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Would it be ok to call this the 2nd Crimean War? (If Russia attacks)
That title is misleading. My understanding after reading the article is that they are only ethnic Russians rather than soldiers part of the Russian military.Kobrag said:Russian military in Crimea and controls airport, according to Ukraine
I wonder what the modern equivalent of the charge of the light brigade would be?
The guy they interviewed in the article said he supported the people's militia of Crimea, but didn't know where the other men(the men who controls the airport) came from.Der Einzige said:That title is misleading. My understanding after reading the article is that they are only ethnic Russians rather than soldiers part of the Russian military.Kobrag said:Russian military in Crimea and controls airport, according to Ukraine
I wonder what the modern equivalent of the charge of the light brigade would be?
Either or, for a "People's Militia of Crimea" they're pretty heavily equipped it seems.
Regarding the airport - russian military. The situation looks like ****. Russia is provoking, awaits who'll start shooting first (same as it was in Georgia). For example, if ukranian forces try to enter the airport, russians might start shooting. Why? Because nobody will arrest them - they will simply move to the russian military base and like "What? Nothing happenned. It wasn't me" and hide there. And we won't be able to get those guys, same as Yanukovich. Laws mean nothing to russians.Der Einzige said:or at least Russian military.
You believe those soldiers to be straight up Russian military though? I didn't think Russia would be that ballsy.trueten said:Regarding the airport - russian military. The situation looks like ****. Russia is provoking, awaits who'll start shooting first (same as it was in Georgia). For example, if ukranian forces try to enter the airport, russians might start shooting. Why? Because nobody will arrest them - they will simply move to the russian military base and like "What? Nothing happenned. It wasn't me" and hide there. And we won't be able to get those guys, same as Yanukovich. Laws mean nothing to russians.Der Einzige said:or at least Russian military.
Right now they are blocking the whole Crimean peninsula. It might turn into Modlovian Transnistria, when there's no opened intervention, but the Government looses control over the territory. If those troops are attacked by force (and by all international laws), russians will show it as a 'threat to a local russian populace' and start an open intervention in order to 'protect their fellow local russians'.
trueten said:helicopters flying over Crimea
Yep:Radalan said:Are you sure that's where the video is from?trueten said:helicopters flying over Crimea
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