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Russia Plans Missile Defense System Drill Near Southern Border As North Korea Test-Fires Short-Range Rockets
With 'shocked' OSCE observers noting that the Minsk accord ceasefire is not holding in Ukraine's Shyrokyne, it appears sabre-rattling around the world is picking once again. Military exercises in Russia's Astrakhan region, conducted successful launches of the 'hypersonic' S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems, repelling an "enemy" air assault. This follows another drill invloving ten aircraft including helicopters in simulated attacks by an "enemy" near the Chinese border. Meanwhile, North Korea has test-fired four short-range missiles into the sea off its west coast, in protest at US-South Korean military drills, which are currently ongoing, and a 2nd drill is underway " supervised by Kim Jong-Un."
First, The Minsk Accord is not holding...
- *OSCE MEMBERS 'SHOCKED' AT DONETSK AIRPORT VISIT: BOCIURKIW
- *CEASEFIRE NOT HOLDING AT UKRAINE'S SHYROKYNE: BOCIURKIW
- *OSCE SEES WORSENING HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN EAST UKRAINE
And then... (as TASS reports),
The S-300V4 air defense missile systems that can launch hypersonic missiles...
will be involved in field firing exercises at the Kapustin Yar range in the Astrakhan region, Southern Russia, head of the tactical air defense Lieutenant General Alexander Leonov told TASS on Friday.
"Air defense specialists of the Ground Forces will conduct field firing exercise using the modern air defense missile systems Tor-M2U and S-300V4 at the Kapustin Yar range in the Astrakhan region," he said.
Russia's Eastern Military District plans to use Zastava unmanned aerial vehicles to live-stream large-scale live fire military drills involving S-300 missile systems set to take place in the Republic of Buryatia in southern Siberia.
Which followed...
Earlier this week, the Eastern Military District announced that over ten aircraft including helicopters had participated in simulated attacks by an "enemy" near the Chinese border.
The Russian Defense Ministry announced plans to conduct at least 4,000 military exercises throughout the country in 2015.
Which was 'coincidental' with... (as The BBC reports),
North Korea has test-fired four short-range missiles into the sea off its west coast, say South Korean military officials.
In a statement, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missiles had a range of about 140km (87 miles).
They were fired from Dongchang-ri in the north of the country on Friday afternoon local time, it said.
The North often conducts missile tests in protest at US-South Korean military drills, which are currently ongoing.
The US and South Korea say the annual exercises are for defence training purposes, but Pyongyang calls them a rehearsal for invasion. They are always a trigger for a surge in tensions between the two Koreas.
When the drills began in March, the North fired two short-range ballistic missiles, and on 13 March it fired seven ground-to-air missiles into the sea to coincide with the end of one part of the drill, Operation Key Resolve.
A second drill, Foal Eagle, is continuing.
A JCS spokesman said Friday's test "appeared to have been supervised by Kim Jong-Un", the AFP news agency reports.
The two Koreas are technically still at war as the 1950-53 conflict ended with a ceasefire, not a peace treaty.
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But apart from that...
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A successful test. YeeeeeeeHaaaaaaaa BTFD
Um, firing missiles into the sea doesn't really achieve very much?
"In other news, North Kores set off 100 Roman candles in defiance of US exercuises"
So goes the build up to WWIII. Prepare, save yourself and your family. You can make it if you get ready now. God Bless. Maybe we can make a better world after this is all over.
http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com/keytopics/threats.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones
"God Bless. Maybe we can make a better world after this is all over."
lmao
unmitigated BS
who is the "we" you're talking about?
you will all be toast.
this one is coming to you
and it's about time.
tic toc
zombies
agree on 1 point, any one putting any inability to understand something into faith to feel better deserve to die.
humanity work on this scheme for millenars to pardon error and crazy behaviors, it is time to plead guilty and stop BS.
christians pedoporn -> headshot
arab goat fuck beheader - > headshot
chinese animals killing spree > headshot
....
list goes long.
destroying art will not educate you, behead journalist not help to get water in the pipes, eating shark dicks not give you 10cm more to lil chineses dicks, seting own live to 'god' do not allow you to mouth fuck 6 years old childs while thinking god forgive and child are not women...
humanity is sick as fuck.
you do realize now you can buy a 18h autonomy watch.... i mean... W.T.F is going on here...
Don't count on it - we don't have a very good track record in the utopia-building department. Wars, however, we are pretty good at that!
Um, gonna watch you from now on, bot..
dream on.
http://hedgeaccordingly.com/2015/04/russia-plans-to-build-arctic-militar...
That window is closing fast for the neocons.
Tick tock.
neocons? Shirly, you're joking?
Those MadMen episodes are starting to polute my better judgements.
In the USA, big defense contractors like Lockheed, BAE and Northrup were reducing the headcount of their high paid research engineers to boost their share prices (their excuse was sequestration). Meanwhile, Russian missile engineers were busy developing the S-300 anti-aircraft missile and probably also an anti-missile missile system. Now Russia has the technology edge on the USA with this mobile S-300 system. The mess we are in now is what happens when you put your armed forces under the control of satanist Wall Street insiders and their demented neo-con homo flunkies (also known as chicken hawks). Imagine, America run by the likes of Manchurian Candidate Obama, who refuses to release his bad college grades and his crummy LSAT score, a New World Order vicious puppet who is firing every command officer in the military who won't blindly follow orders to start a nuclear world war.
Well said!
+100
Russia still relies on the S-300 family of updated systems, but these are beign fast replaced by the much more capable S-400. And the new anti missile system S-500 is now ready for operational use. The newest missiles for the Tor M2u mobile medium range AA missiles system are a quantum leap forward for this system, the newest missile it fires being a huge upgrade, finally the Russian Army is now deploying a brand new MANPAD shoulder fired AA missile for the infantry. The newest missile is again a quantum leap over the older systems, the ones that shot down the Ukrainian Air Force in the Civil War. So YES, Russia takes anti aircraft warfare very seriously. Because most of the US strength comes in the form of our Air Forces. In fact, our Army has never fought another enemy without total complete and utter control of the sky over the battlefield. Without that advantage, it is doubtful US Infantry, no matter how well trained, would be one lick better than the Russian Infantry.
I also like your idea of not letting our defense lie in the hands of greedy profit seekers, who will cut corners for profit. We pay 4 times as much for our missile systems as the Russians do, because they do not factor in big profits, profits are big enough to stay in business no more. Here in the USA we must pay way more than needed, because corporations seek to make unlimited profit on our defense.
Spot On Jack! Beautiful post.
You want to see Russian military superiority in action. Check out this extreme low flying video filmed near Moscow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ1REwXG1-c
It's a spoof. Look closely. The flying semi-trailer gives it away!
If you look closely you can see some bad pixels...
Yes, it is a spoof.
That is why it is funny.
No sarc tag. It really is funny. Laugh a little.
Clever! Love it!!! Better than real! :)
Jeez
u sure know a lot about Rooskie weapons.
just say'n
It's all in the Public Record. 5 Minutes on the internet reveals all this basic information.
Without that advantage, it is doubtful US Infantry, no matter how well trained, would be one lick better than the Russian Infantry.
US infantry are considered by other militaries as chicken pussies who get scared at loud noises, and call-in deluges of firepower from the sky as soon as there is the probability of danger. They are especially laughted at by the real fighters out there, e.g. pashtun fighters, russian spetsnaz, etc.
Red arrowing this guy does not change reality, just so you know that
From the safety of the barracks, a bar, or a keyboard- ANY potential adversary is a pussy. However, to an infantryman on the field of battle, EVERY adversary is a potential serious threat. Within every sizable military there is great diversity of skill sets among units, but there are far more variables to both the outcome(s) of an engagement and the survival of any individual than just the fantasy footbal rankings of the "fighters".
Many years ago a couple fire teams of (rather inebriated) old and former US soldiers were stumbling down a narrow Swiss street on the way to my wedding... where we crossed paths with some uniformed members of the Swiss militia, one of whom had purple hair and an earring. One of the groomsmen says under breath, "I guess they let anyone serve here..." the best man discretely motioned to the nearest three of the several dozen firing positions on the block and replied to the effect of, "if I kick down the door, his ass is mine, but I really wouldn't want to be charged with clearing this block."
Reality is a bit more complex than either you or the OP imply, just as while killing people is easy, doing it repeatedly, surviving it repeatedly with all your buddies also surviving it repeatedly is more than complex, since the Fates are free to intervene and negate any superiority that exists on paper.
Well said. While I wake every morning with creaky bones and old injuries, some of my squaddies never made it because the Fates intervened. I just got lucky.
A true warrior would never say they just got lucky. Now you have to live as a old chick with the memory of your dead comrades.
A true warrior would never say they got lucky. Now you have to live as a old chick with the memory of your dead comrades.
:)
If airpower is in your tool-kit, why wouldn't you use it? To have it and not use it isn't being brave, it's full-on stupidity.
I could give you about a thousand reasons, among them:
1) your radio man barely made it through land nav
2) a rucker retard in an apache rains hellfire down on you
3) air farce slackers slacking
...
They all boil down to your and your team's survival. Perhaps things have changed in recent years, but I would not trust a keyboard commando in an air conditioned trailer playing a "video game" not to drone my ass (or even know what a "real" soldier is), so resorting to fire support coordination against an adversary in direct engagement would be a last resort, not a first choice.
There were actually a couple things that smelled funny in the second part of that reply, but it's Easter.
you ever listen to yourself?
Nobody anywhere said that. You are putting words into my mouth and asking for me to defend them.
Read my post, nowhere do I say that. I asked you to consider the US losing it's air superiority. Israel in 1973 lost it's air superiority on the Sinai canal area for a week, and the Egyptian infantry destroyed an entire Israel armored regiment, plus the second relief regiment. Israel's infantry failed to take Egytian positions as long as theri missile shield prevent Isaeli air power from smashing them
Would you ever believe that an Egyptian infantry squad could match an Israeli squad? No of course not! But that is just the point. Minus their air power, that is just what DID HAPPEN.
A defined front and a largely intact battle plan facilitate the the hellish beauty of unleashed combined arms, like in the Battle of Kuwait (as long you have a ride that has a direct link to Skynet)... However, when it goes out the window you get Mogadishu. Dubya wouldn't have been wrong to stand on that aircraft carrier if he had ordered all US troops out that day, but by not doing so and by not putting Bremmer in front of a firing squad for issuing CPA Order #2 a few weeks later- the US lost Iraq 2.0 when Plan A was accomplished and no longer applicable. The Israelis didn't fare particularly well either in 2006 when they misjudged enemy infantry tactics and their Plan A went up smoke in some Merkavas. And now we have the two 800lb gorillas using proxies for relatively direct engagement (for the moment), but as soon as that changes someone's Plan A is going to go up (or down) in smoke, which leaves only the ugly and radioactive options for the rest us to suffer through...
I am not an American. I am not the one defending them. Sure, they are not as superior as everyone outside ZH likes to believe. However, they have more battle-experienced troops than any other country. Plus a population that is trigger-happy - meaning thousands that regularly visit the shooting range.
And you cannot win a war with a few elite troops - they give you an advantage that can lead to such an event - but nothing more. Russia does not have an almighty military. In the past it could rely on the fact that it often could throw almost endless amounts of own soldiers against the enemy. That has changed and Russia has nowadays better equipment and gear. However - even Russia is not an invincible force - it failed in Afghanistan, it failed in the first Cechnya war, it failed against my own country Finland in WWII.
Air superiority has always been a key factor since WWII. You would be stupid not to use that. When America could not use that air superiority effectively, it often failed to win a war. Like in Vietnam.
Whatever happens - if there is a WWIII - I guarantee you - neither the United States nor Russia will be declared the winner. Both will be losers and the rest of mankind will hate and probably kill any Russian and any American they see in a post-apocalyptic environment. They will be hated much more than the Germans after WWII - cause both failed to find a suitable agreement and dragged the rest of mankind with them down.
Best post of the day! Thank You.
I agree with the spirit of your post. However, I believe you are mistaken when you imply both the Russians and the Americans will be hated.
<<They will be hated much more than....>>
World war will not end overnight. I believe whoever continues to press for more aggression will be the ones who are hated most. The agressor is always obvious.
Plus a population that is trigger-happy - meaning thousands that regularly visit the shooting range.
Hey, V., just because we regularly visit the shooting range doesn't mean that we are trigger happy...we're just happy to have triggers -get it? Surely you Finns of all people understand that.
We would just like to be able to defend ourselves against all enemies, just like the Finns did against the Russians (beautifully, I might add).
Sorry, if it sounded negative. Was not intended. I actually like that mindset.
Winter war was by Stalin's Soviet, not Russian Federation
Please do not conflate Soviet USSR with Russia since freedom
From 1917 thru Stalin, Russians were never in control
Even Breznev and Kruschev were Ukrainian nationals
Afghanistan Soviet did not start, did not want.... Most are ignorant about this war.
Chechnya first terrible leadership, but lots of ignorance about this also.
Apparently US military intelligence has been directly warned by Russian nilitary anaysts that any war with Russia would not just be fought on foreing soil, that America would not be protected by its ocean borders any longer, that its cities would be subject to attack for the first time in its history. America will start a war only at its own peril.
http://thesaker.is/yes-russia-is-still-ready-for-war-even-nuclear-war/
And also: http://russia-insider.com/en/history_military/2014/12/06/09-38-29pm/nato...
Russian submarines are more than capable of quietly hiding off the American coast without detection from American forces. Start a war with Russia at your own risk. On the other hand, perhaps it is time that Americans know the true cost of war on their own territory, as Europe and Asia have learned. Perhaps then they wouldn't be so quick to start new ones.
Our infantry has not faced a capable formal infantry force since WWII. The Russians are hard core sons of bitches. I think today's PC US infantry and would overall be inferior to the Russians who would be fighting for Mother Russia.
These deluded neocon chicken hawks need to get put out on their asses before they end up ending life on this planet as we know it. Of course, the elites can spend the next 100,000 years in the underground bunkers creating a new species "homo elitus" well adapted to subterranean bunker life.
To be fair to the US defense contractors, the Russian military equipment producers don't have to engage in diversity placements and gender sensitivity training. Then there is all that lobbying and palm greasing they have to do with Congress and the administration. Plus the people making the purchasing decisions in Russia actually know something about military affairs beyond what they read in a brochure.
Perhaps Obama can get the UN to require Russia and China to operate with the same handicaps as the US. Of course that would mean they would have to find their own versions of Obama.
You mean the US handicap of having a defense budget 10x that of Russia.
I really wish we would stop using "defense" in regards to the US. Does anyone really think the US would be subject to nuclear holocaust, invasion, or war from Russia, China, NK, if the "defense" budget was 10% of its current size? The US is bent on world conquest, empire, and total domination of the planet. You are deceiving yourself and playing along by using the "defense" word. Not being critical of any post just saying there is no "defense" here at all, except perhaps of the MIC budget.
Maybe so, but we are spread thin all across the globe implementing the neocon agenda. While the Russians are concentrated within Russia proper and not operating with that handicap.
Thank God american weapons producers are too corrupt and greedy to build real cutting edge weaponry. If that was not the case, we would be in real trouble. God Bless their corrupted asses !
Now, now children......
Well this is interesting :
http://russia-insider.com/en/us-veterans-reveal-1962-nuclear-close-call-...
US Veterans Reveal 1962 Nuclear Close Call Dodged in OkinawaDuring the Cuban Missile Crisis US missile men stationed in Okinawa actually received an order to launch their nuclear missiles
Also...
http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/04/03/russia-will-deliver-advanced-s-300-...
Russia Will Deliver Advanced S-300 Missiles to Iran if Sanctions Lifted Under Nuclear Deal, Defense Expert SaysOf course they will.Everyone knows you can't trust Uncle Scam. You end up sodomized with a
knife, if you do.
Would Native Americans refute that statement? When forced to deal with that hypocritical "uncle" never forget to include a very large stick somewhere just to keep sammy focused on the terms of the arrangement, cause "good faith" ain't nowhere near that contract.
Rumors are saying that the separatists are going for a new offensive starting April 16...
And you are spreading them.
In actuality, the Ukrainian Nazis have not stopped attacking. The ceasefire is just another scam. The most significant changed is that the volunteeer Nazi battalions have had to join the Ukraine military. So the US will be training real Nazis. Grandad, you did die for nothing in WWII.
The integration of the Nazi battalions into the Ukie army is to their benefit. The Novorossiyans would take Ukie conscipt prisoners, but killed the Nazis on sight, no quarter.
new offensive? that will suprise, and be a first...
as there has been no offensive by them yet, defend home territory only
all aggression in force has been by Kiev
maybe you should notice Kiev is hundreds km distant
and seperatists live there
Predictable and Smart Move whether by the Bankers or by Russia.
- Let me say Right Now there will be an "OLD WORLD ORDER"
Same old Cold War with New Funding, New Debt, New Weapons
- Hey, what is better than Nukes on Intercontinental Missiles??
Answer: That is what we will be buying now, with many additions as the Breadth of Weapons and Depth of Weapons are Expanding: I.E. Drones on Land, Sea & Air, Robots on the Battle Field, Electro-Magnetic Devices, radio Wave Devices, Crowd Control Devices, Clean Weapons, Winning Wars without Troops on the Ground or Occupations
Late Add:
You mean this story isn't about Russia Positioning Missiles in North Korea? Is there a DIFFERENCE?
Negative Votes, wow, you have problem with 10 year planning window or 50 year planning window? The Bankers and Elites are the Survivors of all World Wars and Profiteers of all Military Build-Ups, Get a Clue, Main Street Gets Democide, Wealthy get new Government or hidden Leadership Positions....
Democide is the Result of War.
Democide IS THE PLAN.
DEBT SLAVERY IS WHAT THE LOSERS END UP WITH.
Down with War, Down with Debt, Down with Strong Central Government, Down with Monopolies, Down with the FED, Down with the War, Down with Free Trade, Down With Slave trade, Down with Manipulated Accounting, Manipulated Finances, Manipulated Financial ratings, Manipulated Markets... and my Interest on Savings in my Bank Account!!!
I didn't vote either way.
How do you plan to put down all those things you say down with without the necessary war to destroy all of them? War is what we do. War is the human condition. Life is struggle. Believing you can escape what you are is a fatal fantasy.
Who's manning Vlad's suicide watch tonight?
Just remember, he's lactose intolerant.
You remind me of a buzzing mosquito, an annoyance to be swatted and forgotten. How does 30+ down arrows help your propaganda cause, other than to confirm the idiocy of Ukie maidanites?
you are so pull that neocon dick out of your mouth and get to work
Dude, if you are sitting on a small cruiser of the coast and they light one off, it is scary.
Ships are Targets. Yeah.
Actually, I thought the story was about Russia Positioning Missiles in North Korea.
But, just wait....
i am a jewish neocon washintonian weapons engineer friend of the kagan clans
and i can tell you this
I missed the Neocon Vs. Russia posts.
the s300 is a russian missile system with rockets on metal sometimes card bored tubes
in the wet the jet flame is extinguish shed and the card bored tubes bend
That is okay. Our new jets don't fly either.
Vladimir Putin Fact:
Putin was dropped only twice as a baby - first on Hiroshima, and then on Nagasaki.
Blah Blah Blah.
They only fire short range rockets because that's only as far as they will go!
I've said it many times before, but here goes again: If Russia said that Israel would get it first in any nuke or conventional attack on them, this Zionist shit show would come to a right quick stop--cookies and all.
The banksters need to repay us.
Israel likes to talk about Samson. They better get acquainted with him because thats all they're going to get with this "we're smart and the rest of you are stupid" geopolitical shit they are trying to pull.
I think the Bear bomber incidents buzzing UK airspace tell you all you need to know about who gets it first.
So USA and South Korea can hold 3 months long military exercises right near N Korea border and that's OK but N Korea tests fires some missles and it's siber-rsattling! More BS by the Corporate Owned Media.
It's ok man! It's missile porn!
Be sure to let me know whne they go on "alert" !
About 2 years ago I lectured near there north of Georga. Beautiful unspoiled and mostly undeveloped country. As an american I was a novelty. The people were warm and friendly.
The world's people can all get along just fine. Trading seeds for gardens and sharing harvests each year. All people enjoy Christmas. Even the Chinese folks.
What everybody knows is the rothschild zionist owned media slimebag puppets keep everybody in the world fighting each other by constantly lying, and deceiving the nations peoples. Everybody knows it is also the rothschild zionist owned puppet politicians that perpetuate the evil totalitarian world domination and population elimination agendas.
There is still time for all the world's good people to just stop playing their games of evil warmongering for profits, and destruction. The bottom line is, you are evil, or you are good. Both will reap their rewards, either here on this earth-plane in this lifetime, or the next. All karmic retribution is made before the Ka/soul can move on. There is no changing that fact, so choose well the path you take. Evil begets evil, and good begets good. Petty darn simple, really.
THE EVIL BANKSTERS ARE THE WORLD'S ENEMIES.
Thanks for informing us of the culprits behind the recent mass murder of 147 Christian university students in Kenya.
how long have we been giving Russia technology 80 years
.
we are all dead
If this is the latest carp they are harping on, then it is a loud speaker yelling, don't look here, look over there!!
And just what is that crazy nuttyyahoo puppet doing, and yaking about now? What is that insanely aggressive deceivious puppet attack dog rothschildzio owned tool isreal doing next week? Do ya really think they will try to attack innocent Iran during Easter, or passover?
Say, isn't that blood moon thingy on for tomorrow also?
Ooooooogie-booooogie.
What's next in warmongering until the days of nothing left breathing on the planet games?
Moar woar?
That sucks.
The Minsk agreements were to buy time,and a way out for the trapped division surrounded by the separatists.Consolidate in the Winter,attack in the Spring.
Not really much gonna happen without some serious Tac Air action,which neither side has got much of.So,back to the Grad rocket bombardments.
This reminds me of Vietnam.Kissinger,and the Paris Peace Talks.We will bomb you back to the negotiating table.I would hate to see the Ukraine covered with landmines like Angola,Cambodia,Afghanistan,etc.
These wars of attrition should be an anachronism by now.
They are much too profitable to be considered anachronisms.
A tin of spam and a bible will protect you just fine }:O)
1) The Jewish Talmud (book of tradition & interpretation) says: "When the MOON is in eclipse, it is a "bad omen for Israel".
2) When the MOON'S FACE IS RED AS BLOOD, it is "a bad omen for Jews & the nation of Israel."
3) A TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE indicates judgment, not to Israel, but to the Gentile nations, "as a sword coming to the world."
http://www.tldm.org/News23/Four-Blood-Moons-and-the-Arrival-of-the-Antic...
just for your information: the Bayside Apparition are false.
Cathrine the Great and lil' Kim. What throwbacks. Slap a dress and heels on these dollies, and a dash of lipstick. Both need new 'dos. Strutting your stuff, a bit wobbly on the high heels, Femme Fatales.
Having a laugh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udo_FF_IXIE
Ah, the Great Game.
"Hello, this is 'Peggy,' Yes, city leveled in 30 minutes or less or next carpet bomb free!
So pretty..."
"With 'shocked' OSCE observers noting that the Minsk accord ceasefire is not holding"
Immediately after signing Minsk 1, John Kerry held a press conference where he started undermining the agreement. He went on to undermine it repeatedly. Kiev sent its armed forces and allegedly Kolomoisky sent in his National Guard "punisher battalions" into eastern Ukraine to put down the rebellion there, but the separatists won the day. The ceasefire under Minsk 2 saved the encircled Uke forces at Debaltsevo, but they lost a lot of their equipment and supplies to the separatists.
Now we have Minsk 2, after Germany's Merkel and France's Hollande went rogue on America and fostered a cease-fire without letting the US have a seat at the table. But Kiev and the US have been doing everything they can to sabotage Minsk 2. Kiev has not withdrawn its heavy weapons, and continued shelling Donetsk and Lugansk. Kiev forces have tried advances around Marioupol. The US has announced US troops are being sent to western Ukraine to train Uke army forces. US Congress has voted to give weapons to Ukraine. The US keeps sending its navy into the Black Sea for "exercises", NATO continues buildups in countries on Russia's western border, and NATO just finished an armed road show along a large part of Russia's western border. Russia has put on its own displays of military might, and rhetorical responses to Washington and the NATO hawks.
Merkel has been forced back into line, saying that sanctions against Russia will not be relaxed until Russia "complies with a ceasefire". OSCE observers stated that separatist forces had removed their heavy weapons and were in compliance with Minsk 2 while noting that Kiev had not complied. Yet Merkel keeps up this stance.
The heads of NATO in Europe keep upping their anti-Russian rhetoric.
Petroshenko is trying to take over control of the National Guard from Kolomoisky, and fold the National Guard into the Uke army. Whether Petroshenko and the National Guard will fold or will march on Kiev and try to overthrow Petroshenko is not yet clear. Conscription of all males from 18 to 60 has been enacted, and police squads are rounding up students and draft-dodgers. Kiev is in desperate financial straits, but reorganization and re-equipping of its armed forces continues.
Meanwhile the US armed forces go on a "practice drill" throughout the southwest US in preparation for....?
It seems quite clear that the US has not given up on the usefulness of Ukraine as a means to pressure Russia as the US and its allies in Israel, the Middle East and Europe engage in economic and geopolitical warfare with Russia and its allies in the Brics and Shanghai Cooperation Organization. These are great distractions from the economic collapse of the US, the EU, the Dollar and the Euro.
A most profound statement here, folks.