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Alarm in Ukraine as Putin Puts Russian Troops on Alert
Reuters ^ | Wednesday, February 26, 2014 | Alessandra Prentice and Richard Balmforth

Posted on 02/26/2014 5:52:42 AM PST by kristinn

President Vladimir Putin put Russian combat troops on high alert for a drill on Wednesday, the Kremlin's most powerful gesture yet after days of sabre rattling since its ally Viktor Yanukovich was toppled as president of Ukraine.

Thousands of ethnic Russians, who form the majority in Ukraine's Crimea region, demonstrated for independence for the peninsula that hosts part of Moscow's Black Sea Fleet. They scuffled with rival demonstrators, mainly from the Tatar minority, who support the new authorities in Kiev.

With the political turmoil hammering Ukraine's economy, the hryvnia currency tumbled 4 percent on Wednesday, with ripples spreading to Russia where the rouble fell to five-year lows and bank shares took a hit.

Ukraine's central bank, which has been rapidly burning its hard currency reserves to protect the hryvnia, said it has abandoned a managed exchange rate policy in favor of a flexible currency, a senior official told CNBC TV

Moscow also denounced what it described as the rise of "nationalist and neo-fascist sentiment" in the country's mainly Ukrainian-speaking western areas, where it said Russian speakers were being deprived of rights. It has repeatedly expressed concern for the safety of Russian citizens in Ukraine.

"In accordance with an order from the president of the Russian Federation, forces of the Western Military District were put on alert at 1400 (0500 ET) today," Interfax news agency quoted Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu as saying.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: crimea; putin; russia; russiatroops; ukraine; ukrainecrisis
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To: NFHale; mac_truck

The International Left does not like “ultra-nationalist”. They are “nazi”. Don’t you understand? Nazi. Boo.


121 posted on 02/27/2014 8:08:40 AM PST by annalex (fear them not)
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To: annalex

International Left = International Socialist...
Nazi = National Socialist.

Same thing, different boots. The Nazis had better boots. Shinier...

Love how the left has managed to obfuscate the fact that the Nazis were socialist too.

My Airborne old man fought the Nazis. Didn’t have much love for Soviets either. He’d have shot them dead just as quick, but they were “allies” at the time.


122 posted on 02/27/2014 8:22:44 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: kristinn
By the way, one development.

Yesterday, a crowd prevented the Crimean Parliament (the Supreme Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea) from assembling (see post 110). Today, the Rada assembled and voted for a referendum on secession of Crimea from Ukraine.

Link

Google translation follows with minor fixes from me:

The Supreme Rada of Crimea announced a referendum on the status of the republic

Author: White Russia News

Just recently the Supreme Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea has announced an all-Crimean referendum on the status of autonomy and the expansion of its powers. With the proper treatment to residents of autonomy made by the Presidium of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea. "Crimeans, as a result of an unconstitutional seizure of power in Ukraine with the support of radical nationalists armed gangs peace and tranquility in the Crimea compromised - a spokeswoman said the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of the ARC Oksana Korniichuk. - Yesterday's clash at the building of the Crimean parliament, led to bloodshed and human victims - is the result of rampant political extremism and violence that swept the country. Ukraine slipping into total chaos, anarchy and economic disaster. Under these conditions, the Verkhovna Rada of the ARC as the highest representative body of the ARC, based on the will of the elected him Crimeans assumes all responsibility for the fate of the Crimea. Following the fundamental canons of democracy, the Presidium of the Crimean parliament believes the only possible way out of this situation, the application of the principles of direct democracy. convinced that only the holding of an all-Crimea referendum on the status of autonomy to improve and expand its powers allow Crimeans themselves without external pressures and dictates determine future autonomy ", - emphasized the Rada in its address.

Meanwhile, "maydan power" takes unpretentiously bandit form. Muzychko Alexander (Sasha White), one of the leaders of the UNA-UNSO, currently the head of the "Right Sector" in western regions of Ukraine, came to talk to the prosecutor Andrei Targon Bids village in Rivne region (watch the video bewaring obscenities in Ukrainian language). You think, the Ukrainians want any normal kind of power? Recall that Muzychko in 1994 with a group of Ukrainian volunteers arrived in Chechnya to assist troops separatists. Participated in numerous battles with Russian federal forces, mainly in the city of Grozny. For Military Merit Dudayev personally awarded the Order Muzychko CRI "Hero of the nation."

[Video at source; Freepers, learn the obscenities, we might need them]

Transcarpathian patriotic organization "Karpatoros" lead by Joseph Fedelesha announced an ultimatum to the "Right sector" and "other entities of unknown origin." "The fault of corrupt officials through our native land - Transcarpathia - Today the flames of civil war. News reports from the field are reminiscent of the battle. Under the pretext of lustration power thrives violence, looting, extortion, kidnapping. Recent events have shown that the police and the Security Service is unable to restore order in the region, where the "real owners" areas became bandits who hide under the "guise" of the "right sector" and other organizations of unknown origin. We Transcarpathians, are being exchanged for lucrative positions and chairs of high power cabinets. But we also know how to fight, "- says the Carpatoross statement. " Activists call within 48 hours to the police and other law enforcement agencies have mobilized all employees to maintain order in the area. From the heads of councils at all levels (regional, urban), regardless of party affiliation required to resign. Also "Karpatoros" requires that "all the administrative buildings of the self-proclaimed" mayors "and another drunken riff-raff." Earlier, the MP from the faction "Motherland" Gennady Moskal(*) said that in Kiev and other regions of the country intensified armed gangs that hiding behind slogans of the Euro-Maidan, engaged in robbery and looting. "Under the slogans of the revolution, these groups rob abandoned houses, take the jewels, valuables, as well as alcoholic beverages, that sharing a bottle on the spot, then shoot a firearm, throw Molotov cocktails space and even raped women and girls who had not managed to escape" - says Moskal. He also said that these groups of masked men with bats, firearms and machetes freely in Kiev and other Ukrainian regions. "They stop vehicles, mocking passengers and demand money supposedly to support the revolution," - said Mr. Moskal.

(*) Moskal? They couldn't think of a better name. "Moskal" is a derogatory term for Russians all over Ukraine.

123 posted on 02/27/2014 8:26:21 AM PST by annalex (fear them not)
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To: NFHale
Nazi = National Socialist.

So the "nazi" got one thing right.

124 posted on 02/27/2014 8:28:08 AM PST by annalex (fear them not)
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To: annalex

National Socialist German Worker’s Party (NSDAP) - that was the official acronym of those bastards.

Of course, somewhere along the way, anyone that disagreed with the left somehow became a Nazi in their lexicon...


125 posted on 02/27/2014 8:56:23 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: annalex
NYT has a good description of the events in Crimea, here:

Armed Standoff in Crimea as Ex-President Looks to Russia

[T]he Afghan Hundred who protested on Maidan Square, said that in the discussion the veterans had weighed the significance of the armed takeover of the regional Parliament in Crimea a few hours earlier. They concluded that the armed and masked men taking action in the south were probably Russian commandos and that war with Russia on the peninsula loomed for any new minister of defense.

“This is already a declaration of war,” Mr. Mikhnyuk said of events in Crimea.


126 posted on 02/27/2014 9:07:20 AM PST by annalex (fear them not)
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To: NFHale

Point is, nationalism is just a natural human condition, same as capitalism. If you’ve got to have a government it better be a nationalist government or otherwise why have it? The 20 Century is the story of attempts to deny this.

Of course, nationalism is not ethnicism: the idea that one ethnos has rights to injure another. Nationalism is simply the right to assembly. It is very tiresome to have it confused with nazism. For example, hundreds of ethnic Russians volunteered on the Maidan; there is one Belorussian and one Armenian among the fatalities. One of the Maidan leaders, Klichko, is a Jew. People of many ethnic backgrounds form a nation.


127 posted on 02/27/2014 9:16:40 AM PST by annalex (fear them not)
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To: annalex

RE Nationalism:
I understand your point on that very clearly, friend.


128 posted on 02/27/2014 9:25:33 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: DesertRhino

I noticed Biden just issued grave concerns over the 90,000 troops on Ukraine’s border. 90k is about 4 divisions.
4 divisions next to one of the most corrupt nations on earth that we have little connection to.

How many divisions or equivalent does Red China have massed near Taiwan, a close ally and important trading partner? Biden shows no grave concern over that.

I wonder how far left Biden really is?


129 posted on 11/14/2021 7:59:29 AM PST by Phoenix8
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