Today!

[editor-surveyor]

Buda-Pest, 1956...

[editor-surveyor]

An expanding rod missile wouldn’t necessarily cause any fire.

[edpc]

Ukraine is about to get rolled. They’ve already been undermined and fractured by Russian covert ops. It’s unlikely the different factions will unify against an invasion. I fully expect Putin to throw “right to protect” in Obama’s face and invade before the elections. I’m happy to be wrong.

[Sam Gamgee]

Yeah, it convenient how liberals forget that before Russia was an ally in WWII they took half of Poland and all of Finland. They were merely a choice of 2 evils. Always have been. Apparently always will be.

[Sam Gamgee]

Putin is doing this smartly and slowly. He knows he has time, and that Obama frankly can't juggle more than one or two crisis’ at once. Once we get to midterms, Obama will be too busy shoring up Obamacare to notice a third of Ukrainian territory in Putin's hands. Maybe couple years ahead all the Ukraine. Then comes Lithuania.

[ScaniaBoy]

Thanks for the info.

[ScaniaBoy]

Not all of Finland. Not even half. But of course they would have if the brave Finns hadn’t stopped them.

[sarasmom]

We have it on audio and video tape that Obama was “fully on board” with Russia's current reconquest of Ukraine.

Perhaps his (Obama’s) stated intent of future “flexibility” had to do with Russia's tacit agreement to ignore the futile and insane USA government attempts to do the same things in Libya and Egypt, during an election campaign?

(The question mark is intentionally intended as sarcasm)

We, the people of the world, are not amused by the games our supposed leaders play with each other, which require our sweat, blood and tears.

Welcome to the beginnings of WWIII.

[edpc]

The missile supposedly used in the chopper shootdown was the SA-16 Igla. It has a fragmentation warhead that can be magnetic proximity, impact, or delayed impact. Below is an example of the damage one did to an A-10 during Desert Storm.

[hubel458]

Russian terrorists distributing "Igla" MANPADs seized from Ukraine Ordnance depot (probably Sloviansk) The russians couldn't sneak them in, being to bulky, when they infiltrated, so they went and stole them from where they were kept in storage. Ed

[jmacusa]

And they also took the Baltic States too. Uncle Joe* was quite content to stroll down the garden path with Hitler despite being warned by the West that Hitler was going to turn on him. And Stalin was quite content to sit back and enjoy watching the English get pounded by the Luftwaffe night after night.*(’’Uncle Joe’’ was a nickname FDR gave him.)

[jmacusa]

Uh, no unfortunately for the Finns sheer weight of Russian numbers forced Mannerhiem to capitulate.