Related: Seeking the Truth About the Ukraine
There is so much more to be found at the beginning rather than the end of that post, and so it goes....
"Ukraine’s military has some advantages on Russia" by Adam Taylor | Washington Post, March 04, 2014
They are calling this upcoming crap "news analysis." Must be where it came from.
WASHINGTON — As the situation in Crimea grows increasingly tense, more depressing prospects are beginning to emerge. Perhaps the worst is that Ukraine would have to fight to retain its territory and military facilities on the peninsula.
Judging by numbers alone, a war between Russia and Ukraine would seem to be a very lopsided one. But the Ukrainian military has a few important things going for it, including a loyal force that is less widely dispersed. It also has no reason to fire first.
Okay, the first revolting thing I'm going to comment on is the "but" after spelling out what will become a massacre. Not in the western media caterwauling sense, but in a military rout. Russia will flatten those EUSraeli-backed f***ers. (Btw, less widely dispersed means easier to destroy, doesn't it? I mean, AmeriKa's assets of empire are widely dispersed, and that's a good thing! The insurgents we can never rid ourselves of are widely dispersed, and that is cited as a problem for us. WTF?)
The second thing I want to comment upon is the wishful, wistful propaganda pre$$ coming from the WaPo -- long known as the CIA's newspaper -- with all the grandiose predictions of victory on the Eastern Front! Didn't Napoleon's and Hitler's experiences teach you globe-kicking shits anything? The fact that they OMITTED the DEFECTION of SO MANY ARMY and NAVY TROOPS is TELLING!
And now my propaganda pre$$ is laying the groundwork for false flag attacks with the preemptive excuse that the coup-installed Ukraine government couldn't have a thing to do with it? In other words, if anything happens it was Russian aggression.
‘‘I think most experts would agree that a fight between the Russian and Ukrainian armed forces would not be a fair fight,’’ said Marybeth Ulrich, a professor in the US Army War College’s Department of National Security and Strategy. ‘‘While Ukraine has a good number of forces, they are vastly outnumbered by Russia.’’
Ulrich put the number of active-duty troops in the Ukrainian military at nearly 130,000, compared with 845,000 for Russia.
8 to 1 in troops?
‘‘The air and naval assets decidedly favor Russia too,’’ Ulrich continued. ‘‘There is not much to speak of with regard to the Ukrainian navy (17 assorted vessels) vs. Russia’s Black Sea Fleet (Russia has 171 vessels overall) which of course is situated right in Crimea and has been instrumental in taking control of Crimea from within.’’
10 to 1 in naval ships, huh?
War is not just about the numbers, however, and there are some bright spots for the Ukrainian military.
Readers, I am flabbergasted that they would talk up a military rout and all the lives that would be lost on both sides with a "however" and "bright spots." I'm in speechless awe at the shamelessness and total inhumanity expressed by the propaganda pre$$. Anyone who writes such things can't possibly have a conscience or a fiber of good-feeling in them. They can only be described as sickening monsters, collaborative criminals in exercises of mass murder, and EVIL!
But don't listen to me; you let the lying jew$papers and ma$$ media lead you to slaughter with grandiose talk and eloquent proclamations of glory and victory! Victory! Victory! Victory!
So far at least, the military is loyal, and Ukrainians view their military with significant national pride.
That's a LIE! I've been going other places and reading other things, and that's a LIE! There have been defections up and down the ranks!
‘‘I am Russian myself; I was born there,’’ one member of the Ukrainian force at a marine base told the Guardian newspaper. ‘‘But we are professional soldiers and we have given an oath of duty. We will not give up this place without a fight.’’
Although there have been defections in the Ukrainian navy, so far they seem to be limited, rather remarkable given the country’s ethnic divides.
Considering what I posted yesterday and was told then how many Ukrainians had lived together in peace for years, and after all the happy-slappy $hit above they mention the defections, but no big deal. If it were a Syrian official, then it was big news!
The Russian intervention might actually unite Ukrainians behind the military.
MIGHT unite? WaPo keeping fingers crossed?
‘‘If the military is unified against a foreign invader,’’ said Matthew Clements, deputy head of Europe and CIS analysis at IHS Country Risk, ‘‘with the support of the majority of the population, then that would be an important morale booster.’’
Kind of calls to mind the Iraq and Afghan experiences.
Russia’s military is more expansive, but also more extended.
Mark Galeotti, a professor at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University, has argued that although Ukraine’s military is small, it is ‘‘big enough.’’ One reason is that Russia’s armed forces are not just for invading Ukraine.
Now go get 'em!
CHAAAAAAAAAARRRGGGGGEE!!!
Russia ‘‘cannot afford politically or even economically to assemble more than a fraction of these forces for a war,’’ Galeotti explained in an article for Blouin News. ‘‘It cannot denude its other borders, nor strip the North Caucasus of troops. Many are also unsuited to such a conflict, such as the nuclear forces or the Pacific Fleet.’’
Yeah, it'll be a cakewalk!
The guy is really describing AmeriKa's war weary troops and worn out military.
Russia might be able to muster twice the number of troops as Ukraine, Galeotti says. And that might not be enough.
Then again, it might (blog editor heaves heavy, heavy sigh).
The Washington Post is exhibiting the military acumen of Hitler post-1943 here.
But what do they care? It won't be their sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, and wives who will be killed. All so they can fulfill some world domination scheme that is doomed to failure.
Ukraine’s military leaders can play it cool.
For all the similarities to the conflict with Georgia in 2008, there is one big difference: Georgia fired first. In 2008, it was Georgian troops who attacked posts in the breakaway republic of South Ossetia, drawing Russia’s wrath.
Well, the EUSraeli-engineered coup in the Ukraine is comparable.
So far, Ukrainian troops and their leaders have not given Russia any reason to react.
At least they admit Russia is reacting in all this. I know it's late in the piece, and I wouldn't blame you for bailing on it.
Russia trounced Georgia in 2008, but its victory was not as easy as many would have expected. And although the Russian military has spent the past six years modernizing, doubts may linger in commanders’ heads.
Yeah, Russia is a PAPER BEAR!
This from the same guys who told you Saddam had WMD!
They may not want to attack unless they truly must.
That's been their whole mode of operation so far. Russia was driven to do this!
Kimberly Marten, a political scientist at Columbia University, says the significant Russian population in Crimea means that it is probably better to influence the region rather than to invade it and possibly have to take on the Ukrainian military.
The same thing is probably true for many other parts of eastern Ukraine, too. For the reasons above and many more, a Russian war with Ukraine just does not seem rational.
Meaning THEY HAVE NO REASON to FIRE FIRST!
That does not mean it will not happen.
How OMINOUS!
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Related: Let's Balkanize the Whole World!
It's what is behind the WaPo war push!
"Ukraine says Russia gave ultimatum to country; US halts military ties to Moscow, weighs ban on visas" by Steven Erlanger and Peter Baker | New York Times, March 04, 2014
KIEV — The embattled new government of Ukraine on Monday accused Russia of a major escalation in its effort to take control of the Crimea, saying the Russians had demanded that Ukrainian forces there surrender within hours or face armed assault.
The unelected, coup-installed government (that would be so undemocratic in Thailand!).
Russia denied it had issued any ultimatum but was clearly moving to strengthen its grip on Crimea, brushing aside new admonitions from President Obama and European leaders of economic punishment and isolation. Investor jitters steered markets sharply down around the world.
Now Russia (and the weather -- again!) will be blamed for the collapse of the private central bank looting scheme.
The United States prepared to impose sanctions on high-level Russian officials involved in the military occupation. The Obama administration on Monday suspended military ties to Russia, including exercises, port visits, and planning meetings, just a day after calling off trade talks. If Moscow does not reverse course, officials said they will ban visas and freeze assets of select Russian officials in the chain of command as well as target state-run financial institutions.
As AmeriKan economic power wanes and the world turns elsewhere this is nothing more than temper-tantrum spew by the U.S.
Congressional leaders signaled that they would follow with sanctions of their own, plus quickly approve economic aid for the fragile pro-Western government in Ukraine.
But they can't get unemployment checks out to jobless Americans and cut food stamps for those same hungry mouths.
No broken Congre$$ when it comes to the war machine. Look at 'em move into action and high gear!
At the United Nations, where the Security Council met for the third time in emergency session since Friday, the Ukraine ambassador, Yuriy Sergeyev, distributed a letter asserting that Russia had sent 16,000 troops into the Crimean peninsula since Feb. 24. The United States originally estimated that 6,000 Russian troops were dispatched there.
What is it with inept and incompetent US intelligence, and why are they even kept around?
The troops, Sergeyev wrote, had moved to “seize, block, and control crucial governmental and military objects of Ukraine in Crimea.”
Although Crimea was relatively calm Monday, Russian forces tightened their grip on key military bases and other security facilities throughout the peninsula, including naval installations and outposts of the border police, and stepped up pressure on Ukrainian officials to declare their loyalty to pro-Russian authorities.
The Interfax-Ukrainian news agency quoted an unidentified Ukrainian Defense Ministry official as saying Russia’s Black Sea Fleet commander had set a Tuesday morning deadline for Ukrainian forces stationed in Crimea to lay down their weapons. Russia’s Interfax news agency said the Black Sea Fleet had no such plans.
The conflicting reports only further served to worsen tensions in the Ukraine crisis, which has grown drastically in scope within the past few weeks to a new confrontation between Russia and the West reminiscent of low points in the Cold War. In addition to roiling financial markets, the turmoil pounded the Russian ruble and drove up energy prices.
Some are really pushing for it, like bank$ters, globalists, and Zionist Jews!
Obama, who spent much of the weekend working on the crisis, issued a new warning on the consequences to the Kremlin.
“What we are also indicating to the Russians is that if, in fact, they continue on the current trajectory that they’re on, that we are examining a whole series of steps — economic, diplomatic — that will isolate Russia and will have a negative impact on Russia’s economy and its status in the world,” he said.
That's funny coming from him!
EU foreign ministers, condemning Russia’s actions, called on Moscow to return its troops to their bases. EU heads of government will meet in an emergency summit meeting Thursday to discuss further steps. Radoslaw Sikorski, the Polish foreign minister, said: “The EU is saying that it will revise its relations with Russia if there is no deescalation.”
Visiting the new government in Kiev, Foreign Secretary William Hague of Britain urged Russia to pull back its forces in Crimea or face “significant costs,” echoing comments made by Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry, who was due here Tuesday.
EU echo chamber!
Some divisions, however, among Europe’s leaders appear to be forming.
Uh-oh!
German officials emphasized the need for diplomacy, while Dutch diplomats ruled out sanctions for now. A British government document photographed by a journalist said the government of Prime Minister David Cameron would not support trade sanctions or block Russian money from the British market.
Because THEY NEED IT to PROP up their BANKER-RAPED ECONOMY!
And KEEP THAT IN MIND for ARTICLES LATER DOWN in this POST!
Without European backing, US officials worry that economic sanctions may not carry enough bite to persuade President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to reverse course. By itself, the United States is not even among Russia’s top 10 trading partners, with no more than $40 billion in exports and imports exchanged between the two each year.
In other words, Congre$$ional sanctions will be nothing but 4aber-rattling, and will really not affect the Russians at all!
By contrast, Europe does about $340 billion in business with Russia, giving it far more potential clout, but also exposing it to far more potential risk.
What risk? They shut off the gas and Europe hopes dark.
“It’s particularly important for the United States to bring Europe along,” said Julianne Smith, a former national security aide to Vice President Joe Biden. “To the extent that the United States tries to put economic pressure on Russian industry, they won’t feel the impact as much as they would if we had Europe standing with us. That’s easier said than done.”
Once again, a U.S. policy doomed to failure!
The Russian foreign minister, Sergei V. Lavrov, asserted that Russia was only protecting its interests and those of Russian citizens in Ukraine.
The use of Russian troops is necessary “until the normalization of the political situation” in Ukraine, Lavrov said at an opening of a monthlong session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. “We are talking here about protection of our citizens and compatriots, about protection of the most fundamental of the human rights — the right to live, and nothing more.” But he did not specify what threats Russian citizens faced from Ukraine.
Isn't that a contradiction in terms?
In a statement Monday night, Ukraine’s acting president, Oleksandr Turchynov, said that officers in Crimea had high morale and would defend themselves if necessary. “Nobody will ever give up Crimea,” he said.
Apparently that guy is some sort of neo-Nazi fascist, but he's one of EUSrael's new guys so he's good.
Turchynov took no questions and did not mention reports of a Russian ultimatum, but said he had spoken earlier in the day with the commanders of army and marine bases on the Crimean peninsula and with the captains of Ukrainian naval ships blockaded in the Sevastopol harbor. He thanked the officers for resisting what he called “provocations” to fight by Russian soldiers.
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
But he described in detail a conversation with the captain and first mate of the Ternopol, a corvette in Ukraine’s navy, indicating commanders had been threatened with attack.
“A very dangerous situation emerged around the Ukrainian navy,” he said. “Russian servicemen have blockaded our naval ships in Sevastopol Bay, they have blocked the exits. Today, threats are coming, saying if the sailors do not surrender the ships and lay down their arms, they will attack our naval vessels.”
At the regional headquarters of the border police in Simferopol, the Crimean regional capital, a half-dozen men in plainclothes, some wearing face masks but carrying military radios, stood guard Monday outside the front door, where the glass had been smashed out during a siege of the building the day before.
At least three large Russian troop carriers were parked outside the building. Although most identifying markers had been removed, one of the trucks bore a black Russian military license plate carried by vehicles attached to the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol.
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Related: Germany could be crucial to ending crisis
That replaced this printed piece on the website. WTF?
"US, Europeans try to craft response to Ukrainian crisis" by Lara Jakes | AP National Security Writer, March 03, 2014
My printed headline said working to portray unity.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S and major allies strained on Monday to rally a strong Western front to persuade Russia to step back from a military takeover of Ukraine’s strategic Crimea region.
My printed paper says sought, but I suppose that's nitpicking.
But several acknowledged there are few options beyond already-threatened economic and diplomatic penalties, and critics said administration efforts were too little, too late after years of pressing for friendlier relations with Moscow.
A stern-faced President Barack Obama labeled the Russian advance in Crimea a violation of international law.
Does he look stern to you? Looks more like an egotist who favors fawning approval.
Thanks for making gas prices go up, a$$hole!
He urged Congress to approve an aid package for the Ukrainian government, and repeated earlier threats that the U.S. would take steps to hobble Russia’s economy and isolate it diplomatically if President Vladimir Putin does not back down.
They keep raising on a busted flush!
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was leaving for Kiev to reinforce U.S. support for the new Ukrainian government that only weeks ago ousted its pro-Russian president.
Related:
"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spilled the beans on Secretary of State John Kerry’s new granddaughter Monday during a White House press conference, before Kerry had a chance to make an announcement. Appearing with President Obama as Kerry stood watching in the Oval Office, Netanyahu told reporters that the visit was “an opportunity to congratulate Secretary Kerry on the birth of his new granddaughter.” Netanyahu went on to say that Kerry received the news when a staffer passed him a phone during an earlier meeting with the prime minister. “So we’ve had many productive meetings, but this is truly a productive meeting,” Netanyahu said to laughter.
I'm always so pleased when war criminal scum is rubbing elbows and having good times, and is then portrayed as fighting over the peace process with Israeli insults directed at the Secretary!
The news came amid a tumultuous 48 hours for Kerry. First, he returned to Washington in a blizzard after appearing on three Sunday political shows, where he spoke on behalf of the administration about Russia’s invasion of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea.
Must be all the war spew as well as the plane rides gassing up the environment.
He started Monday with a two-hour meeting with Netanyahu before a bilateral meeting with Moldovan Prime Minister Iurie Leanca. There were two more hours with Netanyahu and the president, followed by a national security council meeting also focused on Ukraine. Nonetheless, the country’s top diplomat found time to welcome the new baby, which the family has dubbed their new “diplo-tot.” (At press time, no name had been announced.) Before flying off to Ukraine Monday night, Kerry visited New York briefly to meet his new granddaughter just hours after her birth."
Yeah, poor Kohn Kerry is so busy gassing up the greenhouse effect with his slavish globe-trotting for his Israeli masters.
Related: Obama says tough choices needed in Mideast talks
A NYT pos!
Obama: Tough choices nearing in Mideast talks
AP sure gives it a different tone, 'eh? It also reports on the Israeli airstrike in Gaza yesterday, something the Jew York Times article omitted in its cheerleading piece of crap.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius suggest[ed] sending in observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation, and questioning Russia’s membership in the G-8 economic group,
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but said Russia’s control of Crimea would not be easy to reverse [and was] holding out for a diplomatic dialogue proposed by Germany — were an indication of how limited the options were for the U.S. and Europe.
I'm not.
Still, alternately threatening and cajoling Putin, Western leaders pointed to the damage that his nation’s natural gas, uranium and coal industries could suffer if sanctions cut off exports to the European Union, its largest customer.
Like he is going to be threatened.
I say LET the EU BOYCOTT his GAS! Then they can F***ING FREEZE this spring and maybe they will then have more mass protests to deal with!
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Britain’s prime minister warned of diplomatic, political, economic ‘‘and other pressures’’ that could be brought against Moscow. And the European Union’s foreign ministers issued a Thursday deadline for Putin to pull back his troops or face a rejection of visa-liberalization and economic cooperation negotiations that have long been in the works.
Yeah, NOTHING in this piece about NOT CUTTING OFF RUSSIAN DOUGH!
I LOVE CENSORSHIP and DISTORTED SLOP by the SAME $OURCE in the SAME PAPER, don't you?
In Washington, Obama declared, ‘‘The strong condemnation that has proceeded from countries around the world indicates the degree to which Russia is on the wrong side of history.’’
OMG, he used a BUSHISM!
As for the judgment of history, that has already been rendered and it turns out Obummer here is on the wrong side. You neo-con jew shits and globe-kicking elitists are going down, and I'm looking forward to seeing you in hell so I can feast on your disemboweled flesh!
‘‘So there are really two paths that Russia can take at this point,’’ Obama said. ‘‘Over time, this will be a costly proposition for Russia, and now is the time for them to consider whether they can serve their interests in a way that resorts to diplomacy as opposed to force.’’
Related: What the Hell is Obama Thinking?
I'm in agreement. I think this president is mentally insane, a craver of fawning coverage and acceptance who sees himself as some great man when he is nothing more than a slavish tool.
Some critics said the Obama administration should have seen Russia’s advances coming and blamed the White House for policies emboldening Putin.
Said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who was defeated by Obama in the 2008 presidential election: ‘‘The president of the United States thinks that the Cold War is over. That’s fine. It is over. But Putin doesn’t believe it’s over.’’
Obama for years tried to cultivate Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, the former president, as a friend of the United States. Significant changes were made to Bush administration plans for a European missile defense to try to ease Russian concerns, and a new arms control treaty was signed, as part of Washington’s hopes to ‘‘reset’’ U.S.-Russia relations.
Conservative foreign policy experts in the U.S. said Monday that the reset has long since crashed and burned.
‘‘When you implement a policy of appeasement toward Moscow, that policy is going to spectacularly backfire,’’ said scholar Nile Gardiner of the conservative Heritage Foundation. ‘‘We’ve seen that with regards to Crimea and Ukraine.’’
Combined with the naked aggression comment yesterday, you can see where the charged language is pushing the agenda and imagery.
Related: Making You Think
Globe turned to the parti$an $hits ruining Wa$hington for expert advice?
American Enterprise Institute security expert Gary Schmitt outlined a number of steps that he said the West should embrace to pressure Putin. Among them, he said, is the buildup of NATO forces in neighboring nations to make clear to Russia that there is a line it cannot cross in Europe. He also said Navy ships and assets should be moved to the Mediterranean Sea, and possibly the Black Sea, ‘‘to remind Russia there is a military cost for its activities.’’
That's the range of "debate" we get in our war daily? Between war-mongering moderates and rabid right-wingers -- the cost of which will be how many thousands of lives?
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He noted that Russia paid little for invading Georgia in 2008.
Georgia’s prime minister met with U.S. officials last week in Washington, and Kerry on Monday pledged a fresh $2.8 million to Moldova to help that nation’s economic prospects.
And yet YOU must endure PARTI$AN AU$TERITY IMPOSED from the same folks who allowed corporate and banking looters to loot the place!
The sooner this empire collapses over its own bankruptcy the better the world will be.
All told, Kerry said the U.S. has provided close to $1.5 billion in economic assistance to help Moldova, which, like Georgia, is a former Soviet republic that has rejected Russia in recent years in favor of Western inclusion.
‘‘So what happens today in Ukraine is just a reminder to us ... that we need to do much more in order to address this issue,’’ Moldova Prime Minister Iurie Leanca said Monday at a State Department meeting with Kerry. ‘‘Because if it’s not addressed in time, then it becomes very contagious.’’
‘‘I think the situation is relatively clear, you need to see a return to barracks,’’ EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said in Brussels, where ministers also froze preparations for the Group of Eight summit of major economies that is set for June in Sochi.
No one cares about the G-8 party for themselves.
The West stopped far short of suggesting that its own military force might be used to push Putin’s troops out of Crimea — even as Ukrainian officials reported that four Russian navy ships in Sevastopol’s harbor had blocked two vessels controlled by Kiev.
BUT?
Russia, too, tried to steer the world debate.
At a U.N. session in Geneva, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Ukraine should return to a Feb. 21 agreement that sought to end months of unrest in Kiev by addressing an array of issues at the heart of the dispute between protesters and the government of then-President Viktor Yanukovych. However, that agreement did not address the grievances that caused the protests in the first place, and the pro-Russian Yanukovych fled Kiev for protective sanctuary near Moscow within days of signing it.
‘‘Instead of a promised national unity government,’’ Lavrov complained, ‘‘a ‘government of the victors’ has been created.’’
U.S. officials say the Feb. 21 agreement could form the basis for a political resolution to the crisis but would have to be significantly altered.
Both Kerry and Lavrov are to attend meetings in Paris on Wednesday about refugee spillover in Lebanon from the other war on a NATO border — the three-year bloody conflict in Syria.
Related: Syrian Spillover
I will be returning there soon.
It is likely they will discuss the crisis in Ukraine, too.
Ya think?
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Time to unify!
"European Union may halt talks, sanction Russia" by Raf Casert | Associated Press, March 04, 2014
BRUSSELS — European Union leaders called a special summit for Thursday, at which they are expected to suspend talks with Russia on economic cooperation and liberalized visa rules if Moscow hasn’t taken steps to calm the crisis in Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula.
There has also been discussion of halting imports of Russian natural gas to Europe, although no decisions have been made on taking such a drastic step.
That "threat" is SO LAUGHABLE!
The fact that the AmeriKan media would $pin $uch $hit is SO EMBARRASSING for them!
The European Union is by far the biggest consumer of Russian gas, and any disruption would come at huge financial cost to Moscow.
But NOT AS MUCH as it would SHUT DOWN EUROPE!
EU foreign ministers have also joined the United States in stopping preparation for the G8 summit, which is set for June in the Russian resort of Sochi.
Who cares?
Catherine Ashton, the EU foreign policy chief, said the alliance would give Russia until Thursday to show clear signs of good will, including a willingness to open talks and a withdrawal of Russian troops to their barracks in the Crimea.
That sounds like an ultimatum, and I don't think Russians go for those sort of things.
‘‘The ambition is to see the situation improve. If it doesn’t, then the course is set,’’ Ashton said after the foreign ministers’ meeting.
Then there really is no point in reading any further, is there?
She said she will meet Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov of Russia on Tuesday in Madrid.
The ambassadors of NATO’s 28 member nations will hold a second emergency meeting on Ukraine Tuesday after Poland invoked an article calling for consultations when a nation sees its ‘‘territorial integrity, political independence or security threatened,’’ the alliance said in a statement.
The course is TOWARD WAR!
At the EU meeting, many foreign ministers stressed that the immediate focus should be on diplomacy and promoting direct dialogue between Russia and the new leadership in Ukraine.
Say what? Can't hear you over the war drums and propaganda pre$$!
The EU is Russia’s biggest trading partner, and Russia is the EU’s third-largest partner.
Russia is the largest exporter of oil, gas, uranium, and coal to the EU.
Freeze your f***ing asses of while your factories go dark, EU a$$holes!
Then contend with mass populations in your streets, because Europeans don't eat shit like Amurkns.
Economic sanctions would hurt all sides, said Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans of the Netherlands.
‘‘Those consequences will be bad for everyone, but for Russia they will be far worse than for the EU. We can target other markets if we have to. [Russia] will have trouble to quickly find other customers,’’ Timmermans said.
You think so? They got that whole Eurasian Economic Union going on. That's what started this whole Ukrainian crisis, remember?
What is with AmeriKa's ma$$ media mockingbirds? Heads full of $hit?
The developments in Ukraine frightened investors around the world Monday, sending stock indexes lower and energy and staple foods higher.
And these are the IMPORTANT PEOPLE who RUN THINGS!
Even if military conflict does not break out, Western powers are looking at how they can punish Russia for what they consider to be a breach of international law.
No one punishes the EUSraeli empire when they do it.
Over the weekend, US Secretary of State John F. Kerry warned President Vladimir Putin of Russia that he may ‘‘find himself with asset freezes on Russian business.’’
He should just shut up.
The biggest economic risk revolves around Russia’s supply of natural gas.
Many eastern European countries rely almost entirely on those imports and even Germany, Europe’s largest economy, gets 35 percent of its supplies from Russia.
But it is Russia that will be hurt!
Gazprom, the Russian energy conglomerate, has threatened to end a cheap deal on gas it sells to Ukraine, and claimed it is owed about $1.55 billion.
They did that this morning. Heard it on the radio as I went to get the pos Globe.
Kathleen Brooks, market analyst at Forex.com, said the European response to the Ukraine crisis has been little more than a wag of the finger so far.
‘‘We will have to wait and see if the EU merely looks the other way when it comes to Russian-Ukrainian problems and leaves the diplomatic response to the US and UK as they try to protect their energy supplies,’’ Brooks said.
I was told Russia would be hurt more, and now -- at the end -- I'm told it is the exact f***ing opposite! And you WONDER WHY I SWEAR!?
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And now for those important people:
"Russian shares traded in the US slip" Associated Press, March 04, 2014
NEW YORK — Shares of Russian companies traded in the United States plummeted Monday as the country’s military forces streamed into Ukraine, raising the possibility of sanctions by Western governments....
Global markets were shaken by the developments in Ukraine and Crimea, as fears of contagion spread. A number of Europe’s biggest banks fell sharply.
Oh, the POOR EU BANKS! Who knew they would be hurt!
Russia essentially took control of Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula with strategic importance, and the new Ukrainian government in Kiev fears a wider invasion. The West responded by questioning Russia’s membership in the G-8 leading industrialized democracies, and the United States threatened possible asset freezes and trade penalties.
Yeah, it's Russia's access to the Mediterranean Sea and points south. That's what this whole maneuver is about as war plans are further developed and pushed along. The attack on Iran can not be far off.
In Moscow, the Russian stock market dropped about 11 percent and the ruble — already down nearly 10 percent this year — fell to its lowest point ever against the dollar and the euro.
As if those last two currencies of funny paper had any standing or credibility.
Russia’s central bank decided to temporarily increase its key interest rate by 1.5 percentage points, to 7 percent, in a bid to keep the ruble’s fall from driving up inflation.
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Also see:
Solomon’s choice in Ukraine
Putin’s clever game of chess
Yeah, that's the same Nick Burns that was at the bottom of the linked post above -- and the one right below where you are reading.
Turns out my analysis was pretty spot on, huh? The whole poker-chess metaphor.
UPDATE: Man who took photos of Kerry’s home faces child porn charges
Related: The Kerry Chronicles: Summer Vacation
