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2014-04-25 Europe

Kiev Launches Assault on Rebels as Moscow Warns of 'Consequences', Holds Drills

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Posted by Fred 2014-04-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 See also VOICE OF RUSSIA > GENERAL MOBILIZATION ANNOUNCED [by Pro-Russia Militants-Separatists] IN UKRAINE'S DONETSK PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC.

As per SAME, the Pro-Russia MilSeps are perceived to be in favor of multilateral negotiations BUT NOT TO GIVE UP THEIR DREAM OF INDEPENDENCE FROM KIEV OR ACCESSION BACK TO RUSSIA.

IMO iff Putin gets tired of waiting for the Bammer + Kerry + does invade the Ukraine, he will order RussArmy forces to conquer a minimal portion of sovereign Ukrainian territory as opposed to the whole, i.e. just enuff to safely incorporate both the Crimea + pro-Russia regions of East Ukraine while maintaining strong defensive border lines agz any response by the US-NATO.

Again, "GLOBALISM" = "POLICE ACTIONS" THRU LIMITED WAR/MIL CONFLICTS = LIMITED OFFENSIVE ACTIONS. Ideally or preferably Conventional, AMAP ALAP + short-term, but not beyond or not worse than LIMITED NUCLEAR WAR OR LIMITED TACTICAL NUCLEAR WAR.

Unlike Russia vee the Ukraine, CHINA over in East Asia-Pacific has several strategic theaters = potential battlefronts to deal with as spread out over several pro-US = anti-China sovereign countries, e.g. "First Island Chain" + India + Guam-WESTPAC ["Second Island Chain"].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-04-25 01:47|| 2014-04-25 01:47|| Front Page Top

#2 leaving the town calm but tense

Huh?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-04-25 03:27|| 2014-04-25 03:27|| Front Page Top

#3 * AGENCE FREE-PRESSE > US TROOPS LAND IN LATVIA [ + Poland + Estonia] AMID UKRAINE CRISIS.

The 173rd ABN Brigade has officially arrived.

* DALI BEAST > EXCLUSIVE: PUTIN HALTS ALL TALKS WID WHITE HOUSE, ignoring calls by US SecDef Hagel.

Vlad wants to hear from the Bammer, NOT the Bammer's minions.

VERSUS

* WAFF > [Business Insider] S&P SLASHES RUSSIA'S TO ONE NOTCH ABOVE JUNK.

* SAME > [Business Week] EVEN WIDOUT SANCTIONS, RUSSIA'S ECONOMY IS LOOKING SICKLIER THAN EVER.

Yuuup.

WINNER/ADVANTAGE = SOON-TO-BE-NUCLEAR ISLAM + GLOBAL-JIHAD-HAPPY HARD BOYZ.

Iff the US-World worries about Radical Islam taking over post-2014 Pakistan's nukes, wait until they take over Russia's, China's, + India's.

A very real possibility iff Russia is indeed destabilized.

* TOPIX > [Daily Star] OBAMA WILL SAVE A DROWNING PUTIN.

VERY FUNNY THEY SHOULD SAY THAT IN 2014 ... ...

To paraph OWG BRIC GIRL PAULA "DELILAH/BATHSHEBA" ABDUL, "WHAT DOES DADDY REMEMBER"!

Of those certain long-ago days when Vlad still had no hair.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-04-25 20:32|| 2014-04-25 20:32|| Front Page Top

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