Ukraine Heats Up

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

So the trucks are not bringing in small arms and ammunition for the rebels
they are taking out.

There have been a number of stories in recent weeks about how some important avionic components of Russian missiles and planes are built in Ukraine. They gotta get their hands on them in some fashion and I wouldn't put it past them to use a Trojan Horse operation. In fact, I would be surprised if there wasn't some sort of ulterior motive behind this convoy.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

So the trucks are not bringing in small arms and ammunition for the rebels
they are taking out.

We should start calling you Potemkin Don. Just kidding Don.

[bobabode]

"Ukraine Reports Russian Invasion on a New Front" NYTimes
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/28/wo...sk-crimea.html

Looks like the shit is hitting the fan and the gloves have come off.

[piece-itpete]

It's amazing, I thought this was over 3 or 4 times now. Vice is on dispatch 70 or so.

Pete

[bobabode]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...y.html?hpid=z1

Speculation says that the Russians want to establish a secure roadway to the Crimea. This is all going on far to the south of the rebel controlled areas in Donetsk.

[bobabode]

Sat imagery from NATO

http://www.aco.nato.int/new-satellit...e-ukraine.aspx

[bobabode]

LATimes report.
http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/...828-story.html

[nailer]

Putin knows the West will not go to war over Ukraine's eastern most provinces. Establishing a secure land line of communications to the Crimea is clear indication of his expansionary intent.

[bobabode]

Putin and his nuclear tipped swingin' cod. I wonder how this schtick is playing in Berlin?

"Evoking startling images of siege and empire, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday struck a defiant pose over the deployment of troops and tanks in eastern Ukraine, declaring that Russia has no plans for “large-scale conflicts” but reminding the world that he presides over a nuclear-armed state.
“It's best not to mess with us,” Putin said, referring to Russian separatist fighters in Ukraine with a term that dates back to the era of the Russian empire — “New Russia militia” — and likening their battle with Ukrainian army forces to Soviet citizens' heroic resistance during the German Nazi siege of Leningrad.
His comments, designed to cast the Ukraine conflict as a World War II-like aggression inspired by the West, came a day after President Obama warned of the mounting costs to Russians as their government deepens its involvement in eastern Ukraine." LATimes

http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/...ry.html#page=1

[nailer]

His shtick is deadly serious. Other than a serious shooting war, what's to stop him?