Ukraine’s interim government has announced that they have given their military forces in Crimea authorization to use weapons to “defend and protect” one another and their bases.
The authorization came in the wake of one of their Crimea bases being attacked by unidentified fighters, with one soldier killed. Ukrainian officials blamed the Russian military, terming it a “war crime.”
Ukraine and Russia have a “truce” over the bases until Friday, though with Russia’s annexation of the Crimea likely to be finalized before that it is clear that they will want Ukraine’s troops out as soon as possible, and some bases were already taken by defectors from Ukraine’s military to Crimea’s own armed forces.
Ukraine interim Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk says the shift signals “the conflict is shifting from a political to a military stage,” and other officials have played up the mobilization of Ukraine’s military in preparation of a “war.”
The Ukrainians are really stupid. They think the US is going to fight their war for them, when all the FedGov is looking to do is loot them and use their real estate to position anti-missile systems. Any real fighting will be borne by the Ukrainians, with a small cadre of US and Zionist special forces to make sure that the Russians are well and truly provoked. The Georgians can confirm that.
All those promises whispered into the ears of the Ukrainian junta by the meddling USG agents – Senators, Representatives, and Executive Branch antagonistas passing out cookies – will be found to be hollow. The American people do not want another war and are now much wiser to the manipulations attempted by the warmongers to get them to accede.
The big question is whether US neocons are trying to provoke a war with Russia. It was the neocons' rent-a-rioters who overthrew Yanukovych when he and the peaceful demonstrators' leaders reached an agreement. The same noeocns may now be trying to torpedo an agreement by manipulating Putin into invading Ukraine before the election on 25 May. There's no trick too dirty that the neocons wouldn't pull it!
What does "Ukraine authorizes" mean. Ukraine has no government. It has a bunch of guys who took over with guns and not even a semblance of democracy. They have no authority.
What do you think a "government" is, if not a bunch of guys who took over with guns? Sometimes there's a "semblance of democracy," but a semblance isn't the real thing.
Apparently they were s'pposed to curl into the fetal position if attacked before someone actually was? What a bunch of grandstanding. Basically if US State Dept is implicated in installing you, you're apparently supposed to max out the belligerent rhetoric…