Posted on 08/28/2014 6:34:04 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Tanks, artillery and infantry have crossed from Russia into an unbreached part of eastern Ukraine in recent days, attacking Ukrainian forces and causing panic and wholesale retreat not only in this small border town but a wide swath of territory, in what Ukrainian and Western military officials are calling a stealth invasion.
The attacks outside this city and in an area to the north essentially have opened a new, third front in the war in eastern Ukraine between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists, along with the fighting outside the cities of Donetsk and Luhansk.
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Yeah well... don’t hold your breath. I don’t think that is going to happen.
LOL... Yup!
Seems that whining, moaning,and half hearted sanctions do not constitute effective policy. The bottom line has always been that the West would never go to war to enforce the internal borders of the former Soviet Union. When Russia finally decided to deploy its military as it did in Crimea,there was very little the West could or would do. It has become also clear to the Russians that business trumps politics and economics dictates policy. Lenin was right. The capitalists would sell them the rope which they would use to hang them.
Sounds like the Iraqi Army.
Excerpt that this time, the Muslims are fighting for the Russians.
Back their own soldiers out then drop a lot of good old fashioned bombs to wipe lots of those 20k out IMO.
Goose meet gander.
Better dead than Mohammed, right?
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