[Jim Robinson]

The U.S. has made plain it is not rushing military aid of any kind to Ukraine, despite Kiev’s requests. Ukraine has sought lethal military aid—small arms and ammunition—but that is off the table. “The rations, the Meals Ready to Eat, they are on the way,” Kirby said. “We expect them to arrive in Ukraine probably by the weekend is the best estimate. They’re going over land.”

[Fedupwithit]

Hey Obambi, ask Putin again not to reinforce the border one more time....maybe he’ll double it again..

[DoughtyOne]

China has got to be licking it’s chops right about now. If the West gets involved, it will have free reign to do anything it wants in the Western Pacific.

At least we have two carrier groups on the high seas at a time now.

[Bogey78O]

On the bright side, disarming them a few years back was a diplomatic victory.

[FreeReign]

The U.S. has made plain it is not rushing military aid of any kind to Ukraine, despite Kiev’s requests. Ukraine has sought lethal military aid—small arms and ammunition—but that is off the table. “The rations, the Meals Ready to Eat, they are on the way,” Kirby said. “We expect them to arrive in Ukraine probably by the weekend is the best estimate. They’re going over land.”

And additional aid is being delayed by Cantor(RINO) and Boehner(RINO) in the House.

Ukraine vote pushed to next week

" The Republican-led House was set to quickly pass a package of aid to Ukraine and sanctions against Russia in a brief pro forma session on Friday, which would have sent the measure straight to President Barack Obama for his signature."

"But GOP leadership decided to delay the move until next week to allow lawmakers a chance to register a yes or no vote on the legislation, a spokeswoman for House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said. If the House had dispensed with the bill on Friday, it would have done so by voice vote."

[McGruff]

There must a million of them out there sir.

[Mike Darancette]

The Ukraine must defend their territory.

[Hugin]

I would think the Ukraine would have plenty of Soviet era small arms on hand. What they need is the will to actually fight back. 50,000 is a ridiculously small amount of troops to invade a country the size of Ukraine. I doubt Putin is contemplating taking the country. More likely a land corridor from the Russian Federation to the Crimea.

[usconservative]

This is all about control over the territory the Russian Natural Gas pipeline passes through. Putin wants the Ukraine, he's going to take the Ukraine.

He's then going after Moldavia and Estonia. He's already signaled to Estonia that they'd better "shape up and treat Russian citizens right" or he's coming.

There's no way in hell Obama grows a pair of testicles and starts pushing back on Putin in a meaningful way. The entire resaon the EU is silent is because of their dependency on Russia's natural gas.

The same EU is now begging Obama to export American Natural Gas to the European Union because they're too afraid to confront Putin, and if they did,he'd turn their natural gas off.

Putin's got the upper hand.

[1_Rain_Drop]

"“The rations, the Meals Ready to Eat, they are on the way,” Kirby said"

That's reassuring. I hope the MREs arrive in time for the food fight. The russians are staging a food fight aren't they? The Ukies will be so ready the russians won't know what hit them.