Russia rolling into Ukrane while Obama hits happy hour

[Jose]

I don't know whether to find this humorous or not but Tom Clancy's last book sorta foretold of this happening with Russia intervening in the Ukraine. Anyway I thought I would share. I'm a big Clancy fan and read this when it came out a few months ago and thought it was a good read.

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Command-Authority-Jack-Ryan-Clancy/dp/0399160477"]Command Authority[/ame]

Here's a user review from Amazon that gives a synopsis.

Ryan, who is known former secret agent from Clancy’s earlier eight novels, is still in a White House as re-elected US President.
Jack’s son, Jack Ryan Jr. is working in UK as a financial analyst and when unusual case of Russian violent gas and oil company takeover happens, he would immediately suspect that something is wrong.
In an interesting turn of events that will start to happen, ambitious Russian president who wants to restore former glory and size of USSR will choose Ukraine as next victim after his plan for violent annexation of the Baltic countries failed.
Russian plan is to finance such an ambitious and expensive undertaking by the sale of oil and gas, which would again return Russia among key players on the world political scene.

And while time is slowly running out, and America doesn’t have much options to peacefully prevent the Russian operation that will disturb the balance of power, Jack's son will find out about the case thirty years ago on which his father worked, which may be able to prevent the apparently inevitable clash of East and West…

[Gasser64]

"Everythings good, no no, there are no troops here. Whatever they say is LIES! I repeat there are no troops on the ground here."

Whatever happened to that guy? Dead?

[Jose]

Whatever happened to that guy? Dead?

Apparently still alive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Saeed_al-Sahhaf

[mightyp]

I don't know whether to find this humorous or not but Tom Clancy's last book sorta foretold of this happening with Russia intervening in the Ukraine. Anyway I thought I would share. I'm a big Clancy fan and read this when it came out a few months ago and thought it was a good read.

Command Authority

Here's a user review from Amazon that gives a synopsis.

Clancy writes some good stuff, guess he can forsee the future...in his 1994 novel "Debt of honor" the Japanese fly a airliner into a building to kill the president.

[Pokulski-Blatz]

[matts5.0]

Russia is protecting their assets in the country, they have military bases there. We do the same shit on the regular.

[Machx2]

Russia is protecting their assets in the country, they have military bases there. We do the same shit on the regular.

If that is the case, then why won't they say that? They say that they are there because the Russian speaking minority want them there and that they do not recognize their new leadership. The majority of Ukraine want the new leadership, so who are we to say any different? Same goes for Russia, who cares if they have bases there. If the new government and people don't want Russia in their country, gtfo. Same should have been done with us in those shit hole countries.

[BP]

Russia is protecting their assets in the country, they have military bases there. We do the same shit on the regular.

This is more like saying that we don't agree with how the Japanese handled the Fukushima disaster so we are going to occupy Osaka to make sure the same thing doesn't happen there. The EU would completely flip out but ultimately there wouldn't be anything they could do about it other than not trust us.

[matts5.0]

If that is the case, then why won't they say that? They say that they are there because the Russian speaking minority want them there and that they do not recognize their new leadership. The majority of Ukraine want the new leadership, so who are we to say any different? Same goes for Russia, who cares if they have bases there. If the new government and people don't want Russia in their country, gtfo. Same should have been done with us in those shit hole countries.

Kinda like how we did in Cuba? The newly elected leaders didnt want us there, we said fuck it we are staying, we knew if we left we would lose a strategic base, same damn thing with Russia. The newly elected leaders(that we again propped up thinking we know best) do not like Russia.

[91CoupeMike]

If that is the case, then why won't they say that? They say that they are there because the Russian speaking minority want them there and that they do not recognize their new leadership. The majority of Ukraine want the new leadership, so who are we to say any different? Same goes for Russia, who cares if they have bases there. If the new government and people don't want Russia in their country, gtfo. Same should have been done with us in those shit hole countries.

Didn't Putin release 10 claims to why they are in Ukraine?

http://m.state.gov/md222988.htm

They are being labeled as false, but he did say that's why they are there.

I was talking to a Russian on Xbox live playing GTA5 the other day. He also mentioned the reasons Putin claims of why the are in Ukraine.

So who do you believe ? Our media? Or theirs? Both are equally full of shit.

[Pokulski-Blatz]

Russian women are fucking crazy. Like American meth head level crazy when they get angry.

Sounds fun.

[68RR]

Matt.. Cuba was a revolution. Castro wanted the country, but didn't want a direct conflict with the US. He thought the world (UN) would sway the US to leave GITMO, but the backlash against the communist movement worldwide killed that. Ike's CIA planned attack at the Bay of Pigs that Kennedy allowed to happen really started the shit going. Kennedy put the missles in Turkey, Russia responded with missles in Cuba and us kids were suddenly going thru "Duck and Cover" drills in school... very interesting time to grow up...

[Strychnine]

Russians sink a boat off Ukraine coast - their own


YEVPATORIA, Ukraine — An anti-submarine boat may have been the first casualty of the Russian incursion into Crimea, but it was hardly an act of violence, much less war: The Russian navy sank one of its own, junked vessels to create an obstacle, a Ukrainian official said Wednesday.

Ukraine Defense Ministry spokesman Lt. Col. Alexei Mazepa said Russian sailors pulled the anti-submarine vessel Ochakov out of a naval junkyard and sank it in the straits that connect the Black Sea with a body of water known as Donuzlav Lake. He said the act was intended to prevent Ukrainian navy ships from leaving a nearby base and going to sea.

The sinking was the latest in a series of moves by Russian naval forces in the area that were jangling the nerves of Ukrainian officers.

http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-russians-sink-boat-ukraine-20140305,0,5215300.story#ixzz2vDSRWkNm

[YALE]

Well, fuck... Shades of WWI!

http://www.mediaite.com/online/obama-signs-order-declaring-ukraine-crisis-an-extraordinary-threat-to-national-security/

[mstng86]

How is this a threat to our national security?

Someone play connect the dots and show me.