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2014-03-20 Europe

NATO Weighs Assistance for Ukraine to Dissuade Further Moves by Moscow

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Posted by Fred 2014-03-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Again, IMO the US-West + Ukraine can survive agz an independent sovereign Crimea or one re-incorporated back into the Russian Federation.

As the various "Muslim/Arab/Islamic Springs" go on, + both IRAN + IRAN'S SUNNI RIVALS GO NUKULAAR [Militants = Hard Boyz?], it may be in the US-West's interests to allow Russia + Russian Orthodox Church to control the Crimea per se.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-03-20 00:27|| 2014-03-20 00:27|| Front Page Top

#2 They'll be bitching and moaning to rejoin the Ukraine in 5 years or less. Russian nationalism soup isn't very filling.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-03-20 03:07|| 2014-03-20 03:07|| Front Page Top

#3 * See also TOPIX > US CONSIDERS SENDING TROOPS TO BALTIC STATES TO REASSURE ALLIES: BIDEN.

RELATED DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS = WARNING RUSSIA, BIDEN SAYS US WILL DEFEND ALLIES - TIMES OF INDIA.

* SAME > POLAND, HUNGARY, THE CZECH REPUBLIC, + SLOVAKIA SIGN A MILITARY PACT, under NATO-EU auspices | FORMER SOVIET SATELLITES SIGN JOINT MILITARY PACT - DEFENSE NEWS.

versus

* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > [SCMP] NOTHING AWKWARD ABOUT CHINA'S POISTION WID REGARDS TO UKRAINE. ERIC LI SAYS FAR FROM BEING LEFT BEHIND BY THE UKRAINE CRISIS, CHINA HAS BEEN DEFTLY EXPLOITING THE SITUATION, IN LINE WID ITS GRASP OF MAJOR-POWER RELATIONS ["Great Power" Diplomacy]
AS IT SEEKS TO PROMOTE A MULTI-POLAR NEW WORLD ORDER.

* SAME > [NYT] OPINION: [Obama = US]SHARING POWER WID CHINA, in Asia-Pacific.

"Pivots"???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-03-20 03:34|| 2014-03-20 03:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Russian nationalism soup isn't very filling

It's lousy, and in such large portions*!

*judging by the volume placed here....

Posted by Pappy 2014-03-20 10:12|| 2014-03-20 10:12|| Front Page Top

#5 Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said on Wednesday that the alliance was considering providing assistance to Ukraine to help deter Russia from another military intervention there.

Two sommeliers and a sous-chef?

Posted by charger 2014-03-20 11:53|| 2014-03-20 11:53|| Front Page Top

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