It's over. There will be no fight.
Posted on 03/19/2014 10:30:08 AM PDT by don-o
Kiev (AFP) - Ukraine's acting president on Wednesday said Crimea's separatist leaders had three hours to release the detained head of the ex-Soviet state's navy or face "an adequate response".
Acting president Oleksandr Turchynov said in a statement that "unless Admiral (Sergiy) Gayduk and all the other hostages -- both military and civilian ones -- are released, the authorities will carry out an adequate response... of a technical and technological nature."
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It's over. There will be no fight.
Nuke.
Or more interestingly:
Turkey is threatening to close the Straits of Bosphorus. That has to have Putin saying, “Oh, pleeeease!” Can you imagine how happy he’d be to own Constantinople (a.k.a. Istanbul, a.k.a., the city that surrounds the Straits of Bosphorus, a.k.a. soon, Constantinograd.)
Good news. Thanks for sharing.
I'm guessing it was the one that Amy told Jimmy Carter - Nookier. Or was it Nucular?
Or what? Once it was clear that they were going to lose Crimea Ukraine should have pulled their troops.
Clever Joe Pesce obscure reference.
Call the Gimp!
Okay, so you think that Ukrainians are Muslims. Alrighty then.
Don’t you mean Wu?
I respectfully, then, request you pay closer attention because the inexorable support for Putinism is widespread violence against non Russians.
When the USSR disintegrated, The Ukraine had nuclear weapons, which they voluntarily surrendered. I wonder if they now wish they’d kept them as deterrent?
Per Wikipedia: There are an estimated 500,000 Muslims in Ukraine and about 300,000 of them are Crimean Tatars.[252] There are 487 registered Muslim communities, 368 of them on Crimea. In addition, some 50,000 Muslims live in Kiev; mostly foreign-born.[253]
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine security chief: Ukraine plans military exercise with United States and Britain.
That means US and UK military assets into Ukraine.
The Ukrainian forces in Crimea are being offered to stay and join Crimean military or safe passage to Ukraine.
No reason to be issuing threats now. --- -------------------------------------------------------- Just sayin', are you an English speaker? I mean originally.
Ukraine has an approximately 1% Muslim population (using your numbers), including those living in Crimea. According to the CIA world factbook, Russia has a Muslim population of approximately 10-15%. As there are many Putin cheerleaders here (not you) insinuating against all logic that Ukraine is a Muslim country, I thought I would provide these figures for comparison.
Okay, in your mind all muslims are terrorist and that’s another reason that Putin should mistreat these people who’ve done nothing to him or Russia. So just say that and be done with it.
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