Posted on 03/28/2014 2:05:36 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
The United Nations Security Council will meet Friday to discuss the ongoing crisis in Ukraine as concerns mount over new details about Russia's military buildup on the Ukrainian border, including Moscow's reported efforts to camouflage troops and equipment.
The council is expected to meet privately Friday afternoon, a day after the U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution affirming Ukraine's territorial integrity and deeming the referendum that led to Russia's annexation of the Crimean Peninsula illegal.
The vote came as the Pentagon said there are no indications that Russian forces along the border with Ukraine are carrying out the kind of legitimate military exercises that Moscow has cited as the reason for their controversial deployment in the region, Reuters reported.
"We've seen no specific indications that these -- that exercises -- are taking place," Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby told reporters.
The Wall Street Journal reported late Friday that Russian troops are concealing their positions and establishing supply lines, stoking fears among U.S. intelligence agencies that have struggled to assess Russian President Vladimir Putin's plans.
Senior U.S. military officials told the newspaper that Russia's efforts to camouflage its forces and equipment could be designed to obscure images taken by American spy satellites or to conceal the location and size of their force from the Ukrainian military.
Another senior military official told The Journal that the Pentagon is concerned that the Russians have moved into place additional supplies, such as food and spare parts, which could support both a routine exercise or a prolonged military incursion into Ukraine.
"They are positioning logistics...
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I’m starting to get the feeling that there is more at work here than just Ukraine.
Putin embarrassed The Messiah by stopping his Syria Attack, in prime time. Obama had a lot personally invested in that, and Putin stood up to him.
Obama and his minions counter by ratcheting up the unrest in Ukraine, and picking sides.
Now the threat to close the Bosphorus and this:
Turkey shuts off YouTube after ‘Syria invasion plan’ leak
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3138497/posts?page=1, that would justify a military intervention by NATO in Syria.
Hmmmm....
Senior U.S. military officials told the newspaper that Russia’s efforts to camouflage its forces and equipment could be designed to obscure images taken by American spy satellites or to conceal the location and size of their force from the Ukrainian military.
Thank You Captain’s Obvious!
Thanks JimRob.
What was it we were all supposed to be really scared of.....maskarovka? It was that or borscht.
A coin placed on the rail directly in front of the driving wheel of a giant locomotive will prevent it from moving forward.
#freestuff
No, watching the weakest and most corrupt U.S. president in history destroying our national defense, national security, national economy, national sovereignty and our liberty while simultaneously emboldening and enabling our enemies abroad and rekindling the cold war and possibly starting a real shooting war (WW III) is probably enough to worry about for now.
Please, God, give our congress the wisdom and strength to impeach this traitor.
I wouldn't bet much on that idea.
I am hoping that is sarc?
Somehow, someway the Soviets were able to load up enough aircraft to fly 40,000 troops into Afghanistan and completely take over. For Awhile.
We didn't know ANYTHING until the planes started landing in Kabul.
There had been NO prior warning and intel had been totally blind to it. This during the height of the Cold War when all the extra scrutiny and suspicion was at play.
The Russians are pretty damn good at that sneak attack thing.
yEP, THAT COIN WOULD BE SHORTLY VAPORIZED.
obozo gonna’ kick they ass with Drones.
What happens next?
He will need to permanently station a hundred thousand troops there to protect the vastly outnumbered Russian minority.
He will need to install a pro-Putin puppet government, which will be hated by 80% of the population.
He will need to create a new, violent, secret police apparatus to control the 30 million people who now hate him.
And, the Ukraine economy, already in terrible shape, will collapse.
And, what will be gained?
Well, he will have regained a “buffer” state to protect Mother Russia from Poland, Slovakia, Romania, and Moldova, not to mention extra protection from the vast war mongering armies of France, Germany, and Turkey.
I suppose he can re-collectivize the farms in Ukraine, and then he can seize most of the food produced and distribute it pure blood Russians.
Or, maybe something else more practical is going on here?
I think the prize was Crimea, and now Putin has it.
Crimea is 60% Russian, and they clearly want to be part of Russia.
Historically, Crimea was an independent Russian territory for almost 40 years after the 1917 Revolution, it was not part of Ukraine.
And, most important to Putin, Crimea occupies a strategic position in the Black Sea.
Can this situation blow up into something more dangerous?
I'm sure it can, but I personally doubt it.
Unless Putin starts to threaten the Baltic nations - Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania - I think America has very little to worry about here.
Only if it's a BitCoin.
While only about 38+% of Ukraine is ethnic Russian, outside of the far Western provinces most are either pro-Russian or ambivalent.
There will not be an insurgency against Russia except if they take the historically Polish/Western provinces.
And they've essentially offered those to Poland.
Ribbentrop II.
Put a Quarter on the rail and a T-1 2-10-4 made it silver dollar size! Lol.
Yup, he will need to RE-install the pro-Putin puppet government (which Obama helped overthrow), and which will continue to be hated by 80% of the population. And he will need to provide troops to secure his pipelines, his gas contracts and his land corridor to Russian Crimea and his military bases closer to NATO Europe. And Obama and Europe will say, “Thank you sir, may we have some more.”
The Ukranians will have been thrown under the bus for “peace in our time.”
General Zhukov jr is in command.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgy_Zhukov
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