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To Celebrate Detente Russian Navy Blocks Channel Between Crimea And Russia
It took just a few short hours after Putin's Cold War 2.0 "detente" overtures for Russia to show that there is a difference between actions and words. In this case, and as always, the former continue to outperform the latter, and Reuters reports that Russian navy ships have blocked off the Kerch Strait which separates Ukraine's Crimea region and Russia.
According to the news service, which however cites Ukraine border guards so it must be taken with a large grain of salt as last seen during yesterday's "ultimatum" escalation, the border guards have said that Russian servicemen are in control of the Crimean side of the narrow channel and that Russian armored vehicles have been sighted on the Russian side.
"The Kerch Strait is blocked by two Russian ships - from the north and from the south," Pavel Shishurin, the deputy head of the border guards, told reporters.
The Russian military has not confirmed his comments.
But as long as Putin contemplates whether or not to put troops in the Crimea, as in more, all is well. At least according to the "markets."
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sweet! the cold war is back on like donkey kong. buy bullshit stawks and get rich!
Fitting we've sent Lurch to open the Kerch Straits.
Please for god's sake send horse face over on his yacht. The Russians could use something for target practice.
Funny how Putin actually strategizes on military actions that work quickly and drive toward imediate action while the banker orchestrated war machine finds the perfect balance to make any military action drag on indefinitely.
Plundering that was stolen from the unsuspecting tax-livestock has always been the best revenue stream.
War is inevitable.
Even Mrs C even asked me this morning when the war would start.
I told her it had never stopped ,and the actual shooting will probably wait until May/June.
No one is going to war to stop Russia re establishing control of ethnically Russian Crimea. Hopefully we won't lend a red cent either to bail out the demographically doomed rest of the Ukraine. It is time for some "fuck em" foreign policy here.
But will someone go to war to stop civil war in Eastern (or Western) Ukraine? And will either side foment internal conflict in an attempt to escalate the situation?
The bell has rang on Round 1 (in the ground ops weight division), and the cornermen are tending to things as the managers are prepping the pugilists for Round 2.
The blue hats might, after most of the ah, unpleasantries, that could warrant such have already occurred, and supposing no Russian veto.
I think Putin has watched one to many James Bond movies, could this all be a ploy to get rich by war profiteering
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Hey, why not? It's been the American way since at least the 19th century.
If SPECTRE is the Russian kleptocracy, then yeah. Their evil plan to make money selling gas and oil to the rest of the world requires control of the Ukraine, and the Crimea they consider theirs by WWI era national self determination standards.
"War is inevitable."
Well, at least one of the Tylers seems to think so given some of the article titles they have been coming up with lately. <roll-eyes>
What next ? : "Russians fail to leave their aircraft vulnerable to attack and position guards around them - So much for detente' "
MIC partying like there's no tomorrow
It's all one big game. Putin closed out his SPY puts yesterday and bought calls. Today he can close them out for a tidy profit. Damn it must be great to be a hedge fund manager who can move markets.
You mean a hedge fund manager who controls a miltiary force. That's a win win.
"Blocked?" One to the North and one to the South? By that definition the Persian Gulf is "blocked" by the US, as is the Pacific Ocean.
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...and yet here is ZH, in a masterful contrarian move, going with words. But hey, Reuters is never wrong.
Nice propaganda technique of inflammatory headline and then not revealing until the second paragraph, using unbolded text, that it's based on the rumors of "Ukraine border guards".
Tyler is trying to increase market share in the key 18-35 yo Russian Nationalist demographic....
It's just a small widening of WWIII in progress.
III already happened. That was the cold war. This bullshit here is a weak echo of that one, by a power that is demographically dead, occupying a poor country that is also demographically dead, and mostly occupying just the part of that country that contains dying off members of their own ethnicity. Putin is ex KGB, serving the kleptocracy that's bleeding Russia to its death.
this is blocking in the eastern Ukraine from shipping, reinforcements, from the western Ukarine, by sea.
why would the Ukrainians need to send in "reinforcements"? They are "brothers" with Russia.
this is blocking in the eastern Ukraine from shipping, reinforcements, from the western Ukarine, by sea.
Nope, this is to ensure Russian abilities to reinforce the Crimea. Perhaps you shouldread up on how the Russians made amphibious landings around Nazi troops in WW II in the Crimea both defending it and liberating it. Its almost as if the Russian Military knows how to play this little gig after doing it abut 4-5 times now. Charge of the Light Brigade anyone? Go for it. lol
but why the build up in the first place?
te Russians should be in Kiev already "drinking coffee in the cafe's."
Just "how big an invasion" of their "Brothers" is needed...and why?
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The Russians have dared to place two ships near its coast?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerch_Strait
Eegads, will this treachery never yield before freedoms and loans* for the childrens {conditioned}?
Obama and Netanyahu would never let their actions be ruled by their words!
Nor let their words be ruled by the "truth."
And isn't that the real truth?
The answer - is 'no.'
They're just doing NATO a favor- protecting them from those dangerous terrorist sandbars in the beyond, and other such stupid things that might be under consideration.
That strait is a lot wider than two ships ... several kilometers ... I kind of missed the point of it too.
God I love Putin.
He fucks with minds like a cat playing in a feather factory.
Sociopaths on the edge tend to do that....
It's not by design though....
I don't understand the Putin love. It's simply amazing to me how people can rail against Zero the statist, yet embrace Pooty poot the statist. Fucking illogical.
It's a double edged sword and Obama is the dullest edge.
you're making a bad situation a lot worse Colonel.
I continue to maintain it is driven by the inconsistency they feel of their own homosexual tendencies.
It produces a love hate conflict....
It has to be something totally weird like that.
A beautiful example of Cognitive Dissonance...
The jarret administration's minds come per-fucked up. Putin is just taking care of business.
I'm watching this "market" in complete disbelief. Can't bring myself to make a trade, I'm just too mesmerized by the idiocy.
You have to forget everthing you ever observed in the past. All the old paradigms do not matter. Just BTFB. You'll be happier. We are in the matrix and it's just one super computer program. No one knows anything.
"I Know this steak i'm eating is not real, but it tastes so good"
THE MARIX
The U.S. needs to slip 100 smart underwater mines to Ukraine. Russia would never gain access to the Crimean ports.
"The U.S. needs to slip 100 smart underwater mines to Ukraine. Russia would never gain access to the Crimean ports."
How would the people of the United States benefit from this?
All they have to do is let Ukraine default and no small number of Russian oligarchs get hit very hard...
Putin included....
Oh please oh please oh please let's do THAT. Ukraine is a basket case that will never pay off the existing debt, nevermind the supplemental debt. It's not our fucking problem to float this place.
Western banks will get hit harder. Putin can absorb the loss. Our banks can't.
Thats exactly what we need. A bunch of mad, broke ass Russians with a military, nukes and the ability to send even more weapon systems all over the world. How many nations can we piss off? Saving the world at any (human) cost.
Psst.... that has happened before and the world didn't end...
Putin will do what is best for him and his 70% share of Gazprom....
He and his kleptocratic cronies didn't like the 10% haircut they took yesterday along with the idea of having their looted overseas assets seized...
As I have repeatedly told you guys Vladimir Sese Seko Putin is primarily interested in lining his pockets...
"Rusian navy ships have blocked off the Kerch Strait which separates Ukraine's Crimea region and Russia" - So the russian fleet separates Russa-controlled Crimea from the resst of Russia. Why? To prevent the deposed Ukes President from coming back to Kiev to stand trial?
Only in RUSSIA....
I hardly doubt the Kerch strait blockade would prevent that. I'm pretty sure he'd be returned by plane and not by boat. Your assessment makes no sense.
Algos can't parse actions.