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After Annexing Crimea, Russian Troops Are Piling Up By The East Ukraine Border
Despite the relentless protests of Kiev, and of course the G7 group of world's most indebted nations, in the past two weeks Vladimir Putin once again succeeded in outplaying the west and annexed the Crimea peninsula without firing a single shot (granted there is still potential for material situational deterioration, one which would involve military participation by NATO whose outcome is not exactly clear). The market has "priced in" as much, with prevailing consensus now dictating that Russia will preserve its foothold in the Crimea however without additional attempts for annexation: certainly Poland is hoping and praying as much.
However, as the following photos taken on the Russian side of East Ukraine, next to Belgorod, the Russian airborne troops ("VDV") are now piling up, only not in Crimea, which needs no further Russian military presence, but ostensibly to prepare for the next part of the annexation: that of Russian-speaking east Ukraine.
On the clip and pictures below, one can see Russian troops on the move near the border with Ukraine in the Belgorod Oblast, about 20 kilometers from the border with Ukraine near Kharkiv:
The indicative location:
Meanwhile, on the birder with Crimea, Ukrainian troops are digging in and mining fields in anticipation of Russians rolling out of the Penninsula:
H/T @raymond_saint, Censor.net, mkoinov
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I heard those logs are used for extra traction when they are deeply stuck in the mud.
Yes, it's not a bumper. Notice it is a little bit wider than the treads. Nothing better than a phone pole for getting unstuck.
Practical, cheap, innovative. The U.S. Army would need two seperate towing vehicles, six men, and a C.O. to supervise.
How to pull SUV from frozen lake...Russian Style
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYTfZRz8fN4
Russia loading log...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjpaJxRS5Y0
It's a Russian Woody.
Sat Nav playing up.
Unless I see a clean move right through the $24-25 level, I think it is too early for celebration.
I hope Putin kicks their teeth in...
Everyone's, just to remind them its Russian territory.
If not he's finished.
actually everything that has happened since 07' has been bullish for real money but instaed the only thing that rallys on bullshit and in this case impending war is of course.....
http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/DJIA
and of course right at the close.....
http://www.sott.net/article/275067-Surprise-Ukrainian-people-will-bear-b...
No one could possibly have seen that coming!
Well, the latest word from the chief of those Joint Chiefs of Staff (Maj. General Kerdoodle, or Kerfloffle, or WTF the occifer's name be) says "we" are ready for war!
Guess by "we" he means his entire family, which this American vet is comfortable with airdropping into the Ukraine, or Moscow, but "we" does not extend to the rest of us who have had our jobs offshored over the past thirty years as the only nuking we wish to see is the nuking of Wall Street!
Ozero said there would cost... and Vlad says no shit, I'm going to burn shitload of diesel.....
Good to see some physical on the ground. Really tired of cyberwarfare and asymmetrical terrorism.
Farage anyone..... Always enjoyable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2jgOpf0Xmk
Gold Breaks $1,360 As US Dollar Slides Further Down
Gold breaks $1,360 today with US Dollar sliding down to 79.63. China's worries and Ukraine situation are putting futures under pressure. Could it be that the Copper slump is the counter strike at Chinese shadow financial system in the ongoing Financial War? We will never get the clear answers here, but US Dollar is sliding further today and Copper at this levels can not indicate the healthy growing economy.http://sufiy.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/junior-miners-gold-breaks-1360-as-us...
I think you can quit pimping your blog now.Everyone on ZH has seen yours links
hundreds of times .
Its now just annoying.
Shut up. Pimping is a big part of Fight Club.
http://madscienceunlimited.com/fiction/story_theCornerOffice.html
Jump you fuckers!
Good stuff! Darkatana sounds like quite an undertaking. Good that you published on the web. I never published because I always tore up whatever I managed to finish. Probably a good thing.
Thanks. If you have an afternoon to kill, run through some of the others:
http://madscienceunlimited.com/fiction/
As for writing, you might try reading some of the kind of things you also want to write about. Writing is not easy at all, I put a lot of time into it, it helps to have a model. You get your own "voice" with practice so don't worry about writing like someone you read a lot. Also I suggest you write about things you personally understand and enjoy, and populate your fiction (if it is that) with characters that you would like to have as friends. Even if they are evil, you should probably like something about them or else they won't live in the work. Diamond for example comes off as evil with fur, but I really like her and I think she has some excellent qualities; she is honest, does not act in anger, has a lot of sympathy for people, and is genuinely affectionate with those close to her. Her sister Fortran is more nearly human and approachable, and yet in the novel she can become outright evil when provoked, to the point that she and Diamond have some very serious and destructive battles. It's a major point of friction between the two (it plays that way a little bit near the end of TheCornerOffice when Fortran pushes Diamond off a high rooftop, potentially to her death) and forces the reader to constantly evaluate what they personally are ready to qualify as "evil". That sort of threading makes the story interesting.
Always, write what you enjoy. Write for your own taste as a reader. If you satisfy yourself then maybe you are done. You don't need a million readers only one -- being yourself. From there a million might even happen, you never know.
Good advice.... and well written if I may say.
cougar, i've always loved your posts, always well written and thoroughly thought through. thank you for sharing your writing, terrific work.
I'll put it a little more succinctly: Bugger off and don't return.
Thanks for the post
You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is "never get involved in a land war in Ukraine" - but only slightly less well-known is this: "Never go in against a Putin when death is on the line"! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha...
Inconceivable!
Ludicrous.
Full plaid-tard.
Oh fuck... Good one! New word of the day!
Vizzini don't ride no sharks
That is out of 'The Priness Bride' .... just before the tricky guy drank the poison.
Wait, I thought Horse Face-Kerry had this under control? Finger wagging not working with Putin?
the problem is quite simple. obama/kerry need to go paint that red line across the ground so putin/russian troops know when Amerika is "serious".
They need to be more careful about painting red lines anywhere in Ukarine. We hear the Ukrainians are laying land mines all over the place.
Maybe he could give the Russians a big red 'RESET' button to improve relations...
They laugh at Kerry. Better send Biden, he's a bad-ass.
The best the west can do is roll Polish tanks into Lemberg.
Putin better be careful or president skroob will roll up his sleeves and give him a stern talking to.
Don't call him "Vlad the Impaler". It turns Barry on. Bow chicka wow wow.
LOL of the day...
Who knows our bad ass in chief may go full retard and break out his super soaker! And say something heroic like, yipee kiyeah you mutherfuck!
Bonus dogecoin if shirtless on horse!
Oh, wait ...
"Despite the relentless protests of Kiev, and of course the G7 group of world's most indebted nations, in the past two weeks Vladimir Putin once again succeeded in outplaying the west and annexed the Crimea penninsula without firing a single shot (granted there is still potential for material situational deterioration, one which would involve military participation by NATO whose outcome is not exactly clear)."...
You can say that again! Hmm...
Someone needs to find out where Mr. Jason P. Gresh lives stateside and present him with a nice "care package"!
http://sherriequestioningall.blogspot.com/2014/03/hacked-email-from-us-army-attache-in.htmlOh noooo......!
Who "down arrowed" me first!!!!
Hey Jason is that you buddy? Yeah partner I'd be nervous if I were you too!
Who "down arrowed" me?
Jason is that you partner???
Yeah I know brother... If I were you I'd be nervous on how that one got out too!!!
Check his bio, he's a former treadhead. Never, ever, send a tanker to an embassy job. Patton anyone?
This strategy will make perfect sense if you are Jason Gresh's "boss"...
Loosely translated, a.k.a. you are a deranged psychopath!
http://intellihub.com/course-wwiii/
Lol,
Operation Debagged Cat.
http://intellihub.com/course-wwiii/
Thanks for that. I didn't think it was possible to be more disgusting than Stratfor.
Frankly giving a further thought about the Jason guy, he is/was once an asset but now may be deemed as a liability after the leak, the Company may have him suicided pretty soon..,all these field guys are dispensable like the Navy Seal team 6 in Afghan that said to silence the Osama ghost ... a useful Gentile "Goyim" for The Chosen Tribe, once service time is reached can be written off immediately.
In Russia, if you like Ukraine, you can take Ukraine..
Why would Ukraine's army fight? If they surrender, they would triple their pay and Ukraine would still be there. Keep in mind that Nazis in power are a small minority. They can’t even start a war without a broad support of the people. It's more likely that Russia would give Lviv to Poland and keep the rest.
Would it become Lvov again? I hope so.
I think Lvov is Russian for Lviv.
Lvov'n It.
Right on the money.. You think the Germans taking France was swift...wait till you see this move to Kiev.
The Netflix and Vodka cases are already in trans-shipment !
The Russians should work with the Ukrianian army to find and deal with the cancer in the Ukriane - the oligarchs and those involved with Nuland and her gang.
Eeeeehhh...Rusia is run by Oligarchs.
Barry better get his ass over to Moscow and start bowing.
Don't rule out a fucking blowjob for Putin - you know, whatever it takes.
Given Barry's bathhouse reputation, I think Putin would decline it.
I would bet that old "Michelle the transgender Wookie" would turn down a hummer from zero.
Quit it! You're killing me!!
LMFAO! Almost spit out my scotch!
You mean "Mike" the wookie.
I bet Mike has a bigger snake than Rent Boy.
Hmm. So that's what Barry meant when he said that he would have more flexibility after the election.
Not to worry, the United States is 'ready' to act 'militarily', remember?
Dempsey's comments were taken out of context.
He is having to use backchannels because of the incmpetent Obozo team according
to this;
vineyardsaker.com
..and it's gone. (into the digital ether)
http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/
Yes that is one of most accurate sites
all without a declaration of war i might add. Any move across the frontier boundaries into Ukraine proper would be an act of war...the first one since World War II and the purpose of NATO's existence (even Putin agrees there is to be no redrawing of borders in Europe's East/Russia's West.) It's easy to mouth platitudes that those collective security agreements don't amount to shit...but they have kept the peace in Europe for over 70 years...something that hasn't happened probably since Roman Times. Wars in Europe such as this generally last at a minimum a century...100 years for all you home gamers out there...so no, this is quite easy to price in actually. With the Chinese economy imploding the incentive in the West "blame the Russians" i would argue is quite high. Again...Ukraine is in no position to be anything but a buffer state in its current (bankrupt) form. If Russia formerly invades that will change. And yes..."Ukraine will lay out minefields to respond to the Russian minefields" (and also set up air defense perimeters.) Why that should come as a surprise to anyone is rather odd. These events are unfolding very rapidly. We've gone well beyond "dead protestors" now...once the aircraft start flying low over Kiev "it's Game On." It would be ironic indeed if the French Navy simply "sat this one out."
Sanctions, and blockades are Acts of War.
Invading is War.
What? I thought there was an airliner missing.
I'm waiting for the New York Times headline to proclaim "Brilliant Obama Strategy Prevents Surprise Invasion of Ukraine by Moldova!"
Actually, it is the Chicken Drum Mafia of Transdniester that they have to restrain. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/colinfreeman/100263261/why-crimea-coul...
That reminds me of "Bush Legs" supposed aid sent to Russians after collapse...
Taxpayers money to Tyson (Clintons) pockets for chicken unedible by starving Russians..
Lady from Seversk told this experience...
"On the picture below, one can see Russian troops on the move near the border with Ukraine in the Belgorod Oblast, about 20 kilometers from the border with Ukraine near Kharlkiv:"...
I have this vision of Putin singing this with a phalanx of S-200s behind him as far as the eye can see...
Eduard Khil take it away brother!
I see no reason for the Russians to not roll the tanks all the way to the Western border.
Stop at the border and leave Belarus, Poland, Slovakia, Romania, Hungary, and Moldova alone.
Make a statement that they mean to protect Ukraine from falling into NATO hands, and from the EU Brussels Bandits and the U.S. banksters/M.I.C. - who instigated a neo-Nazi coup d'etat NOT for the sake of the people of Ukraine - but for Bankers.
What is the West going to do?
War? Yeah, right.
Sort of depends on how proficient Ukrainian engineers and sappers are. If they're 1/10 as skilled and prepared as the Swiss, then the Russians would have to go through Belarus to do so...
Gee, I coulda sworn those Russkies still had nukes, but perhaps I am mistaken (although that has yet to ever happen)?
Bridges haves something in common with 100 story steel and concrete skyscrapers, they both (apparently) tend to collapse into neat piles which the enemy can easily take advantage of...
Actually bringing down a bridge so that the fording capacities of standard military vehicles as well as the spans of bridging vehicles are both exceeded is a science. (the ferrying option for crossing tends to create fish-in-a-barrel shooting opportunities at the bottleneck- so it's best avoided).
It's amazing what you can learn in a simple briefing in some 3rd world backwater when the presenter isn't a PowerPoint addict...
If Dempsey isn't going to get his old ass over there to stop the Russkis, then there's only one guy left
to do the job. Where's Rambo?
Rambo won't go in until Obama gets seal team 6 captured
I thought he already had them killed in that old Chinook 47?
"Where's Rambo?"
In the nursing home.
O'care has him down for a few months.
That's just a clean up crew going to Chernobyl for humanitarian purposes
Is it just a way to shore up the Eastern border, make sure that that new border is clearly understood by all? Or are they looking at maps, pointing East and such..?
Komrades
Ve just take tanks for spin to Kharkov. Is to you move RV now.
Pazhalasta
LOL!!!! You just need youtube for military intelligence.
Looks like a nice day at the beach!
Sorry for plugging but best interview ever. Dr Paul Craig Roberts. Worth a look.
http://usawatchdog.com/united-states-definitely-wants-war-in-ukraine-paul-craig-roberts/
Here's the thing: I don't agree with Doc Roberts on everything, but when it comes to financial warfare and global econ, he's usually right.
Holy Shitski!
I seem to remember NATO running out of bombs during the Lybian conflict. The US had to supply NATO with bombs....*snicker, snort*
Anyone else here think that NATO is a toothless organization at this point? The U.S. people WILL NOT allow military strikes as they didn't allow them in Syria.
I think for John Kerry and Obama either order at the Ukranian restaurant is going to be a shit sandwich.
Kind of like the US having to fly the Frenchies to the CAR. I can see some more of that lend-lease action on the horizon since the UK is almost out of ships. I'm sure Winston is spinning.
It's toothless to the point that the people's of Western Europe won't take up arms to fight the Russians on the Russian Steppes of Ukraine. West Europeans have been pacified and pussified (Metrosexual/Homosexual) so they won't stand up and fight to save Ukraine from Putin.
In the US, retention and recruitment of white men willing to fight and die in some foreign country is at an all time low. Is it no wonder that the a-holes in the Pentagon and in D.C. are actually allowing women to serve in combat. But, much to their surprise a poll of women serving in the Armed Services have indicated by an overwhelming majority that they aren't interested in serving in combat roles, (I guess women aren't as stupid as the D.C. apparatchiks would have us believe).
If the neocons think they can start a ground war with Russia then they will need to reinstate the draft and that's when all hell will break loose in the US as people will take to the streets in protest. If you can't even get gun owners in CT to register their so called assault weapons with the government does anyone really expect the drug and electronic gizmo addled youth of today's culture are going to be willing to die in the Ukraine, for what?.
They've run out of patriotic white rednecks from the south. Their only other hope is to slam the southern border shut and force all the illegals to serve with a promise of citizenship if they make it home from the killing fields.
It depends on whether or not they have improved since when I was in the military. When they trained in the USA back in the late 1960s, early 1970s, the Kenyans were much better.
(and that's not an anti-Obama remark, I seriously mean the Kenyan military was superior in performance, although it was summer and they did get to wear their standard uniform with shorts instead of heavy combat fatigues -- did give them a slight advantage.)
Meanwhile in Russia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrxjYfl05ek
School assembly Russian style for Grades 9-10
Why is it the countries with automatic weapons in schools never seem to have school shootings where students go postal...
Love that video.
Meanwhile, kids in the U.S. are having patty-cake feel good group sessions about how to solve global warming and report your Parents to DCFS for spanking you.
The first girl in the video made a serious mistake - she cocked the rifle before pulling the magazine out of it - had it not been empty, she would have fired it. When disassembling a rifle, the first thing you do is pull the magazine out, as her classmates did after her.
Obama tries to fire a "shot across the bow" of Putin's ship but the price in the drop in oil will only last so long. And why has China and Russia been stockpiling gold while dumping dollars and USTs? For the reason that, as today as example, even if oil drops momentarily, their bank balance sheets - as assets and reserves - will preserve their wealth.
Field Marshal Rommel aka Joint Chief of Staff( Marilyn) Dempsey states that the Diaper he wears is not for sexual pleasure but an extreme case of incontinence ( points directly at hastily summoned kangaroo court ).
Dempsey looks like he's got a massive cerebral hemorrhage growing upside his head, just look at the buldging eyes... or, a cardiac 'cheney,`herartfelt-body`parts inc.'?) metastasizing-- talk about stressed-up!
you pay a high price being bought and paid for by the 'MIC'!
Remembering Patton (could have been president?), Holbrooke (Hillary and Bill favorite, but an Obama reject) and McCarthy (Truman hated the guy?). Just stay clear of certain Military Hospitals in Langley...
jmo
earleflorida, most ignorantly asks if we remember Patton (the butcer of American veterans) and Holbrooke, boy oh boy did he hit a raw nerve with this American combat vet.
Yup, check your history, dood, no way in hell could the Butcher of American veterans at the Veterans Bonus March, ever win any effing election, sonny: over 100 men, women and children slain on that day when MacArthur, Patton and Esenhower (although Eisenhower held back, superior politician that he always was) attacked the campf the bonus marchers, against the order of President Coolidge, or was it Hoover.
Richard Holbrooke: graduated with submediocre grades from journalism school at Columbia, unable to obtain any newspaper jobs, applied to Foreign Service (US State Dept.) but didn't pass their exam), applied to Army OCS but couldn't pass their exam --- finally, because Dean Rusk was a friend of the family, got an appointment to the State Department.
In between State appointments, the submediocre Holbrooke went to Wall Street with his buddies, and suddenly became an overnight multi-millionaire (we used to call it payoffs) 'cause I guess all those corrupt pols are financial geniuses, huh?
Yeah, dood, remember those jackholes.
It was Hoover and the Bonus Army was there in the summer of 1932.
In November of 1932, Roosevelt was elected to the presidency.
MacArthur was not a popular general after the Bonus Army was attacked.
...the submediocre Holbrooke went to Wall Street with his buddies, and suddenly became an overnight multi-millionaire (we used to call it payoffs) 'cause I guess all those corrupt pols are financial geniuses, huh?
Thanks for heaping dis-respect upon the late Mr. "Holbrooke". As you likely know, the "family name" was created in 1939, when Daddy Goldbrajch found his way to New York.
And, in the 21st century, Richard went on to know nothing whatsover about AIG's finances and executive bonus policies, even though he spent years on AIG's board of directors.
Eisenhower was a war criminal.
Other Losses James Bacque
Earle probably realizes that. Patton, McCarthur and Ike attacked the Bonus Army. Was Smedley Butler the only one who backed them?
I think Earle's point is scumbag Holbrooke, Patton and McCarthy all were whacked by the powers that be. Les Aspin probably was another one. He was heart attacked.
I don't see anything - they must be camoflauged
So who among the world has the most useless eaters? How much grain and soybeens did the US import from China?
I think the US can survive without made in China, but can china survive without "Grown in the USA"
Russia is provloking a conflict to justify a response which will justify another response. Diplomacy is the right move to fustrate Putin, and force him to escalate. Once he escalates this high enough there will be ample leverage for a response by the world community.
Putin is playing the short game, not the long game.
The right response is no action. Eventually all of NATO will be begging for US MIC to save the day.
As for who will win this monumental clusterf@ck maybe we should look at it in a different way....
Who won't lose?
Basically the easy energy/credit of the 20th Century is now gone, and those who rely on it are fucked. China, Russia, and America. All falls down.
Russia has surplus oil production of 5 million bbl/day so they would certainly fall down the least. Plus they have lots of nuclear weapons to ensure they keep it.
Some of this shit we're witnessing is the fading great powers playing modern industrial mechanized soldier boy for the very last time ever for evar.
They'll have to put their toys away soon after 200 years of rolling them over tiny countryside villages, and convents full of nuns. I hope they then revert to hacking each others' limbs off with axes, picking up right where they left off in 1066.
Precisely. He with the food eats first and he with the energy survives. The putin fanboys think Russia is some utopian bastion of justice and resistance against America. Putin answers to his oligarchy just as Obama does. This is resource wars. The only difference is that US has nothing to lose in Ukraine. The European Union needs Ukraine. Russians need Ukraine. We don't. We're just there to pick up some new assets for the imf aka debt.
ZHer Respect Putin, not fanboys.
We laugh at Rentboy! For him, ther eis No Respect. He sucks. Literally.
That old beige Skoda looks like an 1980's Rolls Royce "Silver Spur"...
If you mean the car in the first pic, that's VAZ - 2107
It's an Lada. Thank You for clarification.
I've got a story to tell about a car that was considered junk.
It's a Lada.
Where is 666 Tank?
It's on Wall Street in NYC.
Those are not tanks. Those are APC's.
Russia has many thousands of them. They move all the time. This is nothing out of the ordinary, in my opinion.
Agree mostly...can see this normal.
workers drive these to milk plant one village I know of...
Russia Today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6kaxQeEflw
This is normal sight on a major Russian railway system. I have seen similar Armored Vehicle trains right here in the USA! To move an Armored Divivson takes a number of big trains. Any division not able to deploy quickly by rail is useless. So I am sure Russian Army runs drills all the time to practice troops movements. From the look of the rail stock, Russia has moved way ahead since Soviet Times.
It might be nothing out of the ordinary if recent events between Ukraine and Russia were nothing more than a spirited cross-border invitational golf tournament.
http://rt.com/news/russia-allows-flight-ukraine-374/
Yeah, we can now point out that RT is full of crap. I bet they didnt allow such flight.
No I think Russia is letting Ukraine know what the real story is. Come have a look, if you're up to it.
Why is the US still in Korea and Japan? The United States of Welfare can no longer afford to act as a cop.
Once Russia, China, India as well as others no longer accept the US dollar the games are over for the US.
India? Good send all the Indians here on H1b visas back.
China? What currency will they buy soybeans and grain in?
Russia? We export 1/4 of what we import from Russi on a dollar basis.
Who has more control, the customer or the vendor. There are alternative markets for what we need from these countries.
Fifth Battle of Kharkov 2014 ?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/Third_Battle_of_Kharkov.jpg
If the US left Germany it would never get back. It would need to give Germany a peace treaty. The US occupies Europe to stop Europe emerging as a rival to the USA.
It is an empire and cannot permit independence which is why the Cold War was engineered to hold Europe in grip......it was not unpleasant for many years but now it is clear that the US wants total global control.
Why is Britain nothing more than a US satrapy with air defence US controlled, SIGINT US controlled, nuclear weapons US controlled with leased launch systems ?
Fine questions, which can be answered by reference to the benighted Bretton Woods and US actions during the Suez crisis. All stems from that. Mind you, on a what-if, what if Britain had accepted France's offer to merge in the 1950's (France was willing to be the junior part...).
I am sure that the sight of John Kerry beating his naked breast will diswade any Soviet Army. Realistically, Putin's game is to take a bite every once in a while. While he might like to get the eastern Ukraine, if it does not drop into his hands, he will just take the Crimea for now to show what a "pieceful" (sic) sort of chap he is. A piece here, a peice there, a ...
Nice.
"It's true that I've raped your wife, but see I'm a great guy because I did not also rape your daughters."
"Yeah baby! Broken windows." - Paul "I am not the douche you're looking for" Krugman
I travel a lot to both Russia and the Ukraine and have a perspective to share. Putin is smart enough to know there are other hidden costs not mentioned in ZH blog so far. One big one for him that has not been discussed is that the Russian territories are filled with many sub cultures with different languages and cultures that for generations Russia has been trying to amalgamante into a Russian identity. His present emphysis on Russian ethenic and linguistic centered national propoganda will increase the divesivness with these non ethnic Russians in their borders. Putin is increasing his popularity with most ethnic Russians but hurting himself long term in this way. Putin is smart enough to know this, that leads me to think he has calculated this Crimea invasion is part of a larger plan.
I wonder if Vlad is scared of a US president who never actually ran anything prior to taking office, has total contempt for his own military, is flat broke, ignores his country's constitution, makes up his own laws, takes healthcare away from millions of his own people, and spends all his time golfing, on talk shows, or in delightful tropical places.
You make him sound a little like Josef Stalin.
No not Putin. Obama.
Stalin didn't play golf.
But you know he would have. Would have worn those geeky plaid golf pants like an old man. And the little cap with a fuzzy pompom on it.
Blood all over his hands of course, and ordering execusions at each hole, but he would have liked the asymetry of that.
stalin's left hand was withered. like every tyrant he had his inferiority complex.
layman_please - and most people STILL don't know that roosevelt was in a wheelchair through the entire second world war.
so - now - i'm going to have a lot of fun! please - dear posters on zerohedge - what is the big bad bama's problem?
I'd hazard a guess that it's his ethnicity ... neither black, nor white.
I imagine that could be troubling.
Russia Today....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6kaxQeEflw
normal one village I know of milk factory workers drive troop carriers a few miles from village for milkings
they work early long 1/2 day milk factory,then return 1/2 day their own farms
And the Markets LOVE IT...if this is not the epitome of an out of control policy tool farce than no further proof will ever be needed. They are going to kill us with central planning or with nuclear war..Just imagine if this whole Ukraine thing never happened..S&P would be at 2100 by now..GTF OUT HERE.
Although the balance of power has been shifting little by little from the US to Russia (and the rest of the world) in recent years, Syria was the first neo-con playground where the U.S. was publicly outmaneuvered, even though Putin left Obama a little backdoor to escape with a bit of pride.
Not so the Ukraine. The US instigated and backed the neo-nazi terrorists in Ukraine, seriously underestimating (yet again) Russia's determination to keep their neighborhood clean, and seriously damaging (yet again) what little remains of what used to be called America's "integrity." Perhaps the US cannot understand international law (especially when it suits their interests) but most of the rest of us are catching on to the game.
You don't need a crystal ball to see that not just the Crimea, but some if not most of eastern Ukraine will soon be officially welcomed into the Russian sphere of influence, and there is actually nothing the toothless American pschopaths can do about it. Whatever else you say about Putin, he is a master chess player who has not looked a gift horse in the mouth. No threats, no red lines, yet he acted swiftly and decisively when the occassion presented itself. The events in Georgia clearly showed that Russia is not intent in nationbuilding in the way that the Israeiis, for example, define it, i.e. by robbing other people's land, preferrably after intimidating and/or killing as many of it's defensiveless population as it can.
NATO and the ex-Russin satellites have very little that Putin wants, so let them prattle and prepare their pathetic armies as much as they want. I imagine Putin is amused and pleased to let the EU continue with their welfare policies to those useless countries until their whole rotten little union of cards comes tumbling down all by itself.
Ukraine and Russia are one <3 Time to reunify and Lviv can join Europe if they like too.
I agree, the last week was the perfect opportunity for Romania and Poland to liberate areas from Bolshevik domination.
Yoo hoo, honey! - while you're out shopping, pick up another country....