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Xcathdra
The people in this thread / site have screamed up and down at one time or another based on the above. Now that Russia is engaged in it, the actions seem to be acceptable.
sosobad
And you have on more than one occasion been on the other side advocating that behavior, so by that logic you should be ok with Russia doing this or dare I say are you being a hypocrite as well?
andy1972
...... will watch.....and do nothing.
sosobad
reply to post by Xcathdra
Don't be saying "you guys" to me when you do not know were my allegiances lay with this, I am just pointing out the laughable way you are calling other people hypocrites when you are just as bad yourself, all your posts are there for people to see in your profile , you defend NATO and the US for the same things but when Russia does it you are against. All together now HYPOCRITE
Guyfriday
reply to post by Xcathdra
It is beginning to smell like September of '39. Hopefully people can step in before we have a complete replay of those events.
edit on 28-2-2014 by Guyfriday because: misspelled a word
sosobad
reply to post by Xcathdra
Is it a confirmed invasion? Where was that said? Or is it Russia going in to defend THEIR gas pipelines and the people of Crimea that consider themselves Russian. Two very different things my friend.....
I don't believe that the issue would be Bolsheviks, but rather Putin using Cossacks to fight this. Cossacks have an attachment to Kiev, and have been pandering about regaining land from Russia. If the Cossacks win = Russia looks good, if the Cossacks lose = Putin doesn't have to deal with them again.
SheopleNation
I suspect that the Bolsheviks will not be permitted to occupy the Ukraine. This would not be Putin vs Obama inside an MMA octagon, this would be Russia vs NATO.
The situation that we have brewing here is no joke. ~$heopleNation
***FOR THE RECORD***
thesaneone
reply to post by SheopleNation
Agreed, things are going to get tense very fast.
Do we know if U.S is going to restart the missile defense system around that area?
Washington
President Obama will pursue a ship-based missile defense system as an interim measure to protect Israel and Europe from a short-range Iranian missile threat, as he backs away from a controversial ballistic missile defense system favored by the Bush administration.
Putting a missile defense system on water instead of on land will skirt some of the political backlash in Europe against the ground-based system. It will also address the more pressing threat of shorter-range missiles from Iran, military officials said at the Pentagon Thursday.
For years, the Navy has been developing the Aegis missile defense system – named after the shield of Zeus – as a way to protect aircraft carrier battle groups steaming vulnerably across oceans around the globe. Known as a "phased array" radar, it can look up and over the horizon as far as 250 nautical miles, says a Navy official [Editor's note: The original misstated the wrong number of nautical miles.].
If it picks up something like a missile, the ship can launch a standard missile armed with a transponder in its tail. The transponder allows the ship's system to steer the missile to the target to destroy it. The Navy has also modified 18 of its DDG-51 Arleigh Burke Class destroyers and Ticonderoga Class Cruisers with an advanced standard missile known as the SM-3 that is capable of countering the longer ranges of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
The Pentagon said Thursday it will deploy the Aegis ship-based system by 2011, likely on as many as three ships, in place of the European missile defense system the Bush administration had envisioned, said Gen. James Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the Pentagon briefing Thursday.
Its an invasion when the armed forces of one country enter a sovereign nation without consent. Or so the argument is made by many people when it comes to Us actions.
sosobad
Is it a confirmed invasion or is it because the people of Crimea who consider themselves RUSSIAN asked for help?
sosobad
Had to ask again because you totally side stepped the question, the pipe line belong to Russia, this has been planned from the offset, when the Ukraine accepted Putins money the ball was put in motion for a violent uprising, remember the phone call from the American ambassador, "# the EU" that is no coincidence, they talked at length about how it will go in their favor, the MSM concentrated on the # the EU part because they didn't want people questioning the phone call. Both sides are as #ed up as each other.
sosobad
PS Don't call people hypocrites when you are one yourself