Bump
The Western world is coming apart at the seams. Riots in France, riots at our Southern border, and Russia is capturing ships from another country.
It feels like things are building to an explosive crescendo that won’t turn out well. I hope I’m wrong.
Presidential elections in spring, Poroshenko's popularity is south of 10%, not being reelected would mean not just loss of power but of personal property.
Reelection chances are next to nil, especially after recent hikes of gas and energy prices.
With martial law elections can be postponed, and -- if needed -- competition can be arrested.
I’d be scared, if I was a Ukrainian.
Porky is dead last in all the polls so who thinks the elections will be postponed until the "crisis" is past?
Russia calling urgent UN Security Council meeting over clash with Ukrainian ships in Azov sea
Moscow is calling an emergency UN Security Council meeting following the incident near Crimea that saw the Russian military detain Ukrainian warships for breaking into its territorial waters in violation of the UN convention.
Russia has called for a meeting “in connection to the dangerous developments in the Azov sea and subsequent events,” Russia’s First Deputy Permanent Representative at the UN, Dmitry Polyanskiy, told media late on Sunday.
Shouldn’t Ukraine be the one to demand that?
Send Bill Kristol and his “war machine” to straighten out the Russians...or better yet...Macron and his European army.
The Chocolate King must be saved!
This is beyond ominous
Would be interesting to see USN vessels conducting FONOPS through the region. The question is whether it would make sense to undermine the image the Russians have carefully cultivated, of being lunatic MAD enthusiasts over territorial issues, to keep the Chinese out of the part of Russia east of the Urals. Because Uncle Sam would obviously make mincemeat out of Russian conventional forces, whereas Putin can’t actually use the nukes he keeps on boasting about without killing almost everyone he knows and loves, thereby consigning himself to being the least competent ruler in Russian history as opposed to being a hero on the scale of Ivan the Terrible and Stalin.
So the Paulistas interrupt their bong sessions to cheer for the foreign friends of their hippie predecessors.
A response to Mommy Merkel’s call for a EU “ARMY. I predicted this last week........
In my opinion, Putin should drop a brigade of paratroopers on Kiev and bring the Ukraine back into the Rodina. The people will thank him in the end.
Time to arm those boats with anti-boat, anti-aircraft and anti-missile missiles and guns.
If fired upon, shoot to kill. Otherwise your Navy is just for Russian target practice.
Listen Porky, you have absolutely no chance of defeating Russia. Don’t poke the Russian bear. On the other hand, go for it. Russia will roll in, absorb you, throw out your fake Patriarch, and Ukraine will vanish from the earth. Think about it carefully.
The question rises...... what does Putin want for return of the ships?
Martial Law:
When a government goes against its populace.
Something rotten in the state of Ukraine