Less than $3.8k to go!!
Git-R-Done!
Posted on 03/02/2014 6:17:11 AM PST by Corporate Democrat
(Reuters) - Ukraine mobilized for war on Sunday, after Russian President Vladimir Putin declared he had the right to invade, creating the biggest confrontation between Moscow and the West since the Cold War.
"This is not a threat: this is actually the declaration of war to my country," said Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk, head of a pro-Western government that took power when Russian ally Viktor Yanukovich fled last week.
Putin obtained permission from his parliament on Saturday to use military force to protect Russian citizens in Ukraine, spurning Western pleas not intervene.
Russian forces have already bloodlessly seized Crimea - an isolated Black Sea peninsula where Moscow has a naval base. On Sunday they surrounded several small Ukrainian military outposts there and demanded the Ukrainian troops disarm. Some refused, although no shots were fired.
Russia has staged war games with 150,000 troops along the land border, but so far they have not crossed. However, pro-Russian demonstrators have marched in the east of the country and have raised Russian flags over government buildings in several cities, in what Kiev says is a move orchestrated by Moscow to justify a wider invasion.
Ukraine's security council ordered the general staff to immediately put all armed forces on highest alert, the council's secretary Andriy Parubiy announced.
The Defense Ministry was ordered to conduct a call-up of reserves - theoretically all men up to 40 in a country with universal male conscription, though Ukraine would struggle to find extra guns or uniforms for significant numbers of them.
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Ukranian Forces on High Alert????? What does that mean in the face of the Russian Army?
War? According to CNN, this is just an uncontested arrival.
It means Russia rolls right in...
Next stop yet to be determined.
Meanwhile, Obambi sucks his thumb in the Oval Office.
It means the Ukrainians will blow some smoke but are not going to fight for the Crimea. The Russians have already starting disarming some small Ukrainian units in the Crimea. Everything will be wrapped up there in a few days I would think.
Strange days....
John Fn Kerry just said on meet the press, “ Putin has nothing to gain in all of this, and will make the g8 mad if he doesn’t back off”
I’m feelin all warm and fuzzy now, thank goodness.
Putin better be careful of he’s going to suffer the wrath of the IRS!......oh wait
Ukraine has no nukes
They should have none.
As a side step....If they do, then that Memorandum (which was brought up yesterday) is null and void. I believe it was just that...a memo written during lunch.
I don’t think Ukraine has any more nukes. We, the Russians, and Ukrainians had a program to transfer some of those weapons to the Russians and destroy the rest.
His great line was “This is not Rocky 4”.....The Ukrainians are surely scratching their heads on the one.
Meanwhile, Obambi sucks his thumb in the Oval Office.
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Time for some more rounds of golf to relieve the stress. lol
They’ll all be home by Christmas.
They do not have nukes, because we decided along with Russia and the UK to disarm them in exchange for a promise to respect Ukraine’s territory and national sovereignty within its existing borders.
That treaty is called the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, and obviously Russia has been stepping all over it. So now, as a co-signer of that treaty, what do we do?
In the meantime, the Sultan of Sodom on the Potomac has a tee time for 9:00 a.m. this morning, right after morning prayers at the local murdering thug mosque.
Check-mate! Obozo just made the West look like a bunch of wussies.
These freakin liberals. Now, look for other hot spots to heat up around the world. Tyrants and despots love to dog pile when a weak opponent is down.
While Putin is strategically positioning his military assets Obama is reduced to quoting movie titles.
Obama is the very personification of weakness. And as history has shown, weakness is always an invitation to aggression.
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