Ukraine Crisis

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Well, if there's a war there's at least Slovakia in between ...

Now, enough with the jokes - too serious the situation ...

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Situations like these always make me feel good that this guy is in the White House:



And not these guys:

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10 minutes ago, Ukraine ordered general mobilisation:

http://derstandard.at/1392686841173/Ukraine-ruft-Generalmobilmachung-aus

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Ukraine declares total mobilization

Ukraine has announced general mobilization, with Secretary of the National Security Council Andriy Parubiy declaring that the entire country will be put on full combat alert.

The defense ministry is reportedly calling up all its reserve troops who are due to come to enrollment offices on Sunday, March 2.

http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_03_02/Ukraine-declares-total-mobilization-3356

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Russia will invade and occupy Ukraine tomorrow morning it seems.

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Putin's approval rating in Russia meanwhile soars to above 60% from below 50% before the Ukraine situation.

Time for Obama to do the same and annex Canada ?

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Russian tanks and soldiers have now entered Eastern Ukraine, near Slawjansk:



Ukrainian tanks and soldiers are being deployed to the East as well:



http://kurier.at/politik/ausland/ostukraine-panzer-unter-russischer-flagge-fahren-auf/60.803.743

[Tender Branson]

Business seems to get serious now.

The Ukrainian forces seem to have encircled and cut off Luhansk completely now and the Donezk rebel leader Strelkow has stepped down:

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http://derstandard.at/2000004391613/Regierungstruppen-haben-Luhansk-vollstaendig-umstellt

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28792966

[Tender Branson]

So, the Russians sent 250 white lorries to the Ukraine border with "food" inside. A possible trojan horse, or is it for real ?



Ukraine is doing the same, sending 80 lorries to the East:



And a Ukrainian billionaire said that next week 10.000 tons of food will follow.

[Tender Branson]

And here's an English link:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-15/ukraine-says-it-destroyed-part-of-armed-vehicles-from-russia.html

Time to mine the whole border to Russia.

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The Austrian newspaper "Standard" says that something like a "permanent peace/ceasefire deal" has been agreed on, effective tomorrow.

Both Poroshenko and the rebels have agreed.

http://derstandard.at

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Austria to send soldiers to Ukraine ...

... if somehow Ukraine/Russia/others manage to set up a peacekeeping mission for the East.

http://www.thelocal.at/20140908/austria-could-send-soldiers-to-ukraine

[Tender Branson]

Putin is suffering from the same kind of trauma that Hitler suffered from, just a bit different. Hitler had a WW1 trauma (personally as a soldier, and more universally with Germany getting destroyed and blamed and footed with the bills).

Putin still suffers a Cold War trauma (also personally => he was a spy, and more universally: Russia got its ass kicked and thrown backwards economically).

Both Hitler and Putin then and now want to compensate it by "making their country strong" and by occupying further land "for the needs of our people".

Both the people of Russia and Nazi Austro-Germany also have/had unwavering and blind trust in their Führer (Hitler/Putin).

Both peoples are also similarly xenophobic and fascist.

As you can see, there are some troubling similarities between them.