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steve2470

(37,457 posts) Fri Mar 7, 2014, 02:45 PM Mar 2014

Ukraine says Russian troops in Crimea have doubled to 30,000

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - Russia now has 30,000 troops in Ukraine's Crimea region, Ukrainian border guards said on Friday, nearly twice the previous figure given by the government in Kiev.

Serhiy Astakhov, aide to the head of border guards service, told Reuters the figure was an estimate and included both troops that had arrived since last week and Russia's Black Sea Fleet, permanently based in the Crimean port of Sevastopol.

Read more: http://live.reuters.com/Event/World_News/108508563

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Ukraine says Russian troops in Crimea have doubled to 30,000 (Original Post) steve2470 Mar 2014 OP

Reporters on the ground in Crimea have said they are generally noticeable dipsydoodle Mar 2014 #1

It is a peek a boo dangerous game that riversedge Mar 2014 #2

I don't think it's a game. America goes fucking around paying people who want to jtuck004 Mar 2014 #5

Doesn't make as good a soundbite to rile people up n/t Catherina Mar 2014 #6

Told you not to get them wet... n/t jtuck004 Mar 2014 #3

wonder what 'war profiteer contractors" profit off support for those 30,000? Sunlei Mar 2014 #4

Oh come on that's Reuters it has to be propaganda davidpdx Mar 2014 #7

dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)

1. Reporters on the ground in Crimea have said they are generally noticeable

Reply to steve2470 (Original post)

Fri Mar 7, 2014, 02:50 PM

Mar 2014

only by their absence.

an estimate

riversedge

(70,233 posts)

2. It is a peek a boo dangerous game that

Reply to dipsydoodle (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 7, 2014, 03:01 PM

Mar 2014

Russia is playing.

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)

5. I don't think it's a game. America goes fucking around paying people who want to

Reply to riversedge (Reply #2)

Fri Mar 7, 2014, 03:51 PM

Mar 2014

unseat the government of a country...

(Here, if you haven't seen it, is one of the many links to the "Fuck the EU" State Department employee who said we spent $5 billion on these groups opposed to and working to rid them of their government - WE are the ones playing games... http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37599.htm)

...that contains an area of strategic importance to Russia, one for which they most certainly would fight to defend. Then when it collapses and they move in to protect their bases and holdings, where they already have military bases and materiel and thousands of personnel, we jump up and down and holler like a bunch of upset school children.

At this point Russia is telling us to fuck of, as they should, and there is very little we can do about it that won't hurt us just as much.