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Ukraine Gives Russia 48-Hr Ultimatum Or "We Will Fight"

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Ukraine's foreign ministry has given Russia a 48-hour ultimatum to explain its military exercises near the nation's border; or, as foreign minister Andriy Deshschytisa warns "we will now fight with Russia troops."

 

As AP reports,

Ukraine's foreign minister has blasted the Russian decision to start military maneuvers along Ukraine's border and said his country will fight any invading troops.

 

Andriy Deshchytisa said Russia's decision Thursday to launch the military exercises "very much escalates the situation in the region."

 

Talking to The Associated Press in Prague, Deshchytisa says his country has been taught a lesson by Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula. He says "having this experience, we will now fight with Russian troops if ... they invade Ukraine."

 

He says "Ukrainian people and Ukrainian army are ready to do this."

 

Deshchytisa says the new Russian military exercises are taking place "even closer to the Ukrainian border than it was planned earlier" and demanded the withdrawal of Russian troops.

It seems the red-line is about to be crossed by both sides... though as long as Putin does not hold an emergency press conference, it seems BTFWWIII is back on.

 

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Thu, 04/24/2014 - 14:23 | 4691713 TPTB_r_TBTF
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If you see a bright flash, then close your eyes and open your mouth.

Closing your eyes might prevent blindness.

Holding your mouth open might prevent your ears from exploding.

Thu, 04/24/2014 - 14:12 | 4691646 smacker
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Ukraine's illegitimate government is getting desperate for the West to intervene. And the West is desperate to intervene.

NATO will be ordered to "do something" to threaten/intimidate Russian forces to create "an incident".

Thu, 04/24/2014 - 14:13 | 4691655 gcjohns1971
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Wow, it is like watching an itsty bitsy, but oh-so-balsy, chihuahua barking aggressively at a pit bull.

Thu, 04/24/2014 - 14:24 | 4691723 tsuki
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The could make a picture...The Louse that Roared.  Yatsenyuk could play all the parts.   (Apologies to Peter Sellers,)

Thu, 04/24/2014 - 14:14 | 4691659 Son of Captain Nemo
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Made to order in America!

Just pay a bunch of U.S. backed operatives money like this piece of putrid smelling shit Arsen Avokav who has either spent many months or years in Washington, the Army War College and Fort Bragg for their "basic training" to overthrow legitimately recognized government(s) and call anyone who rejects or resists the junta put in it's place "a terrorist"!  What simplistic elegance it all is in a deeply demented and warped way?  Is it just me or do they all resemble Mikheil Saakashvili???...

Create havoc using mercenaries who's only objective is to destroy a government through complete subversion and it's commerce inside and out, loot, rape, pillage murder... (.) Make a study guide out of it and rinse and repeat the strategy with any Nation State who wants it's own self-determination with others in it's own region without foreign intervention through the use of "terrorism". That's it!

I just hope and pray that the Americans who are forward deployed in Eastern Europe come back in plastic body bags by the plane load and that they keep coming in rapid succession.  Any scum that continues to support an objective that includes this kind of chaos after 13 years deserves the most vile and brutal death imaginable. 

And if as a Nation we're unable to stop it before it goes to "Defcon 1" I'll be looking forward to that all-over-tan the Jews in Tel Aviv  Haifa, Washington and London will just die for!

Thu, 04/24/2014 - 14:19 | 4691690 Winston of Oceania
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Free Konigsberg!!

Thu, 04/24/2014 - 14:29 | 4691761 Jorgen
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Free Konigsberg!!

This is what the Poles are hoping for...

Thu, 04/24/2014 - 14:47 | 4691879 WhyWait
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Son of Nemo wrote:

"I just hope and pray that the Americans who are forward deployed in Eastern Europe come back in plastic body bags ..."

That may happen.  Those of us rooting for the anti-fascists are supporting those who will be trying to kill them.  But these are still our children, right or wrong, and I cannot find any joy in their deaths.  

Soon (unless our criminal misleaders set off a nuclear holocaust) many or most of them will be coming home - alive, but with damaged bodies and minds and angry as all Hell.  Coming back to join the veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, and their elders who learned the same lessons at terrible cost in Viet Nam.

They will be looking for answers about who set them up and who's to blame.  Like all the Vets that came before them they will need to know we still love and care about them ... and still need them.  As witnesses, and to stand with us to save our land and the world from the criminals who sent them there.

We probably can't do it without them.

..........................

btw ... It's worth remembering that the American Revolution was made and defended by the veterans of England's imperial wars with France.  Tom Paine makes a big point of this in Common Sense - as a central reason why the timing was right for the fight for Independence and why waiting another 10 or 20 years could be fatal.


Thu, 04/24/2014 - 16:29 | 4692332 Son of Captain Nemo
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WW

I guess my point is when do you as a member of the U.S. military thoughtfully reflect on all the harm you've done in this World based on lies that led you to see numerous invasions and occupations that have been an abject failure and as a consequence degraded and destroyed your military and for that matter the economy that pays for you?

How do you continue to take orders from leaders that have a death wish not only for you this time but more importantly the rest of the Country and the World against a super power that can and will defend itself?   So now we're going to take on the biggest and badest?...

How is it even possible these career military types continue to follow orders and not have become conscientious objectors en masse after the Bin Laden capture, Fukushima clean up and Benghazi?  Are the money and benefits really that good?!!!

Just sayin... We've got a visual on the "Four Horsemen"!  Time to wake the fuck up before it's too late!

Thu, 04/24/2014 - 19:15 | 4693013 WhyWait
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Nemo, I suspect we're talking about different typical members of US Miitary.  

I picture someone (call him Type X) who signed up believing the bs and who keeps going because he's part of it and loyal to his comrades and it's about them and that and pride in a job well done, and it eats at him but he's not letting himsef think too deeply - until one day it hits him, maybe after he's out and back in the States.

I think you are picturing a career soldier, (Type Y), maybe a mercenary, who's already hardened and already reconciled to killing a woman or child here or there or wrecking someone's town and able to laugh at death and killing and justify it by the money and perks.

Both exist.  They deserve to be judged differently.  But maybe the line between them isn't clear.

Looking at Ukraine, every soldier who refuses to fight for the fascists, refuses to kill his countrymen, is a win.  And a soldier who last year could have been sent into battle against whoever his government said was the enemy but who has come over to the people. All Type X's?  A mix of X's and Y's?  I don't know.  

Thu, 04/24/2014 - 14:49 | 4691823 Hannibal
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Headline should be: "US/Nato invaded the Ukraine"!

Thu, 04/24/2014 - 14:41 | 4691840 Turdy Brown
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Fucking coward mercs.  They only know how to kill inncoent women, children, unarmed men.  Where are they now? Worked with them in Afghanistan.  Nothing but a bunch of cowardly, hash smoking, drunks, making anywhere from $300-$900 per day!

Thu, 04/24/2014 - 14:56 | 4691931 TPTB_r_TBTF
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... making anywhere from $300-$900 per day

 

Can i apply online?  Link please.

Thu, 04/24/2014 - 14:53 | 4691914 _SILENCER
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If you don't support war in Ukraine, you're a racist.

Thu, 04/24/2014 - 14:56 | 4691929 AdrenalineTrade
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Long S400's.  Short McDonnel-Douglas, Raytheon and General Dynamics.

Thu, 04/24/2014 - 15:16 | 4692005 crzyhun
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Love to see the Ukies go hard on the sov's...partisan like! I think the finns nailed their commie asses back in '39. Never had a prob with them sov's again.

Oh one other thing...you know that the only country that beat the chi-coms were the Viets. Funny how the Davids can stone the giants! 

Thu, 04/24/2014 - 15:17 | 4692028 icanhasbailout
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Sure all you need is a freezing cold, forbidding mountain range... on the Black Sea.

Thu, 04/24/2014 - 15:17 | 4692022 icanhasbailout
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They can give the order to fight the Russians, but who would obey it?

Thu, 04/24/2014 - 15:17 | 4692024 mbutler101
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We have an a new 'Kiev Bob' if you know what I mean.

Thu, 04/24/2014 - 15:43 | 4692159 Irishcyclist
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Empty threat from Ukraine. I can't see many Ukrainians volunteering to engage in battle against the Russkies.

America is being made to look both foolish and ineffectual by getting involved in this mess in the first place.

Thu, 04/24/2014 - 15:59 | 4692230 Itchy and Scratchy
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Will civilization be able to bear a full scale global Pussy Riot? Oh the humanity of it all!

Thu, 04/24/2014 - 16:13 | 4692283 Radical Marijuana
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My view is that the ruling classes that dominate NATO countries are sufficiently insane to risk starting a war that could quickly go out of anyone's control! There is nothing in their historical habits that makes them care about the REALITIES that weapons of mass destruction are trillions of times BIGGER than ever before in human history. The ruling classes' social success was based on backing up lies with violence, which has worked for them for thousands of years.

NATO is dominated by banksters, who have become criminally insane, because they have an agenda to attempt to consolidate a totally integrated global system of them being able to make "money" out of nothing, while everyone else is forced to accept that fraud. After all, that system already took control of the British Empire, and then the Anglo-American ( Zionist) Empire, which were able to dominate the whole world, while kicking the shit out of countries like Russia in the past. The banksters plans are to continue doing that!

I can not imagine any practical ways to prevent the banksters that control NATO countries from continuing to provoke an utterly insane world war, because they already are criminally insane, because they expect to be able to "win." That everyone could end up losing is not something that they care enough about, to stop them from risking that happening, in order to attempt to advance their agenda. In my view, not only are the ruling classes criminally insane, but also, practically everyone else is too, including the controlled opposition to them, as well as, of course, the masses of Zombie Sheeple, who have been fleeced to exhaustion, and set up to be slaughtered.

NOTHING REGARDING THE SCIENCES THAT MADE TECHNOLOGIES BECOME TRILLIONS OF TIMES MORE POWERFUL HAS YET MANIFESTED WITHIN THE UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN POLITICS, OTHER THAN TO BE EMPLOYED TO MAKE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION AND MASS SURVEILLANCE.

Events in the Ukraine are the latest manifestations of the runaway criminal insanities of Neolithic Civilization's social pyramid systems that enable the banksters now at the top of those pyramids to provoke wars, which are designed to end up benefiting those banksters. In that context, there is no possible way to understand the degree of the criminal insanities of those banksters, that already dominate NATO countries, who are willing and able to attempt to consolidate their global hegemony over the combined money/murder systems, despite that attempting to do it could spin out of their control, and result in the almost total annihilation of civilization as a whole.

Thu, 04/24/2014 - 18:31 | 4692831 kurt
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If they succeed in causing these WMD's to be used, we should swear a solemn oath to hunt them down, way in their hidey holes, and drag them up to the surface. There can be no "win" for them. Even as we die of radiation, dust, or virus, it must be our last act to positively bring them up without so much as a mask.

My father had a way of teaching a dog to not shit in the house. He rubbed his face in it and kick tossed him outside. It worked in one lesson. I envision worse for those that perpetrate this INSANE level of risk taking.

Thu, 04/24/2014 - 16:22 | 4692319 Crazed Smoker
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This could be a sick kinda adrenaline rush for me except now I don't know who to root for because from what information I gathered our guys are nazis?  Wtf?

Thu, 04/24/2014 - 16:38 | 4692390 Volkodav
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Looks Kyiv is not even feeding troops.  RT now has report that food, medical supplies and other stolen from locals in East Ukr.

Thu, 04/24/2014 - 17:00 | 4692481 Notsobadwlad
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The guy was clearly put in place by the west to pick a fight with Russia... to the detriment of his people.

I wonder how much the west is paying him. Maybe someone can find out where he banks and how much has been deposited there. If he is not being paid (and most likely even if he is) then he is a total moron.

Thu, 04/24/2014 - 17:06 | 4692513 Gimp
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LOL- Ukraine about to open up a can and get it's assed whooped

Thu, 04/24/2014 - 18:22 | 4692787 kurt
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If you were this Ukrainian official, you had just been visited by the head of the CIA, and the Vice President of the USA. He's told they have pictures of him, something about a fist and a dirty nighty.

He had to make the announcement. Why is the USA pushing for war? 

Cease and Desist.

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