There must be tons of Sov-era hardware floating around down there.
Posted on 03/01/2014 12:23:52 AM PST by BurningOak
According to Crimean Tatar Majlis, Ukranian AF airbase at Kirovske has been seized by "16 military trucks packed with soldiers"
Pizza delivery!!! No, really! Just let us in and we’ll prove it!!!!
We’re seeing something akin to the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia. But I worry it could turn into Hungary in 1956, which means a lot of bloodshed.
“What war zone? Haven’t heard of any resistance.”
I’ve been wondering quite the same. The Ukraine does have a military but there is zero word of any organized resistance being offered against the Russians. Could be disorganization attributable to the recent political shake-up I suppose but it seems like the Ukraine as a whole is lying down and taking it.
I think that may be why we’re not hearing more about military opposition to the Russian incursion from the Ukraine. Could be that serious parts of their forces are ethnic Russian and simply not willing to take up arms against their Russian brothers and sisters. Again, there appears to be a lot that needs to be sorted out in interior Ukraine.
I suspect it is alot simpler than that. They have orders not to resist. One dead Ivan and Putin will invade the whole country, Ukraine is helpless without the West and Obama is not gonna help them.
That’s a good bet.
This should have been handled back in 1992, through negotiations. Even back then I knew The Crimea would one day become a flashpoint.
“Do you really need to cuss like some 14 year old kid trying to be heard?”
Fourteen-year-olds use dirtier words than that these days; pop culture has been babysitting your kids when you weren’t looking.
There must be tons of Sov-era hardware floating around down there.
Ukraine gave up it nuclear arsenal for a treaty is beyond stupid ,
look at it now !
Not on this public, conservative forum.
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