• Russia offers passports to east Ukraine, president decries 'aggressor state'
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-russia-passports/russia-offers-passports-to-east-ukraine-president-elect-decries-aggressor-state-idUSKCN1S01LU
So more evidence of Russia have creating more unofficial relations with the Pro-Russian separatist 'People's Republics', then.
This is basically annexation of the donbass
We should have sent badge-less Rangers or Seals in to royally fuck their shit up and leave. They've been caught sending in full armored divisions, and special operations troops. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th_Tank_Brigade_(Russia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Guards_Tank_Army_(Russia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_military_intervention_in_Ukraine_(2014%E2%80%93present) https://informnapalm.org/en/royal-flush-russian-special-forces-soldier-fighting-in-ukraine-showed-us-all/ https://informnapalm.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/KrivkoScreenJan.jpg https://informnapalm.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/KrivkoScreenshotVAL.jpg If no one is going to stand up to their blatant bullshit, who the fuck will?
Russia is being shitty, but I don't want to fight proxy wars, thanks.
Are you a Ranger or Seal?
No, I was talking about my country's involvement in general.
With the way Russia and China have been acting lately I feel like the proxy wars of the Cold War era will make a comeback eventually.
Then not fight proxy wars and just directly allow the US military to co-operate with Ukrainian military personnel in retaking their land from agressors, then allow the regions, under international review, to conduct a referendum on if they truly want to split from Ukraine or remain a part of it. This is the only way I see these people having an actual semblance of choice opposed to the rebel's methods of holding elections, or rather postponing them over and over again.
It'd be a better use of the US military to go in and get more involved in Ukraine than we currently are. Right now the US is only on a training mission in Ukraine to train the Ukrainian national guard.
Yeah I understood but there's a difference between sending conscripts to a conflict and sending special forces who voluntarily serve. Splash Attack shouldn't really be worried in that case and I think the people serving in special forces know what they signed up for.
This is a horrible mentality and I dare you to say this to a soldier directly. These are peoples lives we're talking about here, not pawns to be used in geopolitical chess. Ukraine is not a US ally, nor has the US sworn to protect them. The US Military is not the World Police. If something like this is confronted, it needs to be a coordinated alliance of nations taking action, not the US acting alone. Military intervention is not something to take lightly, lest we repeat the mistakes of Vietnam and Iraq. We have other tools to put pressure on Russians. Diplomatic sanctions can have some bite, despite their reputation.
The US alongside other countries such as UK and even Russia (lol) promised assurance of security for Ukraine when signing the Budapest Memorandum. Sanctions didn't put Russia in place, that should be evident from what they tried to do in the UK with the Skripal poisoning.
New update, seems Putin is doubling down on the passport situation. https://www.rferl.org/amp/putin-says-he-may-expand-controversial-russian-citizenship-decree-to-include-all-ukrainians/29907196.html
Oh look, more 'ethnic Russian citizens in need of protection from persecution'. Don't worry, just solving an 'internal matter'.
8D chess: All Ukrainians are Russians therefore Russia has a right to invade all of Ukraine to protect all its citizens. Also all Australians are Russians, the entire government collapses.
I'm bit late here but our military's fully voluntary. All militarys are political tools. Besides, most soldiers want to go to war and fight because that's what they joined their Army or Marine Corps to begin with.
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