Friday, August 29, 2014

It's also crunch time in Ukraine

The understanding among European nations that has held since the late 1940s - than no sovereign nation would militarily aggress upon a neighbor - has been shattered.  Poroshenko has felt the need to institute a draft to address the situation:

Supported by NATO satellite imagery showing Russian forces on the move in eastern Ukraine, its president accused Russia on Thursday of an invasion to aid the separatists, and his national security council ordered mandatory conscription to help counter what he called an “extremely difficult” threat.
The assertions by the president, Petro O. Poroshenko, came two days after he had met with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in attempts to find a way to end the nearly six-month-old crisis roiling Ukraine. The conflict has escalated into the worst East-West confrontation since the Cold War, and the developments on the ground in the rebellious east along the Russian border suggested it would worsen.

Lotta hardware involved:

“Columns of heavy artillery, huge loads of arms and regular Russian servicemen came to the territory of Ukraine from Russia through the uncontrolled border area,” Mr. Poroshenko said. Mercenaries, along with regular servicemen, were trying to overrun positions held by the Ukrainian military, he said, according to a statement on his official website.
“The situation is certainly extremely difficult and nobody is going to simplify it,” Mr. Poroshenko said.
What will the Reset Gang have to say about this?
 



4 comments:

  1. Is it all in the hands of your "reset gang"? No it is not.

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  2. Putin would not be making these moves in a world shaped by American leadership.

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  3. Oh, it's Obama's fault. Righto. The soviets made lots of moves in your dream world shaped by American leadership. We moved too. That was a problem that put a lot of Han beings out of commission. Permanemtly.

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  4. Han beings were created out of human beings by this damned automatic spell check on my cell phony.

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