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| NATO Weighs Assistance for Ukraine to Dissuade Further Moves by Moscow |
| 2014-03-20 |
| [NY Times] The secretary general of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... , Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said on Wednesday that the alliance was considering providing assistance to Ukraine to help deter Russia from another military intervention there. "We have intensive consultations with the Ukrainians right now," Mr. Rasmussen said during an appearance at the Brookings Institution. "I agree that we should step up our assistance to Ukraine, and I am sure it will happen." He noted that Ukraine had requested the aid, and that decisions on what to provide would be made at a meeting of the alliance's foreign ministers on April 1-2. Mr. Rasmussen did not say what help might be provided now that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has sent troops to Crimea and positioned other forces near eastern Ukraine. But other Western officials said that Ukraine was seeking communications gear, mine-clearing equipment, vehicles, ammunition, fuel and medical gear, and the sharing of intelligence. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said on Wednesday that the alliance was considering providing assistance to Ukraine to help deter Russia from another military intervention there. Two sommeliers and a sous-chef? |
| Posted by: charger 2014-03-20 11:53 |
| #4 Russian nationalism soup isn't very filling It's lousy, and in such large portions*! *judging by the volume placed here.... |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-03-20 10:12 |
| #3 * See also TOPIX > US CONSIDERS SENDING TROOPS TO BALTIC STATES TO REASSURE ALLIES: BIDEN. RELATED DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS = WARNING RUSSIA, BIDEN SAYS US WILL DEFEND ALLIES - TIMES OF INDIA. * SAME > POLAND, HUNGARY, THE CZECH REPUBLIC, + SLOVAKIA SIGN A MILITARY PACT, under NATO-EU auspices | FORMER SOVIET SATELLITES SIGN JOINT MILITARY PACT - DEFENSE NEWS. versus * CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > [SCMP] NOTHING AWKWARD ABOUT CHINA'S POISTION WID REGARDS TO UKRAINE. ERIC LI SAYS FAR FROM BEING LEFT BEHIND BY THE UKRAINE CRISIS, CHINA HAS BEEN DEFTLY EXPLOITING THE SITUATION, IN LINE WID ITS GRASP OF MAJOR-POWER RELATIONS ["Great Power" Diplomacy] AS IT SEEKS TO PROMOTE A MULTI-POLAR NEW WORLD ORDER. * SAME > [NYT] OPINION: [Obama = US]SHARING POWER WID CHINA, in Asia-Pacific. "Pivots"??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-03-20 03:34 |
| #2 They'll be bitching and moaning to rejoin the Ukraine in 5 years or less. Russian nationalism soup isn't very filling. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-03-20 03:07 |
| #1 Again, IMO the US-West + Ukraine can survive agz an independent sovereign Crimea or one re-incorporated back into the Russian Federation. As the various "Muslim/Arab/Islamic Springs" go on, + both IRAN + IRAN'S SUNNI RIVALS GO NUKULAAR [Militants = Hard Boyz?], it may be in the US-West's interests to allow Russia + Russian Orthodox Church to control the Crimea per se. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-03-20 00:27 |