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Putin formally requests Parliament for Russian military intervention in Ukraine
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has asked the upper house of parliament to approve sending armed forces to Ukraine’s Crimea region, the Kremlin said in a statement on Saturday.
“In connection with the extraordinary situation in Ukraine, the threat to the lives of citizens of the Russian Federation, our compatriots, and the personnel of the armed forces of the Russian Federation on Ukrainian territory (in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea) ... I submit a proposal on using the armed forces of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine until the normalisation of the socio-political situation in the that country,” the statement said.
Reuters
2.13 pm GMT
“In connection with the extraordinary situation in Ukraine, the threat to the lives of citizens of the Russian Federation, our compatriots, and the personnel of the armed forces of the Russian Federation on Ukrainian territory (in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea) ... I submit a proposal on using the armed forces of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine until the normalisation of the socio-political situation in the that country,” the statement said.
Reuters
2.13 pm GMT
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Any nuclear shelters in Preston then??
Drop British paratroopers into Crimea as per 1994 treaty.:o
Poor Baroness Ashton is woefully out of her depth.
"When two tribes go to war......"
Simples - give Russian land back to Russia! Problem solved.
Hmmmm....it has been approved and it is not just for the Crimea either.
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The federation council 89-0 has now approved Putin’s request to use armed force in Ukraine.
The upper house of the Russian parliament unanimously approved President Putin’s request to use armed forces in defence of Russians and Russian interests, anywhere in the territory of Ukraine.
If they did we could be seeing a repeat of 1914: various interest groups pursuing mobilisation. In one case, the aggressor and in another, the countries upholding an honour based on ideals.
Whether it's imperial nations in 1914 or supranational groups in 2014 there is always a risk (with powerful militaries) of leaders sending their men to fight each other.
Link. Quite compelling watching seeing events like this unfold in the age of instant news.
Well, that and Soccer Saturday...:D. COYH.
I remember watching it at the time, scared the bejesus out of me.
Also I have already got a "Will Russia Invade Ukraine?" thread going, so would you all of mind moving the dicussion to that thread as I will repost this...
The US says there will be a cost, Obama doesn't even have the balls to stand up for American interests, this will be something left to the British and France I would think. However whether either would get involved remains to be seen.
And yet another American gets hit with the Curse of the 2nd term. Now he has to steer the country away from WW3.
Should be fun to watch.
I heard an interesting commentator on the radio a few days back saying that splitting Ukraine between the Russian and Ukranian speaking areas could be pretty disastrous for the Ukranian sector of the country, as nearly all the manufacturing and mining is found in the east - a Ukraine without the Russian speaking bits is not at all financially viable.
Acutally, as long as Westenr Ukraine remains off limits, there is nothing wrong in Putin taking the Russian speaking pasts, besides there are very storrong reasons why we should invade Syria...
Ukraine itself is not financial viable anyway, besides you cannot keep the country together unless you avoid having strong ties with either Russia or the EU, which is not economically posibble...
If Estonia and Lithuania can survive and do quite well on their own so eventually will central and western Ukraine.
Of course there is something wrong with Putin taking the Russian speaking parts of Ukraine. Rightly or wrongly, Crimea is part of Ukraine. You can't just invade a sovereign country to take some land. If they want it, and the Crimean people want to belong to Russia, they should go through the proper channels. The Crimean parliament should take a vote and present the result to the Ukrainian government, and Russia should declare that they want Crimea.
The treaty we have with the USA and Ukraine means that, by rights, we should be sending troops over there to defend Ukraine. It's a very dangerous situation because any Western force sent over there will surely lose against the Russian military who have many more resources in the area. The only way an intervention by the UK and USA could work is if we are prepared for a full on war.
I don't want to even try to predict what's going to happen.