Saturday 8 March 2014

It's going to be a bad weekend

More proof of the militarization on the boarder between Ukraine and Russian controlled territory of Crimea. amphibious assault ships unloading vehicles
CTV news is reporting that the OSCE observers were shot at as they approached the boarder to Crimea. I think the Russians plan on wiping out the last pockets of Ukraine troops in the Crimea. I have heard reports that Poland, the only NATO member to have an embassy in Crimea, has evacuated its embassy to protect it from Russian aggression. I thinks we will see NATO hold a ground force exercise in Poland to go with new air exercise that the US is holding there. US sending F16s to Poland.
I have also read that Turkey has chased Russian ELINT aircraft from it's air space. That's a pretty standard Cold War tactic to measure response times. I think we will see the USS George H. Bush meet up with the MEU that is moving around the Eastern Mediterranean. Don't Forget the us has a division worth of equipment on the US preposition ships there as well. Prepositioning ships.
Its almost like everyday the temperature ups a degree to push this crisis up but at a controlled rate. I believe Putin is looking to write himself into history as the man would revive the greatness of the Russian empire and saved it from construction by the West.  

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