This insults intelligence of every critically thinking person.
[1] https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=2bb691b...
Pay attention to the timeline. Writing of the documentation for this project had to be started at least three months prior to the publication. It was published on 2013-09-05, Euromaidan begins on 2013-11-21, 2014-03-16 Crimean referendum, 2014-04-15 tender is cancelled.
One million dollar question: How did US Navy know in summer of 2013 that it will need a school in Sevastopol in 2014 considering that Ukraine was still under Yanukowich (and close to Russia) at that time?
Look at the actions of the US and NATO in regard to military drills, troop reinforcement and the number of bases and missiles they have pointed at Russia. What is going on? In the UK every month or so we are given stories about Russian aggression and the existential threat they pose to the West. When you start digging into these stories, this stance is not justified in facts.
Seriously, google a Russian news source. On their page, you'll see tanks and soldiers and fighter jets. And you'll see stories about how the west is evil and how the west is collapsing and hints that Russia needs a military buildup. And you might see a hint that eastern Europe is really Russian property "stolen" from Russia by NATO and that the anti-Russian sentiment is just the locals being "ungrateful" to Russia.
Now look at Google News. How much military do you see? How many stories about Russia? How many supporting military buildup? We care more about the Kardashians than we do about Putin.
This largely one-sided cold war has been going on for more than a decade.
Likewise, this is part of a larger, organized effort. For more information: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/09/rus...
If you think that this is "good", and Russia response is "bad", then you deserve everything what will happen because of that US politics.
If I recall correctly, in the last year, the Russian government has said that it does not consider the Baltic counties independance to be legitimate.
Russia currently has troops involved in ongoing conflicts in Ukraine, Transitaria, Armenia, and Georgia.
To be concerned about Russia's intentions and abilities isn't fear mongering - you only have to look at the region in the last five years to see something very real happening.
Just depends on where you get your news really? You live in the US, it's ok to invade Syria, you live in Russia, it's ok to invade Ukraine.
Bottom line, all war is bad, let's not pretend it's justified in some cases!
Russia is putting war on world? We have biggest war in Europe in the last 25 years at the moment.
"Hybrid" army from Russia side which is so called "rebels" is stronger then army of any country in Europe and is actually killing people, bombing them and threatens everyone who can't protect himself. They have tanks, drones, buks, grads and more.
It's natural to mobilize people and try to protect sovereignty of your country isn't it?
Unfortunately all I can see from west side of globe is "green-peace" and hippie-like talking about peace and "talking" with russia. At the same time russian soldiers are killing hundreds people each day saying "they humiliated russian speaking people".
Wake up. Otherwise you'll experience war one way or another at home. And it is not propaganda. It is reality.
There's your answer - you're from the UK, so you've yet to experience its aggression. Other countries in Russia's neighbourhood have experienced it (Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova, pre-1990 Hungary, Czechoslovakia, etc).
It looks like the hate propaganda they had just before the Balkan wars.
Very bad.
Ukraine thought it had a security guarantee from the US and the UK.[1] That's why they gave up the nuclear weapons they had left over from their USSR days. When the crunch came, they weren't defended by the US and the UK.
So far, Russia hasn't attacked a NATO member country. So far.
This could lead to WWIII.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Securit...
Maybe you're blind not to see that US makes Cuban crisis but in the whole World scale. And those small countries are just pawns which will be 'taken' in the big game.
The more anti-missile systems they put in the Europe, the less chance they will be hit by nukes, but nobody talks about the fate of those Europe countries.
It's the latest US way of dealing with countries growing better or in the same pace as they. They use the tactic of "color revolutions", it worked in many other countries before, so why not use that until the war happens, yea?
Let's build the TODO list of owning other country:
1) Choose any country you are interested in (not the big ones of course, they can hit you, you don't want that) 2) Send your military advisors and boxes of money to support "opposition" of let's say few thousands people (which is a less than 1% of population) 3) Make them start "peaceful protests" in capital and actively cover all those events in media, showing only one side of "tyrant leader" 4) When legal forces of country will start preventing that, call them tyranny and prevent and use sanctions and fear to prevent or even easier, start bombing them util all loyal forces remain (with NATO forces and US allies) 5) Collect your profits, put your own people in government, collect resources and plant military bases in the region. If non 1% of population starts to protest, just use military and police to make them suffer.
This worked in Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Ukraine.
I am disgusted to read this crazy russian delirium.
Yet I have FAR more respect for him than for ANY western politician. Putin is transparent. He goes after what he wants in an unapologetic way. It is very easy to see right through everything that he does and is also quite predictable.
Western politicians, on the other hand, seem UTTERLY clueless, impotent and chaotic. They are weak in a way that is repulsive.
And no, lining up untold billions of dollars of military equipment alongside Russia's border is NOT a show of strength. It is the opposite.
It should really be nuked from the orbit. dang?
Russian tanks, grads and soldiers are killing people in Ukraine every day This cannot have any excuses.
Your logic makes me feel disgust.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12066283 and marked it off-topic.
Afaik, that was a decision of the people who live in Crimea on the referendum. It is like Brexit or referendum in Scotland. For example, now UK leaves EC, so in the same way Crimea has left Ukrain. It is how democracy works.
2. Constitution of Ukraine states that only citizens of whole country and not locals can decide such questions, _ANY_ local referendum regarding sovereignty is illegal.
So NO IT IS NOT LIKE BREXIT or referendum in Scotland. Ukraine is unitary country.
So it is how russian troops work not democracy.
