It does not say they are Russian troops, but it is obvious the invasion is with their equipment.
Putin knows that Obama will do absolutely nothing in the Ukraine or in Venezuela.
Any other president would have credibility to at least force Putin to use caution in his takeover. But none related to our Commie in Chief.
The parliament also called for guarantees of the memorandum signed by Ukraine, Britain, Russia and the United States in Budapest in 1994. That agreement guaranteed Ukraine’s sovereignty and current borders in exchange for surrendering the nuclear weapons that were left after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
It appears Russia is saying the Ukraine governmnet is not legitimate so the treaty is void.
Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize while in office for only three weeks. This whole will be a piece of cake for him, this whole misunderstanding will all be settled in the next few days if not hours (end sarcasm here).
0bama response: “Fore!”
There is not much we can do short of going to war with Russia. It may be that the Ukraine and The Crimea will just be divided.
Obama has not got the guts or the wits to play with Putin. He has not got an SOS with the brains or gravitas to carry out a plan if he had one.
The only chess piece to play is for the US and the EU to do what they did in the Georgia episode and make Putin believe he will be shunned by the West if he proceeds. Thats what Sarkozy flew to Moscow to tell him when he was getting ready to take all of Georgia. He got Ossetia and now he will get Crimea but not all of Ukraine. He’s been planning this for 5-6 years.
Sorry. We don’t have the troops. Obama is downsizing the Army to WWII levels. That is 4 companies and maybe two extra platoons of infantry.
A NOTE FROM THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO THE PEOPLE OF UKRAINE
Regarding your recent request for assistance: sorry, but you’ve caught us at a bad time and we won’t be able to help in your struggle for freedom. Try to hold out until January 2017. Hopefully, we’ll be in a better position to help you out then. Good luck and hang in there.
Let's be realistic. Before the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, there were husky, light-skinned young civilian males mysteriously hanging about in Kabul.
Spetsnaz.
Somebody thought that Vladimir Putin was gonna just sit there and watch George Soros, Monsanto, and the US state department walk off with the Ukraine??
Thanks to Daniel Greenfield for the remarks below to explain where we are with Obozo as POTUS.
The Post-American order stands for nothing except its own dismantling. That is why Obama sets red lines that he won’t enforce and issues threats that he doesn’t mean.
The only thing less appealing than selfishness is the complete absence of self. The only thing less appealing than empire is an anti-imperialism that so thoroughly negates its own power that it has no influence and no reason to exist.
Post-American America exists to destroy itself. Until that changes, it has nothing to offer the world except membership in a suicide pact.
Putin will make moves leading to retaining the Russian Naval Base like we did with Gitmo in Cuba.
Then, he will accommodate the majority of people in the Ukraine who are Russian. Then we will probably see two Ukraines. One that is pro Russia and allied with Russia. The other will be various minorities and a lot of Muslims.
I predicted this as a possible on 2/25/2014
I saw this coming - not bragging, just saying.
Ukraine is internally a very divided country, with ethnic Russias making up a good part of and source of those divisions. Time and circumstances were going to show Putin exploiting those divisions more than he did in the lead up to the current crisis, if and when he thinks the opportunity provides an excuse for it.
There is no more superpower - he’s self-vacated the role.
My guess: The diplomats will dither. Crimea will declare full independence. It will become a complete vassal of Russia, with Russia having to no longer answer to or find common ground with Ukraine on its use of the fleet it has at the Black Sea ports in Crimea.
Those agreements were made by the last Yeltsin government (1997) earlier in the post-cold war era. They are agreements Putin would not have made back then if, back then, he thought Russia was in the position he sees it in now. The Russian leases on their Sevastopol bases were to run until 2017. But, when Yuschenko was president (the guy who had been poisoned) Ukraine announced that the lease agreements would not be renewed. After Yuschenko lost re-election, in 2010, the agreements were renewed by a new Ukraine govt to 2047. After recent events in Ukraine, maybe Putin is not going to take chances any longer on Black Sea agreements with Ukraine.
The US likely won’t lift a finger
Sorry Ukraine...you’re on your own. We Americans are too busy watching our country circle the bowl to do anything to help you.
Time for a golf trip and into bed very early at night!
Sorry. Can’t help. Busy downsizing our military to pre WWII ;evels.
Ukraine has been partitioned.
What? Where?....ummmm no thanks.
I’m tired of watching Americans suffer and die for nations that hate us....
Although I certainly would not want America to place boots on the ground over there, I would very much prefer that America would supply arms, openly and unapologetically, to the Ukrainian rebels; and not just small arms, either, but tanks and warplanes. Call it a proxy war, if you wish—much like China fought against the US in Korea some 60 years ago.
But this is merely what I would prefer; it is not what I believe is likely to happen.