Imperial Troops have entered the base... Imperial Troops have entered the base.... Russian army rolls into Ukraine

[SteveG]

please note: Russia has already seized and annexed Crimea.

The brave European response to this one will be as mighty as their punishments of Russia for the Crimea invasion ... hardly at all.

[Acer]

Anything left to sanction?

[SteveG]

here===> http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world.../14724767/
The United States told an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Thursday that Russia has "outright lied" over its military activity inside Ukraine, where Russian-backed separatists have been fighting Ukrainian armed forces.

The accusations came as NATO released satellite photos it said showed heavily armed Russian forces operating inside eastern Ukraine.

"Russian soldiers, tanks and air defense have supported and fight alongside separatists as they open a new front in a crisis manufactured and fueled by Russia," Samantha Power, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, told the council.

She noted that it was not the first time that Russia has been called by the council to account for its activities inside Ukraine.

"At every step, Russia has come before this council to say everything but the truth," Power said. "It has manipulated, obfuscated and outright lied."

In response, the Russian ambassador, Vitaly Churkin, said, "Everyone knows there are Russian volunteers in eastern Ukraine. No one is hiding it."

[Rolando]

Steve G. wrote:
please note: Russia has already seized and annexed Crimea.

The brave European response to this one will be as mighty as their punishments of Russia for the Crimea invasion ... hardly at all.

I don't like this being brought up. Crimea was "transferred" to Ukraine by Kruschev, a native Ukrainian. from the 1700's to 1917, Crimea was part of the Russian Empire, and from the 1918/21 to the 1960s, it was part of the Russian SSR in the USSR. In THIS case, Russia's claim is better than Ukraine's ( I want to type Ukrayina, it just sounds cooler)

Europeans have a long memory

[SteveG]

Putin fights back!


MOSCOW — Reuters
Last updated Friday, Aug. 29 2014, 9:11 AM EDT
McDonald’s said on Friday that a total of 12 of its branches in Russia had been temporarily closed over the state food safety regulator’s allegations of sanitary violations. The U.S. fast-food chain, which has 440 restaurants in the country, also said that more than 100 inspections were under way at its restaurants in various regions of Russia.

The food safety agency, Rospotrebnadzor, said it ordered the closures for sanitary reasons, but they coincided with heightened tensions over the Ukraine crisis, in which the United States and European Union have imposed sanctions on Russia and Moscow has hit back by banning a wide range of Western food imports. Three McDonald’s restaurants – on Moscow’s Manezh square, under the walls of the Kremlin, at Pushkin Square and on Prospect Mira – have been closed since last week on the orders of the agency. A court challenge was rejected on Wednesday.

Russian businessmen have said the crackdown is linked to the crisis over Ukraine, which has soured U.S.-Russian relations and led to a round of sanctions and trade restrictions. Rospotrebnadzor has denied that its actions are politically motivated. Russia is one of McDonald’s top seven markets outside the United States and Canada, according to its 2013 annual report. Almost 1 million people a day visit its restaurants in Russia.

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Rolando wrote:
[quote=Steve G.]
please note: Russia has already seized and annexed Crimea.

The brave European response to this one will be as mighty as their punishments of Russia for the Crimea invasion ... hardly at all.

I don't like this being brought up. Crimea was "transferred" to Ukraine by Kruschev, a native Ukrainian. from the 1700's to 1917, Crimea was part of the Russian Empire, and from the 1918/21 to the 1960s, it was part of the Russian SSR in the USSR. In THIS case, Russia's claim is better than Ukraine's ( I want to type Ukrayina, it just sounds cooler)

Europeans have a long memory Do not try to confuse SteveG with facts and actual history....

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cbelt3 wrote:
Damn. Now I'm having visions of Soviet tanks pouring through the Fulda Gap, and all the stuff I helped design being used to blow them all to hell. Back in the USSR indeed.

The Cold War is over, cbelt, except for Cheney Obama neocons this truly should have been none of our business, it is almost as if there is no right wing, religious nazi nutso movement we cannot resist but to support. Left alone these corrupted regimes would have never escalated to the degree of hostility we have achieved and engineered.

Oh wait, you boys are buying the neocon propaganda as long as they are yours ....