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Russian Tanks Flatten Ukrainian Town, Ukraine Military Says [View all] bemildred Aug 2014 OP

Ukraine: Fighter jet shot down by missile bemildred Aug 2014 #1

EU to slap new sanctions on Russia over Ukraine bemildred Aug 2014 #2

Finnish Prime Minister: �EU leaders won't set new sanctions on Russia� bemildred Aug 2014 #3

Russia effectively at war with EU -Lithuanian president bemildred Aug 2014 #38

Sounds like Russia has its next target. OnlinePoker Aug 2014 #69

I do wonder about that davidpdx Aug 2014 #78

Brighton Beach? OnlinePoker Aug 2014 #79

Russia demands for MH17 black box data to be published bemildred Aug 2014 #4

Moscow Calls for �Humanitarian Bridge� Uniting Russia, Luhansk, Donetsk - Defense Ministry bemildred Aug 2014 #5

And there it is--conquest and annexation. geek tragedy Aug 2014 #11

Yeah, brilliant foresight and strategizing going on, that's clear for everyone to see. nt bemildred Aug 2014 #13

More of a case where less thinking produces geek tragedy Aug 2014 #17

Yes, thinking too much will definitely get you all confused. nt bemildred Aug 2014 #18

Certainly it did for those who thought geek tragedy Aug 2014 #19

Yeah, they are definitely dumb asses. nt bemildred Aug 2014 #21

Not dumb, quite the contrary. geek tragedy Aug 2014 #22

And vice versa. nt bemildred Aug 2014 #23

Certainly in the long run medievalists geek tragedy Aug 2014 #24

Putin is not gambling. bemildred Aug 2014 #26

That's certainly the medieval outcome. geek tragedy Aug 2014 #28

Russian forces rejected in Ukraine bemildred Aug 2014 #29

Multilateralism is always more clunky and hesitant geek tragedy Aug 2014 #34

All the more reason not to be pursuing a fatuous foreign policy. nt bemildred Aug 2014 #39

Fatuous is in the eye of the beholder. nt geek tragedy Aug 2014 #46

Fatuous based on its results. nt bemildred Aug 2014 #48

Sometimes there is no possibility of good results nt geek tragedy Aug 2014 #55

Right. "Who could have predicted this?" nt bemildred Aug 2014 #57

"Who could have prevented it?" geek tragedy Aug 2014 #59

Apparently not anybody in our foreign policy establishment. nt bemildred Aug 2014 #64

Very many things are beyond our control. nt geek tragedy Aug 2014 #68

Yes. Kieve orchestrated their own downfall and we ballyhoo Aug 2014 #43

Europe can't do anything OnlinePoker Aug 2014 #70

I know but I didn't what to be too negative. ballyhoo Aug 2014 #71

Russian-backed separatists aim to push west along Ukraine's coast bemildred Aug 2014 #6

I suspect linking Crimea to Odesa was an objective from the beginning n/t HereSince1628 Aug 2014 #10

This has all been obvious from the beginning. nt bemildred Aug 2014 #12

Yes, all part of "Venture Nationalism" HereSince1628 Aug 2014 #14

Dumb as a box of rocks. bemildred Aug 2014 #15

It's still another 150 miles from Mariupol to Crimea muriel_volestrangler Aug 2014 #25

I am sure they are up to it. bemildred Aug 2014 #27

I posted about this several days ago. There is no avoiding the war expanding. We are naive when it newthinking Aug 2014 #30

Number one is not on the table any more, if it ever was. bemildred Aug 2014 #31

So now the column are not Russian forces, but "russian backed" seperatists. newthinking Aug 2014 #35

Please see post #33. bemildred Aug 2014 #41

Pro-Ukraine fighters escape encirclement, others still trapped - Kiev, militia bemildred Aug 2014 #7

pictures? The last picture were of 7 pieces of equiptment, which does not equate to the claims newthinking Aug 2014 #32

It really doesn't pay to obsess about the details too much. nt bemildred Aug 2014 #33

Considering this has the capacity to break into nuclear war newthinking Aug 2014 #36

Yeah, you would think they would realize they ballyhoo Aug 2014 #45

Like these kind of pictures? EX500rider Sep 2014 #83

28 volunteer soldiers trapped in Ukrainian town by separatists escape, officials say bemildred Aug 2014 #37

Russian Diplomats in Ukraine Freed, Return Home - Moscow bemildred Aug 2014 #42

Ukrainian plane with seven on board crashes in Algeria bemildred Aug 2014 #8

. nt bemildred Aug 2014 #9

7 die as Ukraine plane crashes in Sahara: Algeria bemildred Aug 2014 #67

LET EUROPE HANDLE THIS ONE! Chasstev365 Aug 2014 #16

"The bastards!" another_liberal Aug 2014 #20

LOL. I hope Ukraine sends home some plastic-wrapped "little green men" so that TwilightGardener Aug 2014 #44

Killing more people . . . another_liberal Aug 2014 #73

Unfortunately rolling over & letting Russia conquer eastern Ukraine... EX500rider Sep 2014 #84

Poroshenko hopes for success at gas talks between Ukraine, Russia, EU bemildred Aug 2014 #40

Gorbachev on Kiev�s military op: 'It must be stopped immediately' reorg Aug 2014 #47

Thanks, I've been trying to find what he said. nt bemildred Aug 2014 #49

'Kiev, rise up!' Protesters demand ouster of Ukrainian president, defense minister reorg Aug 2014 #50

I wondered when this would happen. Who will the West pick as ballyhoo Aug 2014 #56

another "insider" perhaps? reorg Aug 2014 #58

My call also. Maybe a ballyhoo Aug 2014 #61

Victoria Nuland said she is not interested cosmicone Aug 2014 #60

If this keeps going and ends up the ballyhoo Aug 2014 #63

Yeah ... from a Proper noun cosmicone Aug 2014 #65

Very good, cosmicone. I just incorporated that. New ballyhoo Aug 2014 #66

I could have sworn the current president won an election, and thus was picked by Ukrainians... EX500rider Sep 2014 #85

Hilarious! Another Baghdad Bob, in reverse. 7962 Aug 2014 #72

Ukraine: Poroshenko claims foreign troops put peace at risk bemildred Aug 2014 #51

So position the troops defensively ;call a truce and at least pause to see what happens newthinking Aug 2014 #74

Lawmaker probing Russian soldier deaths in Ukraine attacked: party bemildred Aug 2014 #52

Perhaps this brings a sigh of relief reorg Aug 2014 #53

If this is true is it not also another indication of how seriously "regime change" has threatened newthinking Aug 2014 #75

if it were true reorg Aug 2014 #77

does word 'flexible' translate properly into Russian language? quadrature Aug 2014 #54

Ukraine is yelling, "The inevitable is happening!" cosmicone Aug 2014 #62

+1 newthinking Aug 2014 #76

Thanx to Bemil and Geek for an amazing analysis elias49 Aug 2014 #80

We do get a bit obsessive about things here sometimes. bemildred Aug 2014 #81

But... but... the Russian troops probably crossed the border accidentally. Nye Bevan Aug 2014 #82

what happened to all the people? heres the map, a fairly lg. town surrounded by miles of grain field Sunlei Sep 2014 #86