"Ukraine.... First flat out I will call this exactly what it was.. A Coup d'etat launched by the criminal Jews in control of the European Union and the United States itself. The legitimate and elected government of Ukraine has been vilified in the Jewish run press (no surprise here) and everyone has been getting false information that the Prime Minister of Ukraine, Yanukovych, was this tyrant and dictator (again no surprise here coming from the sick and twisted Jew run press) whom the Ukrainians were glad to remove from power. But the truth is very different, and we are dealing with Rothschild paid for and US CIA/Israeli Mossad trained "revolutionaries" that want nothing more than to have Ukraine made a satellite state of the European Union and permanently enslaved to Rothschild criminal usury central banking. This overthrow of the government and subsequent turmoil has always been the modus operandi of these criminal organizations.
Russia is still the lynch pin in all this, and I do believe that this turmoil in Ukraine is aimed right at the Russian Federation itself. The US and the European Union have always eyed Ukraine being on the border of Russia as a forward base for operations aimed at Russia itself. Putin has no illusion about the evil machinations of these criminals and has every right to take action against the Coup d'etat in Ukraine itself. For him to put the Russian military on full alert and to give assistance to the rightfully elected and therefore real government of Ukraine is the right thing to do..... Of course we again have the Jew run media screaming blue murder that the Russians are causing all the tension, when the Jew run governments of the EU and the US themselves are the real culprits! Hypocrisy at its best....
There is also now the ominous specter of war between the US and Russia that has reared its ugly head over this Ukraine debacle.... Many people have asked me this last week if we could be seeing a new World War thanks to this Ukraine situation, and I told them honestly that I would not put it past the sickos in the Obama/Soetoro/Davis evil administration to actually contemplate such a scenario. The reason is simple, and readers can do their own research to verify this as fact.... The United States of America is flat broke and right now is definitely on the slide to total economic collapse... No more nations are buying American toxic debt and are running from the US dollar in droves..... The US Government has basically destroyed itself due to its own selfish greed and continuing subservience to the Jewish controlled Usury monetary system controlled by the criminal Federal Reserve System. The fraudulent debt accumulated under that failed system has now crushed the life out of the US itself, where the citizens of the United States are in poverty and destitution. The US itself is no longer the manufacturing industrial colossus that it once was, and instead is a shadow of its past glory.
The criminal government of the United States of America knows that the proverbial "writing on the wall" is at hand, but rather than actually do the right things to fix their financial mess and actually save the American nation from oblivion, they are actually contemplating a new war, and in fact any war, on the planet right now that in their twisted logic can save the US from financial ruin for just a while longer.....Throughout history, all depressions and "panics" that have happened in the USA have been fixed via war.... Wars generate industry, and at the same time generate untold wealth for the Jewish criminals behind that war industry. Therefore war against Russia to save the US financially is not out of the question.... But the problem is that with so much of the US industrial might now off-shored, the US itself cannot fight and win a protracted war against Russia, and most probably China.... Therefore the rapid escalation of such war to nuclear war could happen very quickly and therefore the possibility of billions of people dying as a result....But hey, as long as the Jewish bankers get wealthy in the process, the maniacal criminals actually care little about that horrible possibility!
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It's here if you want it; I really can't read this rank rot anymore, sorry.
"Russia invading, Ukraine says; Obama issues warning" by David M. Herszenhorn, Mark Landler and Alison Smale | New York Times, March 01, 2014
KIEV — Ukraine’s fragile new government accused Russia of trying to provoke a military conflict Friday by invading the Crimea region, while in Washington President Obama issued a stern warning to the Kremlin about respecting Ukraine’s sovereignty, apparently in an effort to preclude a full-scale military escalation.
So Orwellian.
US officials did not directly confirm a series of public statements by senior officials in the new Ukrainian government, including its acting president, Oleksandr Turchynov, that Russian troops were being deployed to Crimea, where Russia has a major naval base, in violation of the two countries’ agreements there.
Obama, however, cited “reports of military movements taken by the Russian Federation inside of Ukraine,” and he said, “Any violation of Ukrainian sovereignty would be deeply destabilizing.”
“There will be costs,” Obama said in a hastily arranged statement from the White House.
Really?
The pointed warning came after a day in which military analysts struggled to understand a series of unusual events in Crimea, including a mobilization of armored personnel carriers with Russian markings on the roads of the region’s capital, Simferopol, and a deployment of well-armed masked gunmen at Crimea’s two main airports.
“The Russian Federation began an unvarnished aggression against our country,” Turchynov said in nationally televised remarks Friday evening. “Under the guise of military exercises, they entered troops into the autonomous Republic of Crimea.”
He said that Russian forces had captured the regional parliament, as well as the headquarters of the regional government, and that they had seized other targets, including vital communications hubs, and blocked unspecified Ukrainian military assets.
US officials said they believed that the unusual helicopter movements over Crimea were evidence that a military intervention was underway, but cautioned that they did not know the scale of the operation or the Russians’ motives.
Then all the spy satellites and NSA surveillance ain't worth shit, huh? Or I'm being told whopper lies by this pos propaganda pre$$.
On Friday, Russia denied that it had or would encroach on Ukrainian territory, and asserted that any troop movements were in line with arrangements that allow it to station soldiers in the area.
Still, developments in Ukraine sent the country’s interim government, appointed just the day before, deep into crisis mode as it confronted the prospect of an armed effort to split off Crimea, an autonomous region with close historic ties to Russia, from the Ukrainian mainland.
Analysts said the increase in the Russian presence in the area had parallels to steps President Vladimir Putin took before beginning a war with Georgia in 2008 over the largely ethnic regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. But there was little to indicate if Putin intended to escalate the challenge to Ukraine beyond the so-far non-violent provocation of the mostly pro-Russian population in the region.
Meaning they are about to be set-up and decried in my pos war daily.
Turchynov, the acting president, also made comparisons to Georgia.
“They are provoking us into military conflict,” he said. “They began annexation of territory.”
In his address, Turchynov added: “I personally appeal to President Putin, demanding that he immediately stop the provocation and withdraw troops.”
Look at this shit.
The crisis in the Crimea, along the Black Sea, is the latest development in a series of fast unfurling events that began after scores of people were killed in Kiev last week in a severe escalation of civic unrest that had been underway since late November.
Protests started after Russia pressured then-President Viktor Yanukovych to back away from sweeping political and free-trade agreements with the European Union that he had long promised to sign, setting off an East-West confrontation reminiscent of the Cold War....
Obama’s warning suggested a deepening uncertainty among US officials about Putin’s intentions in the region despite a series of high-level contacts in recent days, including a telephone call between the two presidents one week ago. Yanukovych was an ally of Russia and his toppling has left the Kremlin grappling for a response.
Washington, meanwhile, has struggled to make sense of the rapidly evolving events in Crimea.
That's odd since they are driving it and the back end of this report is full of what is happening on the ground. But hey, it's NYT shit shoveling, so it's no surprise anymore.
While US officials said that intelligence indicated a Russian operation was underway, Obama stopped short of calling it an invasion. Part of the confusion, one official said, was that Russia routinely moves troops between military bases in Crimea.
Another US official said that intelligence reports from the region were “all over the place,” but that the administration believed that Russia had moved some of its forces into Ukraine, while some of the movement, officials said, seemed to be an increase in protective measures around Russian military installations.
Ten years after Iraq and they still haven't fixed the failed and incompetent intelligence.
Although he threatened an unspecified “cost” to Russia, Obama appeared to have limited options to respond to an intervention. Officials said he could cancel his participation in a Group of Eight meeting in Sochi, Russia, next June. The administration could also shut down talks on a potential trade agreement. Russia sent a delegation to Washington this week to explore closer trade and commercial ties.
So much for that. The Jew World Order must be serviced first.
Related: Planning for G-8 summit in Russia suspended
Who really cares about some globalist get together where they decide how to $crew us all anyway?
Crimea, a multi-ethnic region that was granted a large degree of autonomy in 1992 after Ukraine gained independence from the Soviet Union, has long been a source of tension with Russia, and is the headquarters of some of Russia’s most important military installations, including the that of its Black Sea naval fleet.
As the international community reacted with consternation to the developments in Crimea, the Kremlin, enigmatic as ever, remained largely silent....
And then they report what state television and foreign ministry had to say.
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"Russia moves on Ukraine, taking over Crimea; Obama calls on Putin to withdraw troops; US halts preparations for economic summit" by Alison Smale and David M. Herszenhorn | New York Times, March 02, 2014
SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine — Russian armed forces seized control of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula on Saturday, as the Russian Parliament granted President Vladimir Putin broad authority to use military force in response to the political upheaval that dislodged a Kremlin ally and installed a new, staunchly pro-Western government.
Notice how they don't call it a coup?
Russian troops stripped of identifying insignia but using military vehicles bearing the license plates of Russia’s Black Sea force swarmed the major thoroughfares of Crimea, encircled government buildings, closed the main airport, and seized communication hubs, solidifying what began Friday as a covert effort to control the largely pro-Russian region.
In Moscow, Putin convened the upper house of Parliament to grant him authority to use military force to protect Russian citizens and soldiers not only in Crimea but throughout Ukraine. Both actions — military and parliamentary — were a direct rebuff to President Obama, who on Friday pointedly warned Russia to respect Ukraine’s territorial integrity.
Obama accused Russia of a “breach of international law” and condemned the country’s military intervention, calling it a “clear violation” of Ukrainian sovereignty.
In Crimea, scores of heavily armed soldiers fanned out across the center of the regional capital, Simferopol. They wore green camouflage uniforms with no identifying marks, but spoke Russian and were clearly part of a Russian mobilization. In Balaklava, a district of Sevastopol, a long column of military vehicles blocking the road to a border post bore Russian plates.
Large pro-Russia crowds rallied in the eastern Ukrainian cities of Donetsk and Kharkiv, where there were reports of violence. In Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, fears grew within the new provisional government that separatist upheaval would fracture the country just days after a three-month period of civil unrest had ended with the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych, the Kremlin ally who fled to Russia.
Isn't that poetic irony?
Well, F*** THEM, and f*** this whole EU/US/Israeli program!!!!
In addition to the risk of open war, it was a day of frayed nerves and set-piece political appeals that recalled ethnic conflicts of past decades in the former Soviet bloc, from the Balkans to the Caucasus.
It's the same CIA/Mossad playbook we have seen before!
Obama, who had warned Russia on Friday that “there will be costs” if it violated Ukraine’s sovereignty, spoke with Putin for 90 minutes Saturday, according to the White House, and urged Putin to withdraw his forces back to its bases in Crimea and to stop “any interference” in other parts of Ukraine.
Why don't you take your own advice, asshole?!!!!!!
In a statement afterward, the White House said the United States would suspend participation in preparatory meetings for the G8 economic conference to be held in Sochi, Russia, in June and warned of “greater political and economic isolation” for Russia.
The printed reference to violations of international law was removed for the web version? Too hypocritical for even the NYT, huh?
In Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron said that “there can be no excuse for outside military intervention” in Ukraine.
The world is watching quote was also removed?
Do these EU pukes ever hear themselves?
The Kremlin offered its own description of the call, in which it said Putin spoke of “a real threat to the lives and health of Russian citizens” in Ukraine and warned that “in case of any further spread of violence to Eastern Ukraine and Crimea, Russia retains the right to protect its interests and the Russian-speaking population of those areas.”
Isn't that what Israel would say, with the US affirming it?
At the United Nations, the Security Council held an emergency meeting on Ukraine for the second time in two days. The US ambassador, Samantha Power, called for an international observer mission, urged Russia to “stand down,” and took a dig at the Russian ambassador, Vitaly I. Churkin, on the issue of state sovereignty, which the Kremlin frequently invokes in criticizing the West over its handling of Syria and other disputes.
And she is our chief insulter, I mean diplomat, huh? Whadda c***!
“Russian actions in Ukraine are violating the sovereignty of Ukraine and pose a threat to peace and security,” she said.
The secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, also spoke with Putin on Saturday and described himself as “gravely concerned” and urged Putin to negotiate with officials in Kiev....
F*** this.
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"US options for taking action on Russia are few; Putin willing to face penalties" by Peter Baker | New York Times, March 02, 2014
WASHINGTON — President Obama has warned Russia that “there will be costs” for a military intervention in Ukraine. But the United States has few palatable options for imposing penalties, and recent history has shown that when it considers its interests at stake, Russia has been willing to absorb any such fallout.
Even before President Vladimir Putin on Saturday publicly declared his intent to send Russian troops into the Ukrainian territory of Crimea, Obama and his team were discussing how to respond.
They talked about canceling the president’s trip to a summit meeting in Russia in June, shelving a possible trade agreement, kicking Moscow out of the Group of Eight, or moving US warships to the region.
That is the same menu of actions that was offered to President George W. Bush in 2008 when Russia went to war with Georgia, another balky former Soviet republic.
Yet the US response at that time proved only marginally effective and short-lived. Russia stopped its advance but nearly six years later has never fully lived up to the terms of the cease-fire it signed. And whatever penalty it paid at the time evidently has not deterred it from again muscling a neighbor.
“The question is: Are those costs big enough to cause Russia not to take advantage of the situation in the Crimea? That’s the $64,000 question,” said Brigadier General Kevin Ryan, a retired Army officer who served as defense attaché in the US Embassy in Moscow and now, as a Harvard scholar, leads a group of former Russian and US officials in back-channel talks.
Michael McFaul, who just stepped down as Obama’s ambassador to Moscow, said the president should still try in hopes that Russia’s business-minded establishment understands that it would find itself cut off.
“There needs to be a serious discussion as soon as possible about economic sanctions so they realize there will be costs,” he said. “They should know there will be consequences and those should be spelled out before they take further actions.”
Putin has demonstrated that the cost to Moscow’s international reputation would not stop him.
Having just hosted the Winter Olympics in Sochi, he must have realized he was all but throwing away seven years and $50 billion of effort to polish Russia’s image.
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He evidently calculated that any diplomatic damage did not outweigh what he sees as a threat to Russia’s historic interest in Ukraine, which was ruled by Moscow until the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Putin may stop short of outright annexation of Crimea, the largely Russian-speaking peninsula where Moscow still has a major military base, but instead justify a long-term troop presence by saying the troops are there to defend the local population from the new pro-Western government in Kiev.
Following a tested Russian playbook, he could create a de facto enclave loyal to Moscow much like the republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia that broke away from Georgia.
On the other hand, the White House worries that the crisis could escalate and that all of Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine may try to split off.
Finding more compelling levers to influence his decision-making will be a challenge for Obama and the European allies. Obama has seen repeatedly that warnings often do not discourage autocratic rulers from taking violent action, as when Syria crossed the president’s “red line” by using chemical weapons in its civil war.
This is all such gross shit it really is not worth reading anymore.
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Related: Kerry to go to Ukraine on Tuesday
Just what Ukraine needs, one more asshole.
Ukraine mobilizes as Russia occupies Crimea
Good luck with a rag-tag and bankrupt army.
Russia tightens grip on Crimea
Putin agrees to ‘contact group’ to talk about Ukraine, Germany says
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"Local Ukrainians seek stronger US response" by Dan Adams | Globe Correspondent, March 01, 2014
Fine. Volunteer for the armed forces and go fight.
Ukrainian-Americans have been disappointed by the Obama administration’s measured response, saying that even the president’s stern warning that Russia should not intervene was inadequate to counter Russian President Vladimir Putin’s naked aggression....
That clinches it; Putin the Third Antichrist.
Alex Burinsky, 26, said in an interview, “The only way Putin will be afraid is if the US Navy sends a fleet there.”
Related: US Navy Frigate Runs Aground Amid Sochi-Overwatch In Black Sea
Yeah, that will scare him.
Ukrainian-Americans have also been generally disappointed by what they see as a relative lack of public and media attention on Ukraine....
What? It's been plastered all over my Globe for months!
Yanukovych, despised by many Ukrainian-Americans for his violent crackdown on protesters, resurfaced in Russia on Friday after fleeing Kiev days earlier, and called for Moscow to act decisively against Ukraine’s new government.
With a new Ukrainian government only partially in control and reports circulating of a possible Russian military takeover of the majority Russian-speaking region of Crimea, Ukrainian-Americans looked to Obama for a firm counterpunch.
But still, some hesitated to call for decisive military action that could spark a broader war.
“As an American, I absolutely do not want us to put boots on the ground,” said Peter Woloschuk, an author and communications professor who is writing a book about Ukrainian-Americans in Massachusetts. “But short of an intervention by somebody, Putin is going to take over Crimea. For Ukraine, this is the worst thing that has happened since independence.”
See: Getting Back to the Games
And a Cold War!
The pull of competing loyalties was painful for some.
“The US is supposed to stand for and defend democracies, but I’m not sure whether [military intervention is] the right move for the US right now,” said Vsevolod Petriv, president of the Boston branch of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America. “Putin’s exploiting the situation and trying to use it for his own gain. I’m hoping the Ukrainian people figure it out and stop it.”
Woloschuk, who is also a former Globe reporter, said he had traveled extensively in Crimea, and remembered the region as a place where ethnic Russians and Ukrainians coexisted peacefully.
That has Woloschuk wondering if Russia is actively stoking tensions as a cover for its power play.
I'm sorry, folks, but I can't read these rank rot distortions anymore.
“Throughout 23 years since leaving the Soviet Union, there has never been any violence,” he said. “I saw no signs of any ethnic divide or hostility at all. Integration was at a high level, as was tolerance.”
So JWHO stirred up all the trouble?
Distrust of Russia and especially Putin is common, however, among Ukrainian-Americans, who are mindful of Russia’s centuries-long history of dominating its neighbor.
“Russia has no issue saying one thing and then turning around and doing something completely different,” Burinsky said, calling for the United States to end “fruitless” talks with Putin’s government.
But despite the political crisis, flaring tensions with Russia, and the killing of protesters in Kiev by riot police, Burinsky still believes Ukraine is in a better place than it was last fall.
“Ukraine is better off even now,” he said. “I would rather Russia not be in Ukraine, but the corruption of Yanukovych being gone altogether is something we couldn’t have imagined.”
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"West presses for restraint as Russia sends more troops; Invasion feared in Ukraine’s east; Kerry will visit Kiev tomorrow" by Steven Erlanger | New York Times, March 03, 2014
KIEV — Ukrainian and Western leaders tried Sunday to dissuade President Vladimir Putin of Russia from overplaying his hand and ordering an invasion of eastern Ukraine, even as Russian forces and their sympathizers in the Crimean Peninsula worked to neutralize any Ukrainian resistance there.
There is the disconnect between my propaganda operation and the real world. My propaganda pre$$ is making a poker analogy while the Russians are known for playing chess.
It's the U.S. that is the poker player, always bluffing and trying to raise on a busted flush!
Think of the foreign policies. The U.S. is always full of bluster and threats, going all-in! Russia has dealt with this crisis with remarkable restraint, the quintessential mastery of a far-thinking chess player.
In a way I should enjoy this over-the-top prop and jump-the-shark journali$m, for it does nothing but further discredit and unmask the pos.
What began in Ukraine three months ago as a protest against the government of President Viktor Yanukovych has turned into a big-power confrontation reminiscent of the Cold War and a significant challenge to international agreements on the sanctity of the borders of post-Soviet nations.
I laugh when I read that second statement, thinking of Israel's continuing theft of Palestinian land that continues unabated as well as the countless number of U.S. military aggressions over the decades.
And if the propaganda pre$$ thinks we are all going to revert to Cold War thinking and mentality and somehow believe this lying, war-mongering media and government they are psychotically deluded in their little elitist bubble.
Secretary of State John Kerry will visit Kiev on Tuesday to show US support for Ukraine, a senior American official said.
I hope he keeps his mouth shut. This guy so compromised the Zionist and other elites he fronts for have their hands so far up his ass they are literally operating his mouth like a puppet. His remarks lately have been so far beyond the slightest notion of reality he has become an embarrassment.
In a television interview Sunday, Kerry condemned Russia for what he called an “incredible act of aggression” and threatened “very serious repercussions,” which could include asset freezes for Russian businesses, visa bans, and trade restrictions. He suggested what many were saying as fact later in the day, that Russia was “trying to annex Crimea.”
You see, it's okay when Israel does such things and they stay for decades. Then there isn't a peep, and if there is this asshole quickly apologizes.
Britain, France, and Germany joined the United States in suspending participation in preparatory meetings for the summit of the industrialized nations known as the Group of Eight that Putin was to host in June in Sochi. Kerry said Russia could be expelled from the G-8 if it did not halt its aggression.
Who really cares?
In Moscow, Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry S. Peskov, responded dismissively.
“It’s not a minus for Russia,” he said. “It will be a minus for the G-8.”
The Russian incursion poses a new crisis for the Obama administration, which embraced the new government in Kiev but now finds itself confronted with an ever more thinly veiled invasion of Ukraine. Putin has left little doubt that he intends to force Ukraine’s new government to make concessions or face de facto partition of areas dominated by ethnic Russians, such as Crimea and Odessa.
At least that is one thing you can say about the U.S. Nothing thin about our invasions. We smash the place to smithereens before we occupy, and then leave the place a shambles without really leaving.
US intelligence agencies tracked thousands of additional Russian troops arriving in Crimea on Sunday, bolstering the Russian forces already in the area, a US official said. The official gave no further detail about the types of forces and did not say whether the Obama administration believes Putin will send even more troops in the days to come.
Isn't that AMAZING considering the articles above from the previous two days where the U.S was struggling to ascertain what was happening, blah, blah, blah. What great propaganda this is! Such rank rot!
A senior Obama administration official said Russian troops now have “complete operational control” of the Crimean Peninsula, with some 6,000 airborne and naval forces there. The official confirmed that the Russians were flying in additional reinforcements to Ukraine on Sunday, adding that the Russian military is “settling in” as an occupying force.
Someone better dislodge them then, huh?
For the most part, Ukrainian military forces have stayed in their barracks and in some cases their weapons have been stored in an attempt to avoid an escalation, the official said.
In others they have sworn their allegiance to the Crimean government.
After the newly appointed Ukrainian navy chief, Rear Admiral Denis Berezovsky, swore allegiance to the people of Crimea, who are decidedly pro-Russian, an embarrassed government in Kiev immediately removed him and said it would investigate him on grounds of treason.
Let's hope this EU/US/Israeli coup collapses of it's own thinness and shallowness, 'eh?
Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, who spoke with Putin in a telephone call Sunday evening, accused Russia of violating the territorial integrity of Ukraine and breaking the Budapest Agreement of 1994 to respect the independence and sovereignty of Ukraine, according to a statement from Merkel’s office.
Putin, the statement said, agreed to Merkel’s suggestion to send a “fact-finding mission,” possibly led by the Vienna-based Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, to open a political dialogue.
The chancellor has maintained strong, if not always warm, ties with the Russian president and has often taken a leading role in Europe’s dialogue with Russia. However, Germany, together with Poland, has also worked to bring Ukraine closer to the European Union.
The day began with Ukraine’s prime minister, Arseniy P. Yatsenyuk, telling reporters in English, “This is the red alert — this is not a threat, this is actually a declaration of war to my country,” a reference to approval by Russia’s Parliament on Saturday of the deployment of troops to any part of Ukraine where Moscow deems Russians to be in danger.
Yatsenyuk warned that Ukraine was on the “brink of disaster” and asked the international community to stand by his government in Kiev.
Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius of France said on Europe 1 radio that Moscow must “realize that decisions have costs.” And Germany’s foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, said that “we are on a very dangerous track of increasing tensions” but that “it is still possible to turn around. A new division of Europe can still be prevented.”
I'm tired of the fart-mi$t from we$tern leaders.
Britain’s foreign secretary, William Hague, traveled to Kiev on Sunday evening to meet with the new government and express support, and he said he was urging restraint from all parties.
This after they all helped foment unrest. How offensive all this $hit is -- and they called it the regional flag$hit of a morning paper!
The NATO alliance held an emergency meeting in Brussels that was mostly designed to reassure members with Russian minorities, including the Baltic states, and allies of Ukraine, such as Poland, that NATO was ready to defend them.
Looks like NATO is increasing tensions. Did he just imply the Russians would invade Poland?
Before the meeting, the NATO secretary-general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, told Russia to stop its military activity and threats against Ukraine.
“What Russia is doing now in Ukraine violates the principles of the United Nations Charter,” he said. “It threatens peace and security in Europe. Russia must stop its military activities and its threats.”
The HYPOCRISY is BEYONG BELIEF from these western elite shits!
But it was difficult to see what immediate penalties would be put on the government in Moscow to retreat on Crimea or to not broaden its military moves into eastern Ukraine. Putin seems to have decided that undermining the new, pro-European government in Kiev was worth most any plausible price in economic or diplomatic isolation, judging that the West would not react militarily.
Eastern Ukraine was relatively calm on Sunday, with the Ukrainian government making plans to reinforce its control by naming some prominent businessmen, with thousands of people dependent on them for work, as regional governors.
Looks like a FA$CI$T MOVE to ME!
Pro-Moscow demonstrators flew Russian flags Saturday and Sunday at government buildings in cities including Donetsk, Odessa, and Dneprotrovsk. In places, they clashed with anti-Russian protesters and guards defending the buildings.
In Karkiv, the eastern city that is the country’s second-largest, a sprawling pro-Russian protest camp occupied the central square. Many said they would prefer that Russian troops invade the city, just 20 miles from the border, instead of submitting to Kiev’s rule.
“I would welcome them with flowers,” said Alexander Sorokin, 55, a pensioner walking by a phalanx of riot police officers guarding the administration building. “We do not want to spill blood, but we are willing to do so.”
Those protests not getting nearly as much coverage as the brave, pro-West Ukrainians, huh?
Even as Kiev’s government called up its army reserves and vowed to fight for its sovereignty, it mustered a mostly political response to demonstrations in the east.
The office of President Oleksandr V. Turchynov announced the appointments of two billionaires as governors — Sergei Taruta in Donetsk and Ihor Kolomoysky in Dneprotrovsk — and more were reportedly under consideration for such positions. The strategy is recognition that the oligarchs represent the country’s industrial and business elite and hold great influence over thousands of workers in the east.
Can you imagine if Obama did that in a couple of states here? Would they call it democracy?
I mean, it isn't like the billionaires aren't running the place already, but the U.S. is backing this kind of government move? Using jobs as a blackmail threat? Billionaires being put in charge with no elections, just a self-appointed government of coup-plotters?
I guess you Ukrainians wouldn't mind returning to the times of Lords and Serfs, 'eh? But we will call it democracy!
In Crimea, where pro-Russian authorities have announced a referendum on autonomy on March 30, Ukrainian forces were under tremendous pressure.
Looks like DEMOCRACY and SELF-DETERMINATION, doesn't it?
I guess that's why this was all saved for the end of the article, hoping you and I wouldn't read this far.
Hundreds of troops acting in the name of the provisional pro-Russian government in Crimea fanned out to persuade the thin Ukrainian forces there to give up their arms or swear allegiance to the new authorities, while the new government in Kiev tried to keep their loyalty while ordering them not to shoot unless under fire.
Why don't you guys just get out of the Crimea now!?!
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"John Kerry issues warnings to Russia on Ukraine" by Michael R. Gordon | New York Times, March 03, 2014
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John Kerry warned Sunday that Russia risked eviction from the Group of Eight industrialized nations and that assets of Russian businesses could be frozen if the Kremlin did not reverse its military occupation of Crimea.
Yeah, fine, whatever. Less and less people are taking the dollar these days, so blow it out your a$$.
Kerry plans to visit Kiev on Tuesday in a gesture of support for the new Ukrainian government. He had been scheduled to travel to an international meeting on Lebanon but will instead leave Washington on Monday for Ukraine, his first trip there as secretary of state.
Yeah, thanks for helping out with the greenhouse gases. That makes you a weapon of mass destruction in more way than one, doesn't it?
And why is that the first I've heard of a meeting on Lebanon? Another planned coup in the works as the final push for the Project for the New American Century?
Kerry will meet with senior Ukrainian leaders and talk with the Parliament and civil society leaders, a senior US official said. He will discuss ways to support Ukraine politically.
On Sunday, Kerry warned that if Russia continued its military campaign in Ukraine, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, “is not going to have a Sochi G-8,” a reference to the meeting of the industrialized nations that Putin is scheduled to host in June. “He may not even remain in the G-8 if this continues.”
“He may find himself with asset freezes on Russian business,” as well as visa bans and trade and investment penalties, Kerry said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday.
Can't tell you how happy I am I never watch those shows anymore.
“American business may pull back,’’ he said. “There may be a further tumble of the ruble. There’s a huge price to pay.”
Then it can join the dollar.
Kerry’s comments came as the Obama administration and its Western allies try to formulate their response to Putin’s decision to deploy Russian forces in Crimea.
NATO held an emergency meeting in Brussels, and Britain’s foreign minister flew to Kiev to support its new government. The United States, France, and Britain are all considering boycotting the G-8 summit in June.
All the foreign ministers he talked to were prepared ‘‘to go to the hilt’’ to isolate Russia, Kerry said.
You are only isolating yourselves!
NATO issued a statement saying it ‘‘condemns Russia’s military escalation in Crimea’’ and demanding that Russia respect its obligations under the United Nations charter. Ukraine is not a NATO member, meaning the United States and Europe are not obligated to come to its defense, but the country has taken part in some alliance exercises.
That is really, really rich coming from the defilers of Afghanistan and Libya.
President Obama spoke Sunday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, British Prime Minister David Cameron, and Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski.
Obama has previously described the move as a “breach of international law.” But administration officials have been slow to enumerate what specific actions the United States and its partners are prepared to take.
While there appears to be little the Western partners can do during the next several weeks to reverse the Russian intervention, the US response appears to be aimed at discouraging a further Russian push into eastern Ukraine or additional Russia pressure on Georgia and Moldova, two former republics that, like Ukraine, have sought economic integration with the West.
The Moldovan prime minister has meetings scheduled in Washington on Monday, and Georgia’s prime minister met there with US officials last week.
Gee, what a coincidence, huh?
As for Crimea, the West is not contemplating military action, relying instead on diplomatic and economic measures to isolate Russia and raise the costs of its intervention.
“This is an act of aggression,” Kerry said of Russia’s moves in the last few days. “It’s really 19th-century behavior in the 21st century....
Kerry is being pilloried around the world for that asinine comment.
You voted for the Iraq invasion, right, John?
“Putin starts with a major advantage,” Nicholas Burns, the former US ambassador to NATO, said in a conference call organized Sunday by the Atlantic Council. “He has been very strategic and very decisive, and the Western countries are scrambling to catch up.”
Nick Burns also writes for the Globe opinion page and advocates an invasion of Syria!
He said the West’s response should be diplomatic, not military. “The option has to be to try to outmaneuver Putin in what will likely turn out to be a very lengthy struggle over Ukraine,” said Burns, a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
I'm glad he is not arguing for invasion, but see the new Cold War on the horizon? Better go back to bloated military budgets to defend against those Russkies, Amurka! Guns before butter!
Compounding US concern, Western officials said, are Kremlin efforts to mask its intentions.
Oh, do they have the Jew York Times working for them, too?
Kerry spoke several times last week with Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, and said he was told the snap military “exercise” Moscow announced had nothing to do with events in Ukraine.
But....
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"West presses for restraint as Russia sends more troops; Invasion feared in Ukraine’s east; Kerry will visit Kiev tomorrow" by Steven Erlanger | New York Times, March 03, 2014
KIEV — Ukrainian and Western leaders tried Sunday to dissuade President Vladimir Putin of Russia from overplaying his hand and ordering an invasion of eastern Ukraine, even as Russian forces and their sympathizers in the Crimean Peninsula worked to neutralize any Ukrainian resistance there.
There is the disconnect between my propaganda operation and the real world. My propaganda pre$$ is making a poker analogy while the Russians are known for playing chess.
It's the U.S. that is the poker player, always bluffing and trying to raise on a busted flush!
Think of the foreign policies. The U.S. is always full of bluster and threats, going all-in! Russia has dealt with this crisis with remarkable restraint, the quintessential mastery of a far-thinking chess player.
In a way I should enjoy this over-the-top prop and jump-the-shark journali$m, for it does nothing but further discredit and unmask the pos.
What began in Ukraine three months ago as a protest against the government of President Viktor Yanukovych has turned into a big-power confrontation reminiscent of the Cold War and a significant challenge to international agreements on the sanctity of the borders of post-Soviet nations.
I laugh when I read that second statement, thinking of Israel's continuing theft of Palestinian land that continues unabated as well as the countless number of U.S. military aggressions over the decades.
And if the propaganda pre$$ thinks we are all going to revert to Cold War thinking and mentality and somehow believe this lying, war-mongering media and government they are psychotically deluded in their little elitist bubble.
Secretary of State John Kerry will visit Kiev on Tuesday to show US support for Ukraine, a senior American official said.
I hope he keeps his mouth shut. This guy so compromised the Zionist and other elites he fronts for have their hands so far up his ass they are literally operating his mouth like a puppet. His remarks lately have been so far beyond the slightest notion of reality he has become an embarrassment.
In a television interview Sunday, Kerry condemned Russia for what he called an “incredible act of aggression” and threatened “very serious repercussions,” which could include asset freezes for Russian businesses, visa bans, and trade restrictions. He suggested what many were saying as fact later in the day, that Russia was “trying to annex Crimea.”
You see, it's okay when Israel does such things and they stay for decades. Then there isn't a peep, and if there is this asshole quickly apologizes.
Britain, France, and Germany joined the United States in suspending participation in preparatory meetings for the summit of the industrialized nations known as the Group of Eight that Putin was to host in June in Sochi. Kerry said Russia could be expelled from the G-8 if it did not halt its aggression.
Who really cares?
In Moscow, Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry S. Peskov, responded dismissively.
“It’s not a minus for Russia,” he said. “It will be a minus for the G-8.”
The Russian incursion poses a new crisis for the Obama administration, which embraced the new government in Kiev but now finds itself confronted with an ever more thinly veiled invasion of Ukraine. Putin has left little doubt that he intends to force Ukraine’s new government to make concessions or face de facto partition of areas dominated by ethnic Russians, such as Crimea and Odessa.
At least that is one thing you can say about the U.S. Nothing thin about our invasions. We smash the place to smithereens before we occupy, and then leave the place a shambles without really leaving.
US intelligence agencies tracked thousands of additional Russian troops arriving in Crimea on Sunday, bolstering the Russian forces already in the area, a US official said. The official gave no further detail about the types of forces and did not say whether the Obama administration believes Putin will send even more troops in the days to come.
Isn't that AMAZING considering the articles above from the previous two days where the U.S was struggling to ascertain what was happening, blah, blah, blah. What great propaganda this is! Such rank rot!
A senior Obama administration official said Russian troops now have “complete operational control” of the Crimean Peninsula, with some 6,000 airborne and naval forces there. The official confirmed that the Russians were flying in additional reinforcements to Ukraine on Sunday, adding that the Russian military is “settling in” as an occupying force.
Someone better dislodge them then, huh?
For the most part, Ukrainian military forces have stayed in their barracks and in some cases their weapons have been stored in an attempt to avoid an escalation, the official said.
In others they have sworn their allegiance to the Crimean government.
After the newly appointed Ukrainian navy chief, Rear Admiral Denis Berezovsky, swore allegiance to the people of Crimea, who are decidedly pro-Russian, an embarrassed government in Kiev immediately removed him and said it would investigate him on grounds of treason.
Let's hope this EU/US/Israeli coup collapses of it's own thinness and shallowness, 'eh?
Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, who spoke with Putin in a telephone call Sunday evening, accused Russia of violating the territorial integrity of Ukraine and breaking the Budapest Agreement of 1994 to respect the independence and sovereignty of Ukraine, according to a statement from Merkel’s office.
Putin, the statement said, agreed to Merkel’s suggestion to send a “fact-finding mission,” possibly led by the Vienna-based Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, to open a political dialogue.
The chancellor has maintained strong, if not always warm, ties with the Russian president and has often taken a leading role in Europe’s dialogue with Russia. However, Germany, together with Poland, has also worked to bring Ukraine closer to the European Union.
The day began with Ukraine’s prime minister, Arseniy P. Yatsenyuk, telling reporters in English, “This is the red alert — this is not a threat, this is actually a declaration of war to my country,” a reference to approval by Russia’s Parliament on Saturday of the deployment of troops to any part of Ukraine where Moscow deems Russians to be in danger.
Yatsenyuk warned that Ukraine was on the “brink of disaster” and asked the international community to stand by his government in Kiev.
Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius of France said on Europe 1 radio that Moscow must “realize that decisions have costs.” And Germany’s foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, said that “we are on a very dangerous track of increasing tensions” but that “it is still possible to turn around. A new division of Europe can still be prevented.”
I'm tired of the fart-mi$t from we$tern leaders.
Britain’s foreign secretary, William Hague, traveled to Kiev on Sunday evening to meet with the new government and express support, and he said he was urging restraint from all parties.
This after they all helped foment unrest. How offensive all this $hit is -- and they called it the regional flag$hit of a morning paper!
The NATO alliance held an emergency meeting in Brussels that was mostly designed to reassure members with Russian minorities, including the Baltic states, and allies of Ukraine, such as Poland, that NATO was ready to defend them.
Looks like NATO is increasing tensions. Did he just imply the Russians would invade Poland?
Before the meeting, the NATO secretary-general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, told Russia to stop its military activity and threats against Ukraine.
“What Russia is doing now in Ukraine violates the principles of the United Nations Charter,” he said. “It threatens peace and security in Europe. Russia must stop its military activities and its threats.”
The HYPOCRISY is BEYONG BELIEF from these western elite shits!
But it was difficult to see what immediate penalties would be put on the government in Moscow to retreat on Crimea or to not broaden its military moves into eastern Ukraine. Putin seems to have decided that undermining the new, pro-European government in Kiev was worth most any plausible price in economic or diplomatic isolation, judging that the West would not react militarily.
Eastern Ukraine was relatively calm on Sunday, with the Ukrainian government making plans to reinforce its control by naming some prominent businessmen, with thousands of people dependent on them for work, as regional governors.
Looks like a FA$CI$T MOVE to ME!
Pro-Moscow demonstrators flew Russian flags Saturday and Sunday at government buildings in cities including Donetsk, Odessa, and Dneprotrovsk. In places, they clashed with anti-Russian protesters and guards defending the buildings.
In Karkiv, the eastern city that is the country’s second-largest, a sprawling pro-Russian protest camp occupied the central square. Many said they would prefer that Russian troops invade the city, just 20 miles from the border, instead of submitting to Kiev’s rule.
“I would welcome them with flowers,” said Alexander Sorokin, 55, a pensioner walking by a phalanx of riot police officers guarding the administration building. “We do not want to spill blood, but we are willing to do so.”
Those protests not getting nearly as much coverage as the brave, pro-West Ukrainians, huh?
Even as Kiev’s government called up its army reserves and vowed to fight for its sovereignty, it mustered a mostly political response to demonstrations in the east.
The office of President Oleksandr V. Turchynov announced the appointments of two billionaires as governors — Sergei Taruta in Donetsk and Ihor Kolomoysky in Dneprotrovsk — and more were reportedly under consideration for such positions. The strategy is recognition that the oligarchs represent the country’s industrial and business elite and hold great influence over thousands of workers in the east.
Can you imagine if Obama did that in a couple of states here? Would they call it democracy?
I mean, it isn't like the billionaires aren't running the place already, but the U.S. is backing this kind of government move? Using jobs as a blackmail threat? Billionaires being put in charge with no elections, just a self-appointed government of coup-plotters?
I guess you Ukrainians wouldn't mind returning to the times of Lords and Serfs, 'eh? But we will call it democracy!
In Crimea, where pro-Russian authorities have announced a referendum on autonomy on March 30, Ukrainian forces were under tremendous pressure.
Looks like DEMOCRACY and SELF-DETERMINATION, doesn't it?
I guess that's why this was all saved for the end of the article, hoping you and I wouldn't read this far.
Hundreds of troops acting in the name of the provisional pro-Russian government in Crimea fanned out to persuade the thin Ukrainian forces there to give up their arms or swear allegiance to the new authorities, while the new government in Kiev tried to keep their loyalty while ordering them not to shoot unless under fire.
Why don't you guys just get out of the Crimea now!?!
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"John Kerry issues warnings to Russia on Ukraine" by Michael R. Gordon | New York Times, March 03, 2014
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John Kerry warned Sunday that Russia risked eviction from the Group of Eight industrialized nations and that assets of Russian businesses could be frozen if the Kremlin did not reverse its military occupation of Crimea.
Yeah, fine, whatever. Less and less people are taking the dollar these days, so blow it out your a$$.
Kerry plans to visit Kiev on Tuesday in a gesture of support for the new Ukrainian government. He had been scheduled to travel to an international meeting on Lebanon but will instead leave Washington on Monday for Ukraine, his first trip there as secretary of state.
Yeah, thanks for helping out with the greenhouse gases. That makes you a weapon of mass destruction in more way than one, doesn't it?
And why is that the first I've heard of a meeting on Lebanon? Another planned coup in the works as the final push for the Project for the New American Century?
Kerry will meet with senior Ukrainian leaders and talk with the Parliament and civil society leaders, a senior US official said. He will discuss ways to support Ukraine politically.
On Sunday, Kerry warned that if Russia continued its military campaign in Ukraine, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, “is not going to have a Sochi G-8,” a reference to the meeting of the industrialized nations that Putin is scheduled to host in June. “He may not even remain in the G-8 if this continues.”
“He may find himself with asset freezes on Russian business,” as well as visa bans and trade and investment penalties, Kerry said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday.
Can't tell you how happy I am I never watch those shows anymore.
“American business may pull back,’’ he said. “There may be a further tumble of the ruble. There’s a huge price to pay.”
Then it can join the dollar.
Kerry’s comments came as the Obama administration and its Western allies try to formulate their response to Putin’s decision to deploy Russian forces in Crimea.
NATO held an emergency meeting in Brussels, and Britain’s foreign minister flew to Kiev to support its new government. The United States, France, and Britain are all considering boycotting the G-8 summit in June.
All the foreign ministers he talked to were prepared ‘‘to go to the hilt’’ to isolate Russia, Kerry said.
You are only isolating yourselves!
NATO issued a statement saying it ‘‘condemns Russia’s military escalation in Crimea’’ and demanding that Russia respect its obligations under the United Nations charter. Ukraine is not a NATO member, meaning the United States and Europe are not obligated to come to its defense, but the country has taken part in some alliance exercises.
That is really, really rich coming from the defilers of Afghanistan and Libya.
President Obama spoke Sunday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, British Prime Minister David Cameron, and Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski.
Obama has previously described the move as a “breach of international law.” But administration officials have been slow to enumerate what specific actions the United States and its partners are prepared to take.
While there appears to be little the Western partners can do during the next several weeks to reverse the Russian intervention, the US response appears to be aimed at discouraging a further Russian push into eastern Ukraine or additional Russia pressure on Georgia and Moldova, two former republics that, like Ukraine, have sought economic integration with the West.
The Moldovan prime minister has meetings scheduled in Washington on Monday, and Georgia’s prime minister met there with US officials last week.
Gee, what a coincidence, huh?
As for Crimea, the West is not contemplating military action, relying instead on diplomatic and economic measures to isolate Russia and raise the costs of its intervention.
“This is an act of aggression,” Kerry said of Russia’s moves in the last few days. “It’s really 19th-century behavior in the 21st century....
Kerry is being pilloried around the world for that asinine comment.
You voted for the Iraq invasion, right, John?
“Putin starts with a major advantage,” Nicholas Burns, the former US ambassador to NATO, said in a conference call organized Sunday by the Atlantic Council. “He has been very strategic and very decisive, and the Western countries are scrambling to catch up.”
Nick Burns also writes for the Globe opinion page and advocates an invasion of Syria!
He said the West’s response should be diplomatic, not military. “The option has to be to try to outmaneuver Putin in what will likely turn out to be a very lengthy struggle over Ukraine,” said Burns, a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
I'm glad he is not arguing for invasion, but see the new Cold War on the horizon? Better go back to bloated military budgets to defend against those Russkies, Amurka! Guns before butter!
Compounding US concern, Western officials said, are Kremlin efforts to mask its intentions.
Oh, do they have the Jew York Times working for them, too?
Kerry spoke several times last week with Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, and said he was told the snap military “exercise” Moscow announced had nothing to do with events in Ukraine.
But....
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Let's see what Burns' paper says we should do:
"There will be no winners in a renewed Cold War" March 03, 2014
To increase pressure on Russia, Obama should fly to Europe and convene a meeting that reinforces the sense of unity with his counterparts in Germany, France, and the United Kingdom.
Thanks for helping out with the greenhouse gases with your concern, Globe.
The world’s industrialized democracies should let Putin know that Russia risks expulsion from the G-8 if it continues its actions in Ukraine.
So what?
The Europe Union, Russia’s main trading partner, could also hit Moscow in its pocketbook by curbing trade and the purchase of Russian natural gas.
HA! Russia could cut it all off and shutdown their economies!
Globe another bullshit bluffer!
And NATO should assure its members — including the former Soviet republics of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia — that it will stand by its treaty obligations of mutual defense.
That's how world wars are started.
But while tough action is necessary to punish Russian aggression, the United States has nothing to gain from reigniting the Cold War.
But war profiteers and banks do, so....!!!!!
******
Hawks in Congress seem to forget that the United States needs Russia’s help on the most urgent global challenges today, from removing chemical weapons from Syria, to assuring that Iran doesn’t produce a nuclear bomb, to preparing for a US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Russia’s actions must also be kept in perspective. The speed with which Russia brought Crimea under its control shows the outsized influence that Moscow has long held over the semi-autonomous region, which is home to a strategically important Russian naval port and the country’s Black Sea Fleet.
Crimea, once a part of the Russian Empire, was given to Ukraine in 1954 by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in a gesture of magnanimity at a time when the entire region was under Moscow’s control.
So far, many ethnic Russians in Crimea appear to welcome Russia’s intervention. Although Moscow has orchestrated this separatist push for its own purposes, the situation is likely to turn out much as in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, two semi-autonomous regions of Georgia where Russia openly backed separatist groups before occupying with its own troops.
That is such a distortion and rewrite of what happened there. It was Georgia and its CIA/Mossad assets that stirred up trouble, just as they are doing in Ukraine now.
The United States and its European allies should demand that the territorial integrity of Ukraine be respected, as they did in the case of Georgia. But NATO is not going to war with Russia over tiny breakaway territories that say they want to ally with Moscow. The larger concern, by far, is the possibility of Russian military intervention in the rest of Ukraine, one of the largest countries in Europe. The spectacle of Russian soldiers marching into Kiev, where the people have broadcast their desire to turn towards the West, would send shock waves around the world.
Not so much when it's U.S. troops doing the invading; then it's ll good!
Obama and his European partners must stop Russia from further military encroachment on Ukraine. Concerted, persistent, coordinated diplomacy has a good chance of success.
Putin doesn’t need to send troops to exert influence on Ukraine, whose deep dependence on Russia for natural gas and aid money are enough. The United States should consider increasing its $1 billion aid offer to the new government in Kiev, and the European Union should match it. But no one should be under any illusions that the West will come anywhere close to the $15 billion gift that Russia offered Ukraine.
However Western-looking the new leaders of the fledgling government in Kiev are, they will still wake up every morning to the reality of geography. Russia is their much wealthier and more powerful neighbor. Moscow will always care more about what happens in Ukraine than Brussels or Paris or Washington will. The sooner Kiev and Moscow come to a widely acceptable understanding about how to coexist, the better it will be for the entire world.
That conning from a war-prommoting pos!
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Any more opinions out there?
"US a full partner in Ukraine debacle" by Stephen Kinzer | March 03, 2014
FROM THE moment the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the United States has relentlessly pursued a strategy of encircling Russia, just as it has with other perceived enemies like China and Iran. It has brought 12 countries in central Europe, all of them formerly allied with Moscow, into the NATO alliance. US military power is now directly on Russia’s borders.
But they shouldn't feel threatened or anything.
I mean, if Russian troops were massed along the borders of Mexico and Canada it wouldn't be of concern to the U.S. Heck, the illegal immigrant wave might even be slowed a bit.
“I think it is the beginning of a new cold war,” warned George Kennan, the renowned diplomat and Russia-watcher, as NATO began expanding eastward. “I think the Russians will gradually react quite adversely, and it will affect their policies.”
Yeah, well, it may be for the globe-kickers but we seen this movie before so F*** You!
Russia’s dispatch of troops in recent days to Crimea — a verdant peninsula on the Black Sea that is part of Ukraine but, partly as a result of Stalin-era ethnic cleansing, has a mainly Russian population — was the latest fulfillment of Kennan’s prediction.
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Certainly he knows about Kaganovich and Yagoda?
Yes, dear readers, the BIGGEST MASS MURDERERS of HISTORY were JEWS!
Some policy makers in Washington have been congratulating each other for a successful American-aided regime change operation in Ukraine. Three factors converged to produce the overthrow of President Viktor Yanukovych. First was his own autocratic instinct and utter lack of political skill, which led him to think he could ignore protesters. Second was the brave determination of the protesters themselves. Third was intervention by the United States and other Western countries — often spearheaded by diplomats and quasi-covert operatives who have been working for years on “democracy promotion” projects in Ukraine.
You see? The WHOLE WORLD KNOWS WHAT IS GOING ON, and yet I have to read crappy filth in my news pages and editorials.
As protests mounted in Kiev last month, many in Washington found it difficult to break the old habit of shaping US policy to punish Russia. Several European leaders suggested resolving the Ukraine crisis through negotiation with Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin. This enraged the United States, which wants to isolate Putin, not accommodate him.
Eventually, Yanukovych fled Kiev, which is in the portion of Ukraine traditionally tied to Western Europe, and went to to Crimea. Now Putin has sent Russian forces to guard him. This has set off a new crisis, including stern warnings from President Obama.
Ever hear of the expression in one ear, out the other?
Putin’s decision to deploy troops reflects his loss of control over Ukrainian politics. US officials recognize this, and are pressing their anti-Russia campaign. Last week President Obama received the prime minister of Georgia. The prime minister of Moldova is due this week. These meetings are aimed at honing a strategy for further isolating Russia; it is called “Western integration.”
Yeah, how coincidental all this is happening at the same time, huh?
Much has been made of the fact that Ukraine is deeply divided between its pro-Europe western provinces and the pro-Russian east, of which Crimea is a part. A “velvet divorce” dividing Ukraine into two countries might be the best solution, but border changes, even when they seem sensible from far away, are always difficult to engineer.
If Ukrainians cannot agree to divide their country, Russia may do it for them. It already occupies part of Moldova and part of Georgia. For it to keep an army in Ukraine would anger the United States — and many Ukrainians — but it would be nothing new. Military occupation is, in fact, one of the few weapons Russia has to oppose the “Western integration” of neighboring countries.
Although Russia is not powerful enough to emerge from the Ukraine/Crimea crisis with a full victory, neither is the United States. Diplomatic pressure and covert action supporting pro-Western factions in Ukraine will continue, but President Obama will not risk military confrontation with Russia. This crisis will not produce the grand westward realignment of which many in Washington dream.
Meaning CIA provocateurs and their allies will continue to raise hell and destabilize the area to keep Russia busy as WWIII gets underway with an attack on Iran?
Any solution short of partition will have to take Russia’s interests into account. Thus far the United States has shown no interest in doing that. The likely geopolitical outcome, therefore, is a stalemate.
Inside Ukraine, the story is different. Protesters there, encouraged by the United States, have used the power of the street to depose a deeply corrupt — though legally elected — president.
That salt in the wound for Occupy Wall Street!
But soon they may find they have little to celebrate.
Yeah, wait until those IMF austerity measures are imposed. Then you'll be begging for Yanukovych to come back!
Egyptians, Libyans, Syrians and others have learned to their immense pain that upheavals like these rarely end well. Ukraine is not only deeply divided geographically and politically. It is dominated by a clutch of gangster “oligarchs” powerfully motivated to prevent the emergence of a pro-Western regime. Splits within the opposition are deep. The possibility that a stable Ukraine will emerge anytime soon are dim.
I was just told those guys are working for the new government!
This crisis is in part the result of a zero-sum calculation that has shaped US policy toward Moscow since the Cold War: Any loss for Russia is an American victory, and anything positive that happens to, for, or in Russia is bad for the United States. This is an approach that intensifies confrontation, rather than soothing it.
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Related: Crimea’s mixed loyalties
I was told above they had lived in relative peace for decades.
Hannah Thoburn served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ukraine from 2006-2008. She is a Eurasia analyst at the Foreign Policy Initiative.
In other words, she was an AmeriKan spy and is now an agenda-pusher.
"Rally looks at Ukraine, Venezuela unrest" by Haven Orecchio-Egresitz and Jaclyn Reiss | Globe Correspondent and Globe Staff, March 03, 2014
Dozens of Ukrainian and Venezuelan natives draped with their native flags gathered outside Faneuil Hall Sunday rallying for the end to military occupation, corruption, and violence in their homelands.
Oh, look the Globe discovered an antiwar rally!
Both Ukraine and Venezuela have been the recent settings of violent antigovernment protests that have drawn global attention. In Boston, nearly 100 people, many natives of both nations, stood united in a shared interest to stop the bloodshed.
That's all that showed up?
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“The main issue here, in both nations, is injustice,” said Luis Delias, a 26-year-old Venezuelan native who lives in Boston’s Back Bay. “That’s what makes it so universal and what’s uniting Venezuelans and Ukrainians. We just want justice and accountability.”
When are you going to start worrying about that here at home?
Chanting echoed between Boston City Hall and Faneuil Hall as protesters demanded “Human rights!” and “No more murders!” Most of them were dressed in the colors of the Venezuelan or Ukrainian flags; one woman drew peace signs on the palm of her gloves, extending her hands in front of her for most of the rally.
The emotionally charged crowd formed a circle outside Faneuil Hall, the Boston landmark, where patriots once gave speeches advocating independence from Great Britain, and took turns sharing concerns about the state of their own native lands.
Then go back there and help! Stop complaining here!
Delias encouraged Ukrainians and Venezuelans to take the opportunity to learn about each other’s struggles and exchange possible resolutions. Using a megaphone, the Berklee College of Music student advocated putting pressure on the Venezuelan government by using social media to raise awareness. Others urged the crowd to reach out to US public officials to get involved in both countries....
They ALREADY ARE UP TO IT in their ELBOWS!That is why there are CRISES!
Many Ukrainians held signs comparing Russian president Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler, and strongly urged for US intervention.
There they go again, waving around the little-mustachioed man, forgetting all context and history.
Yuliya Ladygina, a professor of Slavic literature and Russian language at Williams College and a postdoctoral student at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, said that the invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces should not only concern citizens there, but the whole world.
Oh, we are concerned watching this situation!
In 1994, when Ukraine was forced to destroy its nuclear weapons, the United States and the United Kingdom agreed to protect the territorial integrity of the Ukraine. Those countries need to follow through with their promise, said Ladygina.
“Sanctions are No. 1,” she said, “And putting the hard line on Russia.”
So much for the PEACE rally!
This looks more and more like a PRO-WAR WOLF RALLY in PEACE CLOTHING!
Many Venezuelans also shared stories of terror befalling families and friends.
Delias said friends back home in the capitol of Caracas have sent him videos of protesters shot in the eyes with tear gas. Boston University senior Ignacio Rodriguez, 22, said the government hauled away his 19-year-old cousin Marco to jail, where he has been tortured, according to his family members.
He's lucky the cops didn't kill him like they do in AmeriKa every day and night.
Btw, our outlaw government does the torture bit, too.
“They [the military] would douse the protesters with gasoline, and say they would light them on fire,” Rodriguez said, adding that he felt connected to the cause back home. “All these people who died were students my age. This could just have easily been me.”
When did they do that, and why were there not screaming headlines in my paper?
Or is this all just MORE BULLSHIT promulgated by the LYING, WAR-MONGERING AmeriKan media?
Pilar Avellaneda, 64, choked back a sob as she shared her concerns in Spanish for her two daughters, nieces, and nephews who have been actively protesting in Venezuela.
I'm ready for the U.S. to invade and occupy, aren't you?
Avellaneda has been in Massachusetts visiting her son, Natick resident Wally Casanova, but worries constantly about her family back home, especially as Casanova said two of his cousins served two days in jail for publicly protesting.
“She feels good because of the protesting there, because it’s happening and at least we are being heard,” Casanova said, paraphrasing his mother’s words as she buried her head in her hands. “But she’s very afraid to go back. She’s afraid of what she’s going to find.”
I can't help but thing of the hurt well-meaning Occupy Wall Street kids feel when they read this rank slop.
The turmoil in each nation has brought people of two very different cultures together for a common cause, according to Marina Novikova, a Ukrainian software engineer who lives in Melrose.
“Common evil unites people,” she said. “Just like snowstorms bring people together here, this evil has brought us together.”
Then I guess there is even good in evil, huh?
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I'm wondering if those people quoted are even real.
It wouldn't be the first time AmeriKan media faked news or presented staged and scripted events as real. In fact, we see them all the time.
I don't know about you, but I no longer believe anything I see in my distorting, dividing, deceiving, obfuscating, omitting, agenda-pushing, war-promoting, elitist pile of Jewish rubbish called ma$$ media. Too many lies and insults for way too long, sorry.
