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| Putin Takes Kremlin Onto the Warpath???? |
| 2014-12-09 |
| Putin Orders Troops To Wartime Bunker; Warns “Global War Is Near” [EUTimes] A truly grim Ministry of Defense (MoD) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that President Putin has ordered over 2,000 top military officers to immediately begun duties at the National Defense Control Center (NDCC) which is, in fact, Russia’s “wartime government” headquarters in Moscow as “global war nears”. According to this report, Putin’s order came immediately after his meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara earlier today wherein an agreement was reached to increase Russian energy supplies to Turkey in exchange for that NATO member’s pledge of neutrality in any future Ukrainian conflict. I'm not confident about the credibility of this source, but it makes for interesting speculation. With America led by the incumbent warm cup of spit, such as we have, adventurous adversaries are certainly unlikely to behave with constraint. |
| Posted by:Lone Ranger |
| #1 Mr Putin can scarcely afford to go to war. Neither can he quit selling gas and oil to punish Europe. Aside from his rather vocal fan club's cheers, things don't look very promising for the Russian people in the foreseeable future. |
| Posted by: bigjim-CA 2014-12-09 12:41 |