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victor7
Russian "near abroad" has been penetrated and Kremlin will not keep silent.
The building occupiers say "they are not authorized to talk or negotiate". This means real orders are coming from somewhere else.
Very soon, Crimea will be a part of Russia.
Hope East Ukraine also breaks away as independent country.
This will cancel the Russian fears of NATO at their doorstep and cool things down........for the rest of the world.
Xcathdra
victor7
Russian "near abroad" has been penetrated and Kremlin will not keep silent.
The building occupiers say "they are not authorized to talk or negotiate". This means real orders are coming from somewhere else.
Very soon, Crimea will be a part of Russia.
Hope East Ukraine also breaks away as independent country.
This will cancel the Russian fears of NATO at their doorstep and cool things down........for the rest of the world.
Let me get this straight -
You are ok with Russia invading Ukraine (or at least the eastern portion) to counter some ill conceived NATO threat?
Does that mean the West can also invade those former soviet republics t counter a resurgent Russian/Soviet Empire?
victor7
agreement in 1989 was that NATO will not expand eastwards. after 1991 when USSR dissolved, NATO started expanding given Russian situation was in shambles.
victor7
not any more. now expect Russia to stomp on any incursions into its "near abroad".........even at the cost of nuclear war with anyone.
victor7
in 1962, JFK said cuban missiles are aimed at our hearts. same situation here, Ukraine in NATO would be placing missiles next to our house.
victor7
NATO threat is ill conceived only in your views...........it is actual for Russia, China and others. Russia wants buffer between its borders vrs that of the alliance.
victor7
so you want to fight Russia and that's why propose NATO expanding constantly eastwards? in that wish, you are encouraging the resurgence of the Russian empire. history has time and again proven that Russian empire expands massively after it is attacked externally. similar to the fate of Napolean, Nazis..............NATO's will be no different!
victor7
your fears and paranoias are the main reason why US/NATO nations are massively in debt and bankruptcy.
victor7
Russia does not attack but it sure does DESTROYS it's attackers...............put this fact implanted in your mind for all times to come !!
All those clips we showed in the past few days of Russian forces amassing in the Crimean? Well, turns out they were all predictive of what has just happened in the Crimean region parliament at Simferopol, where around 120 pro-Russian Gunmen occupied the parliament building and raised the Russian flag. The scene was the site of Wednesday’s scuffles between Tatar groups and pro-Russian supporters. As Euronews reports, local Tatar leader Refat Chubarov posted that the buildings have been occupied by men in uniforms bearing “no recognisable insignia.” Kyiv says it would regard any movements by Russian military in Crimea outside Moscow’s Black Sea Base in Sevastopol as an act of aggression. Following the fall of President Viktor Yanukovych divisions in Ukraine have come to the fore. All this happens as Russian troops in the area are building up and at the same time as Russia put fighter jets on combat alert, according to Interfax.
Euronews clarifies that the 120 men that seized Crimea parliament "have enough weapons to defend [the buildings] for a month" according an MP quoted by Interfax agency. Former Crimean Prime Minister and UDAR MP Serhiy Kunitsyn said to the agency that he spent all the night in contact with the armed group, "These professionally trained people are armed. They brought weapons - automatic weapons, grenade launchers, and machine guns," he said, while speaking from the Ukraine parliament on Thursday.
According to Bloomberg, the group is allowing deputies to enter the legislature in the city of Simferopol for a possible vote on the status of Crimea, home to Russia’s Black Sea fleet, the Center of Journalist Research said. Ukraine prosecutors began a terrorism probe. .
“Provocateurs are on the march,” Acting Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said on his Facebook Inc. page as police cordoned off the block around parliament. “It’s time for cool heads, the consolidation of healthy forces and precise actions.”
At the same time Ukraine's Foreign Ministry summoned Russia's acting envoy in Kiev for immediate consultations.
"I am appealing to the military leadership of the Russian Black Sea fleet," said Olexander Turchinov, acting president since the removal of Viktor Yanukovich last week. "Any military movements, the more so if they are with weapons, beyond the boundaries of this territory (the base) will be seen by us as military aggression
The following remarks by John Kerry, borne out of his humiliation over the complete fiasco that was the US intervention in Syria last year and the even greater fiasco that was this year's attempt to get all feuding parties on the table in Geneva, only to see that outcome obliterated as well, appear to be borne out of his disgust at the defunding of the US defense budget, which for Kerry, more than his gross incompetence, is the reason why the US now finds itself in a "new isolationism" leading him to conclude that the US is "beginning to act like a poor nation." One wonders what tipped him off: the fact that the US debt just hit a record high $12,424,949,144,637.28 or that the biggest monetizers of US deficit spending are the Fed, China and just as insolvent Japan?
mike dangerously
The Crimea is gonna be the next battlefield in this conflict.From what I have gathered from reading these articles these guys who took over these buildings are not your typical neo-fascist hooligans.They sound like Spetnaz,Russian SpecOps.
What I noticed right away was the lack of a ranting and raving idiot of a spokesmen these Nazi groups love to trot out.These guys are professionals they even told the negotiators that they are not authorized to negotiate.Strange choice of words.
andy1972
mike dangerously
The Crimea is gonna be the next battlefield in this conflict.From what I have gathered from reading these articles these guys who took over these buildings are not your typical neo-fascist hooligans.They sound like Spetnaz,Russian SpecOps.
Personaly i'm inclined to think the same.
These neo fascist wannabe nazi groups just love their badges and their insignia, so everyone knows who they are.
However, these guys have just entered and taken control. They havn't beaten or killed or destroyed even returning to the police their arms and ID cards.
They have control, military discipline.
mike dangerously
What I noticed right away was the lack of a ranting and raving idiot of a spokesmen these Nazi groups love to trot out.These guys are professionals they even told the negotiators that they are not authorized to negotiate.Strange choice of words.
andy1972
mike dangerously
The Crimea is gonna be the next battlefield in this conflict.From what I have gathered from reading these articles these guys who took over these buildings are not your typical neo-fascist hooligans.They sound like Spetnaz,Russian SpecOps.
Personaly i'm inclined to think the same.
These neo fascist wannabe nazi groups just love their badges and their insignia, so everyone knows who they are.
However, these guys have just entered and taken control. They havn't beaten or killed or destroyed even returning to the police their arms and ID cards.
They have control, military discipline.
Xcathdra
mike dangerously
What I noticed right away was the lack of a ranting and raving idiot of a spokesmen these Nazi groups love to trot out.These guys are professionals they even told the negotiators that they are not authorized to negotiate.Strange choice of words.
andy1972
mike dangerously
The Crimea is gonna be the next battlefield in this conflict.From what I have gathered from reading these articles these guys who took over these buildings are not your typical neo-fascist hooligans.They sound like Spetnaz,Russian SpecOps.
Personaly i'm inclined to think the same.
These neo fascist wannabe nazi groups just love their badges and their insignia, so everyone knows who they are.
However, these guys have just entered and taken control. They havn't beaten or killed or destroyed even returning to the police their arms and ID cards.
They have control, military discipline.
Military Discipline or 5th column?