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2014-03-18 Europe

Putin Signs Decree Recognizing Crimea as Independent State as Region Applies to Join Russia

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Posted by Fred 2014-03-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 War can still be avoided.

Personally I'm more interested in just how much giving up of power-n-influence will the US have to do as per the OWG Globalist agenda.

As said times before, the Globies are taking very dangerous geopol risks, perhaps even "existential".

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-03-18 00:45|| 2014-03-18 00:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Anyhoo, ...

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > US REJECTS CRITICISMS OF [US, EU-imposed]"TOOTHLESS" SANCTIONS FOLLOWING CRIMEA REFERENDUM. RUSSIA ISSUES DECREE RECOGNIZING CRIMEA AS A SOVEREIGN STATE AS US + EU ENACT MEASURES AGZ 32 RUSSIANS + UKRAINIANS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-03-18 00:48|| 2014-03-18 00:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Damn, they just missed marching in the Sochi opening ceremony.

Posted by Bugs Hitler6550 2014-03-18 00:58|| 2014-03-18 00:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Dear Comrade Vlad:

Due to your continued actions in the Crimea and Ukraine, we regret to inform you that the brave Islamic freedom fighters IVO Damascus and Grozny are now receiving daily special intelligence feeds.

Have a nice day you Russian assh***

Posted by Besoeker 2014-03-18 04:13|| 2014-03-18 04:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Damn, they just missed marching in the Sochi opening ceremony.

LOL, is that you Tu?

Posted by Shipman 2014-03-18 04:48|| 2014-03-18 04:48|| Front Page Top

#6 You mean they weren't receiving "daily special intelligence feeds" + weapons before now, Besoeker?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-03-18 05:59|| 2014-03-18 05:59|| Front Page Top

#7 Last week Kerry warned Putin he had until Monday (yesterday) to get out of Crimea. Just thought I would pass that along. So I guess the messiah Obama will now work his oiji-board and pin dolls? The whole world is laughing at this paper tiger, Obama.

Posted by Omavising Ebbemp9815 2014-03-18 07:40|| 2014-03-18 07:40|| Front Page Top

#8 Also another region in the Ukraine and several US red states are asking to be annexed by Russia.

Posted by Omavising Ebbemp9815 2014-03-18 07:44|| 2014-03-18 07:44|| Front Page Top

#9 "Yesterday Crimea, Tomorrow Brighton Beach" <- Echo heard rolling through the Kremlin

Posted by Helmuth, Speaking for tse Tung9076 2014-03-18 10:32|| 2014-03-18 10:32|| Front Page Top

#10 ..given who they've elected as mayor, seems a good fit.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-03-18 10:36|| 2014-03-18 10:36|| Front Page Top

#11 BBC: Pro-Russian politicians and activists in Moldova's breakaway Trans-Dniester region have asked the Russian parliament to draft a law that would allow their territory to join Russia.

Posted by mossomo 2014-03-18 12:26|| 2014-03-18 12:26|| Front Page Top

#12 If they vote themselves in, can they later vote themselves out?

Negotiate for perks and gimmes, or threaten to vote themselves out?

Maybe Champ could help, in that event!

Posted by Bobby 2014-03-18 13:18|| 2014-03-18 13:18|| Front Page Top

#13 We're getting all worked up about situations that don't matter to us. Crimea and Syria are way out on our periphery and they pose no threat to us. Iran, North Korea, Pakistan, Soddy Arabia and China pose threats. Start by bombing the hell out of Iran and see what Putin thinks about that.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-03-18 15:54|| 2014-03-18 15:54|| Front Page Top

#14 Washington D.C. Bar Boycotts Popular Russian Beer in Protest of Crimea Invasion

Reality is an illusion created by a lack of alcohol. N.F. Simpson

Posted by Victor Emmanuel Squank3982 2014-03-18 16:16|| 2014-03-18 16:16|| Front Page Top

#15 Other than Putin, I didn't see any Representative(s) from Russia's Parliament being present to officially sign off on the accession of the Crimea to the Russian Federation.

May be just be a minor technicality as far as post-Soviet, Cold War Russian law, BUT I STILL WOULD LIKE TO SEE THEM.

IS PUTIN = OBAMA = USING UNILATERAL "EXECUTIVE PRIVELEGE/ACTION", albeit Russian-style???

* FYI FREEREPUBLIC > [BSanna News] ANKARA [Turkey] WARNS MOSCOW IT MAY CLOSE BOSPHORUS TO RUSSIAN SHIPS.

* GROONG, TOPIX > TURKEY PREPARED TO PROTECT ITS CLAIMS AGZ RUSSIA IN THE CRIMEA.

* SAME > THE US HAS NO VISIBLE ROLE IN THE CAUCASUS, including the Crimea + Black Sea Region.

* SAME > WHAT WILL THE CRIMEA [independence] VOTE BRING CAUCASUS BREAKAWAYS?

South Ossetia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia.

* RELATED SAME = THE SOUTH CAUCASUS - FALLING APART AT THE SEAMS?

ARTIC = The South Caucasus region has already been nominally divided into SIX SEPARATE STATES.

IMO Putin himself foresaw the Militant troubles in the ME, from Libya to Syria to Iraq, pointing like a dagger to Russia, SO HE TOOK UNILATERAL ACTION IN LIEU OF TRUSTING RUSSIA'S DESTINY + INTERESTS TO "RED-LINE(S)" BUSTING POTUS BAMMER + BY EXTENSION NATO-EU.

Again, WHAT IS OR WILL BE THE BAMMER'S PRO-US-NATIONALIST-VS-ANTI-US-OWG-GLOBALIST RESPONSE???

Lest we fergit, RUSSIA + UKRAINE-CRIMEA ALSO READ "CHINA + EAST ASIA-PACIFIC".

RUSSIA'S ANNEXATION OF CRIMEA + EASTERN UKRAINE? = CHINA'S ANNEXATION OF OKINAWA-SENKAKUS, NORTH KOREA, TAIWAN, SOUTH CHINA SEA ... ... GUAM-WESTPAC? HAWAII? 1/2-PLUS? OF CONUS-NORAM?

But I digress ... ...

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-03-18 20:18|| 2014-03-18 20:18|| Front Page Top

#16 More ... ...

First off, as per the MSM-Net once again its not wholly clear yet iff the Russian Parliament, as opposed to Putin, has signed off to formal annexation of the Crimea.

* TOPIX > [Weekly Standard] PUTIN SIGNS CRIMEA TREATY, WILL NOT SEIZE OTHER UKRAINE REGIONS.

* RELATED REUTERS > UPDATE: PUTIN SAYS HE HAS NO INTEREST [designs] IN UKRAINE, DEFIANT ON CRIMEA.

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > PUTIN ORDERS APPROVAL OF DRAFT AGREEMENT ON ANNEXATION OF CRIMEA - WSJ.COM.

D *** NG IT-SKI, PUTIN = GIVE ME GITMO-SKI, OR GIVE ME DEATH! RUSSIA WILL HAVE ITS VERSION OF GUANTANAMO BAY IN THE CRIMEA/BLACK SEA IFF IT TAKES EVERY DROP OF AMERIKAN = NON-ORTHODOX, NON-RUSSIAN-SLAVIC, ... ...ETC. BLOOD!

versus

* TOPIX > [Politik Ditto] RUSSIAN LEADERS LAUGH AT BARACK OBAMA.

* SAME > [Detroit Free Press] EDITORIAL: MILITARY ACTION IS STILL THE WRONG ACTION ON UKRAINE.

RELATED SAME = ... ...
> [Blood & Treasure] TAIPEI AS KYIV [Kiev, Taiwan = Ukraine]?
> BHARAT RAKSHAK > [USA Today = Ron Paul] CRIMEA SECEDES - SO WHAT!? | ... : NONE OF AMERICA'S BUSINESS.

* SAME > [AEI] CHINA IS LIKE RUSSIA.

Okinawa = Ryukyu Archipelago?
Senkakus?
North Korea?
Taiwan?
South China Sea = Spratlys?
Himalayas?
Guam-WESTPAC?
Hawaii?
1/2 of CONUS-NORAM?

*

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-03-18 23:02|| 2014-03-18 23:02|| Front Page Top

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