http://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2014/02/28/7016674/Originally Posted by waywardgs
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http://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2014/02/28/7016674/
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." - Thomas Paine.
Lightning has killed more Americans in the last forty years than terrorism.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...crimea-3194129
Tension in the Crimea grew tonight as the Russian government finally confirmed it had sent soldiers into the troubled region.
Ukraine’s interim leadership denounced the “armed *intervention” on its *southern territory – a key strategic area where Russia’s Black Sea naval fleet is still based.
Moscow insisted its soldiers were on a mission to “protect Black Sea Fleet’s positions”.
Its foreign ministry also said in a statement that its troop movements were “in full accordance with the foundation Russian-Ukrainian *agreement on the Black Sea fleet”.
Reports claimed 2,000 Russian soldiers had landed in the region, while armed militia carrying Russian flags earlier seized the international airport near the Crimean capital Simferopol and a *military base close to Sevastopol.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." - Thomas Paine.
Lightning has killed more Americans in the last forty years than terrorism.
On February 28, the Russian Foreign Ministry held a meeting with Minister-Counselor of the Embassy of Ukraine in the Russian Federation R.M.Nimchinskim, which was assigned to the response note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the proposal Ukrainian Party in connection with the events in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea to hold urgent bilateral consultations under Article 7 Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Partnership between the Russian Federation and Ukraine on 31 May 1997.
In a note to the Russian Foreign Ministry stressed that the Russian side considers events in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, as a result of internal political processes in Ukraine last time, and in this context does not see the need to conduct the proposed Ukrainian Party urgent bilateral consultations.
Ukrainian Party had also been assigned to the Russian Foreign Ministry response note regarding movement of armored Russian Black Sea Fleet in Crimea, associated with the need to ensure the protection of locations of the Black Sea Fleet in Ukraine, what is happening in full accordance with the basic Russian-Ukrainian agreements on the Black Sea Fleet.
http://www.mid.ru/brp_4.nsf/newsline...257C8D00485C4F
Bad translation, but you can get the jist. Russia is saying they are doing this in accordance with an earlier agreement to lease the port for their naval fleet. Note, they also consider Crimea to be an autonomous state, much like they did for those regions during the invasion of Georgia.
Last edited by Gelston; 02-28-2014 at 06:07 PM.
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“After the Russian Army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama’s reaction was one of indecision and moral equivalence, the kind of response that would only encourage Russia’s Putin to invade Ukraine next.” - Sarah Palin, 22 October, 2008.
She knew. She saw it coming from her house.
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." - Thomas Paine.
Lightning has killed more Americans in the last forty years than terrorism.
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She was shooting reindeer from a chopper over Siberia at the time.
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But were they airborne Reindeer or ground level Reindeer? One of which is an endangered species.
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." - Thomas Paine.
Lightning has killed more Americans in the last forty years than terrorism.
Airborne reindeer are all dead because Liberals killed Christmas.
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They both are now. She's an excellent marksman.
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When I want deep, introspective, calculated military and political observations the very first person I go to is Sarah Palin.
Not.
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