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2014-03-02 Europe

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Posted by Steve White 2014-03-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Nice words. What will you do about it?

Seems the Crimea is dependent upon Ukrainian water and electricity. I guess the Russians can cut the gas lines to the Ukraine, but spring is coming.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-03-02 10:21|| 2014-03-02 10:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Realistically speaking, there is little the Ukraine can do, militarily, with the forces they have in the Crimea. They have at best one battalion there, and it's spread out. Outside of Crimea, they do have a lot of tanks, artillery, etc. but its questionable if the have enough offensive firepower to push back what appears to be a couple of brigades of naval infantry, an armor brigade, and a ton of well armed militia groups, all of whom are dug in and would have solid air support.

So consider the Crimea to be gone. The time to do something about it was quite a while back, but the US administration was too busy attacking the Tea Party with the IRS, and going after critics of Obamacare.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-03-02 12:34|| 2014-03-02 12:34|| Front Page Top

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