Russia intends to annex the Crimea

If Russia can invade a neighboring country, by invitation or otherwise, intending to hold a referendum on cessation, all the more reason that Israel, who has governed Judea and Samaria for almost 50 years, should hold a referendum among Area C residents, the vast majority of whom are Jewish. on whether to join Israel. Makes sense to me. Ted Belman

Russians strike Ukraine army post in Crimea. Kiev fears Ukraine army putsch. US warships on standby

DEBKAfile Special Report March 1, 2014,

armed_russian_As Moscow’s master plan for Ukraine continued to unfold, Russian forces Saturday, March 1, staged their first attack on a Ukraine military installation in Crimea, while completing their takeover of the region and its severance from Ukraine. Interfax reported from a Ukrainian source that 20 soldiers had entered an anti-aircraft missile command post in western Crimea and that negotiations rather than a clash were under way.

Earlier Saturday, Crimea’s new pro-Moscow prime minister Serhiy Aksyonov asked President Vladimir Putin for help in “maintaining peace in the region,” saying he was in control of the region’s interior ministry, armed forces, fleet and border guards.
The invitation set the scene for Russian military intervention in Crimea at the request of its government. Moscow said the appeal would not go “unnoticed,” while the Russian foreign ministry declared itself “extremely concerned” by developments in Crimea – cynically echoing US President Barack Obama’s expression Friday of “deep concern” about Russian military movements inside Ukraine and his warning of “costs.”

The Crimean premier, appointed Thursday by parliament in Simferopol, later announced that a referendum would be held on March 30 to determine the peninsula’s status. Meanwhile, he said, Russian Black Sea fleet servicemen were guarding important buildings.

In Kiev, interim defense minister Igor Tenyukh, addressing the first new cabinet’s first meeting, accused Russia of an armed invasion of Ukraine and pouring an additional 6,000 troops into the peninsula. Western correspondents reported that Crimea is now cut off from the rest of Ukraine after “unidentified troops” in combat fatigues, armed with automatic rifles, machine guns or RPGs, seized control of Crimea’s sea and air ports and its main road network in the last 24 hours.

Interim Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk told the Kiev cabinet that Ukraine forces were on alert, but he would not be ”drawn into a military conflict by Russian provocations in the Crimea region.”
DEBKAfile’s military sources report that this announcement was hollow.

The 160,000-strong Ukrainian army is no match for the Russian army’s operational capabilities and fire power, although it too is equipped with Russian weapons and trained in Russian military tactics.

But above all, it is far from certain that the new authorities in Kiev control the Ukraine army. No one knows where the loyalties of its officers lie, whether with the new pro-European regime or the absconding pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych.

This confronts the troubled country with a fresh peril, a possible army putsch to oust the interim regime set up by the Ukraine opposition in Kiev, and its replacement with a military government for containing continuing Russian expansion beyond the borders of Crimea. The former Independence Square protesters would have no answer to this.

Moscow, while insisting that its military actions were not an invasion but a legal bid to protect its interests, has also moved to offset any financial assistance the West may offer Kiev.

Russia’s energy giant Gazprom bluntly warned Kiev that it had accumulated a “huge” debt of $1.5 billion for natural gas that needed to be urgently paid if the supply is to continue.
This is the exact amount of the loan guarantees the US and EU propose to offer the stony-broke Kiev authorities.

Along with US warnings to Moscow, a high alert was secretly declared Saturday by the US Mediterranean Sixth Fleet. Two US warships which had been deployed in the Black Sea to back up Russian security for the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi – the USS Taylor Frigate and the USS Mount Whitney Blue Ridge-class command ship – have moved over to the western side of the Black Sea opposite Crimea and facing the Russian navy base of Sevastopol.

The Mount Whitney is outfitted with sophisticated intelligence-gathering systems. Its current location means that ongoing Russian military movements across central, southern and western Russia, around its borders with Ukraine and inside the Crimean peninsula, are being monitored and beamed to the White House and the Pentagon. Obama’s response is anyone’s guess. So far, the only hints thrown out are that Western leaders are planning a boycott of the G8 summit Putin plans to host in Sochi this summer, in protest against Russia’s takeover of Crimea.

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  2. @ Max:

    America’s next loss will be to secede Hawaii to the Chicoms and Alaska to the Borscht Bolsheviks. Don’t think it is so far off.

    Before Obama I would have thought such a statement was far-fetched. Not anymore.

  3. Russia must be stopped, but the West Ukrainians are no prize either.

    http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/28/the-swedish-neo-nazis-of-kiev.html

    Neo-Nazis Pour Into Kiev

    A stream of European jihadists have traveled to Syria to wage holy war. Now a group of European neo-Nazis are traveling to Ukraine to save the white race

    Western support for the Ukraine should be made conditional on a wringing out of fascism

    http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100260665/ukraine-the-opposition-arent-all-angels-some-are-neo-nazis/

    Take Oleh Tyahnybok, the rather rugged leader of Svboda, which dominates the Western-most provinces of Ukraine. Western media has described him as one of the three most important opposition leaders and he’s met foreign dignitaries like John McCain. He is also a potentially dangerous man. In one infamous speech in 2004, Tyahinybok lashed out at the “Moscow-Jewish mafia” and the “kikes”. In 2005, he wrote an open letter to the President asking him to halt the “criminal activities” of “organised Jewry”. It should be noted that he insists he is not anti-Semitic, simply “pro-Ukrainian” and that he has won prosecutions against him for ethnic hatred.

    But Svboda has form. It is a member of the Alliance of European National Movements, along with France’s National Front, the British National Party and Hungary’s Jobbik. Its policies include taking farm land into national ownership and giving to people to hold on a “hereditry basis”. No one who was not born in Ukraine can become a citizen; outsiders cannot adopt Ukrainian children. In 2005, one of the party’s deputies founding the Joseph Goebbels Political Research Center. It was later renamed after a German conservative revolutionary. That particular deputy described the Holocaust as “a bright episode in European civilisation” which “strongly warms the hearts of the Palestinian population.” The best defence against Jewish corruption is childbearing Ukrainians. Women carry …

    the societal and racial morality … the 300 ovulations of every Ukrainian woman, as well as the 1,500 ejaculations of every Ukrainian man are the same national treasures as, say, energy resources or deposits of iron, coal or oil.

    Some of Svboda supporters are people who believe that the German invasion of Ukraine in the 1940s was not an occupation but a liberation from “Jewish Bolshevism”. Needless to say, they also don’t like gay people.

    These guys are fair-eyed Al Qaeda.

  4. All of the above is precisely why I strongly admire Russia under a strong leadership that serves strictly its own interests and does so with total focus. The Jewish state and the Jewish nation must have exactly that kind of leadership, irrespective of democracy which amounts to little more than rule by mobs.

    Arnold Harris
    Mount Horeb WI

  5. Russia is taking Ukraine like USSR took Prague in ’68. Russia has also taken Syria. – America is recognized as a weak domesticated animal ready for carving up and butchering by the aggressors which are the Muslims, Russia and China.
    …
    Anti-war self-hating, tolerant of intolerance, leftism is the disease that has destroyed democracy from within.

    ..
    Watch now as Russia sneers at the weak willed west and Obama the leader mouse of the Western World. America’s next loss will be to secede Hawaii to the Chicoms and Alaska to the Borscht Bolsheviks. Don’t think it is so far off.

  6. Sure. That was theirs and will be theirs. That is how real countries act on national interests. Then is us… Pathetic charlatans at best but for the most treasonous sold out trash. Cowards, liars, saboteurs…
    India took back Goa, China took Tibet, Argentina tried and failed but will eventually take back the Islas Malvinas, etc, etc.
    We are the only ones flap mouthing for decades on how to surrender what soldiers and civilians gave their lives to return to our fold. Disgusting.
    I am a decorated former idf soldier and today I am totally against anyone falling into that cesspool who is only there to protect a very specific cadre who has driven the country into destruction on their behalf.