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2014-02-28 Europe

Ukraine crisis: US urges restraint and warns it is 'watching Russia'

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Posted by Fred 2014-02-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Meanwhile, not to be outdone by Kerry or Vlad ...

* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > MONGOL DYNASTY [Yuan Dynasty] OF GENGHIS KHAN RULED UKRAINE FOR NEARLY TWO HUNDRED YEARS, THE UKRAINE IS POST-WW2/COLD-WAR RUSSIA'S VERSION OF "TAIWAN".

IMO Artic read, CHINA HAS HISTORICAL, TERRITORIAL RIGHTS TO UKRAINE [+ Other in Eastern Europe, Middle East]???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-02-28 00:33|| 2014-02-28 00:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Puti is trembling.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-02-28 01:18|| 2014-02-28 01:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Obama should take his shirt off and ride moochelle across the whitehouse lawn and declare Russia weak and incapable of containing the revolution.

Posted by Airandee 2014-02-28 06:47|| 2014-02-28 06:47|| Front Page Top

#4 "I can see Russia from my house."
- Obama

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-02-28 15:28|| 2014-02-28 15:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Sounds good Airandee - except - doesn't Obama ride a girly-bike?

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-02-28 16:24|| 2014-02-28 16:24|| Front Page Top

#6 #3

Okay, I confess. I thought it. Wheelbarrow. Can I go now?

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2014-02-28 17:36|| 2014-02-28 17:36|| Front Page Top

#7 As per CNN this AM, UKraine is accusing Russia of "armed invasion + "naked aggression", to which the Bammer = USA there will be "costs" to pay iff Russia militarily intervenes full-scale.

* See also FREEREPUBLIC > [Daily Mail.UK]TREATY [1991] WHICH COULD DRAG THE US + UK INTO WAR WID RUSSIA IFF PUTIN'S TROOPS INTERVENE IN UKRAINE.

US Treaty wid Ukraine = US Treaty wid Japan = US Treaty wid PHIL = ..... ... But thats why God invented Bammerian "red lines" + massive QES + Sequesters, etc. wasn't it???

Pray hard + Keep your fingers crossed.

* SAME > [CNS.com] RUSSIA SEEKS ACCESS IN EIGHT COUNTRIES FOR ITS SHIPS AND PLANES.

Rising Russia = Rising China = Rising Iran [Nuclear Islam/Islamism?] = ..... ....???

See above.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-02-28 18:48|| 2014-02-28 18:48|| Front Page Top

#8 So I understand there are multiple soviet bases still in Crimea. Not that I'm a Putin fan, I'm not, but if there was a civil war going on in a country we have a base at we would take and hold the nearest airports as well. According to some sources there are 26,000 troops there. I think keeping the airports open for logistics and security is not a bad idea....

If he takes them off post, well that will make it a different story.

Posted by 49 Pan 2014-02-28 19:09|| 2014-02-28 19:09|| Front Page Top

#9 More ... ...

* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > [Dw.de] EU, US UNLIKELY TO INTERVENE IN UKRAINE.

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > UKRAINE CRISIS: RUSSIA LAWMAKERS PUSH TO SIMPLIFY ANNEXATION OF TERRITORIES | RIA NOVOSTI.

The CRIMEA = NORTH KOREA, ECS + SCS DISPUTED ISLANDS = "UN-ANNEXED/UNINCORPORATED" SOVEREIGN TERRITORIES.

versus

* JAPAN TIMES > US STRATEGY IN UKRAINE UNDER FIRE.

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > HAQ'S MUSINGS: UKRAINE MUSLIMS OPPOSED TO RUSSIAN MILITARY INTERVENTION.

* SAME > CANADIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ON THE GROUND IN UKRAINE AS TENSIONS MOUNT - THE GLOBAL AND MAIL.

* SAME > NEW UKRAINIAN GOVT. BANS TATARIAN + RUSSIAN LANGUAGE IN CRIMEA.

* TOPIX > [Washington Times]GORDON:TYRANTS IN UKRAINE, SYRIA, + IRAN ARE EMBOLDENED BY OBAMA'S WEAKNESS.

* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > BRITISH "FINANCIAL TIMES": THAILAND NEXT FOR CIVIL WAR AND POSSIBLE PARTITION AFTER UKRAINE.

* SAME > RUSSIA VICE-PRIME MINSTER DIMITRY ROGOZIN TELLS STATE DUMA: RUSSIA WON'T HESITATE TO USE ITS NUCLEAR WEAPONS IFF IT COMES UNDER "FOREIGN" ATTACK. RUSSIA WILL ALSO DEVELOP ITS OWN EFFECTIVE RESPONSE TO US GLOBAL PROMPT STRIKE.

* SAME > IN POSSIBLE RETALIATION FOR RUSSIA'S ACTIONS AGZ UKRAINE, THE US ENDORSES EX-SOVIET SSR GEORGIA FOR FULL-FLEDGED NATO MEMBERSHIP, vee Membership Action Plan [NATO MAP].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-02-28 21:53|| 2014-02-28 21:53|| Front Page Top

#10 Secretary of State John Kerry said he had spoken to his Russian counterpart who promised to respect Ukraine's "territorial integrity".

It must be tough for these guys to talk to this guy while surpressing the urge to burst out laughing in his fuckin ugly horse face.

Posted by tu3031 2014-02-28 22:04|| 2014-02-28 22:04|| Front Page Top

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