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2014-04-16 Europe

Ukraine helicopters land reinforcements in town near Slavyansk

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Posted by Fred 2014-04-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Ukraine's mil push into its Eastern regions have been "iffy" ...

* WAFF > [LiveJournaL] ENTIRE UKRAINIAN 25TH AIRBORNE BRIGADE DEFECTS TO RUSSIAN SIDE.

* RELATED ... ...

> ABC NEWS = UKRAINE OFFENSIVE FALTERS AS ELITE UNITS DEFECT TO PRO-RUSSIA SIDE.
> TOPIX = UKRAINE CRISIS: KIEV PUSH FALTERS AS MILITANTSS EIZE ARMY VEHICLES.
> BHARAT RAKSHAK FORUMS = [Russia Today] ANTI-GOVT. PROTESTERS SEIZE UKRAINIAN APCS, ARMY UNITS SIWTCH SIDES.

* TOPIX, WORLD NEWS > DONETSK SEPARATISTS URGE RUSSIA TO SUPPORT INDEPENDENCE.

IMO read, SEND IN ARMY TROOPS + TANKS.

* GLOBAL POST > PRO-RUSSIAN SEPARATISTS DECLARE NEW REPUBLIC OF ODESSA.

Another "red line" for the Bammer???

versus

* RUSSIA TODAY > NATO TO DEPLOY SHIPS, INTENSIFY BALTIC + MEDITERRANEAN PATROLS DUE TO UKRAINE CRISIS.

* DRUDGEREPORT > WORLD WAR III? | [Daily Mail.UK] EDWARD LUCAS: I HOPE I'M WRONG BUT HISTORIANS MAY LOOK BACK AND SAY THIS WAS THE START OF WW3.

* SAME > OBAMA URGED TO RECONSIDER MISSLE SHIELD FOR EASTERN EUROPE | [Fox News Channel] PENCE HITS OBAMA ON MISSLE SHIELD IN BERLIN SPEECH.

Again, as long as the US-NATO/EU + sovereign Ukraine recognize Russia's control + annexation of the Crimea, + no US-led BMD andor no US-NATO or Indigenous nukes in Ukraine save under joint control wid Russia, IMO Putin = Russia may accept a minor or benign NATO-EU conventional military presence in the rest of post-Crimea Ukraine.

Iff NATO-EU can stay out post-Crimea Ukraine, Putin can do the same tit-for-tat - HE DOESN"T HAVE TO TAKEOVER OR ANNEX UKRAINE'S BREALWAY REGIONS.

Think Federal CANTONIZATION as per Switzerland or the Lowlands, + prolly also the AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE = "HAPSBURG" MODEL.

PUTIN DESIRES THE CRIMEA AS A FORTIFIED BASTION = QUASI-COMBINED/UNIFIED "CENTCOM" FOR BOTH WESTERN + EASTERN CHRISTIANITY AS HEDGE AGZ THE SOON-TO-BE-NUCLEAR ISLAMIC NATION-STATES, + GLOBAL-JIHAD HAPPY HARD BOYZ.

E.g. POST-GENEVA OBAMA BFF, CALIPHATE-HAPPY, OWG CO-SUPERPOWER IRAN = RISING IRAN + IRAN'S SUNNI ISLAMIC RIVALS [KSA, Egypt, etal.].

Putin = Russia has expanded Russia's military presence in CENTRAL ASIA as hedge agz POST-2014 AFPAK, espec as per a post-2014 , possibly Taliban-controlled ALREADY NUCLEAR-ARMED PAKISTAN - NOW PUTIN WANTS TO DITTO PROTECT RUSSIA ON ITS EURO FLANK IN THE BLACK SEA VEE RUSSIA'S CRIMEA MILBASES.

Lest we fergit, the US-NATO/EU are making similar [diplomatic, economic] moves in CENTRAL ASIA as a result of Putin's actions.

The US uses GITMO [+ Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands] to protect the Panama Canal + international trade flowing through same, BY + FOR THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY = THE WORLD. PUTIN IS ROUGHLY DOING THE SAME THING IN THE CRIMEA NOT ONLY FOR RUSSIA'S + RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH'S INTERESTS BUT ALSO FOR THE LARGER OWG JUDEOCHRITIAN BLOC OF NATIONS + BOTH EASTERN, WESTERN EUROPE FROM NUCLEAR THE THREAT OF NUCLEAR ISLAM.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-04-16 23:32|| 2014-04-16 23:32|| Front Page Top

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