Posted on 03/01/2014 10:28:30 AM PST by mandaladon
A day after U.S. intelligence said there would be no Russian invasion of Ukraine, Putin’s troops started coming over the border. On Thursday night, the best assessment from the U.S. intelligence community—and for that matter most experts observing events in Ukraine—was that Vladimir Putin’s military would not invade Ukraine. Less than 24 hours later, however, there are reports from the ground of Russian troops pushing into the Ukrainian province of Crimea; the newly-installed Crimean prime minister has appealed to Putin to help him secure the country; Putin, in turn, is officially asking for parliament's permission to send Russian forces into Ukraine. It’s not a full-blown invasion—at least, not yet. But it’s not the picture U.S. analysts were painting just a day before, either.
There was good reason to think Putin wouldn’t do it. Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov told Secretary of State John Kerry that Russia respected the territorial integrity of the Ukraine. U.S. intelligence assessments concluded that the 150,000-man Russian military exercises announced by Putin on Wednesday were not preparations for an invasion of Ukraine because no medical units accompanied the troops. And Russian and U.S. diplomats were still working on Iran and Syrian diplomacy. All of this followed a successful Winter Olympic games for Putin’s Russia.
Yet private security contractors, working for the Russian military, seized control of two airports in Crimea on Friday. And Ukrainian border officials said that Russian cargo planes had landed inside the province, and that 10 military helicopters flew into Ukrainian airspace. U.S. officials familiar with the intelligence on the fast moving situation in Ukraine tell The Daily Beast that analytic products from the intelligence community this week did not discount the prospect of Russian provocations and even light incursions in the Russian majority province of Crimea,
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The admin only has competent spies watching US!
Recording everything on FR probably
I am trying to think of who would be impressed with whatever that was, or was supposed to prove. So far I am at a loss.
Kenyan not only screwing America, he is now “fixing” the world, one nice commie caliphate.
Time to “Maidan” the DC.
In most countries, a total diplomatic and intelligence failure such as this would mean the removal of the regime. Here, I doubt most people are even aware of 0bama’s latest fiasco.
The US intelligence agencies are now the largest ever with capabilities almost exceeding the wildest imagining of a few decades past. Yet...we've come to this.
When a red crayon is the only thing left in the arsenal, a choom gang illegal alien usurper drawing pathetic redlines is what we are left with.
Recent reports of fishing boats spotting the Grand Fenwick Duchy's armada off the coast of Long Island have been dismissed by Jay Carnie-Barker.
That is certainly a possibility.
What is a certainty is that no matter what intel the CIA delivered, obama only heard that which would please his ears.
Our strength is our quickness and our brutality. Genghis Khan had millions of women and children hunted down and killed, deliberately and with a gay heart. History sees in him only the great founder of States. What the weak Western European civilization alleges about me, does not matter. I have given the order – and will have everyone shot who utters but one word of criticism – that the aim of this war does not consist in reaching certain designated [geographical] lines, but in the enemies' physical elimination. Thus, for the time being only in the east, I put ready my Death's Head units, with the order to kill without pity or mercy all men, women, and children of the Polish race or language. Only thus will we gain the living space that we need. Who still talks nowadays of the extermination of the Armenians?
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