Posted on 03/04/2014 2:39:14 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
From this morning’s Jolt:
A sample of John Kerry’s keen eye for foreign policy:
“Russia chose this brazen act of aggression and moved in with its forces on a completely trumped up set of pretext, claiming that people were threatened. And the fact is that that’s not the act of somebody who is strong, that’s the act of somebody who is acting out of weakness and out of certain kind of desperation.”
Above: What Kerry calls ‘weak.’
Kurt Schlichter points out that despite CNN’s chryon, those aren’t tanks, they’re mobile artillery. Sharper eyes and minds than me may correct me, but it looks like Kurtis Marsh may be right, that these are 2S1 Gvozdika, or some variation of it. Presuming the Wikipedia entry is correct, these artillery have a range of 10 to 14 miles.
In other words, this is a tool for projecting destructive power a significant distance away, not just occupying a territory full of ethnic Russians eager to politically rejoin their motherland. This isn’t proof that Russia intends to take a bigger bite out of Ukraine, but if they wanted to… they have some of the tools they would need in place.
Grozny Part II?
because it can
They are heading north to save other oppressed Ukrainians, this is not over until Vlad says it’s over, with Kerry in Kiev he may just cross into the next state to make lurch look even more inept.
This is what Putin sees when he sees Obama or Johm Effin'
SPA is economical compared to air support and missiles. It just means they’re planning to defend their takings.
First they seized the airport, then a key ferry terminal.
Now mobile artillery moves in.
Don’t have to be a genius to see that Russia is preparing for a next, bigger step.
LOL !
it’s stunning to read the utter bullsh*t that the left spews
Russia’s statement was just words to placate the mealy mouthed morons in the west while they move their gear into place
our stoned out libtards are playing tic-tac-toe, badly, while Putin is playing 3D chess
I’m just going to sit back and watch. I would recommend that our boys allow the ‘brave new alternative military’ handle this.
SELL
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Nothing adds dignity to an otherwise mindless brawl like artillery. Believe Napoleon made that comment.
oh yeah, send in our gay military, that’s the ticket
what do you mean excellent
don’t you realize we are screwed? Russkies take all because we are in the hands of depraved idiots
You ask a question, then answer it (we ARE in the hands of depraved idiots)
Why ask the question?
What about my comment is so offensive to you ?
I think the graphics are comically right on.
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EX
SELL
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Coming right up...................
It’s a poker game in which vlad has all the aces.
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