Ukraine crisis: Nato warns Russia against further intervention

BBC ^ | 8 April 2014

[caww]

Oh I see...another accusation unfounded and false from our Cold war crowd. ..pfft!

[caww]

The Old Cold War mentality is behind this name calling......there are several High Officials in our military that have commented, in speeches and otherwise, that this Cold War mentality is creating major problems in communications and not helpful..... So it's no wonder we see this happening here on FR.

It's nonsense to talk of the Cold War....it was a bi-polar system in a different world than there is today. Russia is not the Soviet Union nor does it aspire to be that. Rather, it believes in traditional Geo-Politics.....The USA and Russia are operating today with the idea ‘Respect through Strength’....seeing the US operate in Libya, Syria, Egypt and the ME attests to this.....

“Russia's desire has been to be seen as a indispensable International actor on the World Stage... with an “order based system” it's nation is Governed by.”.....Putin is on record saying that Russia is only respected when it is strong....and so too the USA.

[Grzegorz 246]

“How so?”

I used to wonder why the world hadn’t been serious about the Austrian imbecile until he conquered half of Europe. Now I know. Regarding your post... It is so out of touch with reality that I can’t really comment on it.

[AdmSmith]

Photos released by NATO today show destabilizing Russia troops near Ukraine border
http://www.aco.nato.int/imagery-reveals-destabilizing-russian-forces-near-ukraine-border-nato-plans-balanced-response-to-reassure-allies.aspx
(the site is down at the moment)

The Russian troops have increased their readiness and are awaiting order to go into Ukraine.

Combat readiness test in Belarus http://vsr.mil.by/2014/04/10/batalon-na-marshe/

[AdmSmith]

Here are some of the images released by Shape. They were collected by the Digital Globe satellite ‘Constellation’ between late March and early April 2014. The images are unclassified and are commercially available in Digital Globe’s public archive.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26968312

[AdmSmith]

No more spare parts for Russian military from Ukraine?

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2014/0410/Can-Russia-s-military-fly-without-Ukraine-s-parts