Friday, July 25, 2014

Martin says it's serious

The Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman sees a historical parallel in the confirmation that Russia has been shelling Ukraine:

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey said Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s new use of Russian military force inside Ukraine harkens back to 1939 when Joseph Stalin led a Russian invasion of Poland, and Dempsey predicted Putin was far from finished.
Dempsey was speaking to the Aspen Security Forum and responding to the newsthat the U.S. government is accusing the Russian military of firing artillery from Russian territory into eastern Ukraine in support of separatists there. The latest development represents a dangerous escalation of the crisis on the part of Putin, and the Russia-Ukraine crisis is now a global problem, he said.
“It does change the situation. You’ve got a Russian government that has made a conscious decision to use its military force inside another sovereign nation to achieve its objectives. It’s the first time since 1939 or so that that’s been the case,” Dempsey said. “They clearly are on a path to assert themselves differently not just in Eastern Europe, but Europe in the main, and towards the United States.”

Let's see; today alone, we've covered this as well as the ISIS threat to the West, and Iran's' supreme ayatollah reiterating his view that it's necessary to destroy Israel, and Putin's strategic aims.  This could start to affect my digestion.

Speaking of Israel, its cabinet unanimously turned down Secretary Global Test's ceasefire proposal.
Once again, the world sees him reading from the wrong playbook.  You know the mullahs are saying, "Hell, the guy can't even get the Zionist Entity to heed him."


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