Russian adviser threatens Ukraine with military force

[steve2470]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/02/06/ukraine-protests-russia-military-threats/5259777/

Protesters expressed their fears as a senior U.S. diplomat arrived in Kiev to try to help find a resolution to the country's political crisis, and an adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened Ukraine with attack.

Sergei Glazyev on Thursday accused the United States of funding the Ukrainian "rebels" by as much as $20 million a day for weapons and other supplies. He urged the Ukrainian government to put down the "attempted coup" or Russia may have to to intervene under the terms of a 1994 agreement between the U.S. and Russia, according to the Ukraine edition of the Russian daily Kommersant.

Glazyev was alluding to the Budapest Memorandum, a treaty in which the Ukraine agreed to turn over a nuclear arsenal on its soil left over after the fall of the Soviet Union, of which Ukraine was a part until it dissolved in 1991.

In return, the United States, United Kingdom and Russia, nuclear powers all, guaranteed to respect the independence and the borders of Ukraine and reaffirmed their commitment to seek immediate U.N. Security Council action should Ukraine become a victim of an act of aggression.

[ck4829]

1. West Ossetia needs some liberating?

[leftynyc]

2. If it weren't for the Olympics

Putin would have invaded already.

[sdfernando]

3. Exactly...the decision has already been made

this is merely telegraphing the intention.

Once the Olympics is over I see Putin going after the Ukraine in his attempt to reassemble the former USSR states.

[pampango]

4. Wouldn't Russia need UN approval to intervene in Ukraine?

I suggest they bring the situation before the Security Council. If the UN authorizes an intervention in Ukraine, the Russian military would be the logical choice to handle things.

Yes, I live in a dream world.

[orange whip]

5. Good call sdfernando. reply #2. that is all.