{"id":40126,"date":"2014-03-03T08:26:21","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T13:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=40126"},"modified":"2014-03-03T08:26:21","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T13:26:21","slug":"6000-russian-troops-in-the-crimea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40126","title":{"rendered":"6,000 Russian troops in the Crimea"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vlad Putin went to the Russian Parliament on Saturday and asked for permission to use troops in the Ukraine, you know, as if he really needed to ask. He told the Parliament that the troops were needed to protect ethnic Russians in the Crimea. Ethnic Russians, not Russian citizens. An excuse right of the early 20th century. From the Washington Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m submitting a request for using the armed forces of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine pending the normalization of the socio-political situation in that country,\u201d Putin said in a statement released by the Kremlin.<\/p>\n

He sent the request to the Russian legislature\u2019s upper house, which has to approve the motion, according to the constitution.<\/p>\n

In Crimea, the pro-Russian regional prime minister had earlier claimed control of the military and police there and asked Putin for help in keeping peace, sharpening the discord between the two Slavic neighbor countries.<\/p>\n

It was the latest escalation following the ouster of Ukraine\u2019s pro-Russian president last week by a protest movement aimed at turning Ukraine toward the European Union and away from Russia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, the US president and his Secretary of State are getting criticism at home for their reaction<\/a> to the Russian incursion into a sovereign nation;<\/p>\n

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers said the White House\u2019s ongoing response to the entire situation only gives Mr. Putin the upper hand.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Putin\u2019s] running circles around us,\u201d Mr. Rogers said, during a \u201cFox News Sunday\u201d appearance reported by the New York Post. \u201cPutin is playing chess and I think we are playing marbles, and I don\u2019t think it\u2019s even close.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the Obama administration ought to take strong action and boot Russia from the G8. Meanwhile, Congress could start drumming up some sanctions against Russia, he suggested, the New York Post reported.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, sanctions, that’ll do it. The time to do something about this situation has passed. Sanctions are working so well against Iran and North Korea, you know, those two fourth world nations, so let’s try them against first world Russia. Funny how an administration that has been so focused on domestic issues keeps getting the horns from foreign policy that they’ve virtually ignored since day one.<\/p>\n

If this administration had stood up to Putin in the beginning, they might have some credibility now. They should have threaten to restart a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic when the Russians refused to turn over Ed Snowden, the NSA spy. Maybe we’ll get lucky and the Russians will kidnap John Kerry while he’s in Kiev.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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