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Ukraine's Military Mobilizes, Prepares For Combat: Trucks, APCs, SAMs, Howitzers, Tanks Rolling Out
Did somebody say de-escalation?
Earlier today, photos were distributed showing the latest military convoy reinforcements heading into the Crimea, accompanies by a Police car demonstrating Moscow license plate numbers, most likely providing further support to the pro-Russian forces in the peninsula.
Supposedly the trucks are carrying troops to reinforces the members of the new Crimean army, pictured below:
While at the same time along the makeshift border between Crimea and the mainland, the Pro-Russian forces are putting down minefields.
However, the Ukrainians, having already been mobilized for over a week, finally appear set to seize back the offensive:
The first clip below captured the 80th Airborne Regiment out of Lviv moving out, direction mainland, preparing to repel foreign attack.
The next video shows what are allegedly Buk SAM batteries deployed in the Donetsk region, a city in Eastern Ukraine which in the past week has swayed between Ukraine and Russian authority.
The clip below shows the 95th Airborne brigade also moving out of their barracks in Zhytomyr in western Ukraine, heading East, with an impressive deployment of trucks and APCs.
2S19 "Msta-S" 152mm Howitzers on the move to Crimea.
Finally, 20 T-64 tanks preparing to depart in Bila Tserkva, a city in central Ukraine:
So where again are all those pundits who were so eager to explain away the Ukraine confrontation as one that will promptly be forgotten, and is by now most certainly priced in?
(Source: @Ukroblogger, @SergeyPonomarev)
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Ok, I lol'd.
This is pure theater
No so much a theater as you don't see TV crews and/or crowds chanting, just a few common folk.
On the other hand, on the face of an imminent aggression from a much bigger enemy, it is a good thing to spread out the equipment to at least preserve some.
mmm. Depends if there are believers. Believers will fight to the death. The Russians I don't think are believers, but the Ukranian nationalists might be,
They're not going to fight with the Russian military.
They're going to fight to the civilian population of cities of Donetsk and Kharkov, where people oppose illegitimate, criminal pro-US nazis, who committed an armed coup in Kiev.
In those cities, no Russians military.
If all their military equipment looks the same, how will they know which ones to shoot?
Simple. The Ukraine vehicles will be the ones going faster, flat out screaming in reverse.
http://signalinea.com/miles-and-miles-of-russians-troops-and-tanks-headi...
Where is all the artillery. The Russians love artillery and they know how to use it.
Follow the rail lines, there's a ~5km ferry crossing with RORO rail heads on each side at the entry to the Sea of Azov, to reinforce the Crimean front, and half a dozen options for outflanking.
The most BS-free (to the point) public domain map I've come across-
https://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/commonwealth/dfnsindust-ukraine.jpg
LOL. They just think Katyusha is just an old Russian song. Kids... they'll learn.
Who has the bigger dick competition.
No need to worry. Obama has a phone in his hand and isn't afraid to use it.
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"Hello, this is The President of the United States of America. I'd like to reserve a tee time."
Fore! score and seven holes ago, a caddy on this golf course handed me a different putter, so that I may make par without resorting to the eraser in my pocket or using the ladies tees. To prove once and for all, that even a duffer like me, can play the finest courses the taxpayer must provide for me, that transportation and expense are no insurmountable object and that my rampant thuggery shall not perish from the face of the earth.
you really think Obama calls in his own tee times ? that's what he has White People For..
yes that's racist humor, kind of Cute Huh.. screw you politically correct Morons, he's half black and half white how can you be racist against someone 50/50
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Some people find satire just a little too challenging.
EXECUTIVE ORDER13660 ------ -
BLOCKING PROPERTY OF CERTAIN PERSONS CONTRIBUTING TO THE SITUATION IN UKRAINEhttp://cryptome.org/2014/03/eo13660.pdf
Well, at least they are not confiscating gold and guns YET.
Where is NATO when you need them? NATO has bombed people over much less than this.
Tin soldiers and NATO comin'/ Putin's finally on his own/ This springtime I hear the drummin'/Thousands dead from NATO.
>>>NATO has bombed people over much less than this.
But NATO specializes in bombing people who can't bomb back.
Save us, President Obama!
LOL, he's busy playing around with Reggie.
Some damn thing in the Balkans or was it the Ukrain?
I heard Obama went fifteen over today at the Ocean Reef golf course.
Burnin up alot of gas, for a country whos about to be in withdrawl.
RIPS
Mulligans and give me's gallore and it was only 9 holes (of miniature golf).
Rumor is Reggie scored a hole in one try with Barry
Actually it was one in a hole.
Ladies tees?
If his basketball is anything to go by, he'd be standing on the 2nd tee then?
Quick! Send a new OSCE inspector.
/s
Heads, Putin wins. Tails, the DC US and their Zionist masters lose.
"Who needs nukes when one has the plug to the Petro-dollar in hand."
It's ironic, Petro dollar sounds highly flammable.
Burn it up.
its not the zionist whoare the masters its the lesbian vegetarians, but they know that they can convince morons it the zionists
The economic news darkens and the Ukraine mess grows and changes, that is the problem with USA's idea of control, the more things you add to something the more impossible it is to control.
The Obersalzberg Speech
Our strength consists in our speed and in our brutality. Genghis Khan led millions of women and children to slaughter – with premeditation and a happy heart. History sees in him solely the founder of a state. It’s a matter of indifference to me what a weak western European civilization will say about me. I have issued the command – and I’ll have anybody who utters but one word of criticism executed by a firing squad – that our war aim does not consist in reaching certain lines, but in the physical destruction of the enemy.
Accordingly, I have placed my death-head formation in readiness – for the present only in the East – with orders to them to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women, and children of Polish derivation and language. Only thus shall we gain the living space which we need. Who, after all, speaks to-day of the annihilation of the Armenians?
Adolf Hitler
More things change the more they stay the same
He had a way with words.
And no teleprompter.
A few historians have claimed that Hitler was literally demon-possessed when making speeches.
Nah man but a little speed never hurt a good performance.
Ok I could not find my dong while attempting to fuck a mates gf one day when I was a lot younger, drunk and stupidly mixing the stash of coke (mine) and speed (hers) since it all came out of my wallet (more stupidity). It's not for me that's for sure but man did I talk when that guy suddenly showed up. Heh. I ran like Ben Johnson too after jumping out of a window on I think it was the second floor. Good thing he wasn't anything like Carl Lewis. Long story short - speed: talk yes fuck no. Your mileage may vary.
Naturally I downvoted you.
A few historians have claimed that Hitler was literally demon-possessed when making speeches.
reference?
Unfortunately, most of my history books are in storage, and unavailable to me,
or it could have been a book I once had borrowed from the public library,
and in any case, this thread would be long gone before I could find the reference
and quote a reference.
I am sure that it was a rather obscure source.
I am just going by my faded memory.
Hitler was demon-possessed at all times - his murderous history is the only reference needed
Muslim Turks who annihilated Christian Armenians,
the Turk leaders supposedly secretly descended from Jews.
But I doubt Hitler was acting in revenge for the Christian Armenians.
There were a large number of Jews in Poland and Ukraine before the war.
An added reference about Jews in Ukraine.
http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2014/03/nationalists-jews-and-the-u...
They've left it a bit late to resist ... if they're still in the Crimea this time next week they will be categorised as an occupying force by the Crimean Parliament.
It's more likely they're getting ready to move out and preserve their equipment.
The Russians have already grabbed the Ukrainian navy.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/08/us-ukraine-crisis-naval-fleet-idUSBREA270M920140308
Perhaps the Ukraine would prefer to save its armoured and mechanised forces before those too are impounded on the 16th of this month.
http://www.news.com.au/world/ukrainian-military-abandoning-bases-in-crimea-after-being-warned-they-are-now-enemy-combatants/story-fndir2ev-1226847573112
Gazprom has already slapped a lien on those tanks. Sorry guys, you gotta pay your bills
Oil will win the war. Check Russia. Experience will win the war. Check Russia. Theat of force will win the war. Check Russia. The war has already ended. That is way Bitcoin, Gold, Silver are down Oil only up fractionally. Only a false flag will cause an essculation. Que Cheney, Inc.
"everyone's got a plan before they get hit in the face."
all of us can still back out of this thing. so far there has been no formalized fighting...incredibly enough. But somebody must make that plea for peace. (sound of crickets chirping.)
So we wait...and I think we'll see shortly just how big the folks who are now occupied want this thing to be.
If "Idol" or "Paradise Hotel" is booring....this is fun to watch... Pandoras Box is five or six documentairies in total... all byBBC/ Curtis... the ones about Russia and Nuclear are good ones....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_REHDxhfKg
Everything starts on a weekend.
"they" don't want the dow to blow too high. it wouldn't look right if it jumped 500 points everyday instead of the usual 100.
Check out the NATO Order Of Battle...it looks weak.
Fedor's Entrance
http://youtu.be/qgRfzHRRulk
Tim The Maniac Sylvia vs Fedor The Last Emperor Emelianenko
http://youtu.be/HmzcG6nj3n0
I bet morale is fucking awesome
Black eyed peas Where is the love Lyrics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FotCW5OIFZc
Has anyone noted any movements of US or NATO troops? Seems chillingly silent.
US troops finally have left the now closed airbase in Kryrgyzstan a few days ago and transferred to Romania
http://en.ria.ru/world/20140307/188178842/US-Flights-From-Kyrgyzstan-Fac...
Now enter Romania...
http://www.nineoclock.ro/basescu-romania-wants-to-be-part-to-ukraine-rus...
...Basescu pointed to some arguments, namely that in Romania there are more than 400,000 Romanian speaking Ukrainian citizens, that it is the EU member state nearest to Crimea and is one hundred kilometres away from another frozen conflict, the one in Transdnestr region. ‘Last but not least, Romania is not dependent on the gas imports from the Russian Federation. Therefore, it is not heavily dependent on gas imports from the Russian Federation and can replace them with other forms of energy supply or even with gas, through the interconnector to Hungary we can receive gas from Norway too,’ added Basescu, making it clear that Romania’s national interest is to be involved in this situation, also starting from the prerequisite that it has a 640 km long border with Ukraine.
The Romanian Head of State also said that Romania maintains that Ukraine, if it wants to, can sign the Association Agreement and the Free Trade Agreement with the European Union, as well the programme with the International Monetary Fund.
‘We shall maintain that Ukraine must urgently enter a programme with the International Monetary Fund, with the World Bank and, if necessary, with the European Union, aimed at funding Ukraine in the medium term, for the country not to default, to be able to make its domestic payments and, at the same time, to go through a fast-track reform programme,’ Basescu underscored. At the Eastern Partnership Summit of November 2013 in Vilnius, Ukraine should have signed the Association Agreement with the EU, but announced the suspension of this process.
‘U.S., Britain should guarantee Ukraine’s security’
President Traian Basescu also said before leaving for the European Council that the U.S. and Great Britain are the first two states with obligations to negotiate with the Russian Federation, as the two states are guarantors of Ukraine’s security, territorial integrity and independence, under a memorandum signed in Budapest, in 1994.
‘In my opinion, and I will tell this to the Council as well, the situation in Ukraine starts from several premises. ‘The first is related to the existence of the memorandum in Budapest, in which three states, the U.S., Great Britain and the Russian Federation constitute as guarantors of Ukraine’s independence and sovereignty over its territory (..),’ Basescu said.
According to President Basescu, a second premise on which Romania’s stance is based is the existence of a bilateral agreement signed in Kiev between Ukraine and the Russian Federation on the stationing of some Russian military structures on Ukrainian territory throughout 2047....
Ukraine - its not Belgium, France, Checklosvakia or Poland. We are staying OUT.
Signed,
People of the UK (same ones who reminded MPs about staying elected, post Syria).
Right about now, Hussein was starting to believe his own bullshit as was the world and is Putin in for a surprise. Ukrainian Anti Aircraft technology is top shelf and those gunships are dead meat on the hook. http://en.uos.ua/produktsiya/tehnika-pvo/78-zenitniy-raketniy-kompleks-s-300pt
The Russian naval assets sitting in port are as useful as tits on a bull and the CIA is making sure that the new 2 million man military army is not standing around with their dicks in their hands. The 15000 KGB running around beating up Pussy Riot and journalists are going to have a little more to contend with and when things heat up, expect the 35% Muzzie population throughout Russia to start pushing back hard.
Sorry, Russia has the best hackers.
S-300PT is Russian and exported.
I love how "Pussy Riot" was engrained into the minds of the West months before Olympics. Excellent propaganda work.
S-300 is Russian, actually Soviet. Ukraine inherited a number of Soviet Arms design bureaus. Ukraine has still some weapons designers and production facilities. These produce some fairly things like passive air defense systems. Russia though is far ahead at this point. S-400 and TOR M2 anti aircraft systems are superior by a long way,
Romania is sad Hitler isn't there to lead them this time. Romania is lucky they have a country after their last attack on Russia. They were a Russian ally in WWI. Too bad they didn't learn from WWII.
Sorry m8, but you have it all wrong. Romania attacked the Soviet Union (Stalin & all) a few months after the Soviet Union, under threat of war annexed several historical romanian provinces (Bucovina - held by Ukraine, Basarabia - currently Republic of Moldova as an independent state, historical Basarabia and Herta county, currently in possession of Ukraine). This annexation was following the Molotov (Soviet) and Ribbentrop (German) non aggression pact, the same agreement that led to the invasion of Poland (many forget, but not only Hitler invaded Poland, but Stalin also - does Katyn forest massacre ring a bell?). In the same year the lovely Soviet Union also invaded Finland (the winter war). In 1944 Romanian government (under massive Soviet jewish control) decided to turn on Hitler and the romanian army indeed fought the Reich until the very last day of the war. Following that faithful day in August1944 Romania enjoyed a long spell of happiness and kumbaya under communist rule until the people fed up with so much freedom and prosperity (with heavy instigation and acceptance from both Bush and Gorbachev) shot Ceausescu on prime-time tv.
For a bit of perspective, Hitler was not and is not very much loved in Romania at all, maybe you are familiar with the Second Vienna Award (or Diktat) that resulted (in the same year with the Soviet annexation) of yet another historical province lost, Transilvania (including Maramures and Banat provinces). Following the annexation of Transilvania the fascist government of Hungary managed to kill a few thousand of peasants in several high profile massacres. To further sweeten the deal Romania also lost in the very same year the south of the Dobrogea province - Cadrilater (now belonging to Bulgaria).
Regarding "Romania is lucky they have a country after their last attack on Russia." - what do you mean? Are you sorry that only a million or so romanians got killed by soviets for trying to defend their country and trying to oust them (dont know about other countries but here we had armed open rebellion against the soviet army and the communist government until the 60's - 15+ years after the end of WW2). Were you mood better if the death toll was higher?
And now for the concise answer, yes, Romania is indeed lucky to exist at all, considering the full-spa treatment it received at the hands of the Germans, the Soviet Union et all. But not for your reasons. As to the lessons learned, there's the big one: never trust anyone, especial the Russians or the western powers (i include here the current day romanian "leadership" - bought and payed by either the west or the russians - fuck'em all!).
I hope you learned a thing or two today, from the other side of the barricade if you will (i will not man any barricade if shit hits the fan, instead i'll try to get my family out of harm's way, as i don't believe in countries, borders, patriotism or other examples of low level brainwashing).
P.S.: stop equaling people to countries or what politicians say (hint, the politicians have to say certain things to stay in "power", and that is just as true in romania as in russia, US, UK or Belgium).
Have a very nice and peaceful day!
I've watched the energy problems in Europe and some countries like Romania, Bulgaria and others were slammed by excessively expensive renewable energy that was dumped on them.
http://www.euractiv.com/energy/romania-slashes-renewable-energy-news-532416
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6uULuTli0k
Thousands of Bulgarians take the streets of Sofia everyday against the high energy prices, which almost doubled during the past year, since electricity it was privatised.
As a result of these protests, demonstrators managed to overthrow the Bulgarian government in February 2013.
People almost daily protest on the street as part of the energy movement, but also against local media, politicians from all parties and corruption.
Bulgaria has the lowest living standards, as well as the lowest salaries in the EU...
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NATO? Makes me laugh so hard my side hurts.
NATO jets deployed to Baltic region, Estonia and Latvia have higher % of ethnic Russians than UK and Putin has accused Lithuania of sending Nazis to Ukraine.Russia says they "must protect" russian speakers in other countries. Putin is talking a lot of shit, not even Hitler claimed to have a mission to protect all German speakers (like the Volga germans and Pennsylvania dutch!)
It looks like the "elites" are warming up their depopulation machine. The incomprehensible part of it is how many people will willingly jump into the machine all by themselves behind their chosen flag that the elites' minions will wave like a fishing lure to whip up patriotic fervor. It's a shame in many ways, but also self-selecting in other ways. Not much the serf can do about except not fight their wars for them, then they'll trash the economy even more to get people lining up for the only paying jobs left...fighting in their fucking war. This shit gets old.
By nature we are tribal creatures. I was so patriotic as a 17 year old kid that I would have shot myself if the military had rejected my enlistment request. Now I have seen enough of the world to laugh my ass off at what a stupid brainless little brainwashed prick I was! Fuck yes, this is getting old. And yes, millions will jump at the chance to kill others for the tribe. Bloody useless waste of everyones time. My old man was in WWII from North Afrrica invasion to the taking of Germany. He told me that as soon as the last shot was fired nobdy anywhere gave a rats ass what you did in the war. The ones who found a way to stay home made all the money, had the good jobs and fucked all the women while millions of others were at war. Vietnam was no different, those who went lost years of their lives and those who got out of it got the educations, got all the good jobs, fucked all the hippie chicks in college and those that served got shit on when they were back again. So roll on Ukraine, you gonna fucking die for nothing.
Mr Burton
Ukraine has a propensity of dieing for nothing and I feel they will go to war with Russia.
those who went lost years of their lives and those who got out of it got the educations, got all the good jobs, fucked all the hippie chicks in college and those that served got shit on when they were back again.
Awesome comment! But sorry to tell you: you probably aren't gonna get hired by military recruiting.
What's the minimum age requirement to serve in Ukrain's Army, 40+?
They look a little worn around the edges.
LOL!
More nominees for next year's Darwin awards.
It just feels right.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GRR_n_yQGA
i said, Georgia, oh Georgia
No peace I find
Just an old sweet song
Keeps Georgia on my mind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thls_tMuFkc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyNocJFUloA
The new, and by law illegal, government in Kiev is not going to do anything unless the US Agents working with them on the ground have given the green light. Ukraines revolution almost smacks of Syria, where the US and NATO armed, trained and funded an Al-Qaeda invasion force. Of course west Ukraine offered up the needed radicals from inside Ukraine. While much of the revoultion is real and something I can support, the forces that carried out the revolution are beyond dispute fascist. You need to know Ukraines history to appreciate these people and the centuries of stuggle against their eastern Ukrainian countrymen. World War II saw these people's parents and grandparents back the German Army in the war against the USSR. Nothing has changed, they are back for more of the same.
But what I really wanted to say is that nothing is being done without US and NATO approval. You can bet that the west has all the intelligence operatives and special forces advisors working with the militants of Kiev. What the game plan is I don't know. All we can do is await events.
Have you ever been in the US Military? I promise no one in our military is smart enough to plan that far in advance. Maybe a Rumsfeld, but those types of people have been put to death for the wars they have started. Correct? Seems that way....
The American Revolution was illegal.
American Freemasons were many of the leaders, planning for an American Masonic Utopia.
200 years and more later, Freemasons and their spawn still working at it.
The French Revolution was illegal.
French Freemasons were most of the leaders, planning for a French Masonic Utopia.
200 years and more later, Freemasons and their spawn still working at it.
Ukraine Revolution illegal?
CIA has been long linked with Freemasons and their spawn.
Law according to the victors.
If the revolution in Kiev legitimate, why revolution in Crimea illegal?
Or do you think that the right to self-determination is right only for those, who is puppets of Washington?
Mr Burton
Men in the invasion of the Germans of 1941 in Western Ukraine
were give the option of working in German factories or joining the
Weirmacht called the Halytskiy divisia, this division would only fight against
Russians and communists but not against allies of Britain and the US. These men
only wanted a free Ukraine, free from Poland and free from Russia, nether happened
during and after the 2nd world war. As I have said previously because of circumstance
we have had Ukrainians killing eachother in the second world war and it may happen again.
The 'militants' in Kyiv want nothing more than the rest of the world to fuck off and leave them alone.
Kosovo 2.0
It seems like every time our economy recovers and we are about to enter a golden age someone tries to start a war, it's almost like they want one...
I hope that was tongue in cheek?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_Komi7wnAw
How can we lose?
"every time our economy recovers"
Please tell me where you are getting that killer grass from.
And then when they split Ukraine, we'll have another problem... NATO will put that new Ukraine in... you know, to ``protect them``... and they will put missile shield interceptors right on Russia's border.
This crisis is LONG from over.
TOPOL will be the last word you ever hear.
Run towards the flash, better than dying slowly, bleeding from every orrifice.
When the big one happens I will be up on my roof top. This will be the show of a fucking life time.
BRING IT ON BABY, HELL YEAH BRING IT ON!
Just wait till russian ICBM subs surface in international waters just off the US coast.
US Ballistic Nuke missile submarines around Russian coasts,
US Nuke cruise missiles on ships and US bombers, based overseas, far from the US homeland,
ICBM missiles in silos, far fom the ocean borders,
both US and Russia,
why do you think they call it Mutual Assured Destruction?
It is meant to be deterrence to nuclear war.
Unless someone in control of the nukes really is insane.
Do they have "Country Joe and The Fish" on iTunes?
Poor Africans in the Ivory Coast halting Cocoa supplies - NATO there to bring its "piece (Helicopter guns ships)" & Libya to remove an awful dictator and to free up oil supplies - NATO there to bring its "piece (Hair support courtesy of Love American Style)" & Russian invades poor little ol' Ukraine – NATO to bring it “piece” – DENIED
...it's not a real party though until they start chopping peoples heads off. Any Muslims in the local vicinity that can fill that role? Can we import some from Syria?
duc888
you stupid cunt the cia and mossad folks that did syria are already in kiev you dumb bitch.
get back to huff post granny
Are there any Christians left in Syria? Did the filthy Mossad turds enjoy the killings in Syria?
those mossad turds have the only mideast nation with a growing xtian population
Christians are treated lower than Muslims in your racist nation. Christian are idolators according to your book of filth. Zionists are filthy, unclean people. Sorry, but it's the truth YOSSI.
I read recently that Israel proposed a law to distinguish between
Arab Muslims and Arab Christians,
presumably in favor of Arab Christians.
The Arab Muslims were unhappy about it.
That'll be the day when the Zionists allow a Statue of the Virgin Mary to stand outside a Catholic Church in Israel without it being molested by a gang of pig tails. Most people really don't understand how backward and intolerant Israel is, at this time. It doesn't mean it won't chage someday. LOL! I couldn't resist! HAHAHA! It will never change under current management.
There are a few sacred Christian sites in Israel,
especially in Jerusalem,
Orthodox Christian, Catholic Christian,
tolerated by the secular Jews.
Muslim religious extremists are usually less tolerant.
here is a guy with a perspective he would like to share.
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http://www.opednews.com/articles/Putin-Flouts-Obama-as-Neoc-by-Donn-Mart...
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OpEdNews Op Eds 3/8/2014 at 14:10:42
Putin Flouts Obama as Neocons Stew
By Donn Marten (about the author)
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Obama Dunce
(image by Before It's News)
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In the latest episode in the ongoing reality show "Death of a Narcissist' it is almost painful to see the incredible shrinking president Barack Obama continuing to thrash about on his own hook. For the second time in six months he has talked much smack in leading the international law violation machine that is neocon U.S. foreign policy towards yet another crisis from which he has no way of emerging victorious. In the late 1980's dark comedy "The War of the Roses" the divorce attorney played by Danny DeVito wisely offered up his counsel that "There is no winning! Only degrees of losing!" which Obama would be wise to consider. In choosing to hold a grudge rather than showing some actual gratitude towards Russian leader Vladimir Putin's allowing him to wiggle out of a trap of his own making that nearly led to an ugly war in Syria based upon lies the losing will of a very high degree this time around.
In conjuring up a bit of sage wisdom from an old bayou buddy of mine our glorious leader is again "up to his ass in alligators while losing sight of the original idea of draining the swamp" as the ongoing disaster of what was to be a splendid little coup in the Ukraine increasingly resembles one of those movies where a scheme has gone horribly awry. As a result of this latest in a series of misplays the reputation of what used to be the United States of America before it mutated into something called The Homeland is taking another hit. Obama and his stammering goon Secretary of State John "Skull and Bones" Kerry have again badly overplayed their hands and the latest rebuke over their limp-dicked threat of vague "consequences" including economic sanctions over the Russians rightfully securing their strategic assets in Crimea is only the beginning of what is going to be a devastating series of smack downs and retreat.
The Obama-Kerry act is getting pretty tired by now with this new abortion following Syria interruptus and is is clear that there is absolutely no coherent foreign policy in this woeful administration. With credibility having long ago left the building and the rest of the world (with the exception of the US-EU global finance mafia) laughing their asses off at our bare-ass naked emperor on the level of George W. Bush the game is for all intents and purposes over. Hell, Obama can't even control his own Congress, his own rogue NSA nor after years of hype and political trench warfare manage to get something as simple as a goddamned website to work properly so why should he expect to have any influence over a ruthless, seasoned political animal the likes of Putin? Enough of the tantrums already - Obama should just do the honorable thing by immediately firing Kerry, Victoria "f*ck the EU" Nuland, authoritarian Cass Sunstein's wife Samantha Power, Susan Rice and the rest of his over-matched foreign policy team and then just resign - spare us of the next two-plus years of indignity - hell Nixon did it. V.P. Joe Biden is perfectly capable of filling in as an interim captain to get the great star-spangled garbage barge into port where the thing can be fumigated and have the red-white and blue bunting touched up before Hillary takes the helm and sets sail for more gunboat diplomacy- he sure couldn't do any worse at his point despite his proclivity for gaffes.
The Washington Post continues to lead the strident push for war on Russia from the fetid cockroach nest of their necon infested editorial page bunker. The latest collection of nasty chicken hawk penned denouncements of Obama's "weakness' towards the defiant top Russian features a gaggle of miscreants as well as one of history's all time great war criminals in Henry A. Kissinger who should do us all a favor and just hurry up and die already. Not that the gospel of the Beltway insider scum is alone in the incredible outpouring of wall-to wall anti-Putin "two-minutes hate" being pumped out 24/7 and the lying about the neo-Nazis supported by the US/EU who provided the street muscle for the Kiev coup but for a paper that had already pretty much hit bottom in terms of credibility it is something to see Jeff Bezos' new media operation set up a rig and start drilling to new depths. It is impossible to watch or read damned near anything this week without having to be bludgeoned by war machine propaganda that surpasses that of late summer's Syria sales job that cynically used that shameful war porn video loop of those gassed and dying kids. Thank God for the Oscar Pistorius trial because it is the only thing that that provides any relief these days from the Putin hating blitzkrieg.
The WaPo even dredged up the corrupt former Georgia leader Mikheil Saakashvili, a western puppet who came to power in one of those phony color revolutions was humiliated when his August 2008 illegal incursion into South Ossetia resulted in an ass-kicking delivered by the big bad bear that sent that tie chewing little prick crying home to mommy. The editorial entitled "When Putin invaded my country" is a shameless piece of cookie cutter crap that is chock full of revisionist history and the now flogged to death neocon boilerplate talking point invocations of "Munich", "Hitler", "Neville Chamberlain", "Churchill", "Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia" blah, blah, blah. Such a lofty forum is barely indistinguishable from the standard right-wing horseshit that is thrown out by such southern-fried motherfuckers like Rick Perry and Mike Huckabee at the annual CPAC extravaganza where it is even money that an unwashed draft-dodging baby daddy like Ted Nugent will win the early straw poll for the 2016 GOP nod,
Take the big names like Kissinger and Saakashvila, mix in the standard "take the money and run' drive-by shooting poison pen columns by longtime propagandists like Jennifer Rubin, Charles Kraüthammer and George Will and you have a textbook example of exactly why the establishment "dead tree' media is dying and by the constant wailing for relevance through Cold War II it must really hurt. The aforementioned triad are set up well for their looming retirements which is a damned shame because none of they will ever have to worry about having to go out and get real jobs.
These a**holes just don't get it do they? They are not going to be able to throw their weight around against a country like Russia as they do with Iraq, Iran and such mighty military powers as Somalia and the island of Grenada. Putin is in a position to tell them to just go and f*ck themselves and that is exactly what he is doing. The American empire has been reduced to an in hock up to it's ass future colony of China with an economy that is incapable of producing anything other than death, mass surveillance and the skimmed money that is collected by a large collection of state-subsidized predatory jackals on Wall Street. This is what happens when decades of borrowing to fund the bloated military machine that exists due to never having adequately made the sane transition out of World War II into a victorious and humble nation that could have instead used all of that wasted money that has been chucked into a sucking black hole of murder and thievery to actually build a society that would by now have overcome every one of the catastrophic problems that are now coming home to roost as we stumble towards collapse.
Let's hope that when Putin delivers the long-deserved rubbing of Uncle Sam's big nose into a giant pile of his own steaming hypocrisy. Then the rest of the civilized world can get the message and also give a big middle finger to an overstretched and doomed former superpower that has now become the very "evil empire" that was so long used to justify all of the military spending while destroying what was once the most prosperous middle class in world history. All of it pissed away too and especially so in that 21st Century that Kerry so loves to invoke when making a fool out of himself.
There is no winning! Only degrees of losing!"
A link or tasty excerpt and link would have been sufficient, no offense...
you have a point but i hate to chop up someone's
hard wrought rant.
You are correct - don't listen to JCB he believes he is the resident reporter on ZH when he is only a Putin propagandist.
Smart but a propagandist.
"...and [it] is clear that there is absolutely no coherent foreign policy in this woeful administration...."
Not.
This is the disillusioned former believer's lament.
What is true is that they've lost their ability to justify their policy in any terms that the rest of us could buy into. There was a time they could even believe their own lies. Now there's just the imperative to make shit up and lie about it.
They're getting excited and reckless because world power seems almost within grasp, but also because things are coming apart under them - the economy and the leaks - and they sense time is running out. Which is the one thing many of us would agree with them on. And much as they hold us in contempt, it's quite clear from their preparations for martial law and their huge overreaction to Occupy Wall Street and leakers like Ed Snowden that they're terrified of the anger of the people.
Why do I bother to say this? Because even as we laugh at their lies we must not underestimate these criminals. What they say in public may not be coherent. What they are saying to each other in private is evidently coherent enough to produce a highly consistent and persistent pattern of behavior.
Best sources for understanding them and their game: ZH and www.globalresearch.ca
Great post, Blindman. Enjoyed it a lot. Thanks.
While I enjoyed the geneal tone and content of the article - I find some of the allusions to be offensive, insofar as they have been the foundation of so much propaganda.
Firstly the idea that Obama has any power, or is a decision maker is totally false - by targeting Obama it validates the political system in which he is simply an actor or passenger. It is the ENTIRE political system which is has been bought out by the banksters, and it makes NO DIFFERENCE who is president - so removing Obama and replacing him with someone else is a WASTE OF TIME. So the article very subtly insists that the system isnt broke, and we can vote in someone better and everything will be alright - which is totally false.
Secondly it suggests that the empire status of the US has value, and its such a shame to see it fading and weakening - that such a failure is almost treasonous and the blame should be shouldered by the current political administration. This is a similar fallacy to the last one. Firstly it sublty suggests that the US SHOULD be an empire, a military super power - that such a thing is a great ideal, and secondly that if only there were political change then US prestige and power could be salvaged. This is pure propaganda, the US constitution declares a policy of non-interference, and anything else should be considered inimical to the interests of the people, because IT IS!. Additionally, the US is operated by the banksters, and the Military Industial Complex (MIC) is a division of the banksters - together with AIPAC, the mass media and so on - the banksters have a continuous chain of authority over US politics that will not be broken no matter how many politicians are removed or shuffled.
So all in all - this article falls well short of being a useful or trustworthy piece - because it re-inforces foundational propaganda - it is extremely subtle, but it is essentially worse than useless - despite being accurate on so many things, it fails the final test - existence of a hidden agenda.
Good ideas, but you make the mistake of assuming Bath House has any power.
Like Joe said, he's a clean, well-dressed "black" guy who can make good speeches.
The USG is run by TPTB, issues are hashed out by a politburo led by Jarrett, who then tells Bath HOuse where to sign, speechify, or be photograped.
Afterwards, he returns to Reggie, ESPN, and his crack pipe.
Movie for Ukranian troops to watch before the battle begins -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Da3EgZUA0Y
Looks like a good flic. The next war will be nothing like it. Three nukes detonated a hundred miles about the east, center and west of this country will put us in the dark for a decade. Do the research on EMP. Read One Second After it is the Alas Babylon of this century.
If these idiots kick off a war between us and Russia, we will lose the country. Fools, damn fools all of them.
Russia gonna take a dump in Chevron's executive toilet.
SPLASH!
EMP would have to be used against every region in the whole world where there are US Nuke forces
to prevent US retaliation,
and EMP probably would have no effect on the US Nuke missile submarines,
therefore the US Submarines would retaliate,
and it is still Mutual Assured Destruction,
in response to an EMP attack.
Both sides lose.
That is the deterrence.
Unless that is the plan, to destroy both sides.
>>>If these idiots kick off a war between us and Russia, we will lose the country.
Some countries are better off "lost". Anyhow, the six or eight successor nations in North America will do just fine, once they work out a free-trade agreement, process all federal employees into re-education camps, and bulldoze the old monuments.
I was just trying to tune in to the Chainsaw Juggling World Record attempt and all I got was this lousy WWIII escalation.
Happpy Women's Day, Obama. I see you've been practising juggling Mom Jeans. Good luck.
You said de-escalation? Noone in the western world said the west should de-escalate... It only applies to the other side, as usual.
Putin will smile, shake his head a little and he will make the next well calculated move.
2nd picture - pee break. 5th picture - final resting place.
What I find really screwed up is last summer Top Gear decided to film in Ukraine and the episode aired right before all this crap happened.
Everything points to this entire event being staged. But people say real people are dying, how could anyone stage real death and suffering. I tell them to look at history.
The lives of the 99.9% are nothing but a play toy for the .1%. We're all Eddie Murphy and Dan Akroyd being played for a $1 bet.
Don't forget Eddie and Dan schooled them in the end.
Gravity - it's a bitch.
I don't know...I saw one yesterday that was filmed in Majorca and they even had a midget (car and man).
It's only real once the Halliburton Catering truck arrives.
Don't they need 10 men for every one fighting on the front line?
Worth a look - Iraq For Sale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zt9BZD7mlc
- http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2014/03/08/us-policy-toward-ukraine-...
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The clash in Crimea is the fruit of western expansionPoor Johnny blocking me - like Putin cannot take any criticism
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In 1968, he worked in the research department of B'nai B'rith, and in 1972 he served on the Governing Council of the American Jewish Committee.[5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Gershman
I hope NATO knows that Russia can shut down their secure lines of resupply into Afghanistan. This is a joint Russia / NATO agreement. Should Russia shut the route down, then only Pakistan will be open for NATO to bring in supplies overland. These roads are very bad and Taliban attacks convoys frequently.
The irony will not be lost on Putin.
The Khyber Pass will get a lot more new war memorials then.Plenty there already.
Might be hard to find room for new ones.
The graveyard of empires deserves its name.
Maybe the US soildier killing politicians would finally get the hell out of Afghanistan - a good thing.
Pakistan had shut their NATO supply route,
but the Pakistanis have now just re-opened the Pakistani supply route.
Coincidence?
Question is where are the columns of troops and armaments headed ? Could be to Kiev to protect the newly installed puppets ( until elections are held ) or are they headed East to secure a variety of cities, or to the Crimea to be slaughtered by the Russians. If they go to Kiev it is a non event. If to a variety of cities in the East, Russians will certainly move in to protect their Russian speaking citizens and compatriots seeking closer ties with Russia which means a long drawn out struggle for land and winning over a split society by use of force or economic incentives
Let's hope they are headed for Kiev.
Humans are physically like water balloons. As a combat medic I saw what high-speed projectiles and white-hot shrapnel can do to "water balloons" - it ain't very pretty... I never heard a soldier say he was glad he was "dying for his country"; I did hear soldiers crying for their mothers...
Why?
Obviously their mothers didn't do a very good job of raising them.
I wish every armchair warmongerer could talk to you for a moment...
[Edit: then on account of the response above, perhaps it wouldn't help. Missing a /sarc there Anus?]
Dunno about that. I make it clear to my son in no uncertain terms that if he ever joins the military he will not be allowed into my house. Parents need to take some responsibility and shut down the war machine.
Exactly my point.
Thank you.
Dumping US treasurys is Putin's trump card. US hedgemony is toast.
Maybe we all should when he does! Anyone here still holding them, or trustee of a fund that is?
Therein lies the problem.Everyone else trying to frontrun them, except
Belgium of course.
Putin holds a miniscule amount of Treasuries and 'dumping' them wouldn't even cause a burp in the US economy.
Russia is a formidable enemy militarily but they are no match economically for the US, they would be squashed if Putin wanted to play that game.
They hold approximately 25%.
As of Dec 2013 Russia holds 138 billion, a far cry from 25% unless you believe there is only about $600 billion in Treasuries out there, China and Japan hold $2.4 trillion by themselves.
http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/tic/Documents/...
YELLIN! can pump faster than Putin can dump!! Let him take the losses and then rebound the price
Not without lubricant. She's an old lady, dude.
According to Israel Shamir, Blackwater mercs are already in Ukraine:
The junta appointed an oligarch to rule Donbas, Mr Sergey Taruta, but he had difficulty assuming power as the local people did not want him, and with good reason: Taruta had bought the major Polish port of Gdansk and brought it to bankruptcy. It seems he is better at siphoning capital away than in running serious business. Ominously, Mr Taruta brought with him some unidentified, heavily armed security personnel, reportedly guns-for-hire from Blackwater (a.k.a. Academi) fresh from Iraq and Afghanistan. He will need a lot more of them if he wants to take Donbas by force. In Kharkov, the biggest Eastern city, erstwhile capital of Soviet Ukraine, local people ejected the raiding force of the Right Sector from government offices, but police joined with the oligarchs. While the fake revolution took place in Kiev under the tutelage of US and EC envoys, the real revolution is taking place now, and its future is far from certain.. The Ukraine hasn’t got much of an army, as the oligarchs stole everything ever assigned to the military. The Kiev regime does not rely on its army anyway. Their attempt to draft able-bodied men failed immediately as hardly anybody answered the call. They still intend to squash the revolution. Another three hundred Blackwater mercenaries landed Wednesday in Kiev airport. The Kiev regime applied for NATO help and expressed its readiness to allow US missiles to be stationed in the Ukraine. Missiles in the Ukraine (as now stationed in Poland, also too close for Russian comfort) would probably cross Russia’s red line, just as Russian missiles in Cuba crossed America’s red line in 1962. Retired Israeli intelligence chief Yaakov Kedmi, an expert on Russia, said that in his view the Russians just can’t allow that, at any price, even if this means all-out war.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37886.htm
Blackwater mercs spotted outside Crimea -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKwPhTJAm5Q
Sorry if I equate psychopathic mercenaries with psychopathic clown asses.
I apologise to the clown asses.
"Ominously, Mr Taruta brought with him some unidentified, heavily armed security personnel, reportedly guns-for-hire from Blackwater (a.k.a. Academi) fresh from Iraq and Afghanistan."
And Boston.
Jesuit comandos from Boston College?
HAHAHAHA!