February 28, 201412 yr A thread for events related to the ongoing racket in Ukraine. Russian Fleet Poses No Threat to Ukraine Senior Official (RIA Novosti) Ukraine Accuses Russian Soldiers in Crimea of 'Invasion' (RIA Novosti) Yanukovych Escorted to Russia By Fighter Jets – Report (RIA Novosti) Russian Lawmakers Push to Simplify Annexing New Territories (RIA Novosti)
March 1, 201412 yr Author How to Annex Another Nation's Territory: The Crimean Invasion in 6 Steps (Popular Mechanics) Red Lines in Crimea (American Interest) Russian Aggression Merits a Response (Commentary) U.S. Spies Said No Russian Invasion of Ukraine—Putin Disagreed (Daily Beast) Russian moves in Ukraine's Crimea a familiar pattern (USA Today) Russia's Putin claims authority to invade Ukraine (Reuters)
March 1, 201412 yr One of my friends was doing a point-by-point prevision of the evenments on his FB, and all correct. On the other side, I was the other friday (21 February) afternoon in Madrid at Instituto General Gutiérrez Mellado, and none of the supossed researchers and top brass present thinked about the Russian invasión, but they were clearly ignorant of some important details, as Yulia Timoshenko jail and torture for a year and an half, or the Lvov/Lviv región previously part of Poland! It not was a surprise the "expert" forecast was disastrously erroneous!
March 3, 201412 yr Author Russia demands surrender of Ukraine's Crimea forces (BBC News) Odessa: Putin's Next Stop in Ukraine? (Real Clear Defense) Russia's War in Crimea Could Have Happened 20 Years Ago, But Didn't. This Is What Changed (New Republic) Crimea Is Gone—What Does NATO Do Next? (Daily Beast)
March 3, 201412 yr Author Ukraine: NATO Should Block the Bosporus and Assure its Allies (Seidlers Sicherheitspolitik)
March 3, 201412 yr Author Now I know how people felt in 1956 or 1968... the Russians will have Sevastopol. Yup, and at this rate, they'll have the whole Crimean region. Meanwhile, looks another Serhiy [Hayduk] has made a brave decision in the Ukrainian Navy.
March 5, 201412 yr Author Congressional, European allies resist US sanctions on Russia over Ukraine (Stars and Stripes)
March 10, 201412 yr Author Mount Whitney and Taylor have left the Black Sea, the latter under tow, leaving only Truxtun in there. Bush CSG is at or near Antalya, Turkey. And the Russians have reportedly moved SSC-5 Bastion coastal defence missile systems into the Sevastopol area. Russia ‘Welcomes’ the US Destroyer Truxtun, by Moving Bastion Anti-Ship Missiles to Crimea (Defense Update)
March 15, 201412 yr The very clever comments (for me!) of two colleagues, very young analysts, both of Canary Islands, regrettably yet only in Spanish (but do you know, Internet translation is now aceptable and very useful ): http://www.guerrasposmodernas.com/2014/las-revoluciones-de-colores-y-la-reconfiguracion-del-orden-mundial-1a-parte/
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