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While the NSA is busy justifying its spying of every American its existence thanks to famous Moscow resident Edward Snowden, its Russian counterparts have been busy intercepting even more phone Ukrainian conversations.
After a month ago a leaked phone call between US assistant secretary of state Victoria Nuland and the US envoy to the Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt confirmed that it was the US that was pulling the strings..
But the smoking gun, and where Putin once again shows just how masterful of a chess player he is, is the following statement by Tymoshenko, after asked, rhetorically, by her counterparty, "what should we do now with the 8 million Russians that stayed in Ukraine. ... she replies: "They must be killed with nuclear weapons."
I just watched this myself and came here to see the discussion, I for one was shocked at how bloodthirsty these Ukrainians were. I am now glad more than ever that Crimea was able to escape the clutches of these people.
I thought Russia already had bases in Crimea ?
tsurfer2000h
reply to post by Taobender
I thought Russia already had bases in Crimea ?
Well they do, but that doesn't give them free reign to take over Ukraine bases and the Crimea peninsula.
And that is one base not bases.edit on 24-3-2014 by tsurfer2000h because: (no reason given)
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tsurfer2000h
reply to post by Taobender
I thought Russia already had bases in Crimea ?
Well they do, but that doesn't give them free reign to take over Ukraine bases and the Crimea peninsula.
And that is one base not bases.edit on 24-3-2014 by tsurfer2000h because: (no reason given)
Well if the people of the Crimea voted for it then it does give then the right to remove those in the army that are being paid by the Ukraine and do as they want on the peninsula.
The people have spoken and they voted for Russia and who can blame them
elysiumfire
Thing is, Ukrainians, especially Tymoshenko, are wholly aggrieved, and will do and say anything to bring the West into their affairs whilst acting the victim, ....
I've been watching pretty closely and most of the Ukrainian bases were stormed by citizens, there are many videos of this. The only one where much military force was used was this last base where the Commanding Officer refused to leave. Many of the officers and soldiers said that Kiev had kept them in the dark about the whole situation and were just given orders to hold-out.
I do have a problem in the way they are going about it, but more the way their leadership is #-stirring the pot to gain sympathetic help from the West. Obama couldn't give a damn about the ordinary Ukranians, he just wants military hardware and assets as close to Russia as possible, and Putin...rightly, isn't going to make it easy for him.