I was wondering why the Crimea was such a walkover. No longer. It looks like Putin has bought the new leadership just like he bought the old one. This isn't a hostile takeover - it's looking more and more like a consensual union, much like the Anschluss. This, perhaps, is why both the EU and Obama have been so non-committal about aid to Ukraine - it would have been a direct transfer to Russian coffers.
1 posted on
03/26/2014 6:19:09 AM PDT by
Zhang Fei
To: Zhang Fei
SWAT teams killing political opposition?
No wonder Obama isn’t stepping in.
2 posted on
03/26/2014 6:23:32 AM PDT by
Fido969
(What's sad is most)
To: Zhang Fei
3 posted on
03/26/2014 6:25:31 AM PDT by
infool7
(The ugly truth is just a big lie.)
To: Zhang Fei
Murky story. The new Interior Minister of Ukraine is hell-bent on disarming civilians, starting from organized groups that can offer actual resistance to Russian occupation. Mighty suspicious, IMHO.
4 posted on
03/26/2014 6:32:33 AM PDT by
Samogon
(Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. - Plato)
To: Zhang Fei
Is this confirmed?
This is the guy who ran about a third of the Maidan Square ‘self-defense’ volunteers.
He’s also the guy who was brandishing an AK (or AKM) in a room full of the new government’s appointed Ministers.
Expect a mafia war to erupt.
To: Zhang Fei
The Ukraine has to come with grips that half their population are Russians and that the Ukraine has done a crap job with their independence. They had a 500,000 man army when they became independent. They whittled it to 90,000.
We have many Ukrainians coming here. They come for jobs...and freedom.
To: Zhang Fei
Russia had issued an arrest warrant for Muzytchko on suspicion that he fought alongside Islamists in the war in Chechnya where he was responsible for the deaths of 20 Russian soldiers, according to Russian news agencies. WTF???
8 posted on
03/26/2014 6:48:40 AM PDT by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: Zhang Fei
It looks like Putin has bought the new leadership just like he bought the old one. Assuming this is true, what an evil guy, out bidding Obama and the EUroRats in their own game, and then rewarding loyalty while punishing disloyalty, as opposed to Obama EUroRat actions.
9 posted on
03/26/2014 6:58:31 AM PDT by
Navy Patriot
(Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
To: Zhang Fei
It was a falling out among thieves, nothing more.
18 posted on
03/26/2014 9:21:23 AM PDT by
mac_truck
( Aide toi et dieu t aidera)
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