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March 3, 2014
The Ukraine -- Monday Noon Update:
• The Kiev regime announces general mobilization; only 1% to 1.5% of conscripts bother to turn up
• A dozen major cities—pretty much everything southeast of the line that runs from Kharkov to Odessa—are flying the Russian tricolor
• Ukraine's naval flagship is flying Russia's naval flag
• The newly appointed head of Ukrainian navy has defected to the Russian side in Crimea within a few hours of being appointed
• Most of the Ukrainian military units in Crimea have gone over to the Russian side voluntarily, without a single shot fired
• Ukrainian troops from Kirov have been ordered to march on Crimea, but have refused to obey (illegal) orders from Kiev
• During the last two weeks of February 143,000 Ukrainian citizens have requested asylum in Russia.
- - ol remus and the woodpile report
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Your Say
Not unexpected when Russia moved millions of its people into Ukraine, essentially taking it over through immigration (after they depopulated it through forced starvation). A similar scenario would be if a US carrier captain and its crew decide to fly the Mexican flag since, why not, they speak Spanish, watch TV in Spanish, have their ballots in Spanish and never gave up loyalty to their old country even after a generation or two.
Posted by: hootie at March 3, 2014 11:29 AM
Sounds like they deserve each other.
At least it serves as a distraction from our debacle in the Mideast.
Posted by: chasmatic at March 4, 2014 10:16 AM