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As Russia Controls 51 Ukraine Ships And Moves More Tanks To The Borders, Obama Denounces "Brute Force"

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President Obama denounced Russia's "brute force" in Ukraine during a speech in Brussels today, but it seems from the images and clips below that Russia cares little for words and is more about strategic actions for now. Russia now, reportedly, controls 51 Ukraine Navy ships and while Merkel is talking tough, she is careful not to be too aggressive in her call for escalation. Talking of escalation, Russia tanks were being moved en masse across the nation to various borders.

 

Russian Forces Control 51 Ukraine Navy Ships in Crimea: Embassy

Ukraine retains 10 ships in Crimea, Ukrainian Embassy in Russia says in e-mailed newsletter.

But social media is flooded today with fresh pictures, videos, and reports of Russian tanks and troops on the move towards the Ukrainian border.

 

As InterprterMag notes,

After the annexation of Crimea, however, there was a military deescalation. Sources told us that the Russian troops were in position, but were no longer on the move in large numbers, and were not yet massed in large enough numbers that an invasion would be possible. Earlier this week, however, NATO began to once again raise the alarm that Russian forces were gathering to potentially invade Ukraine, or even move on to Moldova. Today, there are reports that Russian troops are indeed on the move near Ukraine’s borders.

 

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There is another key difference. Much of the equipment spotted on the move today are not just troop transports and APCs. What we are seeing is reports of main battle tanks, support equipment, and other heavy weaponry. If Russia was not ready to invade two weeks ago, could these reinforcements be enough for an invasion?

Russian Tanks near the Ukrainian border

 

And MPCs on the roads

 

Furthermore, on the bypass road near Belgorod, more than 25 Mi-24 Hind attack helicopters have been spotted

Julia Karmo of Sky News Broadcasting has geolocated this video, which was taken yesterday in Novozybkov, in the Bryansk region of Russia. Karmo notes that the trains are on tracks that lead to towards Belarus or towards Ukraine.

and Somova, north-northeast from Voronezh

 

But the good news is that Gazprom...

  • *NAFTOGAZ UKRAINY SAYS GAS DEBT TO GAZPROM IS $1.7B: KOBOLYEV

might finally get paid

  • *UKRAINE-IMF ANNOUNCEMENT 'MOST LIKELY' TOMORROW, LAPPO SAYS

 

And while Merkel is talking tough

  • *MERKEL SAYS RUSSIA RISKS 'TOUGH RESPONSE' IF CRISIS ESCALATES

She is also backing away...

  • *MERKEL SAYS SHE HOPES TO AVOID ESCALATION OF SANCTIONS

Leaving Obama to do the talking...

President Obama offered a sustained and forceful rejoinder against Russia on Wednesday, denouncing the “brute force” he said it has used to intimidate neighbors like Ukraine and vowing that the United States “will never waver” in standing up for its NATO allies against aggression by Moscow.

And after all that, this is happening...

 

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Wed, 03/26/2014 - 20:14 | 4596500 blindman
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speaking of brute force and imaginative
semiotic discourse.
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http://www.rense.com/general96/tinymicro.html

Wed, 03/26/2014 - 20:21 | 4596527 Soul Glow
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Obama walks loudly and carries a little stick.

Wed, 03/26/2014 - 20:25 | 4596543 blindman
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in the financial markets it is all about
recycling all that metal into a market
for future production of moar, at interest
and based on debt offed on a public associated
with a doomed sovereign, check mate.
next game .....pawn to king/queen four squared...

Wed, 03/26/2014 - 20:46 | 4596628 Jack Burton
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Obama is a war mongering liar puppet whore of zion. I await anyone who can say different. More dangerous than even the Bush lunatic war mongering war criminal. America, we sure know how to pick leaders. Or is that what electronic voting machines are for?

Wed, 03/26/2014 - 21:15 | 4596749 Hapa
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Obama is an idiot. He's a convenient puppet who can read teleprompters.  Everything with him is scripted. He's not personally running anything. People give him too much credit for being a person in charge who is making decisions and moving things along. He does not do this - he gets marching orders.  Very little is at his instigation. Calling him a war monger or anything else is overlooking the fact that he is totally going along with someone else's program.  This man is an emperor with no clothes, and it won't be long before this sham really comes out in the open.  He is still responsible for his actions, but I think it is helpful for people to realize he is a totally controlled human being and not acting out of his own soul-self.  This man is a walking software program, and the code is wearing thin.  One day he may just fall into exhaustion as his programming no longer works under the changing paradigm.

Wed, 03/26/2014 - 21:44 | 4596880 Berspankme
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Still a dickhead fucking sociopath prick motherfucker

Wed, 03/26/2014 - 22:15 | 4596994 Taint Boil
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Finally – spot on. Get so tired of all the Obama shit when he is nothing but a puppet, they all are. Red team vs the blue team seems to be working out very good for our masters. If you’re falling for it (red vs blue) then everything is going as exactly as planned – good job sheep. The president has no real powers and any high school government class should have spelled / pointed that out. This shit is about to get real and I am curious to see if the American strength and know how has evolved forward or backward over these easy years……… yeah that is what I thought too.

Wed, 03/26/2014 - 20:51 | 4596644 Jack Burton
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I never thought I would ditch Scarlett Johansson's avatar, but given current conditions I switched to a representation of Crimea's chief prosecutor, since she has been charged with treason by the Kiev coup leaders. I suggest Kiev send their thugs to Crimea to arrest her and see what happens. My thoughts, Fuck Kiev!

Wed, 03/26/2014 - 23:16 | 4597193 TheFourthStooge-ing
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Viva Natalia!

Wed, 03/26/2014 - 21:03 | 4596697 Jack Burton
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Paul Craig Roberts is out otday on his blog with the real story of the USA in Ukraine. A voice of intelligence and truth. Something Americna media totally lacks. I had little belief that this story would lead to wider conflict, now I am changing my mind. Obama today announced NATO must occupy Eastern Europe and station it's forces there to confront Russia. These fucking neocons will only stop when the nukes are flying. WWIII by summer? It would take our minds off of the coming Mega El Nino, now coming in at about 77% chance in my calculations.

Thu, 03/27/2014 - 11:33 | 4598689 flapdoodle
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Link to PCR's latest???

Wed, 03/26/2014 - 21:31 | 4596807 exartizo
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LIGHT INTRODUCTIONS PRESENTS;

Fly On The Wall Productions

A recently tapped (Non NSA) wireless conversation between Herr Merkel and Mr. Obama

Herr Merkel: Mr. Obama I am in possession of our most recent intelligence regarding the Russian advance of troops and military possessions further into Ukraine.

Mr. Obama: Yes. I’ve been following events too. I made a speech, without my teleprompter, condemning Putin’s increasing use of force.

Herr Merkel: It appears Putin intends to secure his borders for energy control purposes as we have discussed in the past. Short of direct military conflict with him we are now powerless.

Mr. Obama: I’ve been considering our alternatives also. I think we’re going to have to let Ukraine go back into Russian hands. Mr. Putin has outfoxed us again!

Herr Merkel: He is so bold! What is to stop him from re-annexing all of the former USSR bloc republics?

Mr. Obama: My golf game has been off lately. I’m sure I can figure this out when I get back.

Herr Merkel: The Bundestag is panicking! We are certain that we will be under Mr. Putin’s thumb for the foreseeable future with our natural gas requirements.

Mr. Obama: Yes you’re right Frau Merkel. I’m really sorry about that. What choice do we have?

I mean, the man has nukes, and I’m afraid he’s likely not afraid to use them if he has to. Plus the rest of the civilized world is happy that someone finally has the balls to stand up to us.

Where does he get the balls from, that’s what I want to know. He must be eating some kind of Russian bear gonads to give him that kind of cahones.

Herr Merkel: I wouldn’t know about that Mr. Obama. But I think we need some kind of counter strategy going forward.

Mr. Obama: Well. At this point I think we should wait and see how well the sanctions work. I mean sanctions really seemed to work with Iran. Maybe Putin will come around to the bargaining table once the sanctions we’ve placed really start to hit home.

Herr Merkel: Mr. Obama! You must be joking!

Mr. Obama: No ma’am. I never joke about my golf handicap.

Wed, 03/26/2014 - 21:43 | 4596873 BullyBearish
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Obama soon available for birthday parties and Bar Mitzvahs

Wed, 03/26/2014 - 21:50 | 4596894 22winmag
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Wasn't it "checkmate" weeks ago?

Wed, 03/26/2014 - 22:14 | 4596984 tony wilson
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putin talks. The Americans say I want to rebuild the Soviet Empire. Yet, the Americans witnessed me depart from Georgia when I had this former Russian province in my hands, thanks to the short-lived war instigated by the Americans.
   There is no end to the American lies. I have done everything possible to respond to provocations in a low-key reasonable manner, offering to work things out diplomatically, as has my Foreign Minister Lavrov. But the Americans continue to provoke and to hide their provocations behind lies. The Americans brazenly bring to me a strategic threat in Ukraine. They intend to put Ukraine in NATO, the purpose of which expired with the Soviet collapse. They intend to put more missile bases on Russia’s borders, and they intended to evict Russia from its Black Sea naval base, its warm water port

Americans have no intention of working anything out. They intend to subjugate Russia. Washington wants Russia powerless, surrounded with ABM bases that degrade our strategic deterrent to uselessness. These Americans will not work with me. They will not listen to me or to Russia’s Foreign Minister. They only hear their own call for American hegemony over the world.

My only alternative is to prepare for war.

Wed, 03/26/2014 - 22:41 | 4597090 Jack Burton
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Tony, I have been around a long time now, but this recent Ukraine coup has exposed the western media as total tools of the neocons and zionists. Total lies, total cover ups, total propaganda and 24/7. I've seen alot, but never this level of news black out and truth black out replaced with a tidal wave of lies and liars. CNN & BBC being toal cunts, liars, and whores of Zion!

Thu, 03/27/2014 - 00:34 | 4597383 Againstthelie
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Wait until one day you begin to research WWII and the Holohoax!

It has been exactly the same for god knows many decades. Not only now White has become Black. What is different now for many awakening people is the internet. It has broken the news monpoly of these forces. Suddenly people, who before were not actively interested in history and political history, see, that what is told to them in the MSM and by the regime, is only one side of the perspective and that a completely other perspective, often much more rationale, logical, exists. A monopoly these forces had for roughly 150 - 200 years.

The internet is changing things. But the question is: will it be sufficient to reach a critical mass?

I have my doubts, if I look at the broad mass of sheeple, which still recognize NOTHING.

Wed, 03/26/2014 - 22:26 | 4597034 TahoeBilly2012
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Fuck. I want to live.

Wed, 03/26/2014 - 22:50 | 4597124 Tracerfan
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You will live if the Neo-Cons are reigned in.  They started this shit, like they did in Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc.  Obama the moron let them control U.S. military/foreign policy

He was smart enough to back off on direct intervention in Syria.  He will hopefully realize this is a Russian reaction to US overstepping in Ukraine, and not do anything militarily.  I believe the US military brass is advising not to do anything.

Wed, 03/26/2014 - 22:35 | 4597063 shutdown
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Russia has had their land chipped away at and they've been attacked countless times throughout history, but they've never lost a serious, truly threatening war yet. Their patience has now worn out and they want their land back ... and they'll get it. I think Obama might find a victory if he picked another nation to screw with, maybe a tiny, beat-up desert nation, as usual. 

Wed, 03/26/2014 - 22:45 | 4597098 Jack Burton
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The last total subjegation of Russia was the Mongol Inavsion and occupation, though this Mongol power was so great it took China and all central Asia and most Middle Eastern nations. They nearly took Japan too. But Russia has never forgotten the Mongol Yoke as they call it. Since then they have been willing to fight without let up to prevent another foreign take over. NATO thinks Russia is a pussy riot nation. They are wrong.

Thu, 03/27/2014 - 05:33 | 4597673 Aussie V
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Australia?

Thu, 03/27/2014 - 13:27 | 4599246 TPTB_r_TBTF
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no, Australia is a vassal of China.

Thu, 03/27/2014 - 06:32 | 4597719 Ar-Pharazôn
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putin should answer with 2 words.

 

Iraq. Afghanistan. oh wait. i forgot Serbia, Somalia, Lybia, Syria, etc etc

 

Thu, 03/27/2014 - 08:12 | 4597865 esum
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who's the paper tiger 

put all the western leaders and IMF bankers lined up on the border in the path of the tanks with megaphones... and russian signers....that'll stop them cold...

PEACE IS AT HAND.... again

problem is O and putin are on the same side..... both trying to take the ussa down.... just in different ways .... benedict arnold in charge

 

Thu, 03/27/2014 - 08:58 | 4598014 RazvanM
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Just wondering how in the world there may be so many Russian empire lovers on a site like zerohedge.com. The world is not an antithesis between Russia aggressions and US aggressions, you know?

Thu, 03/27/2014 - 13:26 | 4599238 TPTB_r_TBTF
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well Russian oligarchs wrestle bears and ride horses with no shirt on! 

(that is, no shirt on the oligarch; a shirt for the horse is optional)

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