{"id":40085,"date":"2014-02-28T19:18:52","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T00:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=40085"},"modified":"2014-02-28T19:18:52","modified_gmt":"2014-03-01T00:18:52","slug":"russian-armed-invasion-obama-deeply-concerned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40085","title":{"rendered":"Russian “armed invasion”; Obama “deeply concerned”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fox News<\/a> reports that armed Russian troops have landed in the Crimea, but don’t worry because the White House tells us that our President is “deeply concerned” about the developments;<\/p>\n

At the White House, President Obama said the U.S. government is “deeply concerned” by reports of Russian “military movements” and warned any violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty would be “deeply destabilizing.”<\/p>\n

“There will be costs” for any military intervention, he said, without specifying what those costs might be.<\/p>\n

U.S. officials told Fox News they see \u201cevidence of air and maritime movement into and out of Crimea by Russian forces\u201d although the Pentagon declined to officially “characterize” the movement.<\/p>\n

Agence France Press quoted a top Ukranian official as saying Russian aircraft carrying nearly 2,000 suspected troops have landed at a military air base near the regional capital of the restive Crimean peninsula.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No one can seem to get a reaction about the armed invasion from Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, but he was reportedly rolling on the floor laughing his ass off. It’s not that I want Obama to do anything about this, it’s way too late for that. But, you know if he had any credibility in dealing with other nations, this might not have happened in the first place. We went from being the leader of the free world to being the laughing stock of our opponents. So, let’s just sit back and watch the EU and NATO deal with this one. From AFP<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Obama recognized that Russia had interests and cultural and economic ties with Ukraine, and also had a military facility in Crimea, which was ceded to the Soviet republic of Ukraine by the Soviet Union in 1954.<\/p>\n

But he said any violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity would be “deeply destabilizing.”<\/p>\n

“The United States will stand with the international community in affirming that there will be costs for any military intervention in Ukraine,” Obama said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, this one will work out great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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