Perhaps a bit off topic (I haven’t watched the video above), but lenta.ru, a site I rarely look at, reported that on June 11 hackers had broken into a database of the Lithuanian JCS, and published a plan they found there for a Lithuanian annexation of Kaliningrad. (http://lenta.ru/news/2015/06/11/kaliningrad/). A bit farfetched sounding, maybe it meant in conjunction with Poland, divided on the line of the Memel (now Nieman) river, the old Imperial border. The article says the current NATO exercise «Удар меча 2015» (Sword Stroke 2015, in my translation), 13 NATO countries plus Finland, is in preparation for it. Doesn’t indicate when it’s planned for, if ever. Maybe just a contingency for when the time is ripe. But there was a similar exercise in Georgia just before the unpleasantness of August 2008. With the crazies in charge now, anything is possible.
Doing so what precipitate nuclear war. All the capitals of the Baltics and Poland would be smoked, and from there you have the rest of NATO sucked in as well. London, Brussels, New York & Washington would no doubt be top of the list.
if by that you mean that Nato might be deterred by the threat of nuclear retaliation against an attack on Kaliningrad, I hope you’re right. As I suggested before, a large-scale snap Russian militiary exercise, with simulated nukes against Polish and Lithuanian forces crossing the line, showing them what they’d get, just might be enough to deter them.
With only one motor-rifle brigade, an undersize motor-rifle regiment, and a naval infantry brigade in the oblast’, plus some supporting troops, the Russians are woefully undermanned with conventional forces. The Iskanders don’t seem to be there yet: Russia threatens to deploy them if Nato makes a move, but hasn’t. Pre Russian Wikipedia, at one time there was a nuclear arsenal of the 12th Chief Directorate near the border at Bagrationsk for the Baltic Fleet, but it may no longer be there, in that there are recurring controversies in the Western SMI about the possibility of Russia deploying nukes there sometime. Russia needs to greatly increase its conventional forces there to deter any attack, IMHO, so as not to risk a nuclear war, since Breedlove and other Nato generals have publicly threatened to answer nuke for nuke if Russia uses them.
If you mean that you are sanguine about the effects of an all-out nuclear exchange between Russia and Nato, resulting in a world resembling Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road”, I can only respond with the question Herman Kahn asked in “On THermonuclear War”: Would the survivors envy the dead ?.
Protest a bit of everything. Generally about lack of progress in keeping the promises of reform, especially the economy (wages, pensions, gas prices). There was a branch that went to US Embassy to tell them to go home.
“Ukraine’s Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, who oversees Ukraine’s armed militias, announced that Azov troops would be among the first units to be trained by the Pentagon in Operation Fearless Guardian, prompting significant international concern.”
Interesting intrigue with Avakov acting as a whistle for Poroshenko regime security blown by a liberal ziophile democrat rep from Michigan.
“The governor Mikheil Saakashvili said that the former Georgian Deputy Interior Minister Giorgi Lortkipanidze, who received Ukrainian citizenship on June 11, is to take on the duties of police chief in Ukraine’s Odesa Oblast on June 15,”
I love a good headline.
“Anne Applebaum’s neocon husband forced to resign as speaker of Poland parliament after tapes reveal he’s an asshole ”
Made my day.
South Front: better English phrase is
“invasion of Iraq ” not “invasion to Iraq”
Okay, thank you
Perhaps a bit off topic (I haven’t watched the video above), but lenta.ru, a site I rarely look at, reported that on June 11 hackers had broken into a database of the Lithuanian JCS, and published a plan they found there for a Lithuanian annexation of Kaliningrad. (http://lenta.ru/news/2015/06/11/kaliningrad/). A bit farfetched sounding, maybe it meant in conjunction with Poland, divided on the line of the Memel (now Nieman) river, the old Imperial border. The article says the current NATO exercise «Удар меча 2015» (Sword Stroke 2015, in my translation), 13 NATO countries plus Finland, is in preparation for it. Doesn’t indicate when it’s planned for, if ever. Maybe just a contingency for when the time is ripe. But there was a similar exercise in Georgia just before the unpleasantness of August 2008. With the crazies in charge now, anything is possible.
Doing so what precipitate nuclear war. All the capitals of the Baltics and Poland would be smoked, and from there you have the rest of NATO sucked in as well. London, Brussels, New York & Washington would no doubt be top of the list.
Ashes, ashes, we all fall down !
if by that you mean that Nato might be deterred by the threat of nuclear retaliation against an attack on Kaliningrad, I hope you’re right. As I suggested before, a large-scale snap Russian militiary exercise, with simulated nukes against Polish and Lithuanian forces crossing the line, showing them what they’d get, just might be enough to deter them.
With only one motor-rifle brigade, an undersize motor-rifle regiment, and a naval infantry brigade in the oblast’, plus some supporting troops, the Russians are woefully undermanned with conventional forces. The Iskanders don’t seem to be there yet: Russia threatens to deploy them if Nato makes a move, but hasn’t. Pre Russian Wikipedia, at one time there was a nuclear arsenal of the 12th Chief Directorate near the border at Bagrationsk for the Baltic Fleet, but it may no longer be there, in that there are recurring controversies in the Western SMI about the possibility of Russia deploying nukes there sometime. Russia needs to greatly increase its conventional forces there to deter any attack, IMHO, so as not to risk a nuclear war, since Breedlove and other Nato generals have publicly threatened to answer nuke for nuke if Russia uses them.
If you mean that you are sanguine about the effects of an all-out nuclear exchange between Russia and Nato, resulting in a world resembling Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road”, I can only respond with the question Herman Kahn asked in “On THermonuclear War”: Would the survivors envy the dead ?.
Rally in KIEV against the US occupation of Ukraine in front of US embassy
Митинг у Посольства США, Киев, Украина
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oMMaIBM540&feature=youtu.be
Can anyone translate this video. What are they protesting about economy? War?
Protest a bit of everything. Generally about lack of progress in keeping the promises of reform, especially the economy (wages, pensions, gas prices). There was a branch that went to US Embassy to tell them to go home.
http://rt.com/news/265636-maidan-protests-against-government/
It’s been disbanded now.
http://rt.com/news/265648-ukraine-maidan-camp-attacked/
South Front…you are the very best….I love you guys. I hope Donesk and Lugansk finally can join the Russian Federation…that’s what would be the best…
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the good link again
https://www.youtube.com/user/crimeanfront/videos
Dear The Saker,
US Congress blocks aid to Azov Batallion:
http://sputniknews.com/us/20150612/1023266493.html
Rgds,
Veritas
“Ukraine’s Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, who oversees Ukraine’s armed militias, announced that Azov troops would be among the first units to be trained by the Pentagon in Operation Fearless Guardian, prompting significant international concern.”
Interesting intrigue with Avakov acting as a whistle for Poroshenko regime security blown by a liberal ziophile democrat rep from Michigan.
It also coincides with Georgian mafia moving in.
“The governor Mikheil Saakashvili said that the former Georgian Deputy Interior Minister Giorgi Lortkipanidze, who received Ukrainian citizenship on June 11, is to take on the duties of police chief in Ukraine’s Odesa Oblast on June 15,”
http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/georgias-ex-deputy-interior-minister-to-head-odesa-region-police-390897.html