Scratches to Sketches
"Mr. Putin's response has been cynical in the extreme. He continues to deny the obvious, against all evidence. The Russian troops in Ukraine are merely "volunteers" who elected to assist Russian-speaking rebels demonstrate their discontent with the government in Kiev. Ten Russian paratroopers captured in Ukraine were there by "accident" – they got lost during a routine border patrol and somehow ended up in the wrong country. Russians seeking information on images of sons captured in Ukraine are told they've been photoshopped. Russian casualties are buried in clandestine funerals ignored by state media while independent reporters are chased away."
As the Ukrainian president, Petro Poroshenko, claimed there were hundreds of Russian troops and thousands of Russian tanks operating inside his country, the outgoing European commission president, José Manuel Barroso, said: "We are in a very serious, I would say, dramatic situation … where we can reach the point of no return."
The prime minister, a social democrat who has been compared to Tony Blair, acted with characteristic swiftness in a bid to reassert his authority. His aides had let it be known on Sunday that the economy minister, Arnaud Montebourg, had crossed a "yellow line" for his dual crime of criticising both the president of France and a valued ally."
You have to ask why all the austerity to save a few French banks that copy catted American banks.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/25/french-government-resigns-francois-hollande-manuel-valls"Islamic State militants killed more than 150 of the troops captured in recent fighting in north-eastern Syria. It is the latest mass killing attributed to the extremists, activists said, with the violence coming during a 24-hour period. The troops were either shot or slashed with knives."
"One type defines "Russian" very broadly to include all of the peoples and religious groups that have traditionally lived in the territory of the former USSR or before that, the Russian Empire. The key call of these nationalists is to reintegrate the territory of the former Soviet states.
A second type of nationalism is a much more exclusive and even racist ethnic Russian nationalism, one committed to a pure Russia free of "polluting" peoples of other ethnicities, or at least those who are not Slavic. The key call of these nationalists is to prevent immigration of unwanted groups and, for some, to bring Russians or Slavs "stranded" abroad back into the Russian state's domain."
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/29/russian-nationalism-kremlin-actions-ukraineWhile the rest of the world had dreamed of peace Putin contemplated war, biding his time like an old Czar waiting for the opportunity.
He is wrong on several counts about Western intentions, but a individual who has only one tune playing in his mind.
"The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has hit back at accusations that he has effectively invaded Ukraine, accusing Kiev's forces of behaving like Nazis in the conflict in the east and ominously threatening to take his standoff with the west into the disputed Arctic."
Is this the modern pacifism in view of the fact Russia read history and knows the soft underbelly of Europeans? He may just awaken a demon and lose Russia to history in the process.
"The foreign ministers were set to propose new sanctions against Russia for consideration at a summit of the bloc's 28 heads of state on Saturday in Brussels.
All options except military action will be considered to punish Russia for pursuing "the wrong path," Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn said.
"The European Union should be ready to move forward with possible new measures against Russia because the situation is still getting worse," Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet said.
"LAKE SELIGER Russia (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Friday Russia's armed forces, backed by its nuclear arsenal, were ready to meet any aggression, declaring at a pro-Kremlin youth camp that foreign states should understand: "It's best not to mess with us."
Putin told the assembly, on the banks of a lake near Moscow, the Russian takeover of Crimea in March was essential to save a largely Russian-speaking population from Ukrainian government violence."
The nightmare of a new world war begins.... We understand Russia. We understand.... We will mess with you...
https://news.yahoo.com/putin-says-russia-ready-respond-aggression-123956691.html