Posted on 02/28/2014 4:37:14 PM PST by SkyPilot
BRUSSELS Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel warned Russia on Thursday to stay out of the turmoil in Ukraine, while NATO defense ministers issued repeated statements meant to show support for the new leadership in Kiev.
We expect other nations to respect Ukraines sovereignty and avoid provocative action, Mr. Hagel said after the ministers met at NATO headquarters here. Thats why Im closely watching Russias military exercises along the Ukrainian border, which they just announced yesterday.
The Russian defense minister, Sergey K. Shoigu, was quoted by state news media saying the exercises were meant to check combat readiness of armed forces in western and central military districts as well as several branches of the armed forces. Though General Shoigu did not mention Ukraine, Western officials interpreted the exercises as a warning from Moscow. Continue reading the main story Related Coverage
Obama Warns Russia Not to Intervene in CrimeaFEB. 28, 2014 Ousted Ukrainian Leader, Reappearing in Russia, Says, Nobody Deposed MeFEB. 28, 2014 People carried a large Russian flag in Simferopol, the Crimean capital. The Lede: Latest Updates: Tensions in UkraineFEB. 27, 2014 Currency exchange rates are posted in Kiev as Ukraine seeks to recover from political turmoil. Policy Makers Devise Plans to Provide Money to KievFEB. 26, 2014
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the secretary general of the NATO, posted Twitter messages Thursday morning warning Russia not to intervene in Ukraine after armed men seized a government headquarters in the Crimea region of southern Ukraine and raised the Russian flag.
I urge Russia not to take any action that can escalate tension or create misunderstanding, Mr. Rasmussen wrote on Twitter. Im concerned about developments in Crimea. In a news conference later in the day, Mr. Rasmussen called the Crimea events dangerous and irresponsible.
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You and Pooty Poot both! :)
Is John McCain drumming for boots on the ground yet?
Serious, watch for it.
Then a draft.
That’s what the NWO would like to have, a nice war.
Mother Frs!
Mark my words.
Watch the saber rattlers!
“When you see that bright flash of light — DUCK AND COVER!”
Hagel should consult Mrs. Slick Willy. She used to convey her empty threats through “stern” letters to the offending party.
” Walk loudly but carry a limp dick !!” (It was something like that, right?)
Well, a war would fix the economy...for an hour or two, anyway.
Well how ELSE do you erase 100 TRILLION in debt?
Not really. The USAF had almost one million airmen back then. The proposed Army strength will be 1/4 that. I don’t think women will be able to sustain any kind of sustained ground combat if we have to go against a resurgent Bear.
How many will Hagel and Obama LEAVE behind this time?
and
Which US cities have Obama, his controllers,
and the Iranians already decided to destroy?
Yes, with crayon.
Which of course is the whole point of the marxist putting them in combat to begin with.
The drunk slurs and no one listens.
He’s already done it, Hagel...and what are you and your metro-sexual leader going to do about it?
Russian troops are on the ground in the Ukraine. They took two airports and have been flying in transports of more troops. They are there and Putin has outmaneuvered the weak Obama and the EU. Even as Obama and Kerry continue to drone on about, “You better not do this,” Putin has already done it. So what do we do to keep all of Ukraine from falling in a a domino effect and eastern Europe being dominated by Russia?
1) Immediately have the US and the EU confer with Ukraine and tell them to NOT attack the Russian troops in the Crimea. Have them immediately mobilize their forces to their borders and take up positions and prepare and make any further Russian aggression have to come through their prepared positions. Right now the Crimea is lost, and attacking them there will only invite a much larger invasion and the potential loss of all of the Ukraine.
2) The US should immediately start flying C-17s into Kiev (the Ukraine Capitol) loaded with advisors, provisions, trainers, and a a security force for those people. We cannot get enough people there to stop Putin at this point, but we can show him that the price for taking the Ukraine has now gone up and would be too steep for him.
3) Have the NATO and Euopean countries (Germany, France, the UK, Italy, Spain) do the same thing (Number 2) at other critical points throughout the Ukraine.
4) Immediately move to make the rest of the Ukraine a part of NATO.
5) Hasten the Ukraine’s entry into the EU.
These measures will block Putin now, and hold him where he is with the gains he has made. It is not likely that the Ukraine will get the Crimea back, no more than Georgia will got its two lost provinces back. But we can limit the damage and build a strong coalition of the Baltic States, Poland, Hungary , Slovakia, the Czech Republic and western Europe to stop Russia where it is.
Otherwise we may see the whole of the Ukraine go over...and that would bne the first step in a process for Russia to once again establish a buffer between itself and western Europe.
Folks, when you elect a man who sat with the Russian Prime Minister Medvedev, just before the 2012 Elections, and told him...when he thought he was off microphone...that after the elections, he, Obama, “would be a lot more flexible,” with Putin...this is what you get.
We need to neuter this guy politically in 2014, and then run he and his ilk out of the White House for good in 2016. If we do not, things will get worse...much worse.
Apparently there’s nothing in the Guidebook for Secretaries of State about drinking on the job....
Roger that
Yeah, Putins scared now. pffftttt
Who's "we" Kemosabe? Oh, I know, don't say, you guys are so predictable, it was you and your mythical leader George Soros!
"This was the kind of uprising that the Western societies are no longer capable of!" -- a European Conservative commentator.
Garry Kasparov said a couple of days ago that if Obummer had been POTUS instead of Reagan in the 1980s, he’d (Garry) be still living in the Soviet Union.
....or?.......................................what?.......................
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