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Russian Troops Storm Ukraine Air Force Base In Crimea, Reuters Confirms

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Update 2: ARMED ATTACKERS LEAVE UKRAINE MILITARY BASE IN SEVASTOPOL: TV5

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Update, and this time from Reuters:  

  • ARMED MEN ENTER UKRAINIAN MILITARY POST IN CRIMEA AND TAKE CONTROL, NO SHOTS FIRED - REUTERS REPORTER ON THE SCENE
  • UKRAINIANS AND FORCES THOUGHT TO BE RUSSIANS HOLD NEGOTIATIONS AFTER MILITARY POST TAKEN, NO ARMS SEIZED - REUTERS REPORTER

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More lies, propaganda, or for once, the truth? Just out from Time's Simon Shuster:

Then again, considering the source is disinformation central Ukraine Pravda, take it with a huge grain of salt.

More from Ukraine's version of Interfax:

Russian military assault Ukrainian military unit in Sevastopol

 

In Sevastopol, the Russian soldiers stormed the Ukrainian military unit A2355 , said the agency " Interfax- Ukraine " duty of the assistant .

 

He said the Russian military army "KAMAZ" struck the gate of a military unit , captured near building and break out to the command post .

 

Part of the territory located about 100 Ukrainian military strength is unknown assailants .

 

Military unit - 2355 located in Sevastopol Yuharyniy beam.

 

As reported , March 5, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that the Russian troops in the Crimea there.

For now the AUDJPY, and its S&P500 derivative are not too happy about the rumor.

 

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Fri, 03/07/2014 - 17:41 | 4522975 john39
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its actually rather obvious that the universe was created... the problem is that people don't stop and think how might it have been done, and instead dismiss the idea as crude superstition... when in fact, the contrary is true...  the science is complex to the point where it still appears like magic to most:

http://www.inquisitr.com/437451/our-universe-might-be-a-computer-simulation-scientists-test-new-theory/

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 18:21 | 4523093 Abi Normal
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you mean like a matchhead in a giants pocket? amazing

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 08:24 | 4524610 matrix2012
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john39,  if so then there's a hope to move to an alternate planet where there are less stupid, less thugs, and perhaps no banksters... lol

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 21:46 | 4523734 AlaricBalth
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Abi. +1

You just described a very concise, abbreviated version of Pascals Wager. It was the seminal argument in game decision theory.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal's_Wager

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 01:29 | 4524314 Tall Tom
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I like Pascal's wager as he was a Mathematician.

 

I like it a lot better as the Math demonstrates it so well.

 

Either the Universe was an accident and a chance happenstance, or, it was designed.  If it was designed then one must infer a designer.

 

The odds that this Universe happened by chance are extremely remote. Of course the number is so small that it is technically an ABSURDITY, by definition, and it approaches that of an INFINITESIMAL.

 

World renowned Physicist Roger Penrose has calculated those odds. I have posted them so many times before that I am going to be lazy...and not.

 

One thing that I find curious about the atheists...They claim to believe in rational and reasonable thought. They claim to revere the Empirical Sciences.

 

However when I demonstrate the odds of a chance manifestation of the Universe is an irrational and unreasonable stance then they choose to reject the science....WHAT THEY CLAIM THAT THEY VALUE. It is so laughable.

 

At least I know that they will not be able to claim, in judgment, that they did not know. That would be the Lie of all Lies.

 

Go ahead and bet on your infinitesimal odds, Flak. You deserve the Hell that you will inherit.

 

Betting on a loser.... I will wager that he goes home from the Casinos broke and in debt.

 

LMAO

 

 

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 08:35 | 4524620 FredFlintstone
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The wise and their stumbling blocks...

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 11:18 | 4524860 Flakmeister
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Pascal's Wager is not a proof by any stretch...

It is for agnostics who are worried about covering their asses...

There are many that do not suffer from any lack of surety in the matter...

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As for the origins of the Universe, Roger is pretty smart guy, but he ain't the final word on this matter...

You talk exactly like one of those "intelligent designers", so I suspect that are you going to tell me next that Darwin was wrong? 

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 12:14 | 4524978 Abi Normal
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He is neither right, nor worng, there is still a missing link my friend.  Intellignet design is all around you, and all of it did not come from man.  You have the right to say what you do.  I don't think the Wager was meant to be a 'proof' as much as a logical statement of fact.

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 12:57 | 4525063 Flakmeister
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There are matters of faith and matters of science and they both have their unanswered questions...

What we have learned is that faith has been a very poor guide to objective truth when applied abstractly...

Pascals wager is not that at all, it is recipe to evaluate your best course of action in cases where your information is incomplete...

Thanks for the exchange.....

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 14:40 | 4525318 Abi Normal
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I beg to differ, what about the sense of right vs wrong, it is a good guide, one that even says love your enemy?  Do you think that good vs bad does not exist in this world? True good vs true evil?  Just look around the world right now? There is always the ying and the yang, just like a coin, two sides to all of them.  

Tis good to banter these things about...

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 19:51 | 4526132 Flakmeister
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Another time, another place...

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 09:35 | 4524676 Abi Normal
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It's the brain they got me, sometimes I actually use it, other times not so much! hehe

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 11:42 | 4524910 Flakmeister
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Abi,

 the Bible has been shown to be wrong in so many places, that I will gladly take my chances... 

There are no end of internal inconsistencies, for a lighthearted introduction there is this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB3g6mXLEKk

There is plenty of other more scholorly theological works outlining more examples...

Moreover, any purported Book of God that is to be at the foundation of moral and ethnical code which clearly condones slavery is obviously wanting... Funny how that never got cleared up with a statement from on high in the last 2000 years...

Now, there is very good wisdom in the Bible, however, most of which is derivative of the earlier Stoic philosophical thought....

Oh, and the ressurection is clearly a rehashed version of the earlier Egyptian tale of Osiris...

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Yeah, I have chewed on it, found it wanting, and spat it out...

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 12:10 | 4524969 Abi Normal
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Flak, I hope you see this post...I understand where you are coming from, and you'll get no judgement from me.  Love you like a brother, so to speak.  Please read Halley's Bible Dictionairy...not trying to influence you at all, not that I could from a keyboard; however, you seem like a learned man.

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 12:52 | 4525052 Flakmeister
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Yes, one can understand and apply the essence of the Christian message without swallowing the superstitutious hokum...

And that should be the real takeaway from it... Not that it has ever really been the case in practice...

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:13 | 4522254 BaBaBouy
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Takover On ...

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:15 | 4522255 Volkodav
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No problem...everyone from YouTube knows Russians bad driving..ignore...

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:28 | 4522340 PHantomofthemarkets
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I think we have a winner here!

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:14 | 4522257 frenzic
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More like a bag of salt if you ask me.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 17:27 | 4522912 frenzic
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Well now that Reuters confirms it goddammit it MUST be true.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:15 | 4522262 css1971
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Someone broke their server, all i can see is line noise.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:15 | 4522263 disabledvet
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excellent diplomatic work Foreign Minister Lavrov!
You have now seized two busted up Mig-25's and an Ak-47.

I know..."the intelligence said there were suppose to be 40 fully operational Mig-384's there."

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:24 | 4522315 LeisureSmith
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If this is true, it's probably more about radars and anti aircraft assets and less about Mig's and Ak's.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:27 | 4522334 inevitablecollapse
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agreed, remove the AA C&C and fly around with Su-25s, Mi-24s, etc. to cover the push into Eastern Ukraine

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:56 | 4522489 disabledvet
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FORWARD!

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 17:20 | 4522879 skwid vacuous
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forward to the medicine cabinet...

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:31 | 4522358 angel_of_joy
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You seem to like being the little retard boy of this site...

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 16:00 | 4522499 disabledvet
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perhaps i should shove you out of helicopter Argentinian style then "little Angel of Joy. Go ahead...wave that Soviet Flag...i have no problem with President Putin or Russia or whatever games they wish to play in the Crimea.

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 08:30 | 4524614 matrix2012
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have a pity, perhaps the disability is related to some brain function as well!

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:16 | 4522270 Cursive
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Who was talking about how much Putin has too lose?  Don't ever view another country/culture through the lens of your own.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:17 | 4522275 williambanzai7
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Are the clubs packed?

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:32 | 4522367 TheFourthStooge-ing
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Are the clubs packed?

Yes indeed, along with an ample supply of fresh balls.

TOTUS loves fresh balls.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:41 | 4522405 oddjob
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More like he ordered locks put on the ball washers.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:56 | 4522484 Lore
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Dirty Balls (old AXE Commercial)

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 18:20 | 4523087 Karl von Bahnhof
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Naaah. Just parking accident.

Weeekend! / sarc

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 17:18 | 4522868 skwid vacuous
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yes, and other things will be "packed" during the weekend

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:17 | 4522283 Jason T
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obama is going on vacation... wtf??

 

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:25 | 4522316 John McCloy
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   Pres. O is heading to Key Largo, FL for a vacation..his THIRD of the year. What a LIIIFEEEEE this guy who scored the role of U.S. President has huh? He can give a teleprompter speech from a Manatee or something after he gets instructions.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 16:05 | 4522523 disabledvet
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Truman?
Humphery Bogart?

"Psy ops to President Putin"?
To understand logic you must also turn over the opposite card to see if it disproves the theory.

The guy who invented that was called "Aristotle" and he was the personal tutor to a kid named Alexander the Great. "And yes you can call me stupid."

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 18:22 | 4523098 Karl von Bahnhof
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Thanks god he plays golf! He might push some buttons accidentally. Hope he improves the swing!

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 20:23 | 4523476 booboo
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He's just moving into position in case shit goes bad and he needs to cut and run to Cuba.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 17:49 | 4523003 syntaxterror
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The more vacation this faggot takes, the better.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:17 | 4522284 LFMayor
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Gee, didn't King Puttmoas draw a red line there or something?

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:19 | 4522286 i_call_you_my_base
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I'm not sure ramming a fence with a truck constitutes "storming".

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:31 | 4522362 Steaming_Wookie_Doo
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And if 20 russians can overwhelm 100 ukranian soldiers, well then you already know how it's going to go down.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:37 | 4522389 TheFourthStooge-ing
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I'm not sure ramming a fence with a truck constitutes "storming".

UKRAINIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY: CRIMEAN AIR BASE UNDER BLITZKRIEG; WAVES OF FLYING SAUCERS AND STUKAS ATTACKING

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 05:57 | 4524507 Fractal Parasite
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+35,000,000,000

In pain from laughter.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:19 | 4522287 Fix It Again Timmy
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Barry might have to wear big boy pants this weekend...

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:26 | 4522327 fauxhammer
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Not much choice...the mom jeans now heavily soiled

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:27 | 4522328 fauxhammer
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Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:19 | 4522288 Suisse
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I thought Obama and Kerry said the situation was resolved. 

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:22 | 4522300 williambanzai7
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Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:34 | 4522375 ShrNfr
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Yes wheel can?

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:40 | 4522402 general ambivalent
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Haha, why is this dv?

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 16:12 | 4522560 disabledvet
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if that's directed at me then i say "very good question."
the CIA came out to deny that "they were surprised as much as DoD."

Somebody wasn't surprised however...and Secretary of State Kerry looks to have in that Skinner Box too. I mean answer me this: was there ever a diplomatic solution here? On either side?

It's "too perfect"...know what I mean?

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 16:39 | 4522707 general ambivalent
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Sorry, I should have spelled it out, just meant, why is banzai's photo downvoted?

As to your point I think that conspiracy is often overexaggerated, there is a contingent aspect to history and much of defense and intelligence is as much situational response as it is constructing destabilisation. This is, I think, why Russian intelligence always advised reading Dostoevsky rather than relying on computer models.

I mean, while there is a clear attempt at destabilisation here the outcome is far from perfect, we could end up in nuclear/world war. There is a diplomatic solution, but it would require the West to back off and stop trying to surround Russia; and after Syria and Ukraine this cannot happen with the current system.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 20:16 | 4522997 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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This is about the Nabucco and having someone else besides Russia supplying gas into Eastern Europe. The whole stan pipeline wars are done. Russia won them all.

Georgia - South OssettIa won the shooting battle and Blue Stream is the secondary bypass route.

Turkmenistan - resources completely diverted westward, no need to be in Afghanistan any longer since no pipeline will be built now.

Azerbajian - Azerbajian-Georgia-Romania interconnector took those fields out play. They still are going into Eastern Europe but as LNG not compressed in a pipeline.

Kahazastan is firmly the Russian sphere of influence.

From the south

Iraq/Egypt/Qatar was supposed to hook into the Arab Gas Pipeline and go through Syria. That is blocked.

Turkey is blocked by the great wall of Kurds in all directions including Iraq and Iran except for a small sliver in Syria that the Arab Gas Pipeline was supposed to route through.

Cyprus so far is the only loss for Russia since the EU nuked their banking system and chased all the Russian money and interest angling for the Aphrodite gas field. That one is still a few years off being developed and hooked into Nabucco.

That leaves us with Ukraine from the north.

Grabbing Ukraine doesn't stop a northern access route since the South Stream project underneath the Black Sea bypasses the land route completely from the North but it does allow Ukraine gas instead of Russian gas (being blocked in the Ukraine) to feed that existing infrastructure. Other benefit is when Russia turns off the gas into Ukraine they can divert the reserves within the system accordingly.

This is the last battlefield for the Nabucco right now. Once that is done........

The next option is lift the gas export ban for the US which is exactly what they are trying to do using the typical Heglian Dialetic tactics trying to scare everyone now using cold war memes after the action aka fight in Ukraine is on they started to sell the solution lift ban and export LNG gas from the US and Canada in from the West across the Atlantic. Same reason Qatar got a smackdown by the GCC because that is their turf and they've been told to shut the fuck up and eat your peas and learn to share. I guess Qatar was the only one who didn't get the memo that the Muslim Brotherhood caliphate pipeline comedy tour and not just for the western leg towards the Nabucco has been canceled. You think they would have gotten the hint after Egypt canceled the I Love Mursi show and the Love Suez Canal Boat show for their LNG shipments through the Mediterranean then westwards towards Great Britain.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 21:28 | 4523669 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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Also a little aside concerning Turkmenistan and Afghanistan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkmenistan#History

Turkmenistan has taken a neutral position on almost all international issues. Niyazov eschewed membership in regional organizations such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, and in the late 1990s he maintained relations with the Taliban and its chief opponent in Afghanistan, the Northern Alliance. He offered limited support to the military campaign against the Taliban following the 11 September 2001 attacks  In 2002 an alleged assassination attempt against Niyazov led to a new wave of security restrictions, dismissals of government officials, and restrictions placed on the media Niyazov accused exiled former foreign minister Boris Shikhmuradov of having planned the attack.

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The year 2006 saw intensification of the trends of arbitrary policy changes, shuffling of top officials, diminishing economic output outside the oil and gas sector, and isolation from regional and world organizations China was among a very few nations to whom Turkmenistan made significant overtures.[8] The sudden death of Niyazov at the end of 2006 left a complete vacuum of power, as his cult of personality, compared to that of former president Kim Il Sung of North Korea, had precluded the naming of a successor.[8] Deputy Prime Minister Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, who was named interim head of government, won the special presidential election held in early February 2007.[8] He was re-elected in 2012 with 97% of the vote.

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Now tie the timeframe of that to pipeline wars and China now

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Asia%E2%80%93China_gas_pipeline

On 3 April 2006, China and Turkmenistan signed a framework agreement on the pipeline construction and long-term gas supply.[2] In June 2007, during his visit to China, Turkmeni President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow signed an accord to speed up implementation of the Turkmeni-Chinese gas pipeline project

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The second line was completed by the end of 2010. The third line designed to deliver 25 Bcm/a of natural gas from Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan to China began construction in 2012. It is estimated that gas supply will commence from January 2014, and reach the designed throughput in December 2015, enhancing the total transmission capacity of the Central Asia-China Gas Pipeline to 55 Bcm/a. [16]

The Kazakh section of the pipeline was inaugurated on 12 December 2009 during China's president Hu Jintao's visit to Kazakhstan.[17] The whole pipeline was inaugurated on 14 December 2009 in a ceremony in Saman-Depe during Hu Jintao's visit to Turkmenistan with the leaders of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.[18]

On 13 June 2010 China and Kazakhstan signed an agreement on branch line from Western Kazakhstan.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Afghanistan_Pipeline

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In 2005, the Asian Development Bank submitted the final version of a feasibility study designed by British company Penspen. The project has drawn strong US support as it would allow the Central Asian republics to export energy to Western markets "without relying on Russian routes".

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On 24 April 2008, Pakistan, India and Afghanistan signed a framework agreement to buy natural gas from Turkmenistan.[12] The intergovernmental agreement on the pipeline was signed on 11 December 2010

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Guess who's rhetoric started to tone down in 2010 when it became apparent pipeline wars Turkmenistan south through Afghanistan was officially lost as far as diverting any of it eastwards.

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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/05/bin_lad...

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Among the collection, the fullest picture of Bin Laden’s thinking emerges in a 44-page letter he wrote in 2010. He chastised followers who had reinterpreted tatarrus—an Islamic doctrine meant to excuse the unintended killing of non-combatants in unusual circumstances—to justify routine massacres of Muslim civilians. This descent into indiscriminate slaughter, he warned, had turned Muslims against the jihadi movement. Bin Laden wrote that the tatarrus doctrine “needs to be revisited based on the modern-day context and clear boundaries established.” He asked a subordinate to draw up a jihadist code of conduct that would constrain military operations in order to avoid civilian casualties.

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I'm not saying correlation is causation here but something to think about not only that, they conveniently found and killed him with no body produced about a year later.

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 01:53 | 4524341 Tall Tom
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I mean answer me this: was there ever a diplomatic solution here? On either side?

disabledvet...

Nope. THERE ARE NO POLITICAL SOLUTIONS WHATSOEVER. (Diplomacy is Politics.)

 

That is the point. Do you believe in Political Solutions? Both PUKIN and OBAMA are EVIL. So is John Kerry. THEY ARE FUCKING PSYCHOPATHIC MONSTERS...ALL OF THEM.

 

And then you take offense as to the portrayal of John Kerry as a Monster???

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:20 | 4522289 skwid vacuous
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is he related to that smug little prick david shuster that used to be on PMSNBC?

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:20 | 4522292 AmericasCicero
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I hope they got that on dash-cam

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:41 | 4522408 cougar_w
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Russian drivers do the damndest things.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:20 | 4522293 RSDallas
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100 Ukrainian troops.  That's all?  I bet the Russians take them without a shot being fired.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:25 | 4522318 Global Hunter
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A few warning shots, a bit of a mellee with some yelling, the Russians let the Ukes yell something like slava UUU-Kray-eena and carry their flag with them and then they calm down and go for drinks.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:31 | 4522363 RSDallas
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Pass me the Taaaaaka Voooodka plllllease.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:43 | 4522412 cougar_w
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Oh hell yes. And singing university fight songs until dawn.

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 02:02 | 4524347 Tall Tom
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And a Bar Brawl or two with no lasting damage.

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 02:00 | 4524342 Tall Tom
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Hell. I hope that our Civil War goes down that easy... Now that is a CIVIL War....Going out for drinks....Cool.

 

I have a bad feeling that it won't. Our jerks will fire upon the civilians.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:35 | 4522378 RaceToTheBottom
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The number is not the point, otherwise they would have all gathered together in a place that had the highest probability of being defended.

The point is that Russia is now in a position saying that 100 guys cowering in an airforce depot with only broken vehicles is a threat to guys who haven't been in Russia for a generation or two.

They need a distraction or something...  Maybe Putin could ride in on a bear or something?

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:50 | 4522446 cougar_w
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"Maybe Putin could ride in on a bear or something?"

That right there would make up for a lot of this bullshit.

I might even support his run at the Peace Prize if he did that.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:21 | 4522295 Catch-22
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Crimea… Cry-me-a-river…   1953

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:22 | 4522302 Devotional
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Guys, I am in Europe - do you think that the USA will get involved and this war will escalate? If it does, we need the American public to march on DC and ask for an end to this madness. Would the American public do this? 

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:24 | 4522312 1stepcloser
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If EBTs are involved millions will be there...

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:29 | 4522350 Thought Processor
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Funny because it's true.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 18:27 | 4523118 Karl von Bahnhof
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Depends on what is in da teeeveee.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:25 | 4522320 redpill
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No, we only drone muzzie civilians these days, real war is ssooo last decade.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:39 | 4522391 ThisIsBob
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That's not true.  We took out a bunch of Afgan soilders only yesterday.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:56 | 4522483 TheFourthStooge-ing
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That's not true.  We took out a bunch of Afgan soilders only yesterday.

Hey, it's all part of the risk involved with being a US "coalition partner".

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 16:16 | 4522576 disabledvet
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all i want to know is will we get a vote this time.
"Or does the next trillion come with no strings attached too"?

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:26 | 4522323 saints51
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Fuck no. There is a small window depending on sports schedule and other tv shows to get them paying attention. Thats why all my faith is put into Bushmaster and Glock.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:27 | 4522331 Smegley Wanxalot
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Oblowhard is far too big a worthless pussy to take on Putin.

But if he did, my fellow average dumbass american will be more concerned with whom Kim Kardashian fucked last week, and what Oblowhard will steal from productive people to give to him/her/it.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 16:42 | 4522720 general ambivalent
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Hey now, Kimmie ain't no slut, BITCH!

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:34 | 4522371 Blano
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No, yes, no.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:37 | 4522385 RaceToTheBottom
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Watch the MIC futures

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:43 | 4522413 NOTaREALmerican
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Re:  Would the American public do this? 

I think the US public was told LAST war that the best way to defeat the Evil-Doers was to go shopping. 

You want to meet us at the mall?

 

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 16:07 | 4522530 Haager
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How do you mean, US will get envolved? Look at the NATO-structure, they're involved from the very beginning.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:23 | 4522310 saints51
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Algo's will need to be reprogrammed with certain words blacklisted until this shit settles down.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:25 | 4522317 TrumpXVI
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Whoa man....even ahead of Drudge.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:31 | 4522355 Smegley Wanxalot
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Drudge is too busy pondering whether Hillary had a headache last week, or Chris Christie got stuck in traffic without a bagel ... or what color the Mooch's hair is today.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:45 | 4522418 cougar_w
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I've never once read Drudge. I guess right now is a really great time not to start doing so.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 18:26 | 4523111 frenzic
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Don't.. just don't

oops did not spot your /sarc tag there

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:26 | 4522329 RSDallas
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The market seems to care less.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:26 | 4522330 dontgoforit
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New flash:  Russian mouse farted, Crimean cat has died.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:28 | 4522333 ptoemmes
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Pics or it didn't happen.  

 

BTW - O and Mrs O are in Miami, FL today and for some of the weekend in part to encourage high schoolers to seek out government sources of college debt.  The WGC-Cadillac Open (pro golf) is being played at Doral.  But then Doral is owned by The Donald.  Well, there's always fishing.

 

 

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:34 | 4522373 skwid vacuous
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And the scene in Key West, leave the Mrs. at the hotel...

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:29 | 4522345 q99x2
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Thank God he is going on vacation instead of doing something that concerns the United States of America.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:34 | 4522374 Volkodav
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good, cos has no business about Ukraine...

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:29 | 4522346 e_goldstein
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This should be good for another $10+ drop in Crimex gold.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:37 | 4522388 Jorgen
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This should be good for another $10+ drop in Crimex gold.

Or more. Also, silver is down 2.6% so far today. FED/BIS are fully in control.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 17:02 | 4522799 e_goldstein
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Until they aren't.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:31 | 4522357 skwid vacuous
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and the Dow is down 5...BTFD

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:31 | 4522361 Temedar
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Bullshit detected

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:47 | 4522428 cougar_w
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Or else drunk Russian teenagers in a stolen truck.

They would end up taking the Ukranians on accident.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:34 | 4522377 geno-econ
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Wait a minute . Were not we allies with Russia in defeating Nazi Germany? And did we not Nuke Japan over Pearl Harbor and Russia was our ally then too ? Oh I forgot Russia was then USSR a great threat to western capitalism but now an industrial oligarchy which is a greater threat ? Could it be it's all about Empires, not nationalism, not socialism versus capitalism,not about energy, but global dominance ?
Just asking.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 17:37 | 4522957 KickIce
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Bingo, how dare they protect their country while we build our empire.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:39 | 4522382 olle
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I thought pro-Russian forces alredy controlled airports and main spots for over a week...

US this is not woth fighing for....you will never impose your belife of democasity in the middle of Russia... forget it... and EU too... this is an no win situation....

Yes Ukraine has som industry production, but it´s adopted to Russion standards. From Western standards they are obsolite, they have survied as a cause of cheep gas, that¨s seems to be over.

We are talking about moving a 1980 industrial society into EU...it will not work. They will all be low wages working slaves....

Poiliticans and ideas (maby bankers) are ar our worst enemies

 

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:41 | 4522406 NOTaREALmerican
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Re: They will all be low wages working slaves

Looks like you stumbled onto a "reason" the banksters might want it?

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:37 | 4522387 syntaxterror
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Thar sheeeeee blows!

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:39 | 4522396 shovelhead
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"Fuck Ivan, you hit fence. I told you not to drive jeep drunk."

"Uh-oh, you see guy with camera? We in trouble now."

 

Ukraine Pravda: "Russian armed forces invade Ukraine airbase."

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:39 | 4522397 NOTaREALmerican
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Boy, this will make a great movie. 

Too bad Tom Clancy won't be around to write the script.  

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:48 | 4522435 cougar_w
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This is the kind of script that writes itself.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:42 | 4522403 Rakshas
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OH GOOD GOD.......... HEY.... you don't supose this could be one of those things where they lie to us .....

 

 

and an always relevant tune....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsksSWOxq2Y 

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 16:33 | 4522662 Herd Redirectio...
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Deception?  No.  The West are the good guys, they would never lie, or snipe protestors/goat herders with headshots/Predator drones.

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 02:24 | 4524372 Tall Tom
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And there was this guy yesterday...that actually wanted me to believe the fiction posted by the Main Stream Media. He asked, "You should do some research and read about it."...as if I had not read about it.  Can you believe that crap?

 

And he is posting on ZH??? I wonder if he was an old fashioned Gov't Agent or something. Just because I speculated a bit...about a Russian ASW being sunk in a harbor...maybe by a Nuke Submarine.

 

ANYTHING PUBLISHED IN THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA NEEDS TO BE TAKEN WITH A HEALTHY DOSE OF SKEPTICISM as they have been proven repeatedly to publish FICTION.

 

You cannot believe anything that you read. If they say the Sun is shining you need to verify that it is because 20% of the time that is even a lie.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:41 | 4522409 mrdenis
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Time for Obama to open a new box of Crayons ..............

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:47 | 4522430 logicalman
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I guess he's used up the red one from the previous box.

Maybe he could just draw a different coloured line this time!

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 16:16 | 4522575 Winston of Oceania
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beige?

 

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 17:42 | 4522979 KickIce
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The new red line was drawn in their 90 minute phone call...  If you interrupt my vacation I'm going to...

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 19:36 | 4523356 forwardho
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Burnt Umber.

Its a color.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:45 | 4522416 squid427
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I can't take anything this guy says seriously wearing a hat like that.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 16:00 | 4522504 Meat Hammer
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No shit!  Is he vietcong?

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:47 | 4522432 Hindenburg...Oh Man
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Exactly as I predicted for a Friday. the only thing keeping gold and mining stocks down is fall out from the bogus jobs report. In any case, this is playing out as your typical crisis-de-jour. Initiate crisis on Friday, have the worst of it play out through the weekend w/ a mild sell off on Monday. resolution tuesday, with market rallying the next 2 days to then collapse on Friday. In this case it was all complicated w/ the meaningless jobs report, but I suspect by the end of the day that the market will be significantly lower and gold higher.

all that said, the situation going to shit is again a friday occurance. Play out the worst over the weekend and then resolve it by trading hours in order to prop up stocks on a "relief" rally and head stomp gold.  wash, rinse, repeat. 

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:49 | 4522442 Debugas
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this is just a new task in regular military exercises russians and ukranians conduct together there

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:53 | 4522466 cougar_w
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I thought only the French practiced being invaded.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:52 | 4522463 olle
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IF you have time for a really fun eavning... these are really crazy but real docometarieis from BBC, Alan Curtis, a few years old ok. I think it´s  six diffrent, but you will find them all on youtube.... we are not crazy..they are... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3gwyHNo7MI

 

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 16:37 | 4522691 Herd Redirectio...
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I really liked 'The Power of Nightmares' and 'The Century of the Self'.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 15:54 | 4522469 Yen Cross
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     I wouldn't want to be long usd/jpy going into the w/e.  ;-)

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 16:00 | 4522506 skifff
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Comments from Crimea government: Lie! (short version) ;-)

Sat, 03/08/2014 - 02:29 | 4524375 Tall Tom
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Comments from ANY GOVERNMENT: Lie!!! (All versions)

 

Fixed it.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 16:02 | 4522511 pound the vix
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DJIA calls "Bullhit"

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 16:05 | 4522521 pound the vix
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Once Crimea is in Russian control (officially) S&P will spike because the uncetainty will be gone.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 16:06 | 4522526 Intoxicologist
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If I didn't know any better, I'd just say that my mom was in town. 

She's not a very good driver.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 16:48 | 4522536 Johnny Cocknballs
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Ilya Somin argues there is no legal basis for Crimean secession and joinder to Russia.

http://m.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/03/07/crimea-...

I bet I can guess his theories regarding the founding of an ethnarchy by immigrant armed terrorists, though.

Fucking lawyers and their sophistry. Somin is a smart guy but deeply mired in an ethnoreligious identity that belies his analyses.

 

Can't help but notice the preponderance of Jewish authors in the opeds and columns in major papers bashing Putin and Russia.  Both Ukraine and Russia are less than 2% Jewish each... So it seems odd the disproportionate amount of Jews being given bully puplits in the corporate media.  Well, "odd" for those who avoid CrimeThink.

 

Meaningless coincidence, I'm sure.  But one has to wonder if it nevertheless has some connection to the pro EU, ergo pro IMF  "Ukrainian" and "Russian" oligarchs.

http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2010/01/kevin-macdonald-the-ilya-so...

 

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 18:48 | 4522810 NuYawkFrankie
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Old Bolsheviks never die - they just mutate and attach to a new host.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 16:16 | 4522578 sbenard
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So much for the Pacifist Putin that brought a 227-point rally in the Dow on Tuesday!

Western leaders have now become the modern-day equivalent of Neville Chamberlains!

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 16:31 | 4522647 TheFourthStooge-ing
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.

Western leaders have now become the modern-day equivalent of Neville Chamberlains!

Just like Ronald Reagan?

Seriously, when are you neocons going to freshen up your stale propaganda?

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 18:29 | 4523122 Jlasoon
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Fuck the stale propaganda. When are these NeoCons going to actually pick up a weapon and go fight the wars they so dearly advocate. Stop killing other peoples kids!!!!

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 16:19 | 4522587 Debugas
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why can not Ukrainians split in a peaceful manner the way checks and slovaks divorced ?

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 16:26 | 4522630 El Hosel
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Hey, WTF? Don't those Ruskies know we are trying to make another ATH for fuks sake?

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 18:31 | 4523135 Peter Pan
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i agree. There might have to be a few people moving home but it's better than trying to keep fire and water from creating steam.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 16:25 | 4522621 tony wilson
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ARMED MEN ENTER UKRAINIAN MILITARY POST IN CRIMEA AND TAKE CONTROL, NO SHOTS FIRED - REUTERS REPORTER ON THE SCENE

 

good job it is a reuters report

if it was bbc it would have been reported 30 mins earlier with plenty of pulling and some innocent deaths

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 16:26 | 4522628 ThisIsBob
Fri, 03/07/2014 - 20:08 | 4523444 Jorgen
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Though he may be unfamiliar to most Americans, Saakashvili still has the ear of Washington policymakers. He ticked off the names of U.S. Senators who had called for advice: McCain, Marco Rubio, Joe Manchin, Mark Kirk.

Taking advice from Mr. Saakashvili is not smart thing to do.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 16:36 | 4522684 silentboom
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Crimea river.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 16:53 | 4522763 navy62802
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You must listen to No Agenda.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 16:51 | 4522758 navy62802
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Game on.

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 16:55 | 4522774 Cornholiovanderbilt
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This isn't BULLSHIT!!  This is HORSESHIT!!

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 16:58 | 4522778 Black Forest
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Ukrainian Colonel says that Russian commander demands Turkey lay down arms and surrender to Sweden under German supervision.

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