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UKRAINE/RUSSIA NEWS: Russian military drills begin near Ukraine day after militants announce 100k strong mobalisation!!!p.7387

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Russian Market ‏@russian_market · 6 min
Yanukovich will not be at Closing Ceremony.

- Well, we started to worry there.
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What's the difference between this situation and all the other situations we've watched in the past? Syria, Iran, Iraq, Lybia, Greece, Egypt... Now Ukraine?

In all of the previous uprisings we all here kind of knew where it was going and for the most part we were right.

Go back through the now 200 plus pages of this thread.

None of us have the slightest clue as to what's going on..

That for me is the scary part.
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It seems to be in countries with a pro Russian stance, not always but its clear what the strategy is.
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Yeah any country with either a defense pact with Russia/China or those who lack/refused a Rokefeller central bank.
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Julia Ioffe ‏@juliaioffe · 2 min
Yulia #Tymoshenko is back, and the #euromaidan isn't too happy about it. #Kiev [link to www.newrepublic.com] …
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Simon Shuster ‏@shustry · 24m
“Russia doesn't even need to invade. They are already right here.”


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"If Ukraine breaks apart, it will trigger a war," a senior government official told the Financial Times on Thursday. "They will lose Crimea first [because] we will go in and protect [it], just as we did in Georgia."
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"If Ukraine breaks apart, it will trigger a war," a senior government official told the Financial Times on Thursday. "They will lose Crimea first [because] we will go in and protect [it], just as we did in Georgia."
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I can see Putin's plan right here.
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#Ukraine #Antimaidan #Antifascism Militia is being formed in #Odessa pic.twitter.com/BmOqS0qCBW
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Russian backlash over Ukraine is inevitable FT.com
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damned
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and more

As the battle on Maidan ends with the defeat and humiliation of President Viktor Yanukovych, some observers have turned their attention to Ukraine's Crimea region with the following question: If Ukraine turns toward the European Union and the West, will President Vladimir Putin move to seize Crimea?

While Crimea is situated far from the drama of Kiev, it stands out as the only region in Ukraine where Russians are in the majority, constituting about 60 percent of Crimea's population. There is also a critical naval base at Sevastopol that the Russians lease from Ukraine. Sevastopol serves as the home of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, and it gives the Russian Navy direct access to the Mediterranean Sea. Russia has signed a lease agreement with Ukraine that allows its fleet to remain at Sevastopol until 2042.

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Crimea actually wants to seperate from Ukraine. When this crisis worsened their calls to go their own way has been getting louder and louder. The people there actually have a strong dislike for Ukrainians and Soviet sentiment still lives strong there. Russia's move will be depending on Ukraine's prime governments' reaction. If they let them go peacefully, that's that. If not, you'll have South Ossetia all over again tenfold, and i cant help but feel Russia would make use of this chance to secure other "interests" when they are already at war with them.

Crimea could be the flashpoint of a new war, it's not the first time Crimea has openly stated their intentions and it never had the backing of the government, even though they are named the "Autonomous Republic" and should've expected that day would come at some point.

It could start with Crimea, or a Russian reaction. They have to do something at this point if they want to have some sort of buffer zone between them and the EU. A total western aligned Ukraine seems out of the question for both strategic and economic reasons.

The fact that Yanukovych and his party have in a way been "exiled" makes this entire situation all the more dangerous simply because the Russian government feels it's back against the wall, and are forced into taking action. From that point on, things could spiral out of control. Or more likely the west lets it happen and that's that.

Now, the winter olympics are over and this matter will get the fullest attention from Putin again. It's far from over.
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Simon Shuster ‏@shustry · 24m
“Russia doesn't even need to invade. They are already right here.”


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like germany full of muslims
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Simon Shuster ‏@shustry · 24m
“Russia doesn't even need to invade. They are already right here.”


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like germany full of muslims
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"If Ukraine breaks apart, it will trigger a war," a senior government official told the Financial Times on Thursday. "They will lose Crimea first [because] we will go in and protect [it], just as we did in Georgia."
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I can see Putin's plan right here.
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I can see his attitude too. What the fuck "break apart" means? Is Ukraine independent country/State or a member or a part of Russia(n federation)?
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Simon Shuster ‏@shustry · 24m
“Russia doesn't even need to invade. They are already right here.”


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 Quoting: Unit 88


like germany full of muslims
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So, what's wrong with that?
Muslims are people just like you- very same blood
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About 30 minutes ago the Ukrainian Parliament abolished minority language rights.
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"If Ukraine breaks apart, it will trigger a war," a senior government official told the Financial Times on Thursday. "They will lose Crimea first [because] we will go in and protect [it], just as we did in Georgia."
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 54752887


I can see Putin's plan right here.
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I can see his attitude too. What the fuck "break apart" means? Is Ukraine independent country/State or a member or a part of Russia(n federation)?
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They have a big fleet there and naval base. Cannot afford to lose it. The price doesn't matter.
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“Russia doesn't even need to invade. They are already right here.”


[link to twitter.com (secure)]
 Quoting: Unit 88


like germany full of muslims
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So, what's wrong with that?
Muslims are people just like you- very same blood
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cruise
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"If Ukraine breaks apart, it will trigger a war," a senior government official told the Financial Times on Thursday. "They will lose Crimea first [because] we will go in and protect [it], just as we did in Georgia."
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 54752887


I can see Putin's plan right here.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 54752887


I can see his attitude too. What the fuck "break apart" means? Is Ukraine independent country/State or a member or a part of Russia(n federation)?
 Quoting: zaphood1


They have a big fleet there and naval base. Cannot afford to lose it. The price doesn't matter.
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That's there stronghold !!!!
Russia is trying to get stronger, not weaker!!
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Re: UKRAINE/RUSSIA NEWS: Russian military drills begin near Ukraine day after militants announce 100k strong mobalisation!!!p.7387
What's the difference between this situation and all the other situations we've watched in the past? Syria, Iran, Iraq, Lybia, Greece, Egypt... Now Ukraine?

In all of the previous uprisings we all here kind of knew where it was going and for the most part we were right.

Go back through the now 200 plus pages of this thread.

None of us have the slightest clue as to what's going on..

That for me is the scary part.
 Quoting: RelentlessDespot


All these countries are a battlefield that is linked with greater geopolitical interests.
Ukraine is the next move on this chessboard.
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About 30 minutes ago the Ukrainian Parliament abolished minority language rights.
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Next thing will be making the 2 pro-Russian parties illegal. Everything Russian will be forbidden.
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If Putin tries to rejoin any of the former Soviet Bloc countries, this will be repeated.
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The big bear is on tv. Now. He must have a lot on his mind!
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About 30 minutes ago the Ukrainian Parliament abolished minority language rights.
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Next thing will be making the 2 pro-Russian parties illegal. Everything Russian will be forbidden.
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Jews and Russians should leave Kiev asap
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[link to www.themoscowtimes.com]

Ukrainian hard currency reserves have dwindled from $35 billion to $17 billion — not enough to ensure the stability of the government. Ukraine is bankrupt.



Under the terms of the European Union offer of last year, which virtually nobody in the Western media seriously examined, the EU was offering $160 million per year for the next five years while the bond repayments to the International Monetary Fund alone were greater than that amount.



In contrast, Russia offered $15 billion in cash and immediately paid $3 billion. Another $2 billion was to be paid earlier this week, but that tranche has been suspended "for technical reasons," an unidentified Ukrainian government official told Reuters on Thursday. President Vladimir Putin's spokesman said separately that the Kremlin was waiting for the situation to normalize in Ukraine before sending the funds.



Ukraine was willing to move toward the broader European fold, but the EU flubbed by offering rhetoric and red tape when what it should have done is put cash on the table. The EU's failure to understand Ukraine's desperate need for cash tied Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's hands and forced him into doing the deal with Russia.
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The big bear is on tv. Now. He must have a lot on his mind!
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what's he saying?
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It wasn’t really their fault. Only the previous day, Vlad Roditelev, a 21-year-old native of Sevastopol, was part of the detachment guarding the Interior Ministry in Kiev, one of the last government buildings in the capital still under government control on Friday. But as night fell, a final set of orders came down from their commanding officers: abandon your posts. The armory inside the building was still full of pistols and assault rifles at the time. “And we just left it all behind,” Roditelev says. “Now the fascists have it, and they’re not going to stop.” His first aim upon returning home was to take a bath, the first in many weeks, and spend some time with his parents. After that, he said, he planned to join up with one of the militia groups and prepare for the arrival of the revolutionary forces. “We just have to defend our own city now,” he said. “The country is lost.” Russia, he felt certain, would come to help them.

[link to world.time.com]
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He labelled the Russian army as revolutionary forces?
Interesting if this is the sentiment of the pro Russian Ukrainians inside EU-US strongholds in Ukraine!
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I can't imagine Russia letting Crimea go for anything. They would risk world war just to hold it. This is equivalent to the US choke point at the Suez Canal except the stakes are much higher and Russia only has the one direct excess to the South.
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About 30 minutes ago the Ukrainian Parliament abolished minority language rights.
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Next thing will be making the 2 pro-Russian parties illegal. Everything Russian will be forbidden.
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Jews and Russians should leave Kiev asap
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This also affects Hungarian, Moldavian and Romanian languages which were recognised by that law.
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About 30 minutes ago the Ukrainian Parliament abolished minority language rights.
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Next thing will be making the 2 pro-Russian parties illegal. Everything Russian will be forbidden.
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Jews and Russians should leave Kiev asap
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This also affects Hungarian, Moldavian and Romanian languages which were recognised by that law.
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the law provided for official bilingualism in areas where the number of minorities exceeds 10%
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Next thing will be making the 2 pro-Russian parties illegal. Everything Russian will be forbidden.
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Jews and Russians should leave Kiev asap
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This also affects Hungarian, Moldavian and Romanian languages which were recognised by that law.
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the law provided for official bilingualism in areas where the number of minorities exceeds 10%
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"He called the repeal language law, "the result of geopolitical and civilizational clash that continues now.""

Makes sense right? This new parliament is really stirring the shit right up towards the fan.
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We reached that one certain point we have seen before with other revolutions in the recent past: The point where we realize the opposition is probably even worse then those who had the power before.
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[link to www.themoscowtimes.com]

Ukrainian hard currency reserves have dwindled from $35 billion to $17 billion — not enough to ensure the stability of the government. Ukraine is bankrupt.



Under the terms of the European Union offer of last year, which virtually nobody in the Western media seriously examined, the EU was offering $160 million per year for the next five years while the bond repayments to the International Monetary Fund alone were greater than that amount.



In contrast, Russia offered $15 billion in cash and immediately paid $3 billion. Another $2 billion was to be paid earlier this week, but that tranche has been suspended "for technical reasons," an unidentified Ukrainian government official told Reuters on Thursday. President Vladimir Putin's spokesman said separately that the Kremlin was waiting for the situation to normalize in Ukraine before sending the funds.



Ukraine was willing to move toward the broader European fold, but the EU flubbed by offering rhetoric and red tape when what it should have done is put cash on the table. The EU's failure to understand Ukraine's desperate need for cash tied Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's hands and forced him into doing the deal with Russia.
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If Russia gets their part of Ukraine and the EU get their part of Ukraine, logic says then there is more money for the pro Russian Ukrainians than the pro EU ones.
Since I feel for the pro EU Ukrainians bankruptcy I will save a spot at the soup kitchen with any Ukrainian wishes to join the EU.
They make nice meals and there is always a warm bed at the homeless shelters all founded by our loving European union.





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